This is a weekly program with commentary on current issues.

The inauguration is over. Now the hard work begins. Riverside County Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack knows it’ll be a steep climb for her and other vastly outnumbered congressional Republicans. She says the GOP’s mood has been “like a washing machine of soul searching.”

Wow! I knew Mary had a hit lyric in her. All those years with Sonny I just didn’t know it would be a country-western lament.

So mute the TV, summon the neighborhood coyotes and imagine your favorite Republican twanging into country-western song as we belt out: “I’m in a Washing Machine of Soul Searching and It’s a Mighty Heavy Load.”