The parade is on the way!!!!!
The candidate that was supported by Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson beat the Republican politician for the House seat in Louisiana!!!!!
The Taxed Enough Already movement is going to put a WHOLE bunch of CITIZENS into the mix, the HELL with the life long career trough sloppers!!!!!

Bad news for the FLEEBAGGERS!!!!!
Some of the FLEEBAGGER consultants are openly saying the FLEEBAGGER candidates are F ucked in 2014 because of the "destroy the best health care system in the history of mankind" debacle!!!!!!
That is borne out by a poll by FLEEBAGGER supporters that shows the FLEEBAGGER politicians are losing more support in their districts then the Republican politicians are!!!!!
Who can say, "2010 HERE WE COME AGAIN"!!!!!!

This has been one of the least productive years for Congress and with only a few legislative days remaining, the current Congress will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the most unproductive in modern history, says a Nov. 26 NBC News report. Although the least productive Congress ever will probably not be the current 113th Congress, its approval ratings are the lowest in recent history, according to a recent Gallup poll.

Legislators in Congress accomplished very little this year — and much of what they did pass was nothing to brag about. Since January of this year, Congress has passed only 52 bills — many of them being minor ones such as renaming post offices, mandating a size for National Baseball Hall of Fame commemorative coins and modifying requirements for pipeline safety documents, the Monterey Herald writes.

The House and Senate combined have enacted very few laws, and the few formal negotiations held between them were full of bickering and dissension.

The Washington Times states that Congress was unable to pass or ignored completely very important issues such as passing a budget that could be implemented long-term.

"The major urgent areas of concern in the country just have not been addressed," said Norm Ornstein, a congressional expert at the American Enterprise Institute. "It's pretty pathetic."

As mentioned above, the 113th Congress has passed only 52 public laws since January. To put this horrible number in perspective, the 112th Congress passed 284 bills.

The embarrassing low number of bills Congress has passed into law this year highlights just how bad the gridlock has been for legislators.

Although only 9 percent of Americans polled think Congress is doing a good job, the 113th is still on pace to surpass the 112th Congress, which was given the title of the least productive Congress since 1948.

According to NBC, that group had passed just 41 substantive laws by this point in 2011.



Yep!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congress is controlled by the Clowns.

ZEROOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo

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This has been one of the least productive years for Congress and with only a few legislative days remaining, the current Congress will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the most unproductive in modern history, says a Nov. 26 NBC News report. Although the least productive Congress ever will probably not be the current 113th Congress, its approval ratings are the lowest in recent history, according to a recent Gallup poll.Legislators in Congress accomplished very little this year — and much of what they did pass was nothing to brag about. Since January of this year, Congress has passed only 52 bills — many of them being minor ones such as renaming post offices, mandating a size for National Baseball Hall of Fame commemorative coins and modifying requirements for pipeline safety documents, the Monterey Herald writes. The House and Senate combined have enacted very few laws, and the few formal negotiations held between them were full of bickering and dissension.The Washington Times states that Congress was unable to pass or ignored completely very important issues such as passing a budget that could be implemented long-term."The major urgent areas of concern in the country just have not been addressed," said Norm Ornstein, a congressional expert at the American Enterprise Institute. "It's pretty pathetic."As mentioned above, the 113th Congress has passed only 52 public laws since January. To put this horrible number in perspective, the 112th Congress passed 284 bills.The embarrassing low number of bills Congress has passed into law this year highlights just how bad the gridlock has been for legislators.Although only 9 percent of Americans polled think Congress is doing a good job, the 113th is still on pace to surpass the 112th Congress, which was given the title of the least productive Congress since 1948.According to NBC, that group had passed just 41 substantive laws by this point in 2011.

ZERO doesn't know that saves the taxpayer money but I guess with your head so far up Oboys a z z you cant see much.

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Originally posted by Mike English:

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This has been one of the least productive years for Congress and with only a few legislative days remaining, the current Congress will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the most unproductive in modern history, says a Nov. 26 NBC News report. Although the least productive Congress ever will probably not be the current 113th Congress, its approval ratings are the lowest in recent history, according to a recent Gallup poll.Legislators in Congress accomplished very little this year — and much of what they did pass was nothing to brag about. Since January of this year, Congress has passed only 52 bills — many of them being minor ones such as renaming post offices, mandating a size for National Baseball Hall of Fame commemorative coins and modifying requirements for pipeline safety documents, the Monterey Herald writes. The House and Senate combined have enacted very few laws, and the few formal negotiations held between them were full of bickering and dissension.The Washington Times states that Congress was unable to pass or ignored completely very important issues such as passing a budget that could be implemented long-term."The major urgent areas of concern in the country just have not been addressed," said Norm Ornstein, a congressional expert at the American Enterprise Institute. "It's pretty pathetic."As mentioned above, the 113th Congress has passed only 52 public laws since January. To put this horrible number in perspective, the 112th Congress passed 284 bills.The embarrassing low number of bills Congress has passed into law this year highlights just how bad the gridlock has been for legislators.Although only 9 percent of Americans polled think Congress is doing a good job, the 113th is still on pace to surpass the 112th Congress, which was given the title of the least productive Congress since 1948.According to NBC, that group had passed just 41 substantive laws by this point in 2011.

ZERO doesn't know that saves the taxpayer money but I guess with your head so far up Oboys a z z you cant see much.

Saves money??????

You are a retarded poster that credits Congress for sitting on their asses and do nothing.

This Country cannot function without Congress and when they DO NOTHING of any essence of only renaming post offices as their job for the day, our Country suffers of not moving forward.

This may be the norm in your life.

Republicans are a joke.

Augusta Warrior Project
Gpa

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Originally posted by Bob H:
You are a retarded poster.

This Country cannot function without Congress and when they DO NOTHING of any essence of only renaming post offices as their job for the day, our Country suffers of not moving forward.

This may be the norm in your life.

Republicans are a joke.

I haven't missed a beat so far and neither has the "country" as far as I can tell... CR's have kept the money flowing so nothing has changed except the sequester has prevented it from getting financially worse.

IMO, the only thing that has regressed is the credit worthiness of the country, the honor of the country, the health care system of the country, and the integrity and honesty of the presidency, all this because of progressive liberals who refuse to reach across the aisle to include reason in any of the bills/laws they have passed with out input from more level heads and the people who sent them there.

Republicans are a joke?? Hardly just the republicans. Democrats own the past 5 years my friend, it is they that are the joke.. You are just to "retarded" to know that.

Shoot if it was just the republicans their poll numbers would be higher. Since you obviously skipped school when civics was taught, a reminder, any laws passed in the house must get by the senate and nobama before they become law. The debacle in the news at present was passed by the a democratic controlled administration, house and senate.

IRS is still collecting, wars are ongoing, EPA is still hobbling the country, DEA is still screwing up our kids minds, and a president ruling by fiat.

You really should pay more attention.

Dave

DC: By the way it is a good thing nothing more destructive is getting done.. Wait until the new far left judge's are confirmed without input from republicans.

ZEROOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo

Another "ZERO"!

2 identical responses at the same time !!!!!!!!!!!1
ZEROOOOOOOOOooooooooooo

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Originally posted by Jerry Mock:
2 identical responses at the same time !!!!!!!!!!!1
ZEROOOOOOOOOooooooooooo

What would 1 expect from 2 bedfellows..

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What would 1 expect from 2 bedfellows

Zero must have the thanksgiving weekend off from Oboy Butt Sucking!

Maybe Obama's going to Boob's to "stuff" his turkey

He's even bringing over extra Kool Aid

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Originally posted by Bill Koski:
I keep repeating duped boob RETARD #1 is an idiot that can't comprehend the stuff he cuts and pastes!!!!!
The Republican House has passed a budget every year that the FLEEBAGGER Senate will not bring to the Senate floor!!!!!
That is a DIRECT violation of the United Staes CONSTITUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Republican House has not violated the CONSTITUTION, the FLEEBAGGER Senate has in 2011, 2012 and 2013!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

America has always carried debt going back to the Revolutionary War, and every president except Harry Truman raised the debt ceiling throughout the nation’s history. Reagan raised it 18 times, George H.W. Bush raised it 6 times, Bill Clinton raised it 4 times, and George W. Bush raised it 7 times nearly doubling the deficit to cover his two unnecessary wars, tax cuts for the rich, and the pharmaceutical industry’s gift; the Medicare prescription plan. Throughout all those increases to pay for debts incurred by Congress, Republicans never held it hostage or demanded concessions amounting to eliminating laws, defunding agencies into oblivion, or enacting the entire GOP legislative agenda for the 112th and 113th sessions of Congress. It leads one to contemplate exactly what Earth-shattering event so stunned Republicans that they abandoned their conservative opposition to change and embraced a new hostage-taking approach to paying the nation’s debt. Obviously, it cannot be because a Democrat is president because they did not demand a ransom to raise the limit when Bill Clinton was president, so it has to be because this Democratic President is African American.

Republicans have refused to negotiate on a number of issues over the past four years and the most recent opposition is House Republicans’ refusal to consider or negotiate on any Senate version of a measure to keep the government open past October 1st that does not include eliminating the Affordable Care Act. Now they are criticizing the President of the United States because he rightly refuses to negotiate with Republicans over their refusal to do their constitutionally mandated job of paying their debts. It is the kind of change only a Republican could embrace.

Republicans do hate change, and when Americans chose an African American man as President instead of a white Republican it was a change they could not comport so they changed into obstructionists and enemies of the people. The Republicans were never interested in governing for the entire population, but since the election of Barack Obama not only have they stopped governing, they are making it nearly impossible for anyone to govern; unless one calls holding the full faith and credit of the United States hostage governing.

More C & P = ZEROOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo

Republicans in the House pass only completely partisan piles of shiott that can't get a majority of votes in the Senate, that's why they can't get their crap passed.


Last 1 had a voucher plan that the majority of Americans totally disapproved of.

You are 1 ignorant dumbass.

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Ignorant dumbass=ZERO!

Congress’s latest attempt at crafting a budget plan is on track to end up the same way as others have in the past decade: with little or no agreement.



Do-Nothing Congress Dithers on Budget as Panel’s Deadline Nears


Negotiators have little chance of breaking this string of futility, even after a 16-day government shutdown in October that cost the U.S. economy $24 billion. If they do, it’ll only be to curb automatic spending cuts, including $19 billion that hits the Pentagon starting in January.

Now budget experts, labor unions and business groups are saying enough’s enough, and questioning why lawmakers can’t live within their means the way ordinary Americans do and instead lurch from one budget standoff to the next.

“It’s a stupid way to run a country,” said Maya MacGuineas, head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, a non-partisan advocacy group whose members include business leaders and former lawmakers. “Change comes from two possible things: a crisis or leadership.”

One of the co-chairmen of the campaign is Michael Bloomberg, founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP and the New York City mayor.

Unlike with previous budget panels, including the failed 2011 supercommittee, there are no immediate consequences if the budget conference misses its Dec. 13 deadline -- the U.S. won’t default on its debt and the federal government won’t shut down for lack of funding.

The committee’s lack of progress is frustrating outside groups, especially business executives, who say congressional lawmakers’ habit of governing by crisis and temporary spending bills is hurting the economy and costing jobs.

‘Chilling Effect’

“The uncertainty has a chilling effect on job creators, households and anybody who’s trying to see around a corner,” said MacGuineas, who is also president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a fiscal advocacy group.

Congress in 2009 last passed a budget resolution, the equivalent of a household budget that sets spending parameters for the federal government.

In 2010, disagreement over how to handle the scheduled expiration of tax cuts enacted under former President George W. Bush prevented agreement on a budget resolution and Republicans won the House majority, creating a divided Congress.

The current panel is the fifth bipartisan attempt in three years to address the nation’s debt and deficit. The others, starting with the 2010 debt-reduction commission appointed by President Barack Obama, ended in failure.

‘Something Done’

This one may, too, said Maryland Representative Chris Van Hollen, a panel member and the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee. “Negotiations have to accelerate significantly if we’re going to get something done,” he said.

The conference committee was supposed to mark a return to so-called regular order, where the chairmen and members instead of ad hoc negotiating groups work to craft a budget for the coming fiscal year and figure out a way to replace some of the automatic cuts known as sequestration.

Instead, they’re stumbling over the same obstacles that have prevented past agreements. Democrats want to end some corporate tax breaks while Republicans say they oppose any changes to the tax code outside a broader deal. Republicans want to cut spending on entitlement programs, which Democrats oppose without considerable revenue concessions.

Automatic Cuts

The panel’s progress so far has been limited to agreeing that its objective should be to replace the automatic cuts for one to two years with more palatable spending reductions, Van Hollen said.

“That’s a much more narrow target, but that doesn’t mean we’ll hit the target,” said Van Hollen, noting the full committee has met just twice.

The conference, headed by Senator Patty Murray of Washington and Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, chairmen of their chambers’ budget committees, is the first panel in the past three years to set such a narrow goal. Murray, a Democrat, and Ryan, a Republican, made clear from their first meeting that they weren’t striving for a grand fiscal bargain.

Now, they’re struggling to achieve even a deal in the range of $50 billion to $100 billion just to reapportion automatic spending cuts that lawmakers of both parties agree are stunting investments in the military, scientific research and education.

‘Low Bar’

“It’s demonstrating how difficult it is even to hit a very low bar, which is kind of depressing when you think of how much work really needs to be done,” said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a fiscal advocacy group.

For long-term deficit reduction, lawmakers would need to make changes to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, which make up almost half of federal spending. Many lawmakers are hesitant to trim the programs amid lobbying from interest groups including AARP, the nation’s largest seniors’ lobby with 37 million members.

It was in 2011, with the U.S. on the brink of a debt default, that Congress created the deficit-reduction supercommittee, empowering it with authority to expedite any agreement through Congress. No deal was reached.

The panel was the fourth such bipartisan commission formed in the preceding two years to deal with the nation’s growing debt and deficit. They included the president’s 2010 commission led by former President Bill Clinton Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, a Republican, who couldn’t get the votes to send their $4 trillion plan to Congress.

Tax Changes

A separate bipartisan group of six senators negotiated a similar plan that never made it to Congress for consideration because of Republican opposition to revenue increases through proposed changes to the U.S. tax code.

Earlier, in mid-2011, Vice President Joe Biden led another group of congressional leaders in talks to raise the debt ceiling and curb the deficit.

The group fell apart after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a Virginia Republican, dropped out of talks over Democratic demands that tax revenue be included. With each attempt, the debt-reduction target was scaled back, with Biden’s group aiming for a $2 trillion reduction over 10 years.

In November 2011, the supercommittee struck out amid disagreements on revenues and entitlement programs. That triggered the automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense programs now in effect. Murray and Ryan are now trying to reapportion the cuts to blunt their effects on the Pentagon and domestic programs such as Head Start that serve poor children.

Revenue Divide

While the two continue to negotiate over the Thanksgiving holiday, aides say they haven’t come to terms on revenue.

Talks are further complicated by a recent demand by House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, that a deal shouldn’t include cuts to farm subsidies, removing one of the few areas where both parties agree reductions are needed, Van Hollen said.

“The math doesn’t work if you start doing that,” he said.

Even if Ryan and Murray reach a compromise, it would have trouble winning approval by the full committee, let alone passage in a divided Congress.

“A budget conference committee of 29 representatives and senators is so unlikely to agree on anything that, unless they want to go hungry, they had better delegate to a single staffer the authority to decide what to order for lunch,” said Stan Collender, managing director of Qorvis Communications LLC in Washington and a former congressional appropriations aide.

Funding Expires

The real deadline is Jan. 15, when government funding again expires, said Bixby, and there is a chance that Ryan and Murray can hammer out a deal by then.

Meanwhile, businesses are growing frustrated with Washington’s inability to bridge its differences to replace spending cuts that no one thinks are good policy.

“Uncertainty holds back growth and investment,” Dorothy Coleman, vice president of tax and domestic economic policy at the National Association of Manufacturers in Washington, said in an e-mailed statement, urging Congress and the administration to work for policies to provide stable growth.

“Given the divisions between the parties and our experience over the last three years, it’s difficult to be optimistic,” Dan Stohr, a spokesman for the Aerospace Industries Association, said in an e-mail.

The Arlington, Virginia-based industry group’s members include defense contractors General Dynamics Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp. and Raytheon Co. Lockheed, the largest U.S. government contractor, will cut 4,000 jobs in response to declining federal spending.

“We cannot keep lurching from crisis to crisis,” Stohr said. “It’s having a very detrimental effect on investments” for the trade group’s members, including layoffs and less money for research and development, that prevents businesses from being able to plan ahead.

Just another "Due Nothing Congress."

Good ole "ZERO"!