Good news! Yesterday, with apparently little else to do, a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee “approved legislation … aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine its national champion.”

That should make unemployed Americans feel better.

In the face of this absurdity, a few members of the subcommittee – all Democrats, according to the Associated Press – had the wisdom to point out that Congress has more important things to do than legislate on matters of sport.

Yet Bobby Rush, the Illinois Democrat who co-sponsored the bill with Texas Republican Joe Barton, said, “We can walk and chew gum at the same time.”

Maybe. But it’s clear Rush and his colleagues can’t walk, chew gum, and balance budgets; or walk, chew gum, and find a long-term fix for Social Security and Medicare.

Before making glib comments, maybe Rush et al should do anything – anything at all – to meet their Constitutional duties and address some of the problems created by years of Congressional mis-prioritization.

Or, if they don’t have anything better to do, maybe they should just go home.