Public Congress

Issa guaranteed the first thing would be impeachment for Sestak.

Kyl stated that Obama’s spending to protect the border was paramount to treason.

Bachmann said that the new Congress would do nothing but investigate the president for his treason, yet she has done NOTHING!!! Yesterday she didn’t mention one word about investigating.

Why did they lie about impeaching the President? Why are they letting the crypto-Muslim Marxist traitor continue to destroy the country?

Because they know the constitution doesn’t allow them to impeach the president. But they know that their audience isn’t that smart and will believe Obama committed an impeachable offense if they just say it often enough – or at least believe it long enough to go vote. It’s political marketing 101 and it appears you bought it. Try to remember that lie when the next elections roll around.

From 1994 to 2000 we had a republican congress and a democratic president. Our economy did really good then. Does that mean that a republican congress and democratic president is what is best for our economy?

The economy boomed under Reagan and his tax cuts, Clinton had that Nafta bump but more than
made it up with training affected workers for high tech positions and the .com revolution.
Carter sucked though.
We have had fantastic wealth creating economies under both Reagan and Clinton. One a Dem and
one a Rep.

Why don’t people give the dems more time to fix the country?The republican congress we had for the past 8 years really screwed the country up.The country could be great again with the dems in charge.Agreed?

First you ask why the Republicans have not fixed this country after only a few months.. and then you whine that the Dem’s should have been given more time.

The Dem’s held the power the last 2 years of the Bush presidency.. what did they do.. nothing.. they have had two years already.. what did they do.. nothing.

Why would we wait?

Do you think people are tired of the current congress? Do you think thier going to go republican or stay democrat?

I think the think if the goverment keeps on running the way it is The republicans will have the house and the senate

I always hear republicans say the economy was fine till 2006 then dems controlled congress –
But Bush signs every bill that passes and he vetoed more bills in those two years then and president ever —

Finally the economy is usually a slow process so things that happened years ago effect it — to this day we are still debating the great depression — do you really think guys like Rush have it right when they blame congress — are we freaking stupid
when did all those vetoes happen in two years not 8

No they don’t understand how government works. Loud mouths like Rush and the rest of the far right echo chamber are there to keep it that way.

People, other than the top ten percent income earners, who understand it don’t vote Republican. People who understand things don’t vote against their own best interest

I am a Republican and I thought it was wrong. I know many disagree but no matter how evil the individual that is being tortured is, it still remains a fact that Bush committed a crime against humanity. Faithful Christians that follow the Consistent Life Ethic would understand this which is why I am wondering if any Republicans publicly condemned the choice to waterboard/torture detainees.

Yes Ron Paul has and still does.

and he is the only consistent Representative elected

vote ron paul/ jeff flake 12

No to Torture, Yes to the Constitution

http://antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=12509

by Rep. Ron Paul
On Tuesday, March 11, the US House of Representatives voted for the version of the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2008 that banned waterboarding and other forms of torture. The measure, previously passed by Congress, was vetoed by President Bush. This vote was an attempt to override the veto. It passed 225-188, but failed to get the 2/3 requirement to override the veto.

Only five Republicans voted to support the torture ban over the veto. Here is the speech Rep. Ron Paul gave before the vote:

They say everybody has to sacrifice how much are they going to?Are they going to freeze Congress’ pay for 5 years like they want to do to federal employees?Are they also going to cut their staff by 10% like they want to do to federal employees?

None, nada, zilch,,,in fact I’ll be willing to bet congress (all of congress) vote themselves a nice little pay raise at the end of this session.

After all, that IS why there were elected into power in the House!

How much longer will Americans have to wait while Republicans sit on their hands and do nothing?

When are Republicans going to release their jobs plan? They criticized Obama for wanting to invest in infrastructure, yet at least he has a PLAN.

Or are we all just waiting for the jobs to start trickling down from the rich people who just got their tax cuts extended?

All opinions welcomed.

Tinkering & bickering: that’s all that can be done now! The global capitalist economy was so badly damaged by Thatcher and Reagan, in the 1980′s, that it simply CANNOT be repaired. Do you see the wars? Well, that’s how capitalism gets itself out of this kind of mess: Wars create a great deal of work. The dichotomy between left and right – that almost worked – has simply faded away completely: today we have right-wing and slightly-less right-wing.

Regarding tax cuts. Today, media owners decide which party will win elections: almost nobody thinks these days! Which-ever party can offer media-owners the greatest tax cut or handout will have the media’s support: so they will win!

In the UK, the Labour party was keeping the country afloat very well; despite relentless vicious media attacks! Now they have the Conservatives, who’ve just inflicted the highest tax increase that that country has seen for many decades upon the entire population. This will cripple the poorest in society!

This planet is on a roller-coaster ride of recession after recession. The booms today don’t even register, they are that small. Capitalism is a right-wing political system: why can’t people open their eyes and see that capitalism will ALWAYS fail.

I have a parliamentary procedure question. When the House of Representatives passed Pres. Obama’s health care bill, could the Republicans have just fled Washington and kept the bill from coming up for a vote due to the absence of a quorum, like the Democrats in Wisconsin are doing with the labor bill now? I’m not sure if there is a quorum requirement for business to take place in Congress the way there is in the Wisconsin State Senate. If not in the House, could the Republicans have done it in the Senate??

Thank you.

Yes, they could have. But they wanted to do the most damage. They wanted to disrupt the process.

like cutting spending from programs that Americans want, and probably driving the economy back into recession bcause of their draconian spending cuts?
Or will Americans be smart enough to know that it’s not Obama’s fault?
Could the Republican congress cost Obama his re-election through their incompetence?

Either way, Obama needs to go
He is bad news for America