The only elected body with an approval rating lowers than W's is hard at work trying to look hard at work.

One Senator showed this chart to try and educate others on what actual work might include:
 


While others, our own Herb Kohl for example, voted to sue OPEC.  Yeah, that'll teach 'em.  Predictable enough with a congress full of trial lawyers I suppose. 

Other glimpses of genius problem solving include a windfall profits tax on oil companies, socializing the oil industry altogether and of course bad mouthing speculators.  

The windfall profit tax when tried in the late 70's created a shortage by eliminating any incentive for domestic production.  Nationalizing the oil industry is so over the top it's hard to imagine, or at least it used to be, that an elected official would be so bold, or is it careless, or with this particular pol, Maxine Waters, who can tell, to even use such language.  Th adage that a political gaff is when a pol accidently tells the truth is dead on, and Waters accidently showed her true marxist colors on that slip. :Democrat Maxine Waters Wants To Nationalize Big Oil     

A typical scene from congress:



Hey fellas, while you're up there look around for some new energy, natural gas maybe?, or perhaps a clue.