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The House of Representatives authorized a suspension of the nation’s debt limit through mid-May, delaying a default on the government’s obligations that would have taken effect in February.
The House of Representatives has passed the extension of the US debt limit to May 19 with a vote of 285 to 144. The measure moves on to the Senate for final passage. MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.
The GOP-controlled House voted 285 to 144 to comfortably pass a three-month extension in the government’s borrowing authority just as Senate Democratic leaders suggested they would take up and pass the legislation as soon as they could.
The vote early Wednesday afternoon by the House would forestall a default on the national debt. The Treasury Department had warned that the government would exhaust its authority to borrow to finance its existing obligations by the middle of February.
The bill, which Republican leaders unveiled last week, would suspend the debt limit through May 18 and require both the House and the Senate to produce and pass a budget resolution in the meanwhile, with a deadline of April 15. If either chamber fails to pass a budget, its pay would be put into escrow – “No Budget, No Pay” goes the newly-minted Republican slogan to describe this strategy.
J. Scott Applewhite / AP
Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and the House GOP leadership speak to reporters after a closed-door meeting on avoiding a potential debt crisis, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013.
"It's time for Congress to get serious about this," Boehner said of the mounting national debt during a speech on the House floor ahead of the vote, "and this is the first step in an effort to bring real fiscal responsibility to Washington."
Republicans settled upon the strategy in the face of criticism from President Barack Obama that another round of brinksmanship over the debt limit would threaten catastrophe for the economy.
“To spare the middle class another knock-down, drag-out fight, we're going to proceed on this legislation and get it out of here as soon as we can,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in a press conference on Wednesday.
The GOP’s new tack has the added benefit of forcing Senate Democrats to produce a formal budget, something the upper chamber has avoided for several years now. Democratic budget chief, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said Wednesday that Senate leaders had intended to produce a budget anyway, and would do so regardless of what the House bill requires.
Budgets are often political documents as much as a governing roadmap; Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan’s two budgets as Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee proposed a series of spending cuts and major changes to entitlement programs. But Democrats also managed to seize upon the most controversial elements of the Ryan budgets to use it to campaign against Republicans. If Senate Democrats author a budget, Republicans will doubtless seek to turn it against their opponents.
In the meanwhile, Republican leaders in the House have vowed to produce a budget document that would balance the U.S. budget within a decade. Ryan, the erstwhile GOP vice presidential nominee, said at a Wall Street Journal breakfast this morning that he expects this new strategy to yield “a big down payment on the debt crisis.”
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Latest Gallop poll (if you have faith in a 1100 person sample):
Hardly a glowing endorsement for either party.
Yes, but remember that those numbers are skewed by stupid people. Take out the people who think Obama is a Kenyan Muslim Communist, or scientists just amke up stuff to get grants, or we are in the Biblical endtimes, or angels determine who wins football games, and so on, and you weed out the 35% of crazies that either like Republicans or dislike them because they are too liberal. Then you see that a good majority of the smart people support Democrats.
Non,
So in translation you want to make up your own numbers and pretend that they are real. I also have to assume by "stupid people" you mean anyone who disagrees with you.
Thanks for the post I needed a laugh.
No need to assume, you just need to work on reading comprehension. I defined stupid people. And believe it or not, people who think the world is 6000 years old, Obama is a Kenyan Muslim, and so on, they really are stupid!
and are any left wing loons covered by the "and so on" Or let me guess tyhere are no left wing loons.
The repubs are saying put up or shut up. I am so happy to see this because the stupid bleeding heart dems can't lie themselves out of this one and blame on the repubs. Either put together a balanced budget or don't get paid. I am still sure that a bunch of no-minded blind followers of the dem party are still looking at this as obstruction but this is saying "do your job or don't get paid" something dems aren't used to because it is like saying "get a job because you're not living off the taxpayers anymore"---they don't get it. Their only thought "OMG this will cost me votes if I can't continue to give away other people's money".
The Secretary Of State made the GOP/Teabeggers look like the total "Cognitively Disabled" individuals that they truely are. The Teabeggers are still void of all facts, and have no intellectual abiltiy to ask insightful questions. The Teabeggers were seen today to be intolerant, reactionary, and very insultive to others. The Teabeggers have proved again to be unable to research materials fully, and have no ability to think clearly. The Secretary Of State held her ground with intellectual clarity, and very competent in her comments. Her skill in dealing with the "Teabegger Clowns" was very skillful to observe. That is fact!
"The Secretary Of State made the GOP/Teabeggers look like the total "Cognitively Disabled" individuals that they truely are."......................she looked exactly like a person getting her rump smooched by her constituents, then reacting like a typical guilty person when pertinent questions were asked..striking out when shoved into a corner with fact..................Bill's gonna be very upset at her failure to maintain composure......so much for his chance of being the "First Gentlemen"......................
What a bunch of pussies. I cannot believe that congress continues to kick the can down the road. Rudumblicans and the democraps could care a less about our future, shame on them.
1/2/2013 Daily Ticker: “The Republicans may not have gotten everything they wanted out of the Fiscal Cliff deal, but they got almost everything. And when it comes to the broader fiscal battle, the Republicans are winning: The federal government's tax revenues are at the lowest level as a percent of GDP in the past several decades (actually since 1950). The Republicans, in other words, are well on their way to starving the beast.”
Republicans have been trying to get the Bush tax cuts made "permanent" for 12 years, but have been blocked from doing so by Democrats. Obama has "seen the light" and has thrown liberals/progressives under the bus by signing into law legislation that makes permanent the Bush tax cuts for 99.3% of taxpayers. Even billionaires got a tax cut and will pay less in taxes than they would have under the Clinton tax rates. What a hoot! Even Bush2 has a big grin on his face.
Now it is on to cutting government spending! I love it when a plan comes together!
Thank you for seeing that! Do you also see that those who say things like Obama spends too much, our taxes are too high, Obama is a socialist, Obama is anti-business, etc., are flat out silly wrong?
"Starving the beast" is a political strategy employed by conservatives in order to limit government spending by cutting taxes in order to deprive the government of revenue in a deliberate effort to force the federal government to reduce spending. The short and medium term effect of the strategy has increased United States public debt rather than reduce spending.
The tax cuts and deficit spending of former US President George W. Bush's administration were attempts to "starve the beast." Bush said in 2001 "so we have the tax relief plan [...] that now provides a new kind—a fiscal straightjacket for Congress. And that's good for the taxpayers, and it's incredibly positive news if you're worried about a federal government that has been growing at a dramatic pace over the past eight years and it has been."
What did Bush and the Republican Congress do? They significantly increased the size of the federal government, going so far as to create a new cabinet level bureaucracy.
As you can plainly see, this tactic has done nothing more than to run up the debt. It will backfire on the GOP even further as it forces tax increases, particularly on the wealthy.
Now that is a hootity hoot hoot hoot.
Ahhhhhhhh Peter if the dems had really wanted to get rid of the Bush tax cuts as you refer to them it could have been done no problem odumbo's first term when he had both houses. Did you miss the fiscal cliff news proving that the cuts did as much for the middle class as the upper class? The dems didn't want to get rid of those cuts because they are just as rich and supported as much by the rich as the repubs are anyone else. Pull your head out of your backside and realize the rich drive both of these parties and neither party cares about the poor working middle class especially the dems, who try to make it look as if they are on our side, who keep spending and spending money they don't have. The repubs are at least trying to bring back a little fiscal responsibility to this mess but the lying azz dems just keep clouding your vision with government handouts they can't afford.
Jared Bernstein was chief economist and adviser to Biden 2009-2011 and is considered to be a progressive, pro-labor economist. In a recent interview on CNBC he admitted that to get our federal budget back to a sustainable track ALL the Bush/Obama temporary tax cuts needed to be allowed to expire, even though 80% of those benefits go to those in the middle class and below. He would stagger the return to the tax rates of the late 1990s beginning with top marginal rates to avoid throwing us back into a recession, but confirmed that all the rates need to expire in order to raise the amount of tax revenue needed. Just doing it for those in the top marginal rates will not work. The middle class would have to pay higher taxes to support the programs he and other liberals/progressives want government to provide.
That option is now off the table with the $4 trillion in tax cuts Obama signed into law. The CBO is busy redoing all their budget projections for future years to take into account that reduced government revenue. All of their budgets are based on "current law" which was all the Bush tax cuts expiring on January 1st. Now that they have been made "permanent", the CBO budgets must reflect a reduction of $4 trillion in federal tax revenue over the next 10 years.
Time to get the meat axe out and start cutting government spending.
Starving the beast" is a political strategy employed by conservatives in order to limit government spending by cutting taxes in order to deprive the government of revenue in a deliberate effort to force the federal government to reduce spending
You say that like it's a bad thing, the only problem is that they won't actually cut any spending.
The “debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party’s embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious doctrine that deficits don’t matter if they result from tax cuts.”
--- David Stockman Conservative Republican and Reagan's Budget Director
The "starve the beast" tactic has backfired on the GOP. No spending cuts ever happened, not even when the GOP controlled both Congress and the White House. Taxes will eventually go up, particularly on the precious wealthy.
bobm - that is exactly the point. The Dems DID NOT make the Bush tax cuts permanent while they had all the power in Washington. They knew that they needed that income long term. That is not going to happen now. We now have the lowest amount of federal government revenue as a percent of GDP since 1950, over 60 years ago. There now is no place to go to get that revenue.
JWM - the federal government doesn't tax anyone based on how wealthy they happen to be - not constitutional. The top marginal rate was just raised for high income earners back to where Obama wanted it. There is no need for the House to do anything in terms of more government revenue from taxes.
And incidentally, the phrase "starve the best" came from a radical mormon spin-off cult that used it to rationalize its defrauding of the welfare system and food stamps, etc., while practicing polygamy. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) led by Rulon Jeffs and then Warren Jeffs used the phrase "bleed the beast."
From the web: In discussions about Warren Jeffs and the FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) church the topic of “bleeding the beast,” or taking advantage of government money, often comes up. A former polygamist sect member, Laurie Allen, talked about it in an interview on In Session. Allen produced "Banking on Heaven," a documentary about the FLDS under Jeffs’ leadership. During our interview last week, Allen claimed the FLDS collects food stamps and other forms of public assistance because many of the women technically are still single. In the FLDS, multiple women are often “celestially married” to one man, with only one of the women being legally married to their collective husband. That means the other illegitimate wives can collect assistance for themselves and their children.
Wrong again. The estate tax is based on wealth. Because of the huge debt that has been run up because of the failed "starve the beast" tactic, taxes WILL go up. The wealthy will have the bejesus taxed out of them. The GOP could have avoided this but chose not to, now they will have to pay the piper.
“It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign
countries to finance our government’s reckless fiscal policies. Over the past
five years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion.
That is ‘‘trillion’’ with a ‘‘T.’’ That is money that we have borrowed from the
Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from
American taxpayers.”
B Obama
Since his election the national debt has increased by over 5 Trillion dollars. Wonder what the Senator would have tought abought that.
The Estate Tax is designed to tax income going to heirs. It is not a tax on the individual who happened to have that wealth prior to their death. That is no longer a real issue since part of the fiscal cliff deal was to make permanent the Estate Tax deduction of $5 million and a 40% tax rate above that amount. It also turns out that when someone passes, any investments in taxable accounts are stepped up, there is no tax due on capital gains. For many estates that means there is a big offset to the 40% tax, stepped up values on home, investments, etc. In addition, consider that estate tax income for the federal government is relatively small compared to the size of the budget and other funding sources, only about $25 billion per year. Not much anyone can do to get any significant amount of additional revenue from that source. Nice Try!
"Since his election ... over 5T." Yes, Obama didn't turn the economy around the first few seconds he was in the oval office. I guess he is not Jesus Christ (although, really, I don't even know how Jesus could have done it).
In 2009, the national debt increased by 12.2% of GDP
In 2014, the projection is that the national debt will decrease by 1% of GDP
I wonder what the senator would have thought about that. I'd imagine he'd be proud of his acumen.
Congress what a bunch of tools.
What are these Teabeggers up to? Are they using the tactics of "Distact and Attack?" The "Teabegger Clowns" like this tactic, and they love obstructionism even better. The "Teabegger Clowns" does not like the word 'compromise' at all. The "Teabegger Congress" are loyal to their "Blood Oath" of January 20, 2009. Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! The Party of NO has got to go!! We need to get the vote out for 2014!
The tea party has a lower favorable rating than Socialism. Now that is funny!
The GOP has a lower favorable rating than Colonoscopies and root canals. LOL.
Why can't they all just do their danged jobs. All they seem to do is argue like a bunch of school children and push deadlines around. They don't make their deadlines and only blame each other. Fix the damned problems and they won't keep coming back. I am sooo sick of it all.
Percentage of 2010 Tax Returns with AGIs over $500,000 (IRS data) – Top 5 states:
1.34% - Connecticut
0.98% - New Jersey
0.95% – New York
0.94% - Massachusetts
0.72% - California
It seems that Republicans just allowed Obama to raise tax rates on those who are mostly Democrats in "Blue" states. What a hoot!
Or to put it another way, liberal states are the most prosperous.
The conservative movement is generally made up of a few rich manipulators, and a misled bunch of poorer people. That's why we see the redder the state, the lower the wealth. (And why all the rich conservatives like Romney and the Koch brothers move to California, the people are smarter, kinder, better and happier.)
There is a direct relation between intelligence, prosperity, and liberalism, that holds well for the earning bracket of, say, 80th percentile to 99th percentile, which also overwhelmingly votes for Obama. We in that bracket know we will pay more taxes, but we have to patriotism and the arithmetic to see that is the right thing to do.
We're proud to pay our taxes. America is worth it.
I would take conservatives more seriously about the debt if they had not insisted on fighting two wars without paying for them. I think they just have bad leadership now. They take positions on principle that they have no hope of defending, much less winning. We need a two party system and in my opinion the leadership of the republican party cannot and will not cut it. If Ryan is their philosophical leader now all hope for them is lost for the foreseeable future. We have had some great republicans in the past. Apparently, they are all gone.
I would take their "we have to cut spending" more seriously if they actually identified significant spending cuts (not just in the low dollar PBS, foreign aid, welfare, and congressional salary categories). I mean, it is vague and useless to say "we need to cut entitlements" if you are not going to say "we need to cut social security checks by 15%" or "cut medicare by 30% and put the cost on to the seniors." But no GOP congressmen will say those things, because they are afraid of losing voters. So instead they do silly things like threaten the debt ceiling, or demand a budget, or any distraction that avoids them having to make a hard statement.
Why can't they just do their jobs and settle all of this krap instead of doing nothing but pushing deadlines around? If I did my job like they are doing theirs...well I don't guess I would have a job. They would all rather argue like a bunch of children in the schoolyard fighting about toys. If they all owned businesses they would all be bankrupt and jobless. Oh, that's what they are doing to the rest of us.
"The GOP’s new tack has the added benefit of forcing Senate Democrats to produce a formal budget, something the upper chamber has avoided for several years now."
Rt wing bull crap. I do not consider the Ryan budget which takes from the middle class and poor to give to the wealthiest in this country a legitimate budget. The GOP can continue to play their dirty games but eventually most of the public will be aware of what they are trying to pull. When the Democrats proposed a similar bill saying that an agreement must be reached or else the congressional members would not be paid the GOP baulked at the suggestion. Everything is a game to them. They had no trouble voting for BIG spending during the GW Bush Administration but now all of a sudden they are such staunch deficit hawks under a Democratic President. The deficit has been decreasing faster than expected under President Obama to the point that some economists are concerned of inflation. So Michael don't tell me that your party is so concerned about the next generation, etc. when all they want to do is try to fool people into believing they care about them when in reality they want to strip seniors of their Medicare and Social Security so they can protect and increase the wealth of their financial benefactors and themselves.
Here is the amount of national debt Obama has managed to rack up by year.
$1.9 trillion – FY2009
$1.7 trillion – FY2010
$1.2 trillion – FY2011
$1.3 trillion – FY2012
To you that is fast reduction of federal budget deficits?? Please tell me you are not serious!
Why did Boehner allow all this debt through his House for the last two years???
Peter17........Thank You.....................when presented with fact they stumble as though coming off a 7 day bender...................You should have added that Obama has racked up more debt than "all other" Presidents before him combined........................COMBINED
At some point the credit markets will take the lead, just like in Greece. As interest on the national debt skyrockets, whomever is in the White House or Congress will no longer have any options. The era of Big Government will be over. Austerity will rule the day. The sooner those spending cuts are made, the less draconian they will end up being for the American public. Boehner will be happy to work on those spending cuts over the next few months with Reid and other Democrats to avoid a draconian scenario down the road.
If and when that happens taxes will go up, especially on the wealthy. It is a forgone conclusion.
AGAIN. Why did Boehner let all this debt through his House for the last two years?
The majority of those deficits are leftover bills from Bush's 2 unfunded wars, unfunded Med-D/donut hole, unfunded tax cuts and unfunded TARP.
http://cdn.crooksandliars.com/files/uploads/2010/06/cbpp_bush_tax_cuts_deficit_1cef5.jpg
Peter and Maureen - made up stuff is not real impressive. Obama did not "add more debt than all previous presidents combined." You guys have just heard lies repeated so many times that you now believe them.
Moreover - the economy grows, so comparing absolute numbers from Obama to, say, Nixon is crazy. The only measure that matters is as %GDP. You can get data from many sources, one of which is useconomy.about.com/od/usdebtanddeficit/a/National-Debt-by-Year.htm
Year Debt as %GDP
2006 -- 63% GDP
2007 -- 64% GDP
2008 -- 70% GDP
2009 -- 85% GDP
2010 -- 92% GDP
2011 -- 102% GDP
2012 -- 102% GDP
2013 -- 102% (projected)
2014 -- 101% (projected)
Yes - debt rose like a skyrocket in 2008, 2009, 2010,2011 -- that was a really bad stretch. But it started because of Bush's failed policies, and it has been tamed thanks to Obama's wise policies.
Why not? Let's let the spending go up, nobody in the Demo side will really look at the spending and let the country go to Hell! When the Rebulicans decided this strategy they may have something. Eventually President O will fall on his face with nobody to blame, but himself!
In the next 3 months we will see how serious the democratic liberals and Obama are about reducing the government's spending and reducing the debt. They got their way a few weeks ago when taxes increased. Now the spotlight is on them. We'll (including those who voted for Obama) soon find out what the real Obama plan is. When the voters begin to see his plan all along was to increase taxes and increase spending, they will begin bailing their support for him. This will be the first step in the collapse of the Obama administration.
I have to agree with one of my favorite repubs, Michael Steele: They should not get paid now and retroactively back for 4 years!!! Michael Steele said this and I agree. They should pay back their salary for the four years they did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!!!
I force myself to watch Morning Joke to see how many times he cuts off his co-host and guest....with the exception of say.... Mika's Father. He wouldn't dare interrupt a man who know more than him but, a woman... shytttt....all day..Joe is a jerk!
Sorry - Not Constitutional!
Many men do take Mrs. Clinton at her value, just like we take Feisty Redhead and you at your value. We just think you and people like you are full of @!$%#.
Someone will need to wake Harry Reid...maybe he can still toter around...someone is going to have to help him with the heavy lifting of putting bills up for senate votes...maybe someone should check and see if he's brain dead...
So back to what got us here and how would the repubs/president McCain/vp Palin have done better? They own the downward trend that left Obama a mess or at least 90% of it, they did not end the wars they did not remember to pay for, and they started the new Medicare drugs system stuff that was unfunded by hundreds of $billions. Oh and they wanted to shrink treasury revenue no I mean cut taxes for the rich since 2001 and did that very well so another reason on what got us here.
So what would McCain/Palin have done any better at in reducing the debt? Only thing I can imagine is they would have worked to lower wages and benefits with the repub govs who are busting unions, cut social programs (including soc sec and medicare/medicaid), EPA and OSHA and FDA and every other safety regulator to make it a very unsafe but corporate profitable country...basically start their repub caste system they always wanted and kill people off by age 60 with pollution and worker injuries/illnesses so in the repub world the majority of working Americans they look at as tools/peasants would not need soc sec or medicare being dead already. Now we have them foaming at the mouth with that dream!
Here comes the magic Pelosi conspiracy theory, watch for it. LOL.
yep I know JWM, Nancy and Harry wanted everyone including the 18 year old high school dropout delivering newspapers to own a mansion and put a gun to the head of the finance industry forcing them to make loans to every living creature including your pet hamsters. They must have wondered about that with their MBAs and PhDs in business and accounting backgrounds, we never hear about that discussion they must have had with the dems that wanted loans for all...I have a feeling the CEOs of the finance corps. said something like "those loans will fail you know Nancy and Harry" but they also knew they could get rich out of a scam (leading to the bailouts)....now who got those house appraisers to keep raising the appraisals from 2003-2007, that is what I really wan to know (houses in every city doubling in three or four years in value, was there a scam behind that)?
“We can put light where there’s darkness, and hope where there’s despondency in this country. And part of it is working together as a nation to encourage folks to own their own home.” — President Bush, Oct. 15, 2002
The global financial system was teetering on the edge of collapse when President Bush and his economics team huddled in the Roosevelt Room of the White House for a briefing that, in the words of one participant, “scared the hell out of everybody.”
It was Sept. 18. Lehman Brothers had just gone belly-up, overwhelmed by toxic mortgages. Bank of America had swallowed Merrill Lynch in a hastily arranged sale. Two days earlier, Mr. Bush had agreed to pump $85 billion into the failing insurance giant American International Group.
The president listened as Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, laid out the latest terrifying news: The credit markets, gripped by panic, had frozen overnight, and banks were refusing to lend money.
Then his Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., told him that to stave off disaster, he would have to sign off on the biggest government bailout in history.
Mr. Bush, according to several people in the room, paused for a single, stunned moment to take it all in.
“How,” he wondered aloud, “did we get here?”
Eight years after arriving in Washington vowing to spread the dream of homeownership, Mr. Bush is leaving office, as he himself said recently, “faced with the prospect of a global meltdown” with roots in the housing sector he so ardently championed.
“The Bush administration took a lot of pride that homeownership had reached historic highs,” Mr. Snow said in an interview. “But what we forgot in the process was that it has to be done in the context of people being able to afford their house. We now realize there was a high cost.”
For much of the Bush presidency, the White House was preoccupied by terrorism and war; on the economic front, its pressing concerns were cutting taxes and privatizing Social Security. The housing market was a bright spot: ever-rising home values kept the economy humming, as owners drew down on their equity to buy consumer goods and pack their children off to college.
Lawrence B. Lindsey, Mr. Bush’s first chief economics adviser, said there was little impetus to raise alarms about the proliferation of easy credit that was helping Mr. Bush meet housing goals.
“No one wanted to stop that bubble,” Mr. Lindsey said. “It would have conflicted with the president’s own policies.”
Today, millions of Americans are facing foreclosure, homeownership rates are virtually no higher than when Mr. Bush took office, Fannie and Freddie are in a government conservatorship, and the bailout cost to taxpayers could run in the trillions.
I won't say for sure the bank CEOs that got bailed out and the ones that made billions just processing bad loans planned or knew for sure they would get super rich while the country goes bust, but it would be a good investigation and movie if that ever emerges in the future. It would give Bush and his staff a little reprieve though if it showed they were even decieved by big corporations on this one.
One thing for sure that i am so glad of, the teabags, and most of the G(l)OP will be saying their goodbye's come 2014, and 2016! Americans are sick and tired of their constant stupidity! They refuse to join us here in 2013, so to hell with them!!!
Kicked the can, again! I'll bet all businesses are just scrambling to hire now, huh??? NOT!!!
Thanks for nothing, TeaThuglicant's!!!!
The 112th Republican Congress, (House and Senate) filibustered over 380 times in the last three years, whereby stopping any bill to help the American people thru this devastating depression caused by the Bush administration. Of course, they don't recognize it and blame the President for not connecting with them. It is all hogwash. This tempory fix to the debt ceiling is just another game. They want the budget to be cut, but they don't want to pay the bills congress already racked up. Those idiots! Talk about no pay, they shouldn't have been paid for the DO NOTHING PERFORMANCE THESE LAST THREE YEARS!
After the Presidents address this week, Sen. Mitch McConnell still hasn't woken up and continues to be an obstructionist. The American people have spoken and the die hard republicans in office need to understand our country is changing all the time. They need to get real.
My republican friends for years have now stopped belonging to the party because of the far right extreemist views of how this country should be run. I don't have to hear democrats calling congress names, because all I have to do is listen to my republican friends shoot off steam because they are very pissed off and disgusted with the republican congress. They all voted for President Obama. That should tell the republican party to do some soul searching because once the damage is done to their own, it will be hard to get them back!!!
...and 90 days from now we'll hear the same political prattle, with the same fingers pointing at the other side. this country has reached the point of needing a constitutional convention to reset government and how it is supposed to work.
No, we should have removed more than just TEN of the House Tea Stains last Nov.
They are NOT FIT to serve in public office!
And the GOP Tea Party kiddies exclaim "Let's play kick the can for another 4 months!"
What a USELESS action by the US House. They should all be impeached!
I say just give the libs there way and let them rack up the debt another five or six trillion let unemployment rise to over 20 percent and let the revolution begin. Wait no revolution will happen the libs are to lazy.
hello ... real tired of all this stupid militia bs that people like you love to spew forth the republicans and the idiots that you pal around with will be marginalized as our economy improves
"Kick the Can". The GOP's Only game these days!
Joe: You underestimate the serious nature of Western Civilizations problem. When we go bankrupt the world goes with us. There is not enough money. Greece and the present recession will be a picnic. We are the backup. We prop Europe up. China? Yeah! Right! What is your solution? Tax the rich? There is no recovery unless all the welfare takers get productive. Socialism does not work.
wah, wah, need some Kleenex to wipe the tears away.