And now another idiotic statement from a Congressman

Proving once again that brains are a hindrance in elected offices:

   " Would you like to “spring forward” a month earlier each year? Stay tuned. Daylight-saving time would be extended by two months under an amendment to the energy bill that is expected to reach the House floor in a couple of weeks. The proposal, by Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., was approved yesterday by voice vote as the Energy and Commerce Committee began its line-by-line markup of the legislation. Under Upton’s amendment, daylight-saving time would begin on the first Sunday in March and run through the last Sunday in November. That is a month earlier in the spring and a month later in the fall than current law specifies. “The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use,” Upton said." --- CQ's Midday Update

I don't know what it is about Congressmen. They seem to have no grasp of the laws of nature. They always seem to think that Daylight Savings Time somehow increases the amount of daylight in the world, that the incantation "We are now in Daylight Savings time! Oogah-Boogah!" somehow pauses the earth's rotation. Is there some ancient scroll in the Library of Congress that says this is how God and Joshua worked the sun stopping scheme? And God said "Let there be Daylight Savings TIme!" And lo, the sun stopped in its course, and Joshua and the Israelites fell upon the host and slaughtered them, without having to use any electricity."

Really, it makes one despair.