The Audacity of 5 Day Work Week

You really have to feel downright sorry for members of Congress.

The new House Democratic majority is going to make Congress work 5 days a week rather than 3 days a week they worked under the Republican leadership of Capitol Hill.

Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, the Maryland Democrat who will become House majority leader and is writing the schedule for the next Congress, said members should expect longer hours than the brief week they have grown accustomed to.

"I have bad news for you," Hoyer told reporters. "Those trips you had planned in January, forget 'em. We will be working almost every day in January, starting with the 4th."

The reporters groaned. "I know, it's awful, isn't it?" Hoyer empathized.

The horror! The horror!

"Keeping us up here eats away at families," said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. "Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families -- that's what this says."

I fully expect the pro-family Republicans are going to mandate a 3 day work week for all Americans and put end to the Democrats anti-worker, anti-family positions.

The horror! The horror!