Virtually every step taken by House Republicans and covered by journalists reminds one of the Will Rogers line, "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
From Dana Milbank:
Republicans, in an urgent budget-cutting maneuver, [voted] to cut off funding for National Public Radio. All $5 million of it — or one ten-thousandth of 1 percent of the federal budget....
Five minutes after acting on this budgetary emergency, House Republicans voted to continue the war in Afghanistan — which costs about $10 billion. Per month. They then flew home for a vacation.