Keeping watch...

Very few of the new members of Congress are planning on spending their off-time in Washington, DC. In fact, all but one of them are going to remain based, with their families, in their home states. That means they'll be running through either the Dulles or Reagan National Airports on a regular basis. Hopefully this will imprint on their brains:

While many of us have great expectations for the 112th Congress and what the new Representatives might accomplish, someone has to keep a close watch to make sure they stick to their guns. Pajamas Media is starting a project to so just that. It'll be called Nothing Washes Over and it will come online soon.

Part of the pre-launch of the new site includes a report card on what the lame-duck Congress did and didn't accomplish over the past couple of months. Not that I care, but here's the conclusion:

Final tally: 4-2 Democrats, with two draws. There were actually several other wins for Obama, a couple of them regulatory — including the nightmare of FCC control of the Internet — but these are the big ones. Fortunately the Republicans are in better shape to oppose some of this for the next two years, and may be able to repair or at least mitigate some of the damage these bills will cause.

But they’ve got to do better than they did during the lame duck session. And we’ll be seeing to that.

As will the rest of us.