The House voted last night to suspend the pay of Andrew Biggs, deputy Social Security commissioner. Biggs’s crime? Having supported personal accounts in the past. Rep. John Dingell, who sponsored the amendment, says he wants to force Biggs to testify before the Senate Finance Committee about his views. Apparently nobody told Rep. Dingell that the reason Biggs did not having confirmation hearings before the committee is that Sen. Max Baucus, its Democratic chairman, refused to schedule any. (Bush gave him a recess appointment.)

Six Republicans voted for this stunt. Ron Paul, presumably, doesn’t think anyone at the Social Security administration should be drawing a paycheck. What’s Bobby Jindal’s excuse? John Linder’s?