The hatred coming from those on the left and those on the right is exactly what both parties want. It deflects attention from the fact that they are bumbling fools and crooks. There are only a few things the "leaders" of our country should be concentrating on, stopping the war, jobs, and the economy. They want us to keep hating on each other so they introduce things like gay marriage, immigration, abortion, the list goes on and on. Now these are important concerns, but they are all smoke and mirrors to keep us focused on anything but the shoddy job they are doing.

Vote the bums out and start over, it is highly doubtful we could do worse than the keystone cops we have running the show now.

Also, we should all take a breath and quit hating and finger pointing, this behaviour plays right into their hands. Dump the bunch of them.

Never have so few caused, so much damage, to so many and been unconcerned for so long.

Mitt Romney don't really disagree with Todd Akin behind close doors, because this is what most mormon men do to young girls against their will and that is rape them. I wonder how many young girls were raped at the hand of Mitt and his sons.

I would like to know why even 12% of registered voters think Congress is doing a good job.

Personally I think they are all crooks and lairs in DC and everyone up for re-election should be kicked to the curb. Independent sources project in another 4 years without change the debt will reach 20 Trillion. At this time best we can hope for is grid lock to at least slow down the bleeding of money to China.

I repeat, one and done term limits for the president and Congress, staggered out of course, not a new congress every couple of years. Time to get rid of the electoral college and the two party system. We meed to adapt our government for the times. All of these measures are not easy but very" doable. " The government is just not working for the vast majority of Americans.

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Congress only intention is to destroy Obama. And, the pill popping..... drunken alcoholic....... Boehner...... is the leader of this movement. Vote out the Congress we have now.........problem is solved.

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Want to know what all of this really reflects? Us, of course.

Believe it or not, political campaigns past have been worse--as in ballot box-stuffing, dead people-registering, fisticuffs, intimidation, and Civil War-inciting worse. Yet, the Republic survived because the culture of the country was resilient--and just as importantly, stable enough--to come back to the center after riding waves to the extremes.

That 'culture of sensibility' is seriously eroded today. Look at the people we idolize, the TV we watch, the smart phones and email and Facebook and other things we value. We get so much crap thrown at us in an unrelenting torrent that there is no time for thinking or reflection--only reaction. And our reaction in turn feeds the beast and encourages it to spew out more loud, more coarse, more rivers of garbage that we continue to eat up. There is no time to stop, stand back, and filter what we've asked to be fed.

You can't have honest political discourse in such a culture. You can't offer serious solutions as a basis for formulating public policy in such a culture. You can't be the loyal opposition that challenges a stance based on deeply held values in such a culture. All you get in such a culture are people who shout louder, appear more unbending, and bellicosely accuse, distort, and deceive to get their way.

And judging by many of the comments here, our politics and politicians are a reflection of what we've become, not the cause of it. If you want something better, a system that is more civil, more responsive, more inclined to work out solutions than hurl blame--a culture of sensibility--show the powers that be exactly that.

Republicans or Democrats, it doesn't matter, they're all a bunch of thieving scum. They've made theirselves filthy rich in underhanded ways and they've made themselves immune to all of the laws that we citizens must obey. WHAT A JOKE !! LET'S GET RID OF THEM !!!

Good nite all you good little liberal lemmings. Be nice to the liberals all you conservatives because you may offend their vision of what is best for this country.

GOP Debt Ceiling Brinkmanship Cost Taxpayers at Least $1.3 Billion

"Speaker John Boehner in May issued the same ultimatum on the debt ceiling. He said any debt ceiling increase must be accompanied by an even larger amount of spending cuts."

President Obama vented his frustration over the breakdown of talks by attacking
the GOP, and by personally going after Mr. Boehner. He accused the House Speaker
for not returning his phone calls, complained that it was the GOP leader that
walked away from the talks, and whined that “I’ve been left at the alter a
couple of times now.”

Not bottom: it can go lower.

Since the only legislation this do-nothing republican congress can pass is abortion bills let's all abort this republican congress this fall, Abort! abort! abort!

the tee party will be remembered for downgrading the credit and creating the lowest approval ratings in congressional history

Vote for TP/GOP because they will get you jobs, jobs, jobs. Vote for TP/GOP because they will save social security and medicare. Vote for TP/GOP because you can always trust the TP/GOP.

Have they found the perfect lie yet?

NBC forgot to ask me. I think the poll run by the same people reporting on it is a bit lopsidded like the news stories shown here. Congress was changed after the last elections where Barry lost his major powerbase of a Democratic controlled Congress and Senate. The Democrats were served notice that their jobs were in question by their association with Barry. It is a shame that the American people were so fretful of the man in the white house that good people lost their jobs or were not considered because of that affiliation with Barry.

I feel the Congress should be applauded for their courage to stand up against the "Man Behind the Curtain" and his powerful political machine that controls all of the world media. The people like myself do not fully cooperate with surveys because we do not want the "Other" side to know how weak their stance truly is. Come November the real people who are able to think for themselves will be out to show the radicals we are not to be considered fools in our own house. Abraham Lincoln was a wise man in many ways in that he trusted the people to do what was right, but he never considered the American People to be fools.

Lazarus

the do-nothings certainly have earned their nick-name

Rep. Kevin Yoder's naked Sea of Galilee alcohol binge is a telling look into GOP policy.

real Americans need to step up and say no to this type of debauchery!

The Republicans have led the charge on this issue and the Tea Baggers have helped them along. If you ask the question" How is your Congressperson or Senators doing" and they usually get a 60% rating or better. The politicians have BS'd the electorate so much and have convinced them they are doing an excellent job and that the problems in Congress are the other people. All 435 of the bozos should be replaced and all 3600 registered lobbyists should not be allowed to contact Congress for two years. If we do not straighten out that cesspool in 2013 this country could go right down the tubes. Parisian politics will not allow our government to function properly.

Nothing good comes too a person(s) that does it's best too destroy the lives of others...

Man you Republicans might want too keep a "Low profile"?

But no worries the Republicans have been dead set on destroying the "Middle Class" for years and nothing bad has happened too them....

I don't understand is why we the people are so stupid that we keep putting the same sell outs back in office instead of new blood. As for products we don't have much selection anymore to buy made in USA.We the People of The United States are no better then Penn State, because we refuse to accept what is really going on in this country and how both major parties are involved. Are we that stupid that we don't know whats going on or that much in denial that we hope if we do nothing it will all magically get better? For every cause their is an effect, politicians like to pretend these problems happen magically. The major problem is that we really don't hold all of our leaders accountable. We let them toss the hot potato of blame back and forth blaming each other. The truth is that they are all responsible for making excuses rather then solving problems while serving their own self interests then the country that they have sworn an oath to protect. We seem to have either totally incompetent people in power, totally corrupt people or both from what I can see of the direction that this world is heading.There was a reason that we had tariffs in the first place, Ross Perot warned of the giant sucking sound with free trade agreements while our so called leaders promised prosperity for all. You can't compete with countries that allow slave labor and the freedom to cut costs by not having any regulations. Instead of moving forward our so called leaders are taking us backwards to the days of slave labor, child labor, unsafe working conditions, products and pollution so that a select few can make massive profits while the majority suffer. I'm going to keep voting every incumbent out and for as many independents as I can. If everyone did that it wouldn't change the government in one election but it would sure shake them up to realize that if they do not start serving the people over big money contributions they will be finding temporary employment.The only thing that is going to save the country is putting the pressure on government to serve the people rather then self interests.

One only needs to review the behavior of republican congressmen and senators for the past four years to arrive at the unavoidable conclusion that the cause of the constant sequence of legislative impasses that have been plaguing both the House and the Senate during the Obama administration--and especially since the 2010 congressional elections--must be laid directly at the feet of the Republican party.

This conclusion should not come as a great surprise to anyone who has been following politics for at least the last couple of years. Senate minority leader, republican Mitch McConnell, clearly stated the GOP goal at least until the 2012 elections: to make sure that Obama would be a one-term president! There was no mention of solving the country's serious economic and social problems. To cooperate in any way with Obama or the Democrats might result in credit being given to Obama. Instead, the Republican strategy has consistently been to block any legislation that would be beneficial to the country or its citizens. Ironically, this strategy has required the GOP to oppose ideas that they themselves have endorsed and initiated in the recent past. Since the Republicans are in a slight minority in the Senate, they have resorted to that antiquated tool, the filibuster, to block every serious piece of legislation, including popular proposals that have the approval of the majority.

The GOP obstruction effort has been even easier in the House of Representatives. Since 2010, when intransigent Tea Party fanatics were elected and invaded the institution, the Republicans have held a substantial majority. They have used that majority to block virtually every piece of substantive or helpful legislation, while fostering endless bills addressing their extreme views on social issues. While driving the nation to the brink of default on our national debt, resulting in a lowering of our credit rating for the first time in history, they have introduced endless bills to abolish abortion rights and overthrow Obama's signature health care legislation, the Affordable Care Act.

The current crop of Republicans are people who have little understanding of how government functions, who have no respect for the needs of the broader spectrum of their ethnically diverse fellow citizens, and who are extremely intolerant of anyone who disagrees, however slightly, with their inane politics and long-nurtured hatred of everything that is not white, evangelically religious, and ready to kill for a cause, however ignoble and partisan

Even if the economy was my big concern, I would not be voting for Mitt. In light of my desire to be treated like a human being, I'm not voting for him anyway!

O/Joe 2012!

• Big "O" and Old Joe for 2012

We get the government we deserve. 12% rating yet we have many members of the House and Senate with 20+ yrs and even 30 yrs. of seniority . 16 trillion in debt,2 wars going, 8%+ unemployment rate,500 billion trade deficit and a crumbling infrastructure and we are so stupid that we are going to elect the same two groups again this fall who have us in this mess. As I said We get the government we deserve.