It turns out the official timekeeper, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, was also counting only time spent on the six priorities. So next time you're two hours late to the office, why don't you try telling your boss that you weren't really late because you slept for two extra hours and since during that time you weren't working on "getting to the office" those two hours don't count.
Besides, how silly that qualifying oneself as an effective leader requires holding a stopwatch. Since when does passing bad legislation in record time make one a great leader.
In the end, most of this legislation will die under the weight of the Senate or the pressure of the president's veto pen, but in the meantime, it became quite a signal to the American public as to the type of folks we are dealing with in Congress.
Two weeks on the job, and Democrats have already shown themselves for what they are. The same power-hungry, fact-twisting liberals they were when they left the majority 12 years ago.
Now that the new Democratic Congress has gotten through it's first 42 hours, we can all get down to the business of a real legislative process where the issues are real and the battle is fair.
In the meantime, the new season of "24" is back where terrorists are bad, Americans are good, and an hour is still 60-minutes long. It seems the Democrats could learn a lot from a television show.