How Do People in DC Procrastinate?

1. DC staffers pass along comical masterpieces like this Colbert Report interview with Congressman Lynn Westmoreland.

2. Westmoreland (R-GA 8th) procrastinates from addressing real issues (as Colbert reports, he is one of two members of Congress to have never introduced a bill) by doing things like co-sponsoring pre-existing legislation to spread the Ten Commandments throughout our Federal courthouses.

Of course, Colbert unearths the fact that Westmoreland's "due diligence" on the Ten Commandments has not taken up too too much of his first term in Congress -- he can only identify the substance of three of the ten commandments.

[Colbert does not determine whether Westmoreland can identify the beginning of the Bill of Rights -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" -- either.  I'm a touch skeptical....]

It's great that a Republican has so little respect for our Constitution that he wants to violate it on behalf of "must read" text... he himself has never read to the point of absorption.

3. Oh, and Westmoreland is picking up the pace in DC a little... but not by addressing the war in Iraq or growing economic inequality or gloabl warming. 

Rather, he is proposing to dilute the massively successful Voting Rights Act -- a nearly sacred law enshrining a right for which Americans (including Jewish civil rights activists) literally died.

Don't take my word on it -- when one of the heroes of Selma (heck, America), John Lewis, and the ACLU decry  the "modernization"... well, it isn't too hard to choose sides between them and Lynn "3 out of 10 Commandments would be a good batting average in baseball" Westmoreland, now is it?