Mr. Clutch asserted it was the worst Congress ever and I've always hated those superlative type claims. In our lifetimes I'd probably dump all the Foley/Gingrich/Hastert chambers that failed to cut the defense budget by two-thirds for the ten years after the Cold War ended and probably missed an opportunity to put us on semi-permanent surpluses; while completely destroying the Independent Counsel law.
Yeah from time to time we have an occasional denizen of the Fox/Rush world who find their way here, express their fund of naïve talking points and then leave as the can't do much more. They freak on encountering ideas they have never been exposed too. I hope we provide a bit of education to help them through the rest of their civic lives. It is sort of depressing to think of them voting against their own economic interests for the rest of their lives; not to mention constantly falling for whatever war the neo-cons are drumming up. Hopefully aside from preventing the immense wasting of our tax dollars we can keep them safe from being killed or disabled as they go off on quests for wmd's or the terrorists du jour
That's really not the case, it's just that when a thread gets overrun by pants on head r****ded posters, there's really not a point in trying to be the Anne Sullivan to that situation. It's easier, and often better to just walk away and let the fools keep rambling on embarrassing themselves with nonsensical political takes.
brother, i like your style. hope you continue to make a mockery of the bandwagon riding libtards who use some kind of holier than thou circle jerk to avoid the questions at hand.
It's been pretty well established that this is the worse congress in our life time. What else do you want to talk about?
The way FORWARD. What this country is all about, looking ahead and not kicking itself over the past. Defense, core education of the sciences and engineering, budget distribution, taxes, basically, any thing that doesn't involve liberals feeli BFF sorry for themselves and begging for handouts.
Strangely enough, you are the person who seems to frequently name call here including this very post. Anyway, let's debate the merits of the "stats are just stats" argument that you use to refute what you don't agree with. Care to elaborate on your stance?
You should be asking why this GOP congress has had the worse filibusterer record in history for your answer to move FORWARD. If the house would have worked with the president just think how much further along the country would be.
If you actually read the responses, you would see the answers to the "questions at hand," but you seem to avoid those.
Except that those congresses were able to deal with the basic work of governing - when they failed, even briefly, with the gov't shutdown(s) it was considered a huge scandal. Now, they are just another bargaining tactic in the broken, supermajority requiring, institutionalized inertia of our antiquated system.
As observed by another poster, the only thing the recent Republicans have done in Congress is obstruct "the way FORWARD," refusing to contribute in a positive way towards solving the problems facing our nation. What about defense? Are you saying we need to spend even MORE on that black hole? You mean the education that the GOP continually tries to de-fund and impugn as "liberally biased?" It has been a very LONG time since Republicans wanted to do anything to shore up or improve education in this country. Not certain what you mean here, more than 2/3 of the budget isn't even discretionary and, unlike his predecessor, Obama has reduced the deficit year after year. You should realize that, contrary to the GOP "wisdom" on the subject, tax cuts have dramatically decreased revenues and increased deficits and debt. First, it is the GOP that constantly plays the victim card, second, the biggest "handouts" given are to the very wealthy and corporations.
