TPMDC has some insight on the GOP's planned theatrics:
Now this is a laugh. As Vanity Fair reports, the House GOP leadership's symbolic gesture of reading the Constitution on the House floor today -- in an effort to please their Tea Party base who decry virtually all of the Obama administration's policies as both a monumental waste of money and, more importantly, an affront to our founding document -- could also itself cost a lot of money.
The magazine asked an expert on government waste, and he said in part:
The amount I get is nearly $1.1 million. $1,071,872.87, to be exact, though of course this is more back-of-the-envelope than exact. When one chamber of Congress is in session but not working, we the people still have to pay for members' salaries and expenses, and for their police protection, and for keeping their lights and phones and coffee machines on. Even Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Mike Pence (R-IN) combined don't blow enough hot air to heat the Capitol in January...
The Republicans are still wasting time and money on an activity that will not get Americans back to work.
>>>> Why would Michele Bachmann think Americans believe anything she says? Crazy Republican Michele Bachmann was on the Today Show this morning. Bachmann doesn't understand that she cannot make up her own facts. I half expected that her nose would start growing because of the lies, fabrications, and just plain b.s. that was pouring out of her mouth.
(And...... Meredith Viera addressed the rumor that Bachmann is considering a presidential run. Heaven help us!!!!!)
>>>> David Letterman said it best last night, "Why does John Boehner need such a big gavel?" Why?
>>>>> Why would Republican Rep. Steve Stivers (OH-15), a former top bank lobbyist, already be in the news?
Inmytrends:
....Tea party-backed freshmen are also racheting back their campaign promises to slash and burn government agencies to reduce spending. In a tea party questionnaire, freshman Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio) proposed privatizing the entire Interior Department and claimed only four departments were constitutional. But when asked about his position on his first day of Congress, Stivers immediately backpedaled. “What I said in that questionnaire is that we need to take a look at everything. That’s what we need to do, is to look at everything and see what works,” he said. When asked for specifics, he responded: “We’ve got to look everywhere—we’ve got committees of jurisdiction to look at this.”
Stivers, who ran on the platform of repealing the health insurance law, has not indicated if he refused to take the health insurance plan offered to members of Congress.
>>>> Why would Gov.-elect John "Lehman Brothers" Kasich change his mind and now allow media at his swearing-in ceremony? Is it that Kasich is so thin-skinned that he cannot handle being criticized? The press, bloggers, and other citizens may have found his Achilles' heel. Kasich has surrounded himself with so many "Yes men" that he cannot handle any type of objection to what he says or does.
* Why are tickets still available for the Kasich inauguration events? Is this an example of a lack of interest by the public?