So, with the Western Pacific nations seemingly having survived the Mayan apocalypse, it's time to note another embarrassment to public discourse. Which would be the Republican House. Which today went throught the motions of twisting arms and counting heads and browbeating and using every other possible poor political metaphor to pass part of a bill that has no chance even of being voted on in the Senate, would be laughed out of the Oval Office if it even got there, and has accomplished nothing but to waste time and money and a whole lot of foul fetid hot air.