Sometimes, it's pretty easy to let yourself be amazed by what lawmakers get excited about.

Let's face it: fiscal responsibility rhetoric aside, the SBA's funding is a drop in the bucket of the overall federal budget.

Which means, among other things, that no matter how much waste, fraud, abuse and duplication Congressional overseers are likely to ferret out, the savings involved are likely to represent a drop in the bucket of the federal government's multi-trillion dollar red ink.

So it's difficult to take inquiries into a drop in a drop in the bucket seriously when balanced against other federal expenditures — like the amount of money the federal government doles out to large corporations.