Headline: “A (insert adjective here) Congress Gets No Respect From Voters.”

Via Ed Driscoll:

Great moments in objectivity from either the Associated Press, above whose article it appears, or an editor at Yahoo, who may have written the actual headline: “A Productive Congress Gets No Respect From Voters.”

I suppose one could find a way to quantitatively prove that Congress was, in fact, productive. Hell, they were so productive they didn’t even have time to read all their own production!

Even tea partiers have to admit, though, that Congress has been productive. Don’t they? Productive at ensuring less production out in the private sector, sure, but that’s still production. Of a sort.

I could spend my days stacking empty beer cans into scale models of architectural wonders, and then I could claim productivity. Would that earn me respect?

Not among the people I’d like respect from, I’m betting, although Congress would probably see a net increase in respect, if they went ahead and took that up full time.

The real question here is: what kind of Congress does get respect? And why hasn’t the “productiveness” of the current Congress gotten any?

Could it be that, when Congress is “productive,” it tends to make the rest of us less so?

Maybe the AP could wonder about that for a while.