Easter eggs won't be the only things hidden this spring. President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) plan to hop through the halls of Congress, doing whatever they can to shove their idea of health care reform through the legislative process before their fellow Democrats go home for the Easter recess and have to face their constituents.

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Beginning late next week Congress will take its month-long recess, ostensibly to touch base with their constituents and do the non-Washington part of their jobs. In reality, most will be vacationing and/or fundraising. President Obama and his family will also be vacationing in scenic farm house on Martha's Vineyard for at least the last week of August. Of course all these folks deserve a vacation; it's awfully hard work doing whatever it is they do (no one's quite sure). But I highly doubt we the people will get any kind of break from them.

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