While Barack Obama leads among Senate superdelegates 18-13 and Clinton leads among House superdelegates 77-74, according to some "Capitol Hill insiders," the majority of the other uncommitted congresspeople privately, secretly and clandestinely are not only pulling for Obama, but pulling for not ever having to tell anybody that they're pulling for him…

While more than 80 Democrats in the House and Senate have yet to state their preferences in the race for the Democratic nomination, sources said Tuesday that most of them have already made up their minds and have told the campaigns where they stand.

"The majority of superdelegates I've talked to are committed, but it is a matter of timing," said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.). "They're just preferring to make their decision public after the primaries are over… They would like someone else to act for them before they talk about it in the cold light of day."

They'd like someone else to act for them? That doesn't sound like the Congress I know. McCaskill must be talking about some other Congress. Like maybe that Congress that hangs out by the deli and smells like motor oil.

Anyway, if this is true (and Claire McCaskill is an outspoken Obama supporter, so why would she lie?) and our elected representatives have long since made up their minds, it means that these past few weeks of infighting and cat-scratching have been, essentially, for nothing.

And if a bloodied Democratic nominee loses to McCain in November, a large portion of the blame will lie with the same super-effective Democratic congresspeople and senators who made such good use of their majority status and didn't cave to President Bush on practically every single thing he wanted from them and ended the war in Iraq like they were elected to do.

Actually, that does sound the Congress I know.