Two-week increments

It dawned on me as I was doing some grocery-shopping at the local Harris Teeter. Each week, I pick up a gallon or two of milk, and I always look at the expiration date, trying to get the latest possible date, which is usually two weeks away.

Two weeks ago, I was amazed when the expiration date said Oct. 31. Wow, November is already here. When I go to the store this weekend, we will already be in the middle of November.

Time sure flies, unless, of course, you are talking about the Obama agenda, which seems stuck in a time-warp.

Congressional calendars are funny things. If you consider all of the holidays (we just had Columbus Day, Veterans Day is coming up, and then, of course, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, etc), and throw in the three-day workweeks, there simply isn’t much time to get much done.

It is almost November, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is just today unveiling whatever healthcare bill she will have to back away from next week. Over in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is waiting to hear back from the Congressional Budget Office before he unveils the details of his public option-lite bill that is already dead on arrival before it gets to the Senate floor.

They say that they are going to get these bills to the president’s desk by Christmas, but first they have to pass them on the respective chambers’ floors, which doesn’t seem likely anytime soon.

I bet you the president wishes he wouldn’t have wasted so much time doing things like the Jay Leno and David Letterman shows. I bet you he wishes he would have started smaller, gotten something passed and moved on to more important agenda items, like jobs.

But he didn’t. Each week that passes by is a week closer to the midterm elections. Each week that passes by is a week further from his inauguration, where his power was at its greatest.

I live my life in two-week increments. Each time I pick up a gallon of milk, I think to myself, “What am I going to get done in these next two weeks?”

I doubt the president will get healthcare done in the next two weeks (or anything else, for that matter).

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