The latest Bloomberg Businessweek labels this year’s crop of Capitol Hill bigwigs the “Doing-a-Lot-of-Nothing Congress” because lawmakers have sent “only 54 bills” to President Obama.

The magazine labels most of those bills “trivial” and calls 2012 “one of the least productive sessions on record.” Given the federal government’s propensity for doing too much, though, a session with “only” 54 bills sounds pretty good.

As Thomas Woods told Carolina Journal Radio/CarolinaJournal.tv in 2010, sometimes the best action from government involves inaction.