I will tell you how mess up people are with there votes...watch Glenn beck....people followed this dummy to the white house..he is the leader.of the tea party ...hahahahah..

now we have have a whole house full of his folowere..and we cant get rid of them

NOTICE TO EVERYONE READING THIS: Begin now talking to your friends and neighbors about RECALLING EVERY Republican member of Congress----House and Senate. Start today! The country has it with these people! Bring them home and elect people to Congress who represent the sensible people of this Republic and tell the poorly educated, far right wing, extremist, fanatics to crawl back into their evil, sinister, holes from which they emerged!

The American people COULD fix this if they would approach the single issue of a non-productive Congress with a UNITED voice. . . .the proposal is this: a few years ago, there was a tremendous outcry for "merit pay" in the teaching profession. I would propose "merit pay" for Congressional legislators. Those Congresspersons collectively determined to be unproductive in the best interests of the nation would incur a reduction in pay. Granted, Congress usually supplies the oversight, where running the government is concerned. Now, it appears that, like the Consumer Protection Agency, we need a body to oversee the productivity of the United States Congress. Someone to police Congress' actions in terms of the body's positive productivity as it relates to national benefit. Monetary remuneration paid to anyone "sitting on their hands" is money wasted. Any Congressperson who is determined to NOT be acting in the overall best interests of the country, based on their abstinence, absence or voting record contrary to the best interests of the country should suffer a loss of pay, privileges, position of responsibility or <all> of the foregoing. These people are supposed to be mature, responsible adults. As a voting public, we have witnessed actions, or the lack thereof, by this particular Congress and accompanying behavior on the level of middle-school students. Not only is it unconscionable, it's totally intolerable.

And the cost to our debt to support these unproductive fools is higher than ever before. Fire them.

Clean out our houses in 2014, Vote out every republican and t party extremist

As far as I'm concerned we don't need anymore bills or laws and the associated spending. What we need is to start eliminating bills & laws. Stop spending, reduce taxes, and freeze congressional & federal raises & benefits for the next 5 years. Start reducing the size of government...10% reduction in federal employees across the board except the military. Pass a flat tax and eliminate the IRS. Do away with any laws or bills created for minorities, illegal aliens, race or gender based laws, sexual preference bills or laws, and #1 do away with OBAMACARE. Then we may have a productive congress.

The only way a GOP majority in Congress stayed a majority was through GOP Governors and Legislative gerrymandering! Still through propaganda voices such as FOX, many are still fooled by the intent of the movers and shakers of the GOP. Congressional Republicans ARE NOT for the best interest of their constituents. They talk about "smaller government", but I wonder if it's not a corporate dictatorship that they are talking about, one that strips us from our rights (remember the Patriot Act?). It's obvious through the last election the GOP looks upon the working middle class and poor with disdain or at least disinterest.

Mr. Boehener, we will remember for ever that the first opportunity we Democrats get to kick you out of the House of Representatives we will consolidate your sure ejection. We will make you invisible by jerking you out to never return to do so much damaged to the American people by so much opposition against the president Obama. We still do not understand, and still we cannot mentally think of a man's ego be so powerful, and stupid to make you a very detestable human by the majority of the American people. You hve put us throug misery, poverty, no jobs, discredit the USA by not wanting to increase the debt ceiling when you kissed the rear of Bush and increase the debt ceiling twice because you adore his personality!

I find it funny how liberals want to tell everyone what to do and make laws laws laws laws laws laws..... to then break them and end up in prison!

GUFFAAAAAWWWWWWW!!!!!

"Let's make more laws!" "F*CK the POLICE!"

Haww haww haww

Vote to ban guns, unless you are a gang banger LOL!

"Smoking is SOOO EVIL!" "Legalize Pot!" har har har har

Hypocrisy is sooo funny!

"Obama is for the little guy!" "Obama bails out banks and GM and gives billions to already rich people for failed green energy companies instead of giving said money to THE F*CKING POOR!!!!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

The only time republicans are fiscally conservative is when they are no longer in full control of the credit card.

Why do we keep voting for congressional candidates that are bought by the lobbyists and the rich corporations, banks etcetera? Vote for real national issues that really matter to the health, well-being, jobs, prosperity, happiness and security of everyday Americans!!

The most embarrassing group of obstructionist buffoons ever to sit in a Congress! With productivity like this, any private sector corporation would FIRE THEM all. Let's make it happen. They kidnapped America during the aftermath of the great recession. Time to pay them back folks... leave them unemployed!

Well, obama spent 2 years passing one law, Obamacare. The worst law in history. The number isnt surprising.

A list of successful bills, passed by the 112th congress:

http://www.congress-summary.com/B-112th-Congress/Laws_Passed_112th_Congress_Seq.html

A list of ALL 112th house bills:

http://www.congress-summary.com/B-112th-Congress/House_Bills_112th_Congress_A.html#HJ0048

The majority of the Tea Party controlled house bills were of this flavor:

Congress Resolution #35:

"to prohibit any funds under such Act or any previous Act from being used to carry out the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."

Or Congress Resolution #36:

"to prohibit any funds under such Act from being made available to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. "

Or Congress Resolution #51:

"to remove U.S. Armed Forces from Libya within 15 days after the adoption of this resolution." (Even though no American troops were in Libya.)

Or House Resolution 2351:

"To direct the Secretary of the Interior to continue stocking fish in certain lakes in the North Cascades National Park, Ross Lake National Recreation Area, and Lake Chelan National Recreation Area."

FISH!!! The GNOtp House has, for some reason, COMPLETELY stopped being a legislative body!

The point I take away from the article is that this congress SHOULD have been a lot more productive. We were in a terrible financial mess, but instead of "focusing like a laser on the economy" for the benefit of all Americans, this congress decided to use its time to try to drag down an Administration. Actually, just a few more bills designed to fire up the economy and slow or stop the transfer of wealth to the very top would have been great.

Congress has worked hard to acquire their public favorable rating of 12%, the lowest in the history of Congress.

Remember the old Tea Party Protests that drove everyone nuts in 2009 and 2010? Remember the Wall Street Camp Out? Well here's what we need now: A loud, noisy FIRE THE CONGRESS movement right outside their work space in DC and outside EVERY Republican Congressional Office in every major citiy. Publish their work record in all their State papers. Target the ones up for reelction in the next Election. They live like they are perptually on vacation. Let's show people the facts.

Enter the concept of commercialism of journalism. It's not about reporting facts anymore, it's about aligning to a certain ideology to gain an audience.

This is the most worthless congresses in history. At a time when our country is in such need of the goverment to work together and do something to save us from total destruction the congress compleatly stops working all together. Indeed it is just what you would excect from a group of people that don't have a clue what the average american goes through to make a living or what its like to live from paycheck to paycheck. Its all about wall street and the markets. Its about how and who can take control and be in power in the next election and to hell with some problem the people that elected us may be having. I disagree with the President about the tax cuts I think they should let all the bush tax cuts expire. Bush ran up a hell of a bill to pay and we need every american to pay more taxes untill it is payed back. I am willing to pay more taxes to get it paid down but, not without the rich and the clowns on wall street paying their share as well. we did just fine before the Bush tax cuts went into effect, as I remember we all had jobs and the nation had a reserve of money and I made more money in the stock market than ever in my life when Clinton was in office and we all payed taxes. so you'll never convince me that cutting taxes is a way to fix anything. We do need to make some cuts as well and I know just where to start. cut the tax breaks we give oil companies to explore for oil,and cut the forign aid to countries in the middle east that hate our guts but take our money and laugh all the way to the oil fields to screw us out of even more money. I would rather ration gas then buy gas from the middle east. get out of the middle east and let them fight over the oil thenselves. we have plenty of our own natural resources we just need to quit selling them to other countries and making wall street rich

fox news help get the tea nuts in offfice...truth is not popular anymore with fox news.

The rule of law in the United States is collapsing under a body of legislation that is so huge that no one can comprehend all the laws that we are supposed to obey. So Congress should be congratulated for passing as few laws as reasonably possible.

The year 2012 began with the enactment of about 12,000 (!) new state laws. If you add up all new federal, state, county, and municipal laws, ordinances, regulations, etc., for each year, you can see that we are creating a legalistic monster.

fox news has help Glenn beck with a new show..the blaze for crazy people...the voters they need

he has the biggest chalk board in the world now..covers his whole wall

and he has his own oval office...there you go tea nuts..he is now your president hahahaha

Most of the bills Congress passes makes thing worse, not better.

So this Congress should be applauded for doing the least damage of any Congress in history.

Listen up you ignorant fellow citizens, who were no doubt educated in public schools, therefore your ignorance can be understood. . . When the federal government passes legislation it costs money for some organization, group of citizens or individual citizen. Rating congress on a linear scale of increased legislation is the opposite of how we should rate it. The fewer laws and spending bills inacted, the better off all of us are. We have 16 TRILLION reasons to hope that congress finally begins to DO NOTHING.

Because we are $16 plus TRILLION in debt, every congressman and senator and cabinet officer over the past 8 to 12 years should be taken out and executed as traitors to this nation, regardless of their political party.

these corporation tea nuts..can do nothing..they have all the money in the world..and that's what they want to do...do nothing..money can lie on fox people..remember corporations are people now.they can brain wash people..to lay it on the Democrats..remember 2010

Until the Senate passes a budget that the House has submitted time and again or works towards getting one, no taxes should be raised.

And the Congress is the House and the Senate. How many bills were submitted compared to how many were presented on the floor in the Senate? How many were held in the Senate?

This is another BS article by the left wing MSNBC. So now only part of the story is told as opposed to why, where and how things are done.

Thats the reason I changed my browser and my homepage away from the left wing slant. Everyone should do that and watch the advert dollars start to dwindle from MSNBC...