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- Schieffer: "Dysfunctional" Congress does nothing -- again
After the Senate voted in a totally BIPARTISAN vote of 89 to 10, to extend the payroll tax cuts, and immediately the House buried that legislation in committee to die, only proves how completely dysfunctional the GOP House is today, with the minority teabaggers leading the republicans over the cliff of insanity! - Reply to this comment
- Bob, I believe you are being too lenient on the House Republicans. The Senate Democrats compromised considerably on the payroll tax extension holiday bill, only to have the compromise scuttled in the House by the intransigent Republican majority. In this particular caper, it isn't really a "pox on both your houses." It's almost entirely the fault of the Republicans.
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- Doesn't anyone get it? Division and blaming is what the president wants. He wants to divide America in order to win the election. He wants the blame game. He wants to divide: dems vs. repubs, progressive vs conservative, red vs blue, rich vs poor, poor vs middle class, middle class vs rich. This is the way President Obama will be reelected, divide and conquer. He is not a uniter but a divider. Wake up America! Lets repb and dems come together, let us all come together to make America better and pull ourselves out of this mess. BTW, isn't this payroll tax slated for SS? Then why are we pulling money 0ut of SS?
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- Don't vote for...
Vote against career politicians of all parties!
Vote against an unbalanced budget!
Vote against more tax breaks for 1%'ers who will just buy more stock to make more money, to buy their politician, who will vote for tax breaks for 1%'ers, who will...
Vote against... - Reply to this comment
- For me voting was always for the candidate. That has all changed recently after watching Washington politics in action. I vote for the candidate and the party tells the republicant's how to vote.
In the next election, I will vote for all Democrats. At least these folks have fresh ideas and can compromise.
I'm not part of the 1% so I'm certain that they won't even miss my vote. - Reply to this comment
- It's the Republicans fault! It's the Democrats fault!
People it's time to quit griping and arguing about it because it is truly both their faults. The politicians have been in office for so long that running the country has become just a game of upmanship to them. They have forgotten they work for US, the people of this country.
It's past time for a real house cleaning in DC! Here's how, so spread the word. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zYh0RsCXys - Reply to this comment
- BOB SCHIEFFER FOR PRESIDENT!
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- coucou,
Congress , will no longer do anything, they try to save time, their only concern is "the race in 2012," and certainly not the U.S. citizen and his problems
"au revoir" - Reply to this comment
- Long ago Mitch McConnell announced that the Republican purpose was to make Obama a one-term president. Their calculation was to oppose him on everything, even if doing so was harmful. The result is government by extremists. We got what was paid for.
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- It's not Congressional gridlock, it's Republican gridlock. Bob is doing the false equivalence thing again, and in the process misrepresenting the facts. Both sides say they want to pass a payroll tax cut, but the Republicans refuse a clean vote. Instead, they insist on inserting poison pills they know will kill the legislation.
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