Your GOP con men in the house will all be gone bye 2020. Fools

Here's how to identify a tea bagger/GOP retard

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Calling names doesn't help anything. There are a lot of reasons why Congress isn't working. One of the most important is that a lot of Ayn Rand fans, Social Darwinists, and other highly principled ideologues were put into the House of Representatives in 2010, out of disgust with authority in general and a desire to sweep out the garbage and bring in fresh and eager faces.

Boy, was that misguided. Nobody bothered to look beyond the impulse to "get rid of the old". And we STILL hear cries for dumping everyone in Congress and bringing in a new crowd -- with no thought given to exactly what that new crowd should be like.

Since their election, the zealots have had their districts gerrymandered until it's now going to be difficult to get them out and get Washington moving again.

We don't seem to have learned much from that debacle. If we're faced with another fiscal cliff and another downgrading of US Treasuries because some of our representatives, like Michelle Bachmann, call for a default on government debt, we will only be getting what we seem to want. These crisis will become annual events, like a Fourth of July parade.

In the absence of a willingness to compromise, in the absence even of common sense, the result is a collapse of the government. This will evidently make some of us very happy, Grover Norquist chief among them. Rush Limbaugh will applaud too because he'll be able to connect all the far-flung dots and figure out some way to blame only the Democrats and RINOS.

As a republican of 45 years I am so embarrassed to be affiliated with the party. I say let the republicans in congress and the speaker stay home in their states, take away their pay and perks, and cancel their lifetime medical insurance. I am tired of footing the bill for a party who doesn't care about the good of our country!! Obama has the power to pass legislation under extraordianary circumstances or whatever if our country is going to fall off a cliff! If Boehner and his band of "No" sayers won't act responsibly then Go for it Mr Obama!!

I still remember this from just after the 2010 House elections. When the newly minted Republican/Tea Party representative (I apologize for forgetting his name) from W VA was asked if he'd consider cutting his salary to help the deficit, he replied "Oh, no! I have an old minivan and six kids. I can't afford it."

And there you have it.

How is it you idiots seem to miss the "big picture" over and over again. The Republicans complain about the Democrats and the Democrats complain about the Republicans. Both sides tout their agendas and accomplishments while denigrating the opposition. Liberals complain about Conservatives and Conservative complain about Liberals. Each side wants the other side to move out of the country or just curl up and die.

You people are pathetic...whine, whine, whine...oh yeah I left out name calling...how about you try a little thinking before you hurl some epithet at the other side. The base name calling is for small children on the playground, exercise your brains a little. You can call the Republicans all kinds of nasty things, just be a little creative instead of just crude and vulgar. Republicans could use a lot of brushing up, I mean what passes for an insult from you people is really just stupid.

Listening to your comments (or reading what you like to pass off as writing) is saddening and boring.

What all of you seem to fail to grasp is that you're all headed for a serious repeat recession or depression. The national debt (regardless if you spend it on Social Security, Healthcare, Defense, etc., etc.) is building at a rate of 1.4 Trillion per year.

Of course we need to spend money to help families, and of course teachers, police, firefighters, etc. need help, and if we don't help homeowners, or rebuild the infrastructure and promote alternative energies, and help promote the arts, and help women/minorities/disabled/veterans/gays/lesbian/transgender folks, and the elderly and promote restoring nature, and helping the United Nations, defend our borders, etc., etc., etc. and not tax the middle class, the rich or the poor.

It leaves us with very few options, we either have to start conquering nations and stealing everything they have, maybe piracy (we do after all have a pretty big Navy).

The United States and the European Union have bolstered their economies by artificially inflating the volume of species/cash. Unless there is some unexpected shift in economic forces and theory, the rate of inflation is going to raise. All of "play" or "slop" in the system is about taken up. Greece used a lot of the energy and reserves of the EU while it balanced Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Italy. The US has leveraged themselves out for the next twenty years, there's no more to take from.

There is only so much of "all of it" and we've borrowed out to 97% of that. We haven't even begun to address underfunded public employee pension funds, the change over to the Affordable Health Care Act and the inevitable next natural disaster (60 Billion for Hurricane Sandy plus whatever hits next).

But you imbeciles have nothing better to do than call each other names...you just better hope North Korea doesn't do something stupid, or Syria doesn't do something stupid or Iran, or some Jihadist movement, or the Russians, or...you get the idea. You're so screwed and you don't even see it do you. You're not screwed because you're a Republican or a Democrat, you're screwed because you let the little things distract you while you and everyone in your "canoe" go over the falls while calling the idiots in the other canoe all go over the falls. Enjoy.

Obama and the democrats could have prevented the financial cliff in either 2009 or 2010 by implementing Obama's tax reform, but they didn't do that did they. They choose in 2010 to extended the Bush tax cuts to the rich.

This comes as no surprise as 11 of the 19 richest members of Congress are democrats. What comes as a surprise is that people actually post on here how they think those 11 democrats, that voted for the Bush tax cuts to the rich, are representing the middle class.

There are a lot of stupid Obama supporters on this site.

You want to know why Obama is failing to recover our economy? It easy. Obama's actions don't even come close to his words.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.

And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.

Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America's priorities. Instead,interest payments are a significant tax on all Americans–a debt tax that Washington doesn't want to talk about. If Washington were serious about honest tax relief in this country, we would see an effort to reduce our national debt by returning to responsible fiscal policies.

Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that "the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and
grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.

I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit.

Sen. Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., (Senate – March 16, 2006)

Obama is a con, and man is he a good one.

There are people on this vine that I used to know as friends who have fallen into the trap.

Not all, but quite a few.

Once, I was the rooster on the fence, until I woke up and saw what liberalism was doing to capitalistic America.

Never more, never more.

The President is back at work, but where is the House, Mr. Boehner?

Still on vacation!

The GOP "leadership" is simply as worthless as teats on a bull!

For the 2013 session, they should be refereed to as "The INSANE Clown Posse".

They should just be honest, and state that the Orange Boner is drunk and is expected to remain drunk for the next week, and Weasel Cantor is off on an island with his poolboy.

Is Allen West holding the GOP hostage with antics like those that got him removed from the military?

Well, at least "Mr Turtle" McConnell will be in the Senate so he can filibuster some more of the bills he wrote!

"Mickey Mouse Mitch McConnell" is still celebrating Christmas at Disney World. The rest of the Teabeggers are just plain 'goofy.'

Of course not. Being there means they actually have to work. The lazy GOP House is too elite for that, they would rather treat it as a type of tax-payer subsidized unemployment where they sit around, farting, crapping themselves, and arguing fing stupid arguments and do nothing but. We should take the number of days the House is not in session, multiply that by 10,000 and then remove the resulting value from their pay checks. No more paid vacations until they actually do some work.

It is time for them all to stop getting paid for doing nothing and not even caring to do anything. Stop the high pay, perks, retirement. Work 5 days a week and if you can't accomplish anything for this country and its people than keep on working til you do. Do we get $174K per year of work from these people? NO

I must admit Obama and his rich lap dogs in Congress did do something for the American people. While they were giving themselves tax cuts, they did lift the ban on horse meat for human consumption and started rounding up all the wild horses on federal land and taking them to the slaughter houses.

Now when you buy that can of dog food, it will be labeled "Obama approved for human consumption."

And lets not forget that when Obama and his lap dogs in congress were giving themselves tax cuts, they were thinking of you and your children.

They redefined Pizza as a health food so that you won't feel guilty about serving what was once considered a junk food to you children.

Wow aren't we lucky. A man who held the title "Community Leader" holds the title "President" and he didn't even have to gain the experience of working a real job between changing titles.

The Republicans are going on strike now....refusing to go back to work??? What the hell is wrong with these people, seriously???

We're in so much trouble...

The GOP released their calendar for next year. Has about 100 legislative days, Why the surprise that they don't want to come back now?

"It's up to the Senate Democrats." Really? To do what? Take up a vote on something that is garbage? We are going off the fiscal "curb" and it won't be until the stock market crashes (again) and the credit rating goes down (again) that the GOP will get the message that it is over for them.

Sounds like the GOP is running out the clock. I'd watch for the next kink in the GOP playbook of politics. Just because their not meeting tomorrow it's not that they arent meeting. The only things that won't happen is the photo ops and press conferences. You can bet that Cantor and his little @ss kissers are hard at work to make sure the pledges to Grover are upheld while holding the country hostage on the tax debate. Oh, and don't forget the Tea $hits as they are the driving force to the GOP's demise.

They have completely forgotten who they work for. Us! Their message is that they won't back down, leaving the dems standing there holding the bag. They are a disgrace, there is not a true statesman or leader among them.

Congress is full of uncaring boobs who are just interested in reelection so they can continue to live on the dole of our money. It’s about time they worked for the people and not for their own personal interest. That goes for republicans, democrats and tea party laggards. We have a new class of welfare kings and queens....wealthy senators and congresspeople.

"Pro forma". Hmm, sounds like a normal day at the office. I sure hope we aren't inconveniencing any of our elected officials or anything.