Wrong thread? Or did you just need a place to vent?

Dennis, I watched CBS THis Morning - they had John McCain on to moan about the Defense cuts - and neither of the journalists conducting the interview pointed out House Republicans decided those cuts were necessary to protect the tax loopholes for the very rich.

Can you imagine? Risking national security to allow the uber rich to keep buying vacation homes and garages with an elevator for their classic car collections?

and how much are these yahoo's gettng for doing nothing???? This is utterly ridiculous....It seems we have more of a party time Congress rather than a Congress willing to do the PEOPLE's work....

I wish I could get a job at 174k plus lifetime benefits for part time hours....

Why does the media not keep pointing out the congress is in recess more than they're working. This should be an outrage in the media but you never hear anything from them on all the congress recess. If the media would make a big deal of all their recesses there would be a whole lot less of them. Oh that's right you can't embarrass tea people republicans. They think their over worked already. I know it's hard to come up with all that BS the spew on a daily basis.

mo -- to do that would require that the democrat senate be treated the same as the republican house -- together they make congress -- so not much chance of honesty in reporting on this.

do you believe that there are legitimate reasons for our senators and representatives to be in their districts and states? i think that just because they are not in washington does not mean they are not working.

that being said, it does seem ludicrous for congress not to be in meetings around the clock discussing all possibilities of what needs to be done and coming to some compromise though we both know what happens to a politician that works with the opposition party.

do you believe that there are legitimate reasons for our senators and representatives to be in their districts and states?

No billybob, that's just an excuse for them to take a weeks vacation. Most of them don't do anything when their in recess (vacation).

BTW: billybob, the senate is not in recess, the Democratic Senate is in session doing what they were elected to do. It's Boehner's house that takes a week of vacation ever two weeks, and a three and a half day weekend ever week.

The golfer in chief spent a grand total of 7 min "meeting" about the sequester.

It takes the fool 7 min to hit a fairway---

We are leaderless.

And don't leave Jesse Jr. out...........oh wait.............never mind. It's Illinois. Doesn't matter what side of the table you are on.

i wonder if this guy watched how marion barry managed to get elected after leaving our correctional system and running on this slogan "He May Not Be Perfect, But He's Perfect for D.C."

amy -- what a sweeping and silly opinion of the republican party. makes one wonder why the democrats were so committed to hagel -- will he just be another con man and crook for this administration?

retiring transportation secretary lahood was my congressman when i lived in illinois winning the seat when one of the most thoughtful people i had seen, robert michel, chose to retire. does lahood, a republican, fall into the con man and crook category?

when folks make such gross generalizations almost anything they say can get categorized into irrelevance

billybob

Sorry to succomb to partisan generalization, but watching Republicans in the House choose protecting loopholes for the rich over national security, funding medical research, and protecting the recovery has kind of soured me on your Party. Permanently.

when folks make such gross generalizations almost anything they say can get categorized into irrelevance

The only one who is irrelevant billybob is you. What is it about you tea people republicans that you chastise someone for doing something, while all the time you're doing the vary same thing. Are you so politically blind you don't see what you are doing. Gee's guys get a clue.

Wasn't defending anything or anyone. Just pointing out to Amy that the broadbrush she put forth covers both sides of the easel.

Deflect with Jesse Jackson Jr. George Bush all you want guys, he ain't there anymore,

See how easy it is. As I said, doesn't matter what side of the table you are on.

mo -- clearly you don't get it that both sides have their problems. while the initial posts were hammering on the theme that all republicans are cons we pointed out that there are some democrats as well just to bring some balance. i was not defending or indicting anyone just bringing another side of the same story.

So your only defense of the tea people republicans is, we know we do bad things, say bad things, elect convicts, but it's OK because the other guy does it to.

Thing is talk to the hand, when George Bush lied us into the Iraq war he did not resign as did Jesse Jackson Jr. You tea people republicans just kept telling as what a great man he was, all the while he was lying to you and the nation. So not talk to the hand it ain't that easy for you tea people republicans.

Apples and oranges. There is a hell of a lot of difference between a man relying on and making decisions based on information he is given through reputable channels (which BOTH sides of the aisle bought into) and an opportunist illegally using his new found wealth (spelled campaign contributions) to buy a bunch of bling to flaunt his newly found standing in the community of the privileged political forum.

If you want, I can get you a detector so that you don't have to dig so deep with your "shovel of bitter" to find something substantive to comment with.

And if they didn't buy into it they were labeled unpatriotic.

Why wouldn't you want to be a member of congress? Six figure salary, free healthcare, pension, travel, security (all at the expense of the taxpayers), you only have to work 30% of the year and basically can't be fired until the next election...