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Subscribe to RSSStanding in front of people who wrote the White House about how they’re helped by the payroll-tax cut, President Obama today once again called upon Congress to extend the holiday as well as unemployment insurance. “This is an issue where an overwhelming number of people in both parties agree. How can we not get that done?"
The president added, "I mean, has this place become so dysfunctional that even when people agree to things, we can't do it."
But Obama avoided placing the blame for the standoff in Congress on any one person.
“Democrats and even some Republicans in the House voted for that compromise. I am ready to sign that compromise into law the second it lands on my desk. So far, the only reason it hasn't landed on my desk ... is because a faction of House Republicans have refused to support this compromise.”
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President Obama summed it up best;
ENOUGH is ENOUGH!
The Teapublican's are playing with fire & about to get BURNED!
It's not even about ideology really.
Sure the House sent a bill to the Senate cutting the federal government, attacking the unemployed by demanding drug tests, and filling it with all the goodies they want like a pipeline to benefit their Big Oil masters, but they won't even settle for some of it--No they demand to have ALL of of what they want. Though they are a minority, this has no meaning to them. If the bill is killed, all the better.
Everyone knows the economy is slowly improving, and that this tax holiday and UE etc. have played a part in that, particularly in regard to the GDP. Even if you are not affected directly by this bill ($40 to fill you tank each month), a better economy is good for everyone. The only reason Teapublicans would be against this is because the president if for it, and because they don't want the economy to improve. Wow, this is how low it goes.
You are right Feisty, they have pushed the envelope too far. Enough is enough!
Mr. Boehner and the House GOP-Tea Party have lost this battle. Allow a vote and go home.
It's mind boggling really, that 89 of 100 Senators pass something, and a majority in the House would pass it too, but it is being blocked by a radical far-right minority in one chamber. Majority rule, democracy, all the ideals of our founding fathers apparently means nothing to these Teabaggers.
I don't want to hear another reference to the constitution, or representing what the "American people" want, or "leadership" criticism, or any other @#$%! BS from the right-wing. Enough!
Job1 : Mr. Boehner and the House GOP-Tea Party have lost this battle. Allow a vote and go home.
May I add: And STAY there!
Seems that FR needs to fix their reporting timelines...
When they hand you a stick and bend over and drop their pants they want their spanking!
The GOP "Hoodlum's On The Hill" are not taking messages from you Mr. President. They will take calls from the Koch Brothers, "Goofy Grover," and "Mickey Mouse Mitch McConnell" the "Rat" of GOP Lobbyists. Now the Tea Beggers have gotten lots of calls from "Crazy Cantor's Cronies," and "Bonehead Boehner" is left crying in his poltical corner. Again! President Obama is still trying to communicate with GOP/RNC Tea Beggers that are still out to destroy him, and our nation in the process. The President is calling on "Bonehead Boehner" to actually do his job, and to stop brewing rotten tea. This President has been trying for the last Three Years to compromise, communicate, comprehend the "Mental Madness" of the GOP Lobbyists. The GOP Lobbyists have called the President a terrorist, not a Christian, and not an American Citizen. All of their ignorant positions have no sense of rationality. None at all!