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Posted at 2:26pm on Mar. 12, 2007 Are You Tired Today?

By Erick

Are you tired today? After all, we did spring our clocks forward by an hour yesterday. Whose fault is it? Why, that would be the Republicans. Seriously.

I'm all for being on the team, but I happen to believe the GOP's desire to play God and mess with the clock was the big tip off that their control of Congress had jumped the shark and they deserved annihilation. Certainly it would have been better if they had been annihilated in primaries instead of the general, but we should pause to remember that their "energy plan" was the height of hubris.

Congressmen went on record in 2005, talking about saving daylight, an impossible task. Democrat Congressman Ed Markey went so far as to say,"The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use." He jumped on board the GOP bandwagon, but mother nature still failed to create more daylight.

And so the last Republican Congress shortened the period of the year under which we have standard time and, in the process, cost many companies much money in man hours and upgrades to fix a long established timeframe for DST -- a timeframe still kept in the other countries practicing DST.

So, if you are tired this morning, you legitimately can blame the GOP, and you should.

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