Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's political action committee reported giving $5,000 to Sen. David Vitter, R-La., the same week it accepted an identical amount from former Rep. Chip Pickering of Mississippi.

Pickering, like Vitter, is a conservative Christian Republican accused of having an extramarital affair linked to the "C Street" townhouse in Southeast Washington that is at the center of a spate of GOP sex scandals.

Pickering's otherwise dormant CHIP PAC made its first donation of the year to Haley's PAC on Aug. 15 -- four days after the governor gave to Vitter's 2010 re-election campaign -- according to a Sept. 20 filing with the Federal Election Commission. The two checks comprise all of the month's activities for Haley's PAC, which has just $13,281.37 in the bank and has made only one other contribution this year.

Is it just a coincidence?

House Republicans are asking their supporters for ideas on health care through an online survey -- after months of producing nothing in the way of a comprehensive plan for overhauling the health care system.

Are they that hard up for ideas? Aren't they sent here to study the issues and help make policy based on their expertise?

Instead of the Party of No, they appear to be aiming for the Party of Yes/No/Undecided.

I can't make this stuff up. So here's the questionnaire in its entirety (most of it is after the jump). Oh, and by the way, the folks at the National Republican Congressional Committee want you to contribute your money after you give them your thoughts.

Access Issues

Would you favor a plan for the government to provide a tax credit to individuals who do not get health insurance through their employer to enable them to buy insurance directly from insurers?

• Yes
• No
• Undecided

Do you favor requiring insurers to offer coverage to ALL applicants regardless of their general health or any pre-existing medical condition?

• Yes
• No
• Undecided

Do you favor expanding Medicaid, the government program that pays medical bills of poor Americans, to cover virtually all adults with incomes up to 133% of the poverty level at a cost of $440 billion over the next decade?

• Yes
• No
• Undecided