Do you remember this strange, slightly creepy, taxpayer-funded video that Joan showed you the other day?

Here's something I noticed about it that might not be obvious unless you know the setting. And it perhaps helps to explain why the story is told in still photos rather than in video.

Cantor starts his busy, busy hour in his leadership office in the Capitol. He holds a meeting or two, then heads down the stairs and into his waiting chauffeured SUV. He's off to the offices of the Committee on Financial Services, located in... the Rayburn House Office Building.

Which is across the street.

Literally.

It's about 250 yards away.

A little later in the hour—remember, this is a video of how our busy, busy leader spends from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.—Cantor heads downstairs again, into the sub-basement garage, and back into his chauffeured SUV, for another ride to... the Capitol.

Across the street.

About 250 yards away.

Now, some of you may have visited the Capitol before, and know that there's already a private, underground subway that connects the Capitol directly with the Rayburn House Office Building.

But Cantor doesn't use that. He goes from the Capitol to Rayburn and back, in a chauffeured SUV. Portal-to-portal car service for a trip across the street.

What are the odds, you think, that Cantor was shuttling back and forth between meetings aimed at cutting government spending? Do you think he was asking anyone, "What would YouCut?"

Because I've just had an idea. Austerity now!

