Washington is looking more and more like American Idol, minus the longevity of solid approval ratings and the Sinatra renditions. The new Simon Cowell is less British and more southern and strongly resembles House Minority Whip Eric Cantor. The hopefuls are no longer unknown singers with an itch for fame but government programs with a disease for spending. And if you don’t like the sound of them, text your vote “no”.

That’s “You Cut”, a program designed by the House Republican Economic Working Group that opens government spending cut options to the up or down approval of voters via the Internet. It’s interactive, it’s about voter involvement, and it’s about dang time.

“It allows YOU to vote, both online and on your cell phone, on spending cuts that you want to see the House – YOUR HOUSE – enact. That’s right, instead of Washington telling YOU how THEY will spend YOUR money, YOU can tell THEM how to save it,” said Cantor, in an exclusive article on Breitbart’s Big Government site.

The initiative launched this week offers five government spending programs which can be voted on via internet or text. The winner will be announced on Monday, May 17, and given a simple “up-or-down vote”by the House Republicans.

The following week, the cycle repeats and continues until the end of the year.

It won’t balance the budget. Not yet. Cantor isn’t touting the belief it will, saying the deficit problems won’t be solved overnight or with “one silver bullet.”

Allapundit at HotAir says, “I am, shall we say, skeptical.” Allapundit usually is, shall we say, skeptical. And with good reason. The cuts are small. Government spending is big. And, usually, never the twain shall meet.

But Cantor says “this is not the same GOP as it was a few years ago” and this is one move to prove it. YouCut won’t be the silver bullet. But it changes the tide. It reverses the runaway barge of unchecked spending taking the nation toward the horizon where eventually we’ll reach the end of debt flexibility, and like the idea of a flat earth, fall off the edge of the world.

YouCut is designed to create an open communication between voters and their Republican constituents, showing their Congressional representatives where they don’t want their taxpayer money spent. It’s a way, Cantor says, to alter the “culture of spending”.

Here are the first five programs, via Cantor at BigGovernment:

1. Presidential Election Fund. $260 million
This program matches funds to political candidates and conventions during Presidential primaries, a program apparently more important than funding a $50 million DC Voucher program, a successful program, that provided 3,300 low-income children with a better education. Democrats killed the voucher program last year yet funding for political candidates and conventions remain. As Cantor explains, during 2008 the candidates raised $1.3 billion from donations and PACs. And they need $260 million in taxpayer money, too?

I think not.

2. Taxpayer-subsidized union activities. $600 million
Some federal employees are spending 100% of their taxpayer funded time working for their union. According to Cantor, federal employee unions are doing just fine collecting their revenue and lobbying. In fact, all unions are doing fine. And when they aren’t, Obama simply bails them out. Big kiss to UAW.

That could go.

Elvis Presley ” Million Dollar Quartet ” ORIGINAL First Pressing New & Sealed VINYL LP

Elvis Presley ” Million Dollar Quartet ” ORIGINAL First Pressing New & Sealed VINYL LP… Later released on SUN Records…… The Tracks Are…. Just A Little Talk With Jesus, Jesus Walked That Lonesome Valley, I Shall Not Be Moved, Peace In The Valley, Down By The Riverside, I’m With A Crowd But So Alone, Father Along, Blessed Jesus (Hold My Hand), As We Travel Along On The Jericho Road,

You've seen the mega sharks and the killer piranhas, now it's time for worms the size of a small car! It's Mongolian Death Worm on Syfy Saturday and believe it or not, it's based on an actual myth. If you love B-horror movies, you won't want to miss this one.

It all begins with Daniel (Sean Patrick Flanery), a self-serving treasure hunter determined to find the tomb of Genghis Khan. He may be closing in on it but the area is loaded with blackmarket bandits and only one sheriff (the wonderful George Cheung) to keep an eye on the place.

Meanwhile, an evil American oil corporation is drilling into the earth all the while messing up the water table and causing an outbreak of disease that's killing off the poor population. Enter Alicia (Victoria Pratt) and Phillip - doctors without borders types who are willing to risk everything in order to help.

When the doctors car breaks down, Daniel is forced (for $300) to give them a lift but before they can get to where they're going, the bandits kidnap them in hopes that Daniel will lead them to the treasure that he hasn't found. Don't worry, it's Mongolian Death Worms to the rescue. Yeah, really.

These days, nobody does overgrown animal films like Syfy and this one is no exception. The death worms a big, bulky, and they have these long, sucky tongues that they use to capture their dinner. The only thing cooler than the worms is Sean Patrick Flanery's Daniel, who doesn't get rattled by any of it. He's a laid back, seen it all, kind of guy and he's not about to let a few mega worms get in the way of this dream.

Flanery and Platt are fun to watch, but I can't say the same for the oil men and their subplot. The head of the plant has a vested interest in keeping corporate from visiting -- something about blackmarket goods in the basement, but the lengths he goes to in order to keep the secret get a little too Three Stooges at times.

Not that this movie isn't meant to be funny. Flanery goes for that dry Indiana Jones style humor as he tries to keep himself alive first and foremost.