Well, first of all Jimmy, the tax rates you mentioned are meaningless. What matters is what the actual effective rate of tax is after all deductions and all countries have different writeoffs, different tax laws. Personally, I would be happy with keeping the top rates where they are but taxing capital gains at the same rate. There are huge corporations that rake in billions raping your resources and polluting your country who pay NOTHING in effective tax, none, zip, nada. Making these giants pay at least SOMETHING back to your country should be a pretty easy starting point that everyone can agree on. Of course, nothing helpful is able to pass congress these days, even if 90 percent of Americans want it!

Leroy you have a very good point. How about that buffet rule. The Buffett Rule is nothing more than a political gimmick. If old Warren was serious about paying more taxes I have a new proposal for him. New Buffett Rule: Companies such as Berkshire Hathaway will immediately pay the income taxes they have already recorded on their income statements; yet have deferred on their balance sheets. In Berkshire’s case, they will immediately cut checks for the $35.56 Billion dollars in deferred taxes (as disclosed in last year’s 10K) to the proper taxing authorities.

Let ALL of the taxcuts expire, For the average middleclass household it is no more than a "happy meal" literally, Not even enough to buy everyone in a family their own happy meal

I must admit I am truly saddened by the righties on this board. They clearly have been brainwashed by Fox News and their talking heads. It always surprises me when people espouse a cause that harms their own interests. Guess that's what Fake news can do to you.

Now the Repubs are considering a national sales tax so that the poor and middle class can take the brunt of the taxes. I'm sure Faux News will spin this to convince the gullible that it's fair and not a regressive tax.

Another huge bomb dropped by obama and the democrats in their war on the middle class and prosperity in this country. Hundreds of thousands of small businesses who employ millions will, be slammed with ANOTHER massive obama tax, add to that an ADDITIONAL 4 trillion for obamacare - per the cbo this week. This country is faced with a clear and present danger - obama and the democrat held senate - obama is driving this nation right over a cliff and the fools who support him are ready to follow him over it. There will be no recovery till obama is gone and theGOP retakes the senate -

Im kinda tired of this @!$%#. The republicans got us into this mess no matter how you want to put spin on facts. They will now try to hold us up again. Im failing at this point to understand why we the people haven't demanded they be removed from office. The budget deficit game and so on.

Get rid of the right wing congress already. To the right wing nuts that clearly no nothing about money you may get what you ask for but Im going to be laughing my ass off when I get a tax break and you loose your job. You guys have crossed the plain from morons to just plain dumb asses.

Im over it! Americans we will get what we deserve if you elect Mitt and allow the congress to keep its seats. The time to wake up is NOW! Get rid of these nuts before they steal all you worked for as an American. If you think this is bad wait and see just what its gong to look like if you elect MITT.

This guys a tool! He's a liar and he hides his money of shore. The only reason you do that is to avoid taxing. If he has nothing to hide give it p already. Waiting till the last minute is only going to make me think its bull@!$%# anyway .To the idiot that will reply to me on how thats not true. Im the 0.1 percent. YES IT IS! AND NO I DONT! I have no problem paying a higher tax to help us get out of this. I would and gladly will pay more.

I fail to see the hold up aside from the pretend rich asses in the room who paid to much for a condo and a car they couldn't afford. Yeah you know who you are. Maybe you should have checked your dictionary on the definition of wealth. Stop holding up the nation and let get on with it already.

do you think maybe all of us would agree to pay more if we were all guaranteed it paid down our debt instead of going somewhere else?

One thing the Democrats fail to consider in this capital gains/dividend tax hike is that anyone who has a retirement plan at work is invested in mutual funds through that retirement plan. Mutual funds pay taxes on capital gains, then pass the remainder through to the share owners (employees). Then the employees will pay taxes again on the money when they withdraw it in 2 or 5 or 40 years to fund their retirements.

We are all in the process of shooting ourselves in the foot by allowing our government to continue to tax us on income at any level. The latest buzzword that Oblameo came up with is "fair." This word "fair" is rapidly achieving status as a four-letter word in my personal compendium of swear words. Life is not fair. This is something a small child learns when they do not get ice cream for every meal or have a favorite toy taken away by another child.

Yet as adults, we seem to blindly persist in this myth that life has to be "fair." Our Blamer-in-Chief wants our lives to "fair." What is fair about the guy at the next desk getting a raise when you don't? What is fair about the woman two desks over getting a promotion when you don't? What is fair about a drunk walking away from an auto accident that has killed four people? What is fair about being stopped for a traffic violation when 10 people drive by violating the same law?

GROW UP, PEOPLE!!!!! LIFE IS NOT FAIR!!!!! And ANYBODY who says life should be fair is lying to you. We are not even guaranteed fairness by our Founding Fathers in the documents they used to begin this nation.

We can pursue happiness all we want to, but there is NO guarantee that we will achieve happiness. We can pursue life all we want to, but when drowning in the ocean, the ocean will not be "fair" and allow us to live. We can pursue liberty all we want to, but that wonderful state of affairs is not guaranteed even though each generation has bled and died for liberty. Remember, that blessed and sacred tree of Liberty MUST be refreshed regularly by the blood of patriots.

PC'NOT Hows this for you!

Do you even pay attention?

This is what you support! NICE JOB!

During the 2010 mid-terms the GOP campaigned fiercely on the platform of job creation and, as a result of such promises, the GOP gained the majority in the House of Representatives. As the new Speaker of the House, John Boehner made the welcome claim that the primary goal of the Republican Party was to increase employment in the U.S.

His exact words were: "We're going to have a relentless focus on creating jobs."

The following, therefore, is a chronological list of legislation by the GOP beginning 2-10-2011 which I created purely for my own amusement. That it has reached its current imposing length without one anecdotal citation of new employment as a result of Republican legislation is simply shocking. Shame on these useless hypocrites.

There are those who choose to place the blame for high unemployment on Mr. Obama's shoulders, but keep in mind that it's the House that enacts legislation and controls the governmental purse-strings, not the President. The Stimulus package passed by the Democrats in 2009 helped the economy but would have been more effective if the GOP hadn't limited it to little more than a package of more useless tax breaks for the rich.

Update 6-18-2012: It's officially clear to everyone, even the foreign press, that the GOP will do nothing to help the economy, betting that bad finanacial times will help Mitt Romney in the upcoming presidential elections. In addition, thinkprogress.com offers five ways the GOP has actively sabotaged job growth.

Non-Job Creation Legislation of 2012:

1-2-2012: Congress will return to session on January 17th. They will work for six whole days this month. Must be nice. Don't expect much Federal job creation during this period.

1-18-2012: Here we GO!

On Tuesday, the 17th, the House selected a new as-yet-unnamed Sergeant-At-Arms. On the 18th the House will attempt and fail to vote down Mr. Obama's request for a debt increase. The House will then adjourn until Monday. No jobs were created.

1-23-2012: Not much today. Just a panel discussion on doing business with the military, plus some GOP shenanigans called the Legally Binding Budget Act of 2011. Simply put, it's an attempt to make the president culpable for lousy budgets. No jobs were created.

1-25-2012: Speaker of the House John Boehner claims that the GOP passed 30 jobs bills in the past session of Congress. Well, they passed 30 "somethings" but they certainly had little to do with job creation. Follow the link and laugh.

1-27-2012: The House held hearings on Wednesday trying to cut retirement benefits for federal employees. They also redefined what an "aircraft" is. They then took Thursday off. No jobs were created.

1-30-2012: On Friday, the 27th, the House was in session for a whole four minutes. No jobs were created.

1-31-2012: Today the House voted on a motion to consider the repeal of the CLASS Program, part of the Affordable Health Care Act aimed at helping low-income citizens get health care. It passed on party lines. Don't expect it to escape the Senate. No jobs were created.

2-3-2012: The House proposed a bill that keeps welfare recipients out of strip clubs, casinos, and liquor stores. The actual purpose of the bill was to have Democrats vote against it so that their Republican opponents can claim Democrats are FOR such nonsense. The bill passed 395-27 but it will die in the Senate, so ha-ha-ha, GOP. No jobs were created.

2-6-2012: Last week House Republicans approved language for debate on two bills that would gut Federal programs without having to pass specific legislation. This would, essentially, equal more tax cuts for big business. No jobs were created.

2-8-2012: The consistent upward trend in employment numbers would seem to be an excellent time for the GOP to bask in glory as good shepherds of the economy. But even though they've done absolutely nothing to increase employment for the past year all they can do is grumble that "More should be done". For once, they're right. No jobs were created.

2-10-2012: House Republican's are watering down the insider trading bill so that Democrats will vote against it. Thus, come November, our GOP pals can say that Democrats are actually for insider trading. What more could we expect from these useless conservative sleazebags? No jobs were created.

2-13-2012: Today there will be exactly one hearing about "exploring all energy options." It should be called "exploring oil energy options." Meanwhile, Senate Republicans are trying to kill the Violence Against Women Act. No jobs were created.

2-15-2012: So which party has introduced "the most partisan" and "worst transportation bill that Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood has seen in 35 years"? Go on... guess. (Hint: It wasn't the Democrats.) No jobs were created.

2-17-2012: The House will presumably vote on and pass the payroll tax extension today. Then they'll leave town for ten days in order to celebrate Presidents Day. Cushy gig. No jobs were created.

2-20-2012: Congress is out this week on an extended Presidents Day vacation. Between now and April they're going to take four weeks off. Who the heck made this ridiculous schedule? (Hint: It was the majority party in the House. The idea being, I suppose, that the less Congress is in session, the less gets done.) No jobs were created.

2-27-2012: The Congressional Circus is back in action after a week off for President's Day, and today they'll be considering H.R. 4078, "The Regulatory Freeze of Jobs Act of 2012." It's worse than it sounds as its intent is "to provide that no agency may take any significant regulatory action until the unemployment rate is equal to or less than 6.0 percent." Cue the sad trombone sound. No jobs were created.

2-29-2012: The House failed to pass the Research Works Act, which would have prohibited federal agencies from releasing the result of taxpayer-funded research. No jobs were created.

3-2-2012: Yesterday the House spent most of the day debating and passing the San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act. Meanwhile, in the Senate, Democrats, plus Olympia Snowe, fended off the execrable Blunt Amendment. In addition, Speaker Boehner vows to continue contraception fight. Because it's all about jobs, right?No jobs were created.

3-5-2012: On Thursday, the 1st of March, the House unanimously voted to allow itself to give oral histories of the civil rights era, then condemned Iran for finding one of its citizens guilty of apostasy. The House then took Friday off.No jobs were created.

3-7-2012: On Monday the House spent two whole hours naming two federal buildings and then adjourned. On Tuesday they shuffled paper all day regarding a Bureau of Reclamation bill involving hydropower development. No jobs were created.

3-9-2012: The House spent all day Thursday debating H.R. 3606, the "Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act". It is better known as the "Reopening American Capital Markets to Emerging Growth Companies Act". What it actually is, is a financial market deregulation bill. What it REALLY is, is a fake jobs bill. No jobs were created.

3-12-2012: Last Friday, March 9th, members of the House attended a hearing in Saranac Lake, NY, to discuss a farm bill. No jobs were created. Today, the House has scheduled a single hearing on (Are you ready?) "Explosion of Federal Regulations Threatening Jobs and Economic Survival in the West"... in Elko Nevada. DAMN those regulations! No jobs were created.

3-14-2012: The House is in another recess until Tuesday, the 20th of March. No jobs were created.

3-19-2012: The House is theoretically in session. They're back in Washington but nothing much is scheduled this week except for hearings. They might as well be painting their bedroom's black and listening to Led Zeppelin albums. No jobs were created.

3-21-2012: On Monday, the 19th, the House was called to order at 4PM. They then spent the next four hours arguing a bill that would allow Israeli nationals to receive nonimmigrant visas. No jobs were created.

On Tuesday, the House convened at Noon. The GOP spent the balance of the day trying to steal a Virginia park to fence to their industrialist buddies. No jobs were created.

3-23-2012: For the past two days the House has been debating H.R. 5, the "HEALTH" bill, which is actually about tort reform. No jobs were created.

3-26-2012: The House took last Friday off. No jobs were created.

3-28-2012: The House debated FCC transparency, baby monitors, and a transportation bill but nothing of note passed. No jobs were created, either.

3-30-2012: The House voted to end Medicare again but, thankfully, they signed a 90-day extension to the transportation bill. No jobs were created.

4-2-2012: The House vacated the premises early last Friday and won't be back in session until the 16th of April. No jobs will be created.

4-16-2012: The House is back in session but it's mostly just nuts-and-bolts stuff this week. Although a vote on another corporate tax cut bill (H.R. 9) is in the offing.

4-18-2012: The House voted down the Buffet Rule, awarded Lena Horne a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal, then argued the rest of the day about rules to "enhance" hunting, fishing, and shooting. No jobs were created.

4-20-2012: The House passed "The Small Business Tax Cut Act" (H.R. 9) but they might as well have named the bill "Ponies For Everyone" because it wasn't about small business, and it will never pass the Senate. No jobs were created today.

4-23-2012: The House was in pro forma session to keep President Obama from assigning badly needed federal judges. No jobs were created.

4-25-2012: The House spent the day dealing with the legislative version of cleaning their room. In this case it meant passing bills that dealt with adjustments to the boundaries of parklands, land swaps, and the like. No jobs or anything remotely like them were created.

4-27-2012: The House pased a couple of suspension bills (The DATA Act and the Small Business Credit Availability Act). They also passed CISPA, which is distressing, but the prez has promised a veto. Looking forward to that. Oh, and no jobs were created.

4-30-2012: On Friday the House approved a bill that lowers the interest on student loans, but tacked on a rider which guts the Health Care Act. It's designed to result in a presidential veto, at which point Republicans can claim that Mr. Obama doesn't care about higher education.

To which I say "@!$%# these Republicans! @!$%# these horrible, greedy, useless, poisonous bags of scum!"

5-9-2012: The House is back in session but they only passed a handful of suspension bills. No jobs were created.

5-11-2012: The GOP-led House passed several bills that denied the Obama administration funds to fight for progesssive issues. Read the dismal details here. No jobs were created even though Speaker Boehner again claimed the GOP had a tight focus on jobs... when being specifically asked about why his party is passing so much anti-gay legislation. @!$%# this guy. No jobs were created.

5-14-2012: Last Thursday the House passed the Sequestration Replacement Act, designed to fatten the Pentagon coffers at the expense of the elderly and the poor. It is destined to die in the Senate. No Jobs were created.

5-16-2012: The House was not in session on Monday, but on Tuesday the legislators busied themselves passing noncontroversial suspension bills. Ho-hum. No jobs were created, but you already knew that.

5-18-2012: The House passed a watered-down Violence Against Women Act. Basically, if you're an immigrant or a native American woman, you're fair game for any sadist. They'll pass a major defense funding bill tomorrow and then will take the next week off. No jobs were created.

5-21-2012: On Friday the House passed a bloated defense spending bill, even though they were obligated to cut defense spending as part of the Super Committee agreement. Not only did the new bill include discriminitory language it also included an amendment allowing the government to institute propaganda against the American people. The president has vowed to veto this bill. No jobs were created unless you count the military contractors rolling in effluent streams of your tax dollars.

5-23-2012: Say it with me now: "The House is in recess until the 30th of May. Must be nice to have so many vacations. Oh, how I hate those indolent GOP swine."

6-1-2012: Another day, another abortion bill. This time the "Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act." Which was designed to stop abortions based on sex or race. Seriously. It failed to pass. Apart from that bit of nonsense the day was one long last-minute rush to pass bills that pay the government credit card. No jobs were created.

6-4-2012: Last Friday three Democratic (Hahn, Kaptur, Tonko) amendments to increase funding for energy efficiency and renewable energy failed, while three Republican (Hultgren, Chaffetz, McClintock) amendments to reduce funding of energy efficiency and renewable energy also failed. No jobs were created.

6-6-2012: The House was not in session on Monday but on Tuesday it spent the day amending water and energy bills, mostly shuffling money from one account to another. It was not a job creating event.

6-8-2012: The House passed a bill to repeal a new exise tax on medical devices. The GOP refers to this as a "jobs bill". Another waste of time as the Senate will not consider the bill. In the meantime the GOP is still losing its @!$%# over incandescent lightbulbs, voting to restrict funding for the application of energy-efficient lighting (The GOP evidently believes that CFL's are manufactured in Hell itself.) Job creation was not in evidence.

6-11-2012: On Friday the House voted to cut funding for Open World Leadership Center, the Congressional Research Service, and the Washington Botanic Garden. But, on the bright side, they voted themselves funds to print some snazzy new pocket-sized editions of the U.S. Constitution to hand out to constituents. As always, no jobs were created.

The House is in recess until the 18th of June.

6-20-2012: The past two days have seen nothing fancy from the House. Just a couple of suspension bills and some laws aimed at American Indians. No attempt was made to create jobs.

6-22-2012: The cluster@!$%# that is the Republican-led House of Representatives spent much time dawdling over the transportation bill, the only meaningful jobs bill under consideration. (Don't get your panties twisted about the "jobs" part of this bill. This same bill must be extended each and every year and the only time there's any opposition is when the president is black.) No jobs were created.

6-25-2012: The House adjourned on Friday, the 22nd. No jobs were created.

6-27-2012: The House was pro forma on Monday but was in session until almost 11:30 Tuesday night. Nothing got done. They couldn't even agree to name four post offices. No jobs were created.

6-29-2012: On Thursday, the 28th, the House passed several Homeland Security bills, named a couple of post offices, and voted to hold U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of.... something, because the right-wing base is screaming for blood and they must be appeased. No jobs were created.

7-2-2012: On Friday, the 29th, the House grudgingly passed the Transportation Bill, which has never been a problem up until now, and mortgaged the future of college graduates. No jobs were created.

The House is now adjourned until the 9th of July.

7-11-2012: The House spent the entire day Tuesday debating the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. This is the 33rd time in 18 months that they've tried this. According to the Congression Research Service these votes have cost the tax-payers $50 million dollars. For the record, the House has voted on exactly one jobs bill in the same time period. No jobs were even remotely created.

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Non-Job Creation Legislation of 2011

(1) Attempted curtailing of abortion rights.

(2) Attempted defunding of Planned Parenthood.

(3) Attempted defunding of NPR.

(4) Investigating Muslims.

(5) Declaring English as America's Official Language.

(6) Reaffirming "In God We Trust". Yawn.

(Hmm. The list is getting long. Better start dating this stuff.)

(7) 3-28-2011: Challenging AARP's tax-exempt status.

(8) 4-1-2011: Approved defunct funding for failed religious schools.

(9) 4-6-2011: Attempt to destroy Medicaid.

(10) 4-8-2011: Attempt to destroy Planned Parenthood.

(11) 4-11-2011: Planning on shutting down the government

(12) 4-13-2011: Attempt to destroy the EPA.

(13) 4-15-2011: Attempting to eliminate financial counseling.

(14) 4-18-2011: Passed a House budget that gives $4 trillion in tax cuts to the rich.

(15) 4-20-2011: Spent $500,000 to discriminate against gays.

(16) 4-22-2011: Continued toadying for the rich.

(17) 4-25-2011: Pretending the deficit is to blame for slow job growth.

(18) 4-27-2011: De-funded SETI. (ARGH!!!!!!!)

(19) 4-29-2011: Tried to kill Chrysler two years ago... which is now going to pay back all its government loans.

(20) 5-2-2011: The Judicial Branch of the GOP, the Supreme Court, votes 5-4 to deny consumer class-action suits.

(21) 5-4-2011: Redefining rape. Yes, redefining rape.

(22) 5-6-2011: Pushing for spending caps tied to GDP. (That's a really, really REALLY bad idea.)

(23) 5-9-2011: Claimed credit for dropping oil prices because they passed a bill.

(24) 5-11-2011: Refuse to reduce oil subsidies.

(25) 5-13-2011: Stood helplessly and watched as Senator John Ensign made Bill Clinton look like a Carmelite nun.

(26) 5-16-2011: Attempt to retool Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare-killing bill.

(27) 5-17-2011: Prevented the raising of the federal debt limit. Let the catastrophic job loss begin.

(28) 5-18-2011: Watches Rome burn with their Wall Street pals.

(29) 5-19-2011: Filibustered bill to repeal oil subsidies.

(30) 5-20-2011: Rejected Goodwin Liu for judge simply because Mr. Obama nominated him.

(31) 5-23-2011: Abortion. Abortion. Abortion. As in "restrictions".

(32) 5-27-2011: Spent five hours debating NPR, five minutes debating Afghanistan.

(33) 5-27-2011: GOP releases their jobs plan. Hilarity ensues.

(34) 5-30-2011: Continue to hold the debt limit hostage in order to make more money for billionaires.

(35) 6-1-2011: Brought to the House floor a bill specifically blaming President Obama's 2012 budget for raising thestatutory debt limit by $2.4 trillion dollars, a budget the very same Republican-led Congress earlier passed.

(36) 6-6-2011: Pulled from the floor a Democratic resolution to remove soldiers from Libya, because it just might have passed.

(37) 6-3-2011: Conceived a plan to replace three federal employees with just one federal employee. Yes, they're now actually reducing jobs.

(38) 6-9-2011. Nothing. They did absolutely nothing to create jobs. Not a damn thing.

(39) 6-13-2011. Nothing, though they're jabbering a lot about privatizing Social Security. Again. Sigh.

(40) 6-15-2011. Attempts to cut billions from needy seniors and hungry children in order to raise the defense budget... again.

(41) 6-17-2011. The GOP is censoring Democratic congressional newsletters because they're using the GOP's own words to define the excremental Ryan Budget. Nice.

(42) 6-20-2011: The GOP held a convention in New Orleans and hired an Obama look-alike to stand on stage and tell racist jokes. So +1 to the GOP for giving a man a job but -1,000,000 points for the kind of job it was.

(43) 6-22-2011: I'm sad to report that the GOP didn't do a dang thing to create jobs today, but I'll give them credit for not using senior citizens for skeet shooting practice.

(44) 6-24-2011: Yesterday the Democratic Congress stood up on its back legs and finally barked out what so many of us have been saying for the past six months--- that the Republican Congress is actively trying to stall the economy. There, was that so harrrrrrrd?

(45) 6-27-2011: The Republican Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling EIGHTEEN times for President Bush. Now the the GOP is holding collective their breaths and pitching fits, perfectly willing to cause world economic collapse just because that darned old spendthrift Obama wants to eliminate the corporate jet depreciation tax credit for their rich friends. Oy vey.

(46) 6-29-2011: Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) spent $9 million dollars of his own money in his race for a senate seat in 2010 but afterwards had his own company pay him back to the tune of $10 million in "deferred compensation". Is this illegal? Very probably, though it oddly resulted in one new American job: Senator Ron Johnson. So way to go, GOP! Only ten million more jobs to go.

(47) 7-1-2011: The GOP is on vacation until the 7th of July, even though a world-altering problem with the debt ceiling is looming. But don't worry, Democratic Senator Harry Reid and his left-wing pals are staying in Washington to get some real work done.

(48) The GOP was off for the 4th of July holidays.

(49) 7-6-2011: No new jobs to speak of but the GOP is working diligently to keep their true constituency, Wall Street fat cats, rolling in simoleons by attempting to roll back the financial reforms passed last year.

(50) 7-8-2011: Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's bright idea is to close tax loop holes.... and then give the accumulated monies back to the rich in the form of reduced taxes. That's our little non-job-makers!

(51) 7-11-2011: Speaker of the House John "Weepy-Boy" Boehner admits that not raising the debt limit will cost jobs. Ahhh, that explains everything. Atta boy, GOP!

(52) 7-13-2011: The GOP claims they passed 9 bills that would create 500,000 jobs. Except they didn't create jobs. They really, really didn't.

(53) 7-15-2011: Finally. The GOP is doing some investigating, but it's not about Wall Street or Rupert Murdoch. The target in their cross hairs this time is <groan> Planned Parenthood. Again. This is the official definition of insanity, you know.

(54) 7-18-2011: Not only does the GOP continue to insist on slashing federal spending, which will cost jobs, jobs and more jobs, but now they want to hack the Constitution.

(55) 7-20-2011: Are you ready? The GOP today passed a bill that would "amend the Securities Act of 1933 to specify when certain securities issued in connection with church plans are treated as exempted securities for purposes of that Act." Ooooh, I'm all a-tingle.

(56) 7-22-2011: While unemployment claims are rising again the GOP is putting the screws to small airports in order to kill union labor.

(57) 7-25-2011: Speaker of the House John Boehner walks out of a debt ceiling meeting because that mean old pwesident Obama wouldn't knife his health care plan. Poor widdle John.

(58) 7-27-2011: No new jobs but at least 4000 workers have hit the bricks as a result of the GOP's jihad againstairport unions.

(59) 7-29-2011: The GOP wasted the past two days on its version of a debt ceiling bill that even its own party won't vote for. John Boehner is a miserable failure as both the Majority Leader and as a shepherd for these hard times.

(60) 8-1-2011: The GOP breaks out the fiddles while the economy burns. The tune they favor is the "Screw The Poor and the Elderly" polka, and they're hitting the coda HARD.

(61) 8-3-2011: The GOP is screwing everyone over by refusing to fund the FAA. As a result, airlines owners are currently pocketing millions in taxes that should go to the government.

(62) 8-5-2011: GOOD NEWS! The GOP has a plan to create 300,000 jobs.... no, wait. That's eliminate 300,000 jobs. Sorry.

(63) 8-8-2011: The GOP is on vacation but their henchmen continue to usurp the voting process by sending outphony absentee ballots.

(64) 8-10-2011: The GOP is proposing something called the REINS act which essentially gets rid of safety inspectors. So less jobs and more poison in your children's food. It's win-win, uh, lose-lose, uh, whatever!

(65) 8-12-2011: Employees of Boeing had their jobs illegally pulled out from underneath them. Guess which political party is doing their best to see that these employees don't have their day in court. Bingo!

(66) 8-15-2011: Yayyyy! Republican Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee (which investigates government corruption) is keeping his home district busy by securing millions of dollars for road and public works projects. I guess it was just a complete coincidence that most of the work is planned near properties Mr. Issa owns. Uh-oh.

(67) 8-17-2011: Republicans Darrell Issa and Dennis Ross introduced a bill in July that would accelerate thedestruction of the USPS and put all of its employees, hundreds of thousands of good Americans, out of work.

@!$%# Darrell Issa and @!$%# Dennis Ross! @!$%# 'em until their ancestors rise from the dead and beg forgiveness for ever having sired the malevolent little bastards.

(68) 8-19-2011: Hey, look! Good old Darrell Issa, Republican, has hired a guy named Peter Haller to help effect new regulations for banks, like Goldman Sachs. Unfortunately, Mr. Heller used to be called Peter Simonyi when he was a vice president for (wait for it) Goldman Sachs. Oh, you can bet you boots there's nothing underhanded about hiding behind another name. Not a thing. Nada. Zip. Zero.

(69) 8-22-2011: The GOP has a new job-creation plan... to have one rammed down their throats. You see, the Democrats want to include a job-creation trigger in the new Super Committee that will require the Republican Party to vote either for or against it. To vote against it would be, uhhh, dumb but I wouldn't put anything past our little conservative pals. Stay tuned.

(70) 8-24-2011: The GOP has been quiet on the job front lately so I have a request of Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry...

Re-invest in your porno companies, Rick.

It doesn't have to be a large investment but at the very least you'd put a few porn stars back on the cock, uh, I mean clock. Heck, if you're lucky they might even name a new position after you, one that no doubt involves the same anal lube that keeps your hair in place.

(71) 8-26-2011: Hey! It's our old pal Darrell Issa again, and he's hired a very nice man named Kurt Bardella to work for him on the Oversight Committee... only it's the same Kurt Bardella he fired five months ago for breach of trust. Guess this leopard found some really effective spot remover.

(72) 8-29-2011: Suppose you have a job but you need help with your mortgage. There's still $30 billion in theTroubled Asset Relief Program but the GOP wants to re-route that money to the federal deficit. This means more people will lose their homes and perhaps become homeless. Eventually jobless. Nice work, GOP.

(73) 8-31-2011: When the GOP returns from vacation they plan on voting every week to gut every government regulation within arm's reach because, you know, "regulation costs jobs". What they refuse to acknowledge is that regulation has been proven to actually create jobs.

(74) 9-2-2011: After unbridled "success" wrecking the economy once again with their "debt-ceiling" stunt House and Senate Republicans are starting to mumble about stalling the upcoming Highway Bill, costing Americans almost 2 million jobs. (These bills have traditionally been passed by overwhelming margins.)

(75) 9-3-2011: A recent CNN poll reveals that those who self-identify as Republicans would rather the president focus on jobs, not the deficit, by a margin of 54%-44%. So why has the Republican Party not proposed one, single jobs bill in nine months?

Because they're not Republicans! They're shills for their corporate masters who they can't WAIT to get another Republican stooge in the White House so they can screw the American people all over again like they did from 2001-2009.

(76) 9-5-2011: The GOP is on a Labor Day break, which is sort of like atheists enjoying Christmas services with the Pope, so not much in terms of job creation is happening. For now, we'll just have to thank presidential candidate Mitt "Magic Underpants" Romney for hiring all of the workers who will be laboring to quadruple the size of his Californiabeachfront mansion.

(77) 9-6-2011: Michelle Bachmann has a brilliant new answer for lots of high-paying jobs... slash the corporate tax rate to zero.... except corporate America is already paying an effective rate of zero. Even so, job creation is down the dumper. Back to the Etch-A-Sketch, Michelle.

(78) 9-8-2011: Presidential candidates Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney, and Herman Cain have just announced their jobs programs. It's tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts for the rich, and tax cuts for the rich. Why didn't we think of this before?

(79) 9-9-2011: Rick Perry wants to kill Social Security. He also wants to eliminate the FDA, the FCC, the U.S. Post Office and just about all other federal employees except the military, the Supreme Court and himself. It's kind of a jobs plan if you long for 12th century feudalism.

(80) 9-11-2011: On Friday President Obama outlined a job's plan that is seen by economists as win-win. The Republican response to the program is to whine about it.

(81) 9-12-2011: Not much governance today so I think I'll just make a little comparison... which two types of professions do you think result in more jobs? Wall Street commodity speculators, or educators? And which group do you think the GOP is doing its darndest to reduce in numbers?

(82) 9-14-2011: I gotta hand it to the GOP. In this bleak economy they've found a way to increase jobs... in hospital emergency rooms. What they're doing is trying to cut funding in the transportation bill for bike paths and pedestrian walkways, thus ensuring more mayhem on our streets and guaranteed employment for EMT workers. It's pure gee-nyuss I tells ya!

(83) 9-15-2011: Today the GOP-led House passed a bill that would make it easier to fire union workers, union organizers, or simply move jobs overseas in order to bust a union. In essence, an anti-jobs bill.

(84) 9-16-2011: The government has provided loans that help the auto industry create jobs, loans that helped keep the assembly of the Ford Focus and the Nissan Leaf right here on American soil. Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor plans to strip half that money to repair damage from Hurricane Irene... in HIS district.

(85) 9-16-2011: President Obama is trying to fast track job creation for a company called LightSquared and Republicans are pissed, evidently because the owner of the company had the audacity to donate to the Democratic Party. He, uh, ahem, also donated equally to the Republican Party.

(86) 9-19-2011: Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor is back with a pithy statement about Mr. Obama's jobs bill: "While an all or nothing approach might make sense to some communicators, I hope the President realizes it would be better to work together." This from a man whose stated job it is to say, and I quote, "No" to anything the president proposes. I hope he gets a painful boil on his uvula.

(87) 9-21-2011: The leaders of the Republican Party just sent a letter to the Federal Reserve saying "Keep unemployment high." Honestly, the letter says, in essence, "Hey, those guys out there in the ocean are drowning. Hide the life-preservers."

(88) 9-23-2011: Look! It's Darrell Issa, Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, creating jobs. He's stumping for a huge loan package on behalf of a company, Aptera, which makes electric cars. This is great news, especially for the green economy, although I wonder if Mr. Issa would be so ecstatic if the company in question wasn't a major contributor to his campaigns.

Oops.

One more thing... the day after sending the glowing recommendation to the Energy Department Mr. Issa conducted a hearing entitled "How Obama’s Green Energy Agenda is Killing Jobs." Double-oops.

(89) 9-26-2011: The GOP is being suspiciously quiet so I want to take this opportunity to show you just how badly the Bush administration @!$%#ed-over the American people. Here's a chart of the GNP for this country over the past 60 years:

Look it is plain and simple. YEs government needs to be trimmed. Yes taxes need to be raised. We have a monster deficit bill and a restricted revenue stream. If we don't do both we are going to fail. Congress needs to stop fighting and come up with a plan that does both. Bush is a jack ass. He started these wars and big spending and then started a huge tax break instead of raising revenues needed to complete all the things he did. For the last 11 years we have been running with an unbalanced check book. The Republicans started and the Dems have yet to correct it and neither party will do anything but argue,point fingers and blame instead of work together moving forward. They all need to go.

What kind of man makes a speech like this, then pushes the national debt to almost $16 trillion and creates a never ending ever growing debt crisis?

In February 2009, Democratic President Barack Obama stated:

I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay. And that means taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for getting our spending under control.

"Remarks at the Fiscal Responsibility Summit." By Barack Obama. Government Printing Office, February 23, 2009. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/presdocs/2009/DCPD200900102.htm

According to the above speech, an irresponsible one

This is not the first time I've read a post about 30 bills being in the Senate. Is it a rumor going around or the same person repeating it every where he/she posts? The right would just love to have all 30 bills pass - with every kind of port imaginable in them. That's the reason they are not passing. If just for once Congress could pass a bill that DIDN'T have pet projects of members of Congress - it would be a miracle and probably one for the Guiness Book of Records.

The Senate demorats led by the moron Reid reminds me of a bunch of little kids who want to take their toys and run away if they don't get their way. The is also the other morons in Wisconsin who ran away to Illinois because they are also small children with small minds. These are the idiots that the people elected to serve the will of the people!

Kind of makes you sick these morons get paid big bucks and have great medical and retirement bennies while most Americans are out of work, on food stamps, and on the street homeless. How is the Obama hope and change working now??

You ain't seen anything yet, if the idiot Obozo gets re-elected you might as well move to Yemen because this is what America will look like. Obozo voters will be those who are getting the handouts and will want them to continue. Some are not even trying and others are just used to the welfare and other gimmees!

Reid wants the House republicans to act quickly????????

WOW!!!!!!

Aren't there a number of House budgets sitting out there that he has tabled??

He doesn't even act on them...let alone act quickly.

The dedt is over 15 trillion dollars and we are barrowing 40cents of every dollar we spend and they want to cut taxes. These people are nuts and need to be voted OUT!!!

I REALLY WOULD NOT MIND, IF THE RICH PAID SOME MORE.....BUT, that is not what the Senate was doing, and we all know it. It was all politics...plain and simple, Harry Reid and the Senate, has not proposed a budget in three years, what a Joke....Obama, is the head of a party, that makes ones stomach sick.

Once again we get to see the true color of the GOTP. Are they loyal to the people or to Grover and the Koch brothers!

Article one, section seven of the US Constitution: "All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives." However, the bill passed in the senate doesn't raise revenue (taxes), it lowers them. As such the senate can pass the bill prior to consideration by the house.

It is obvious, with a one trillion dollar deficit per year, that the US government must raise revenue (taxes) AND cut spending.

We will always remember the Republicans as NO is the law of the land. But if had millions you deserve a great tax break." Republicans just want to shove it up the middle classes ass." A furious use to be republican. NOW I TRULY SEE WHO THE EVIL AXIS IS. Religion is just there cover up.

How about making the 47% of people who pay no federal income taxes actually have to start paying taxes before they are allowed to vote for others to pay more? How long do you think a charity would last if the recipients of the charity could force the charity to keep giving them more and more even if it means running out of funds entirely? This situation is what progressives have now created in this country. Great job!

Make everyone pay a minimum tax.No more 40% of taxpayers never paying a dime in taxes.Stop the annual tax rebate to the loser who never pay taxes.Reduce welfare payments after the first child to 50% for the second child and 50% of that for the third and above children.Make welfare recipients do "busy" work for their freeloading.

Too many kool-aid drinkers on here. The goal of the House and Senate should be to get the tax code down to 0% on income tax!!!!!!

hey art relax dude! big daddy cheney said deficits dont matter.

McConnell is exactly right. The Democrat plan is "Give us your money, and we will take care of everything. Just keep voting for us." What they don't tell you is, "You won't really get much, because we will actually use a lot of your money for ourselves, to pay off our rich doners, and to supprt all of those illegal aliens we opened the door wide for."

RealAmericanFirst you are full of BS. You are a Democrat first then an American. You seem to think the Democrats walk on water. They could care less about the American people only their political careers. Obama spreads the BS about helping the middle class but has done nothing. I am an American first then a Democrat. I support and vote for who is best for the country not the party. Obama will certainly not get my vote. Almost 4 years of BS and lies doesn't get it done for me.

The Senate Democrats extending the Bush tax cuts shows how incompetent they are. Couldn't come up with their own version for tax cuts??? Oh, I understand then if the economy doesn't improve Obama and the Senate can blame Bush.

Saving a few tax dollars for people does and will not help our economy. Obama and the Democrats did nothing for the economy when they had control of Congress. All they did was focus on Obama that in a few years will be like the Clinton Fair Housing Act, an economic disaster. Who cares they will be out of office.