Two of the reasons

Why nothing ever gets done in Washington:

It had to happen — a GOP Congressman is calling for hearings into The New York Times‘s decision to publish MoveOn’s anti-Petraeus ad at a cheaper-than-usual rate.

GOP Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia has sent a letter to Oversight Committee chair Henry Waxman demanding a probe into the “scandal.”

“It is time for The New York Times to answer publicly, on the record, and under oath for its conduct,” Davis writes.

And:

Earlier today, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) said in a statement that if Columbia University President Lee Bollinger “follows through with this hosting of the leader of Iran, I will move in Congress to cut off every single type of Federal Funding to Columbia University.”

Well, I guess you need priorities.