Washington could waste four years doing...  Author: By Halimah
Abdullah CNN Published On: Jan 22 2013 12:45:14 PM PST   Updated
On: Jan 22 2013 03:00:13 PM PST  House Speaker John Boehner's
office took aim at Senate Democrats for what he sees as their
failure to pass a budget over the past four years.  Why stop
there?  There are plenty of other things that Washington
politicos could have accomplished in that time. Here's just a
smattering of wonky ways to pass the time.  63.47 - The number
of times you could watch the must-see TV presidential debates
--- including that seemingly unending series of GOP primary
debates --- if you watched one per day. Of course, this presumes
23 in the last cycle weren't enough for you. Why on Earth anyone
would actually watch that many requires an entirely different
calculus.  1,402 - Number of times you could have watched all 23
of the presidential debates during the last cycle back to back.
No tally on the ocular surgery you might need if you actually
committed to do this.  8