I heard this on Paul Harvey while driving in to work this morning. Andrew M. Grossman and Robert Alt have an opinion piece in today’s Washington Times that includes this suggestion:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi simply refused to schedule a vote on a bill to make those authorities permanent — a bill that had passed the Senate with strong bipartisan support. Instead, the House spent its last day in town before Mrs. Pelosi jetted off to her daughter’s wedding working on an unenforceable resolution to thumb its nose at the Bush administration.

The House’s liberal leadership, in short, put political grandstanding above national security, wasting time with show hearings featuring Roger Clemens and debating a politically driven contempt citation. Perhaps if Osama bin Laden were juicing with steroids, we could get the House to take the terrorist threat seriously.

Isn’t it comforting to observe the priorities of congress?