Not my favorite Congressman, but...

I try to avoid posting about actual politics. I would much rather write about principles and ideas, but I have to comment on a statement Congressman Roy Blunt made on the House floor.

Some of the events that have transpired in the U.S. House of Representatives over the last seven months have been astonishing. Things haven't been much better in the other half of the legislative branch, either. The process of making laws has become a circus. The Senate holds slumber parties that accomplish little more than giving pundits material to discuss. The House has started to resemble a schoolyard scuffle. Generally, I would be disappointed in a political party for walking out of the House Chambers, seeing it as petty and childish, but this time it seemed the only appropriate response to a committee chair's decision to violate congressional precedent by stopping the vote prematurely once he realized he was about to lose.

It reminds me a lot of a first season episode of "The Office." The Congressman's stunt in the House was reminiscent of the poor sportsmanship Michael Scott displayed when he fakes being the victim of non-foul and ends an interdepartmental basketball game, just after he finds out that his team was finally ahead of the warehouse crew. Michael was unjustifiably convinced that the sales team would handily defeat the warehouse crew. But when it turned out that he didn't gather quite the amount of talent he had anticipated, he rode on a lucky streak from Jim Halpert and called the game before the warehouse team could come back.

One major difference between Michael Scott and Michael McNulty (Democrat, NY) is that Michael Scott's team actually had more points when he called the game and Michael McNulty's did not. Another one is that after the game had ended, Michael Scott did not try to erase the fact that the game had actually happened... Michael McNulty's group did, however, try to erase the final tally and the records/documents that provided the final tally.

Roy Blunt is right on target when he discusses his embarrassment in the House. We as Americans currently have a Congress to make all other Congresses look good.