Just kidding.
So basically, they met for 10 minutes so they can tell everyone that they are back to work, but did absolutely NOTHING. 5 days before the fiscal cliff.
According to comments below, MSNBC reports that the House will be meeting on Sunday at 6:30 pm, not on Monday at 2 pm as Mark Knoller initially reported. I guess, reconvening on THE LAST DAY before the fiscal cliff makes them look lazy. But, my point still stands. If I walked into work at 6:30 pm, two days before a project is due, my boss would kill me. These people have the livelihood of millions on their hands. If these people lived by the free-market Capitalistic rules they espouse, they would all be fired right now.
Who can look at the Republicans and say that they are doing an excellent job of governance? That they are are taking their job seriously?
At least Obama looks like he is trying, by leaving his family in Hawaii and coming back to DC. They aren't even trying, and they don't care how contemptibly lazy they look. That's it: they don't even care. It's shameless. As Cbastian cleverly pointed out in the comments below, they should at least try to repeal Obamacare one more time, so that they would be using their time efficiently.
Good for Hoyer for rightly embarrassing them:
Remember what Cantor said:
They will return WHEN NEEEDED. Apparently, they think they aren't needed right now. Apparently, they think they will be needed a day before the fiscal cliff.