I am so angry with Congress I want to spit.
Unemployment is over eight percent, and President Obama has proposed a jobs bill with pro-growth policies that Republicans used to support, back when they were a sane party.
Today's Republicans? They refuse to act.
And now, after a solid few weeks of doing nothing, they're adjourning Congress until after the election!
Why exactly did we put them there in the first place?
Our executive branch has offered a grand bargain on cuts, reforms and revenues -- the type of ambitious, bold agenda our country desperately needs.
But our legislative branch won't even consider it. The tea partiers won't consider giving up a dime -- not one dime! -- in tax revenue, even in exchange for billions in cuts and reforms.
They won't consider the American Jobs Act. The Violence Against Women Act. Tax cuts for working families. The farm bill. The list goes on and on.
Congress has a 12 percent approval rating right now -- and it seems like they're aiming for a lot less. The Republicans refuse to consider that maybe, just maybe, Americans want to see action and compromise and progress rather than this political doublespeak and nonsense.
Yes, Democrats are not perfect. But this proud-obstruction-at-all costs is all on the Republican Party. If Mitt Romney loses in a landslide, I can just hear it now -- the Republican Party will blame him alone.
You ever think that your policies might be the problem?
Policies like tax breaks for millionaires?
Tearing a struggling country's safety net to shreds?
Obstructing a jobs bill because you don't want the president to get a win, even though the real victors of that legislation would be your constituents?
Your problem, Republicans, is not Mitt Romney. And it's not Ben Bernanke.
Your problem is that your policies hurt people.
So, go ahead and obstruct, and then go home for two months.
We progressives know what we have to do: On November 6, we have to make sure that these obstructionists will stay home for good.
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The most annoying thing about the Right today is their self-righteous assumptions that they stand on principle, while their opponents do not. The simple fact is that this country is almost evenly split down the middle, but one side (the GOP/TP) thinks its way is the only true "American" way. Compromise is NOT a dirty word; it's how a Democratic Republic operates. If you believe you should get your way 100% of the time, without your political opposition getting anything in return, you are not a believer in democracy; you are a proponent of tyranny.
Obama 2012
"Taliban Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban. Insurgency is the way they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person's entire processes. And these Taliban -- is an example of how you go about to change a person from their messaging to their operations to their frontline message. And we need to understand that Insurgency may be required when [dealing with] the other side"
~Rep Pete Sessions, March 2009 to National Journal
Now we know where they got their stragtegy from. And we liberals have had to deal with two insurgencies: one in the Middle East and one in Washington DC.
When Americans were mostly farmers they would pitch in and help each other when trouble arose. Now it seems that the only pitch we get from the GOP is Manure and even that is of low quality.
What we need is to heat some pitch, pluck a few Geese and Ride the GOP out of Congress on a Rail covered in it.
We, The American Voters and Taxpayers, hired and pay these people too well to have them sit on their hands when there is work to be done. That is exactly what they are doing, they're on a 2 month Coffee Break after coming back from Summer Vacation.
Now they will be going back to their Constituency and bragging how they foiled Obama's plans to protect the American Public where all they are really doing is making excuses for why they haven't done a gol-danged-thing since being elected.... OH! And asking us to give them more money and more time in office so that they can finish running us into the ground.