Worst ever Mr Boehner.

America thought the tea party was good....look at the bed y'all created

18% !!! Nothing with an 18% approval rating should be allowed to be continued, it should be SHUT DOWN, CLEANED OUT, AND REBUILT !!!

Performance pay for Congress, just like the private sector. Main measurables would be the budget and deficit performance.

Gee... That's funny... Do you mean that when one side says no to everything other than bills to ban abortion, ban birth control, and cut taxes for those who least need it nothing gets done? Imagine that.

where did the smart tea party Go

Most bills are being written by lobbyists and many of those bills are hundreds of pages long with all kinds of cake frosting hidden for their various corporate sponsors. Less bills passed isn't necessarily a bad thing considering where the bills are coming from and who writes them.

The conservatives are acting like big babies, but you can't run a country correctly if you hate everyone in it, and I can't think of a single American -other than the ones exactly like them- that they don't hate with a passion.

If only those moronic democrats in congress would quit trying to introduce legislation that was blatantly anti-capitalistic, anti-middle class, penal and approaching unamerican, the republicans wouldn't have to shelve their proposals and this congress would be able to get something done. Thank God the majority of voters returned a majority of republicans to the House so they could keep the democrats in check. Obamacare is what happens when you have one party controlling all levels of the government - and a majority of Americans do not and did not want that legislation.

Either confusion or alcoholism of Israel type is to be blamed.

Our government has been owned and operated by grover norquist since the mid 1980's, all the same people, all the same conspiracies, and all the same misinformation and deliberate disinformation. there should be term limits and a restriction on "family" in government.

in missouri, the son of a state senator was elected as governor, through all manner of false advertising, he. the son, did everything his daddy wanted, signed all manner of new laws into effect, and quit his job, getting a huge and wondrous retirement package for life, leaving beind a wide range of investigations and lawsuits.

who is it that the "lawmakers" work for, we the people, or the people that have all that anonymous money to spend to get them re-elected and "Keep" them in office as "paid for" puppets?

Ronald Reagan would often say "No deal is better than a bad deal"

Yea, I'm really impressed with Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell, Harry Reid and Pelosi, who all, by the way, and their families, by the way, are NOT going on Obamacare. They are not going to stand in line and take a number to see a doctor. They are not going to call a government bureaucrat day after day asking for a doctors appointment..........please, and they are not going to pay a nickle for their prescriptions. Only us looser citizens are going to have to deal with what they have sold their souls for. They are NOT going to have to pay for their own healthcare like we are, and that of 3 or 4 others who haven't lifted a finger to support themselves or their litters of children without daddys. And yet, you idiots keep re-electing them. What is wrong with you all?

Call me nutty, but the fewer bills they pass the better. All the crap they do pass is for personal or political gain anyhow.

I'm very happy with a do nothing Congress.

Congress can't pass anything if the Senate doesn't approve it first.

Democrats in the Senate have been blocking everything.

Come on MSNBC,,,be a news outlet without an agenda for once. You know Harry Reid is THE problem with progress.

He needs to be removed as head of the Senate majority and you know it!

Not that I don't entirely agree that Congress is useless, but how is the ability to pass more laws a desireable benchmark? If I had to make up more than two hundred rules every year to govern some complex game system or the like, wouldn't that prove that I was kinda sucky at writing rules? Shouldn't a well-crafted legal code be elegantly simple, rather than bloated with an absurd excess of bureaucratic bloviation? Why do we demand that Congress be "productive" rather than "effective"? A cinderblock is very effective at being a doorstop, but you'd hardly say it was "producing" anything; sometimes the ability to act is not an advantage.

Hallowed are those who walk the path in unison
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Devotion is rewarded, Those who stray must be guided back to the path

We the people need to change thae rules to those who are elected to serve us. They should only be allowed to serve one term and not be paid what they choose to be paid. They should not be allowed to recieve benefits better than any American would recieve to include health care and retirement. They also should be made to work more than 3 days per week and have endless breaks. If they can't pass a bill, then they should not be allowed to go on break/recess until it is accomplished

The fewer laws and regulations passed the better we all sleep ar night. What they deserve is a medal.

The problem is not the partisan politics. The problem is generational. The same folks that were dysfunctional in the Sixties are now the same folks we have in Congress and the Senate. Guess what they are still dysfunctional. They only know my way or the highway. They think only along the selfish party lines.
Just like the majority of the post I am reading here selfish party politics.

A welcoming trend is the flood of new Congressman and women who are Veterans. They know the meaning sacrifice and commitment. They think more about America then their political party. This is what we need, politicians who will legislate for the good of the people of their state whom they represent. Stop representing a party and start representing America.

The baby boomers need to step aside and let the younger generations take over. Selfish, stubborn,
and greedy are not the qualities for bipartisanship and functional government.

I think we have way too many laws already. Some that need to be enforced are not and some that are a ridiculous waste of time are enforced with diligence. Law and order is necessary in a civilized society, but not at the expense of personal liberties. The US would survive even better with only a third of Congress. Maybe we could pass a law that says we operate with two-thirds less Congressional employees, and in fact lower their pay as well.

Before Obama even took office, or proposed any bills, House republicans vowed to block everything he may even think of doing. Before the first legislation was even proposed, Mitch McConnell said that the number one priority for republicans was to deny Obama a second term. (yes, you can look this up, it is proudly displayed on conservative websites!) NOT solving the economic crisis. NOT creating jobs. NOT reforming social security or medicare. He stated that the top priority was purely political, to win an election four years later. Rush Limbaugh also dictated that he wants Obama to 'fail.' That he'd rather see continued joblessness and economic regeression than to see political consensus that may in any way allow Obama to be seen in any positive, or even neutral light. Screw America, republicans must win, even if it means most Americans suffer!
Every hour of every day the news empire of the Australian immigrant Rupert Murdoch (Fox News, Wall Street Journal, NY Post etc.) declared Obama to be Stalin, Zedong, Hitler, Atilla the Hun, the Antichrist.
And anyone still wonders why Congress is seen as one playing politics, instead of looking for solutions?

What a waste of Taxpayer Dollars! The Gold Plated Benefits, salaries and Pensions these guys get paid and the American Standard of Living continues to plummet. We once had the Highest Standard of Living on Planet Earth and in 30 short years, they have managed to sell out our futures and our children s futures to the highest bidders.

What a disgrace.

The republicans did what ever on their NO-NO-NO-NO-NO in the house to make President Obama a one term president. Majority of us voters spoke and elected President Obama on a second term.

Now as a voter, I would like to see President Obama put his basketball down and put on his boxing gloves towards the republcian house. In other words go on offense and don't put up with their nonsense on being on the defense. We want to see the tough President Obama on this second term.

I've been around for many years. The republican house is out of control and many are not true republicans. They are not supporters of their people in their state or American people. They have been black mailed by an evil muti-billionaire lobbyist master named Grover Norquist. On TV he stated, they will do what I want, if they don't they will not be re-elected. In other words some of these republicans are supporting one evil man and not supporting the American people. For America I want true democratic and republicans politicians that are for the American people. I watched and heard three other evil muti-millionaires that tried the dirty tactic of black mail. Telling their employees they might get fired for not voting for Romney. These four evil multi-billionaires are insults to the rest of the elite rich good people. They are insults to the American people.

Get rid of boehner he is useless and nothing more than a druken bigot. LETS ALL GO OVER THE CLIFF THEN THE REBUBLICONS WILL NEVER HOLD OFFICE AGAIN AS A MAJORITY!