Analysis: In era of gridlock, Congress "created a monster"

Republican Representative David Dreier of California expressed a similar sentiment Monday night as the House closed the loop on the plan McConnell designed.

“This is the greatest deliberative body known to man,” he said.

I presume this was a slip of the tongue and he REALLY meant :-

“This is the greatest body of crooks, liars, charlatans, thieves and whoremasters known to man”

Being deliberative is one thing, getting something accomplished is something else entirely. This is by far the most polarized, do-nothing congress since the late forties when Truman ran successfully against what was then considered the worst Republican led band-of-thieves known to man. Is is no wonder that with the tea party faction wagging the dog that every day they sink lower into a morass of immobilizing nothingness? I, for one, can’t wait till 2014 to send these clowns packing. Good riddance!

What we need is a realighmrnt of the parties on ideologies. They spend as much time fighting amongst themselvrd sd they do with each other. A liberal and a conservative party would at least be united on a platform and give the voters a clearer choice at elections. There would be a minority of centrists in both parties, those that split there beliefs between fiscal and social ideologies. Right or wrong one side would prevail on issues of the day with hardly any gridlock or kicking the can down the road.

Obama is a complete dunce: He just raised taxes on 77% of Americans and the working middle class, made permanent 99% of the Bush tax cuts liberals hate and lost all of his leverage for the upcoming debt ceiling battle in which he will be forced to cut spending.

You think he’ll hold another gloating, snide campaign style press conference today? LOL

There are two tools to fix the budget; cut spending and raise taxes.

The Teabaggers in the House have pledged their almighty souls to Grover Norquist and refuse to cooperate in a balanced approach to tackle the deficit.

They don’t care if the country goes into default and the economy is destroyed. It’s ideology over country for them, and that stinks.

“Minority Leader Mitch McConnell… said …’It might have appeared to some as though their government wasn’t working but in fact the opposite was true’.”
“Republican Representative David Dreier.. [said] …’This is the greatest deliberative body known to man’.”

Yet more crystal clear examples of how *unbelievably* delusional, narcissistic, and out of touch these republican congress members are. They think this embarrassing, childish, accomplish-nothing, and destructive behavior is all glory, apple pie, and U.S. greatness wrapped up in one great big present to the U.S. people that demonstrates how awesome they are as elected officials. It’s beyond disgusting.

If you want to see disfunction just wait. You haven’t seen anything yet.

If the House GOP holds the debt limit increase hostage once again, we may see Obama do what he doesn’t want to do — take unilateral presidential action to raise it himself. There are scholars who say he has that authority. WH aides say it is off the table. We’ll see.

Yap, yap, yap, yet y’all just re-elected nearly all of them.

The debate at the house yesterday probably sounded as bitter and divided as these chat forums. This is who we are and what we get. All these threats about throwing the other party out at the next election are ridiculous because you can’t throw the party you never vote for out to begin with. They were put there to create this opposition to one party getting to do whatever they want.

There are hard choices to be made politically for sure and neither party seems to be willing to make them, and neither are we.

The debate at the house yesterday probably sounded as bitter and divided as these chat forums. This is who we are and what we get. All these threats about throwing the other party out at the next election are ridiculous because you can’t throw the party you never vote for out to begin with. They were put there to create this opposition to one party getting to do whatever they want.

There are hard choices to be made politically for sure and neither party seems to be willing to make them, and neither are we.

I will argue that the central problem lies with Speaker Boehner, who has chosen to lead with the minority in his conference. When the minority in a conference calls the short at every junction–that cannot be a rational way to govern. Boehner needs to find a way to exercise control over his conference, and lead by consensus; that’s what Americans demand and that’s what they deserve.

Two years of the Democrats controlling the House, with a Democrat in the White House and Democrats controlling the Senate, is what caused an unsustainable Deficit Monster that will cause the dollar to collapse in just a few years. If our Federal Government only wants to borrow more, spend more, tax more, and regulate more then gridlock is a good thing.

Two words: “term limits”. Seems to work ok for the presidency; we should do the same for congress.

the problem is with the American voter. They allow some right wing blowhards to run the show only to prove a meaningless point and then they wonder why we are in this mess. We made it ourselves by electing people who are worthless, like Issa from California, or some other tea party douchebag who is a racist, a homophobic, and has nothing concrete to offer except more guns and a promise to take us back to the wild west.

hey cgrscott, nice manipulating of the facts to suite your fancy. The democrats controlled the house and it is their fault. Your statement is laughable because your side of the argument kept whining about Obama using the last recession as an excuse, but now you conveniently forget that the house has been under the control of the republicans for the last two years and for anyone who is open minded can see that it has been the republicans that have been the main roadblock to any progress.

With our current trajectory of $25 trillion in debt only a few years away, there must be a mechanism to avert this disaster. As painful as it may be, it will not be as painful as transforming into Greece.

If the Tea Party didn’t lose the round in the last debt ceiling debacle, they didn’t win either, but they lose a little or a lot in each fight they take on.

I predict they won’t be as intractable as they threaten to be in the coming days. This is a prime time for Democrats to run in 2014 elections. They can be centrist Dems or conservative Independents and take many seats. We can only hope….

This Congress is going down in history as the most ridiculous display of immaturity and stupidity the US has seen to date.

We have the most dysfunctional congress ever! They act like 4 and 5 year old children arguing over a toy or piece of candy.
They have grown up bodies, but still have children’s minds and act just like the children who have been given everything they have ever cried for!!!

Easy: cut defense spending. The U.S. spends more on the military than almost the whole rest of the world combined. Military contractors are bloated with our tax money, profiteering without accountability. Why can the Navy build TWO space telescopes and then decide they don’t need them, when NASA can barely scrape together the funding for one??

The military is the most wasteful branch of our government with the least benefit. We spend 24% of our taxes on the military (and don’t count the hidden costs for health care for veterans), and only 22% on health care, and a piddly 4% on education. 22% goes to pensions. Military spending provides no economic return back to us.

No matter how you look at it or argue it the one thing that is clear is that Bush never should have made those tax cuts but paid down the debt. No one would have felt it since they were paying it.