Speaker Glenn Richardson, who has no shame in defending pork, has said the House will be out session no later than April 20th, according to Tom Crawford at Capitol Impact.

Erick Erickson has advice for the Senate and reminds us of one of the main reasons the 2006 elections were disastrous for the GOP:

Were I the Senate. I’d pass their budget, shove it into the hands of the House, and say “okay.” When the House acts recalcitrant and shoves back their budget, the Senate should shove back again. Keep putting it back in the House’s hands and mock them each. The Housies can’t take the mocking because they have an inferiority complex already at being called the Lower House.

The Senate will win the PR battle (though restoring the KIA funding would help them there) if they make the case that the House wants to go hog wild on a mid year supplemental needed to fund emergencies. Let the House then explain the emergencies they intend to fix with their pork.

The media got the meta-narrative from the 2006 election — the public is tired of pork. They’ll be predisposed to report anything beyond the necessaries as pork, which will put the media framed narrative much closer to the Senate than the House.

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