This is a great time of the year to be a football fan, with about 40 college bowl games having been played in the past month, and the NFL moving into playoff mode. Even though they helped shut the door on the NY Giants in name only, I’m pulling for the Washington Redskins. They came out of nowhere, and are being led by a spectacular rookie, Robert Griffin the Third. But the real reason I’m pulling for the Redskins is simple. They’re the only team in Washington that can get anything done.

I spent the first day of the New Year playing golf and watching football, which probably would have been a better itinerary for the numbskulls we sent to Washington, than the late night early morning idiocy that supposedly saved us from falling over what Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s labled the Fiscal Cliff. The devout cowards of the GOP pretty much gave away the store, allowing the Democrats to vote in a package of tax hikes with very little deficit reduction. The numbers are incredible. After quote..negotiating for weeks…the GOP has signed on..or at least failed to prevent a tax hike for 77 percent of wage earners….a big hike for folks in the rarified earnings air of 450 thousand or more….while actually tacking on another 4 trillion or so to the deficit. And here’s my favorite part: President Obama, whose likely tom pull a stomach muscle from laughing so hard, is resuming his Hawaii vacation, at a cost to the saps who elected him and those who voted in hopes of preventing another 4 years of his nonsense..of about 7 million dollars. But on this second day of the New Year, one has to be happy congress isn’t more efficient, as if they’re being paid. By the law, legislators in the 50 states have saddled constituents with 29 thousand assorted laws - close to 900 of them here in California - laws that give new protections to homeowners behind in their mortgage, new rights to people who want to share a union with someone of the same sex, and even new protection to those who can’t vote. Bears who can’t be hunted with the help of tracking dogs…

So things are looking up for bears, wedding planners, and the people who sell paper to the state legislature here in Sacramento. As for the rest of the nation, we can only hope RG III runs for congress. He’s a leader who gets things done and usually in about 60 minutes.