Congress still has nothing better to do

Adding to their time wasting, vote whoring activities of late that have included trying to pass amendments to bar gay marriage and to prevent flag burning, the House this week passed a bill to protect the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. The bill would prohibit the federal courts from ruling on legal challenges to the Pledge.

In other news, Bush made his expected veto of the stem cell research bill. Nevermind that the federal funding it would have provided was only for research on embryoes that are being thrown out by the fertility clinics. Apparently Bush and other opponents to the bill would rather keep wasting those microscopic embryoes then using them to carry out potentially life saving and life changing research for many thousands of people. Anyway, I already ranted about this one.

It just seems like Congress and the Administration are determined to do nothing useful.