Watermelon Finally Makes ‘WSJ’ Front Page

The Wall Street Journal today ran the above hedcut on this story about the number of resolutions Congress has passed. And you thought Murdoch was going to ruin the WSJ!

In an actual true story of leaders fiddling while Rome burns, this Congress has passed the fewest number of laws in the 20 years of record keeping; it has, however, passed the most number of resolutions honoring the New York Giants or recognizing soil as an “essential natural resource.” (Really!) Some may find this a bad idea, but it would seem to me the fewer number of laws Congress passes, the less chance it has to screw up.

But, really, who would have thought it’d be the Democratic Congress that’s passing fewer laws?

Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss, whose home state of Georgia has 24,000 acres planted in watermelon, pushed a resolution establishing July as National Watermelon Month. “As Mark Twain once said, ‘When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.’ I encourage my colleagues to join me in acknowledging the wisdom of Mark Twain by supporting this resolution,” Sen. Chambliss said on the Senate floor. The only problem: July is about 14 days late for a Watermelon Month. The crops come in in mid June.

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