The stock market may be up but our country is headed down under the constant barrage of moronic things our ‘leaders’ on both sides are doing to us. And we let them.
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The stock market may be up but our country is headed down under the constant barrage of moronic things our ‘leaders’ on both sides are doing to us. And we let them.
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Steve is a good guy, and member of our armed forces.
You people are aware that antics like the ones in the Youtube clip go on all the time, and in both houses.
Sometimes I wish that the cameras would be removed from both houses.
I remember a comment Mark Twain supposedly made that neither the process of making sausages nor legislation should ever be shown to the public.
Things won’t change in Washington until some of those mofos are swinging at the end of a rope.
Wouldn’t that kind of behavior get you FIRED in the real world?
None of this is going to be resolved until we have true campaign finance reform. Which also entails changing the revolving door from government to lobbyist.We also need to have the SCOTUS overturn Citizens United.I guess we should also include term limits as well, it,s good for the POTUS, it should apply to all.
This guy is my Representative, he is a lier & an ass. I jumped for joy when I found out he was retiring.
At this point if Al-Qaeda nuked Washington DC I honestly do not know if they should be given a medal or hunted down and killed.
I there was a lawyers convention in town when they nuked it then I would definitely be for the medal
Devolved into?!
Why do you think Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton? It wasn’t an off comment about his wife… It was about partisan bullshit.
The following quote seems to describe why politics is not an answer but a problem.
“Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths and misinformation, by stereotypes and shibboleths, and by an innate resistance to innovation.”
-Theodore C. Sorensen, presidential advisor, lawyer, and writer (1928-2010)
“Looks like the liberals are still bitter about last month’s elections. LOL.”
Why not?
The conservatives are still bitter about the elections in 2008.
# 19 Cursor_ said, “It is always some shit someone has got to sneak onto these bills.”
Cursor, I don’t often agree with you but you have hit right on one of my pet peeves there. It seems like the more likely a bill is to pass, the more pork amendments it attracts.
I’d love to see a rule that says no amendments can be attached to a bill unless they reflect a true modification of the bill. In fact, why should a bill require ANY amendments before being voted on? Rewrite the damn thing if there’s a problem with it! Also, bill should be required to be written in plain language so that even the Speaker can understand them. Then there would be no more passing a bill so we can find out what’s in it.
Women on active duty should be FORCED to have abortions if they are unmarried. That would help remove the “get out of jail/military free card”, The fed needs to stop being a military welfare-jobs program-day care center. When is the last time any of you have been on an Army post? It looks like an inner city ghetto in uniform, think TSA in OD”s I was USAF for 4 yrs, honorable discharge with zero benefits, I paid for the right to be critical of this insane military. A huge military was one of the primary reasons Ancient Rome went bankrupt, we would do well to remember that. It is time for a MASSIVE downsizing of our military-minority-make work-jobs program. Fuck Europe, the Middle East and S/E Asia, let someone else feed and “protect” them.
Yahoo! news says the President’s “deficit commission” recommends among other things more tax increases. When did the G-d pod people take over Congress? Are they retarded? Stoned? What?!?
#33,
WHY did we elect MORONS, to run this country, that HAVE TO ASK OTHERS what they should DO??
Its NOT that we elected SOMEONE to represent us, and DO GOOD by those that ELECTED THEM..its THAT WE PAY for 100 OTHERS for the 1 we elected. TO DO HIS/HER WORK..
Why dont we have PROFESSORS and BOOK KEEPERS running this country, rather then CARRIER POLITICIANS..
Raising taxes during a recession is asinine. Cut the damn spending already people. That is how you cut deficits. Right now taxes are going to skyrocket for small businesses because they are taxed as personal income for the owner.
Thus instead of increasing payroll, they will be cutting jobs to pay for the Obama tax. (not extending the Bush taxcuts.) My employer just cut some jobs so now 10% of the people that work there are out of work. Unemployment was not the kind of CHANGE I HOPEd for.
#33 Rich said, on December 1st, 2010 at 10:56 pm
“Yahoo! news says the President’s “deficit commission” recommends among other things more tax increases. When did the G-d pod people take over Congress? Are they retarded? Stoned? What?!?”
Benjamin,
This is the first time we are fighting a war without raising taxes. How are we to pay for it? How are we to pay for millionaire’s tax cuts? The money has to come from somewhere, and unemployment benefits aren’t even a significant fraction of the spending.
“Tinkle down economics” has proven to be a big fat lie. Tax cuts for the rich do NOTHING to improve the economy. Let the tax cuts expire!
Cutting jobless benefits WILL harm the economy. Every dollar spent on jobless benefits immediately enters the economy as the jobless have to pay for food and rent. We are basically creating 2 million new homeless people here folks.
The Republicans are corrupt liars, and the Democrats are spineless wimps.
I’m with #6, this country is hopeless. Time to get the hell out.
# 32 Orion314 said, “Women on active duty should be FORCED to have abortions … A huge military was one of the primary reasons Ancient Rome went bankrupt…”
Not sure where you came up with you diatribe Orion. But I thought I’d point out just a couple of things. We can NOT give active duty women abortions since their care is provided by the military and the law does not allow for federally funded abortions. Secondly, you don’t have to go so far back as ancient Rome. The Soviet Union was pretty much bankrupted trying to keep up with US military spending.
Not that I necessarily agree with your point, whatever it was. Just saying.
This administration and democratic congress and senate the most incompetent and corrupt in history.
Hopefully the Smithsonian will commission an artist to put an image of them all in a jar of urine, or in an ant covered homoerotic film…
True art.
GOP insists that we pay – TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH CONTINUED – or no play for ordinary folks – EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS OR SCHOOL LUNCHES FOR KIDS !!!
GOP = PARTY OF THE RICH – ENGAGING IN ***CLASS WARFARE*** !!!