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Surprised? Current U.S. Congress Will Likely Go Down in History as Most Unproductive Since 1940s

Dec. 28, 2012 9:05pm Jason Howerton

US Vice-President Joe Biden(L), and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell(2nd) stand near as US Speaker of the House John Boehner(3rd) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(R) share a few words as US Senator Daniel K. Inouye,(D-HI), Lies in State with a flag draped casked on the floor of the US Capitol Rotunda December 20, 2012, in Washington, DC. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

U.S. Congress isn’t exactly known for its efficiency, but the current Congress has been so unproductive during its tenure that it will likely go down in history as the most unproductive in almost a lifetime.

The Huffington Posts’ Amanda Terkel reports that current Congress has passed only 219 bills so far this session. And with just a week left in 2012, it will almost certainly win the uncovered distinction.

The 104th Congress (1995-1996) currently holds the ignominious distinction of being the least productive session of Congress, according to the U.S. House Clerk’s Office, which has records going back to 1947. Just 333 bills became law during that two-year period, meaning the 112th Congress needs to send nearly 100 more bills to Obama’s desk in the next few days if it wants to avoid going down in history — an unlikely prospect, considering that both chambers are squarely focused on averting the “fiscal cliff” before the new year.

The news comes on the same day that leaders in Congress failed to strike a meaningful deal to avert the looming “fiscal cliff.” President Barack Obama on Friday said he was “modestly optimistic” that leaders would come together and agree on a plan. Maybe he shouldn’t be.

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HappyConservative
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:25pm
If “productive” means passing a destructive liberal bill like Obamacare, I’ll take “unproductive” any day. That said, I hate to admit – Boehner needs to cave and compromise regarding the fiscal cliff. I can’t afford the increased taxes. Can’t afford to live now as it is.

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- oldguy49
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:51pm
  they need you taxes to help pay for the food stamps and ebt cards…not to mention the obama phones and illegals education……so pay up like a good little socialist………………..this is the goal
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 12:32am
  Oldguy. the goal of Obama and the democrats is to raise taxes on the top 2% of Americans by 4.6%.. so the government can finally have some revenue that isn’t borrowed. not on all of us who can not afford it! Obama and the senate has been trying to pass legislation insuring no tax increase for the bottom 98% separate from the fiscal cliff debate.. but your boys in the house continue to block it! but whats more important? the people’s welfare? or continuing to try to make Obama fail?
  
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- Maji
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 12:41am
  And you say there is no “God”!
  
  Thank “O Lord” May you produce four more years of
  NON productive years til Obama’s term passes away!
  
  Amen
  
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- Topcat
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 1:41am
  @ Keatonc33
  Are you serious man !
  Let me share share a few numbers with you . The proposed tax revenue brought in by Obamas plan increasing taxes over $250,000 will bring in $50 Billion total next year , $500 Billion over 10 years. The government takes in about $5 Billion a day , but at current level of spending is spending $11 Billion a day . That means a deficit of $6 Billion a day , another way to look at it is it will take Obama and the Progressives in our government 9 days to spend all of that tax increase you want for next year. If you are going to make a comment try and get the facts first .
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 4:43am
  Top: Of course 33 isn’t serious. He / she is an Obama Troll filling the media with their 99 % economic baloney ! Destroying capitalism is their goal NOT economic recovery. Doing a fine job, huh ? Marx and Lenin would be so proud…Saul, too !
  
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- sizzlinsexybeckster
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 5:13am
  Their goal is not only to destroy capitalism (which does need some tweaking), it’s ridding of all Americans and rewriting history as if Americans never existed. That’s why they don’t want you to have guns to protect yourself. They are using the lame excuse of the Sandy incident when the mother just should have had her guns respectably locked up in gun cabinet and therefore her son would have just used knives or his fist instead. Then maybe they would be banning knives and your own fist…. and still guns.
  
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- poorrichard09
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 8:52am
  True that! They have all this time in DC so they have to do SOMETHING to justify themselves, so they heap freedom stealing “laws” on the people! You know, “do something, even if it’s wrong!”
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 9:19am
  Kreaton! You actually wrote; ” so the government can finally have some revenue that isn’t borrowed.” ARE YOU REALLY THAT STUPID????????
  
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- Balzy
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 10:42am
  Yeah who says we want the government’s so-called “progress”? if it were really progress that benefited everyone, it would be great. So far the only progress i’ve seen is the worst spending records in history, so just stop what you are doing! Quit your job and go make your own business. Once you see how bad your ideas are by failing in your business miserably, maybe you’ll learn to listen to your people a lil bit more instead of your ‘click’. Atleast they’re biding us some time, while the libs are forced to devise all kinds of other ways to screw up our fragile economy.
  
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- Balzy
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 11:01am
  @keaton33
  
  nope, not all people. That’s the problem, pbo’s administration makes plans that only benefit certain groups. You’re acting like their ideas are for the good of all XD they most certainly are not bud. All tax-payers are hurt regardless of taxing, because their is no talk about cutting SPENDING. Our money is becoming worthless because it isn’t being properly pumped BACK INTO the economy, it’s being sent here then their then used for this and a little of that and hopefully you’ll get almost all of it back. But it won’t be worth as much when you finally do, not to mention it might not even be as much as you expected it to be. Our country is dying and every single fiscal decision Obama and his adm. have made have been disastrous in my mind. I mean unemployment might be a little better, but that doesn’t make too much of a difference when the lower end jobs give you the same low@ss min wage and the monetary value of that pay is worth less and less as time goes on. We have a big time poverty problem and the only way to fix it is to give us back our money so we can feel secure again. Then you’ll see a hellova lot more charity donations, not redistribution of wealth. I mean what’s better to you? People giving because they sincerely care about others that can’t take care of themselves or govn’t taking more and more of your money to give to people that do need it and some that could do without it but still take it.
  
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- 1947
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 11:59am
  It’s not the Congress but WH
  
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4WheelGuy
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:59pm
And the cavalcade of ineptitude continues!

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- americathebankrupt
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:55pm
  Amen brother!
  
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TJexcite
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:53pm
To some that is a good thing. The less they do they less they can mess up. BUT that also means that the “machine” of being ruled by bureaucrat, regulations and administrators is activated and can work without any new controls from on high. Congress is now irrelevant. Now it will be near imposable to turn anything off once the real curtain is pulled back.

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Byrdi
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:46pm
Harry Reid won’t pass a budget. Without a budget, without some kind of plan for both branches to work on, they are all just flailing around like fish out of water. It is dysfunctional because of the lack of leadership and the lack of will to work on the problems. The Democrats just plan to render the Republicans totally worthless so the dems win back a super majority in 2014. I’m having a really hard time understanding why the Democratic led senate isn’t seen in just as bad or even a worse light than the Republican congress. At least the congress does pass budgets and jobs bills that Harry just tables. I don’t understand why either party puts up with this. They should all be sent home permanently.

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- Salamander
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:30pm
  Harry Reid is a pile of crap! Like President Johnson used to say “No matter how hard you try, you can’t put a shine on s4!t!
  
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- dnewton
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 1:57am
  I also blame Harry Reid for the problems with the fiscal cliff. If the Senate had done its normal business, they would have voted the house version up or down or possibly modified it and sent it to conference committee. All of this would have been done with CSPAN and other cameras rolling and there would have been transparency as well as a possibility that the public would finally blame the correct culprits. Instead, all of the dealing was done behind closed doors and possibly while some of the actors were suppose to be on vacation with an occasional peek at the progress and generous lubrication by the news spinning media. This process is not as bad as the one that created ObamaCare but it is a close second.
  
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- subic
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 2:09am
  Well they are being productive with one thing & that is stealing our tax money. Thieves, all 535 of them along with Obamma, Biden, and the rest of this admin.
  
  How many of them had very little going in and are now millionaires/?
  
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1ChristianPatriot
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:33pm
I say let us put these politians up for review. WE, THE PEOPLE, should be able to see what they are doing. We should be able to see who is tryin, who is lyin, and who has got to go. If we did what they did we wouldn’t be employed too long. I say give them only 4 year terms. then they skip 4 years. No more life long career senators or congressmen. Thats part of whats wrong now.

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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 12:35am
  Really? I wouldn’t blame the old-timers. Its seems to be the new batch from 2010 that are creating a stink.. they are also the sole reason our credit rating was dropped.
  
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- dnewton
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 2:00am
  I think we need to go back to the days where the state paid the representatives and paid for their pensions.
  
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- 1TrueOne55
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 3:07am
  @KREATONC33:
  At least they kept the promises they made to get elected, not unlike the President who claimed he would cut the Bush era deficit by 50% not increase it by 400%, he even called Bush “UnPatriotic” for the deficit that he created over 8 yrs not in 4. Obama promised to get Immigration fixed he has yet to do that through Congress because Executive Orders only last as long as the President that creates them is in Office it is not considered the same as Laws passed in Congress, so the next President can just wipe out the so called “Dream Order” by not renewing it during his term. That is something that Latino’s did not see he lied to them even this election cycle.
  
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mtsnj
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:29pm
Bunch of old losers…ah no our country is the real loser here. In real life if you can’t get the job done you are fired, and an executive order gives them a raise. WTF!

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SunTzuYou
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:27pm
did less than others maybe another raise is in order

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BasketFullOfPuppies
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:16pm
I wish that the Congress hadn’t done as much as they did. What they did accomplish, sucked.

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- RabidPatriot
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:21pm
  It will take generations for American to recover from all of the “productive” Pelosi years.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:36pm
  You are right, this is all Rieds and Pelosi’s fault. These 2 are among the worst traitors that America has ever had.
  
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SmellyDog
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:12pm
These jerks are a bigger threat to this nation than all of our enemies combined! These are the enemies of America! Turncoats need to go

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- JustMeHere_01
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:46pm
  @SmellyDog
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:12pm
  These jerks are a bigger threat to this nation than all of our enemies combined! These are the enemies of America! Turncoats need to go
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  Just to be clear, are you saying that the Congress are the enemies of America? You are then giving Harry Reid a pass for taking bills that Congress sends him and preventing them to get a vote in the Senate to protect their political careers.
  
  Yep, it is as simple as that. Get the press to support your every move and then demonize anyone that disagrees with you and then you can do anything you want to.
  
  I love the Media. They managed to persecute the past President every day for 8 years and have not found one instance where the current President has made a mistake in 4 years. You have to love this media.
  
  Unemployment under 5% and he is demonized as the worst President ever and now we have a President that has kept unemployment above 9% for 4 years and he is the greatest President ever.
  
  Love this Media that sent a large team to vet Sarah Palin and spent a lot of money investigating her but felt no need to vet Pres. Obama that hired proven communist and leftist in his administration.
  
  Yes you have to love our current media that loves communism and hates capitalism.
  
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blissdesignz
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:07pm
Ummm could it be because they’re dealing with the worst & most partisan extremist President since FDR?? I’m not surprised but hey they can’t be ‘productive’ if what that means destroying the country.
Not to mention they have put through a LOT of job creating legislation that Harry Reid keeps on his desk & will not let the Senate vote on!

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The-Monk
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:58pm
What’s wrong with Harry Reid’s left hand? Is he missing part of a finger?

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- Kregneva
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:11pm
  Finger this out! – he got it stuck in a Back-Lick accident with an Ox he tried to ride but which could not be Road. They took him to the Braddock-Tor’s office and tried to be Fair and Fax the information to the county. But, as we say in Mexico; it was, “No-Va,” and the digit became a Marine midget. Axe George about this Mason – it’s just a wide-mouthed jar-head.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:33pm
  Well, look who it is. The nasty troll who thinks he’s a man. Having fun being a backstop for the other trolls? Where’s your backup trolls SendTheMeteors and Monicne? Did they actually let you post all by yourself tonight? I didn’t think so. They got you on a tight lease.
  
  Anything in particular that “they” want you to say tonight?
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:46pm
and at least half of the bills they did pass were unconstitutional. Had enough? Ready to try something outside the republican party?

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- Charles_Almon
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:06pm
  Ready to try something outside the republican party?
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  Nope, I’ll stick with Ron Paul. An outstanding and upright member of the republican Party.
  
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- JustMeHere_01
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:34pm
  @soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:46pm
  and at least half of the bills they did pass were unconstitutional. Had enough? Ready to try something outside the republican party
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  Like what, the Health Care Bill or do you prefer the Cap & Trade Bill?
  
  Is your preference to pass bills that gives more Government control over the people. Evidently the majority of voters now prefer that they get something from the Government and that individualism is no longer the norm.
  
  I would bet that you get your way and that America now prefers to be taken care of rather than individual responsibility. I think you may have what you want and it will only get better for you.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:06pm
  @JustMeHere_01
  i think you have me confused for someone else
  
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- JustMeHere_01
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:17pm
  @soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:06pm
  @JustMeHere_01
  i think you have me confused for someone else
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  You care to explain why I have you confused for someone else. I think your statement and my reply said it all. If you have something else to say let me know. If I have you confused with another then I would sure like to know. You said what you said and I only replied to what you said.
  
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- JustMeHere_01
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:21pm
  @soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:46pm
  and at least half of the bills they did pass were unconstitutional. Had enough? Ready to try something outside the republican party?
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  This is what you said. Ready to try something outside the republican party? and I asked you if you like the Health Care Plan or do you prefer the Cap & Trade Bill.
  
  Can you explain where I confused you with someone else?
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 7:29am
  First, you said “Is your preference to pass bills that gives more Government control over the people.”
  
  I clearly said we have too many laws and most of them are unconstitutional.
  
  Second, you said ” I would bet that you get your way and that America now prefers to be taken care of rather than individual responsibility.”
  
  I have NEVER advocated that government should be taking care of by government.
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  That is why you must have me confused with a liberal. I am to the right of you. I want very small federal government when it comes to every single issue
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 7:32am
  oh i see the confusion now…..
  
  You think republican party is the be-all-end-all and solution to all our problems….Poor Justmehere, the republican party is almost as much to blame as the democrats for our big government and 16T debt. You got defensive when I mentioned independence of the republican party and thought i was advocating democrats or something.
  
  News flash Justmehere – the republican party has FAILED. Time for patriots to go Constittuion/Libertarian Party and take everyone with them
  
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lel2007
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:44pm
The boys in the picture look as though they just had they slingshots taken away. What a sorry looking lot. FTB’s

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JustMeHere_01
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:43pm
U.S. Congress isn’t exactly known for its efficiency, but the current Congress has been so unproductive during its tenure that it will likely go down in history as the most unproductive in almost a lifetime.
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Is this statement true or is it that Senate Pres. Harry Reid that is blocking and preventing any legislation that passes Congress from being brought up for a vote in the Senate.

There has been a number of bills passed by the sitting Congress that has been passed on for Senate consideration.

The true question should be what is the Senate doing. As long as the MSM supports the Democratic Party then they will always get by with statements like this. You have the Media blaming Congress when the real facts are that Harry Reid tables any bill that he does not approve of and with the Medias support he gets away with it.

I just wish people could be honest with the facts.

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- booger71
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:54pm
  Your right, harry has done nothing, except not brought any bills to the floor just so Barry won’t have to veto them.
  
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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:47pm
  There has never been a bigger roadblock than Harry Reid Congress worked somewhat until Harry became leader.
  
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lel2007
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:42pm
An “unproductive Congress” is, more often than not, a GOOD THING. When Congress is in recess that is the only time you get to take your hand off your wallet and breath easy for a few days.
America’s had a federal government for more than 200 years, there is no shortage of regulations and laws (nobody actually knows how many laws there are, but it’s a lot). Unproductive Congress? Thank you Lord for the brief moment of rest.

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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:49pm
  If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.
  François-Marie Arouet 1765
  
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- dnewton
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 2:08am
  Most of the regulations start in the government agency having jurisdiction. The congress just does nothing while they pass wildly expensive regulation. For years the IRS has raised taxes by reinterpreting statutes that were weasle-worded.
  
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doomytram
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:39pm
Obozo voted present and never did anything as a senator while he campaigned for president. Obozo is a part of this inept congress. Cut taxes in half and haircut the ridiculous ba-fhucking-na-na republic Obozoland to early 1990′s spending and the country would recover in about 4 years. Otherwise we are like Greece, but with the charm of South Chicago and South Detroit.

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toto
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:34pm
I am ready for a third party. The first tenet, a Constitutional amendment to make all law, and regulations apply EQUALLY to all, NO exemptions for Congress ever, no special consideration for race, or anything else. All law applies equally, period. Smart minorities would welcome knowing their successes were based on merit, what a novel thought, what America used to be.

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- doomytram
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:45pm
  What you are proposing is the opposite of what is going on in the District of Corruption today. You saying you don’t want PC leftist’s wasting money and oversight right. Your in favor of governance and not monkey games. It’s funny, I’ve read that in real terms we are borrowing 48 cents of every dollar we take in and then just wasting that 48 cents and flushing it down the commode. Even in Leftist Obozoland they say that we are only borrowing 31 cents of every dollar and spending it on the poor and flushing it down the commode. It’s ridiculous how insane Obozo drones are…
  
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- Free_Thought
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 7:35pm
  So you are cool with gay marriage and womens health issues?
  
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Brother Winston Smith
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:29pm
Actually no. The FAKE-liberal LEFTIST democrats and the FAKE-conservative republicans HAVE DONE MUCH!

UNCONSTITUTIONAL TARP
UNCONSTITUTIONAL Bailouts
UNCONSTITUTIONAL Stimulus
UNCONSTITUTIONAL Nation-building
UNCONSTITUTIONAL “Patriot” Act.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL NDAA
UNCONSTITUTIONAL UC
UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEMA
UNCONSTITUTIONAL food police
UNCONSTITUTIONAL SOPA/PIPA/CISPA
UNCONSTITUTIONAL global welfare
Debt ceiling hikes
TREASONOUS amnesties
Spend
Spend
Spend
Spend
Spend
Spend
Spend
Spend
Spend
Spend
Spend
Spend
… to name a few things.

Had enough?

Really?

The Constitution Party.
The Libertarian Party.
State nullification.
NOW!!!!! NOT TOMORROW!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:43pm
  BWS
  Some of that was the Democrap SUPER-majority, especially the atrocity that is ObamaCare.
  
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- Brother Winston Smith
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:17pm
  Nope, Anonymous T. Irrelevant… IT’S ALL REPUBLICAN/DEMOCRAT (same thing). Equally. Together. Partners. IDENTICAL. COMRADES.
  
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- Charles_Almon
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:37pm
  Brother Winston Smith
  
  Ron Paul IS a registered Republican. Hoooooow bout youuuuuuu?
  
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- Brother Winston Smith
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:06pm
  If, Charles_Almon, you could associate Rep Paul to anything on my list… then, you might have your “zinger.”
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:24pm
  BWS
  I guess you don ‘t understand the definition of SUPER-majority. It’s not identical, it’s when there are over-whelmingly, more of one party, than the other.
  
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- JustMeHere_01
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 12:05am
  @Brother Winston Smith
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:29pm
  Actually no. The FAKE-liberal LEFTIST democrats and the FAKE-conservative republicans HAVE DONE MUCH!
  
  UNCONSTITUTIONAL TARP
  UNCONSTITUTIONAL Bailouts
  UNCONSTITUTIONAL Stimulus
  UNCONSTITUTIONAL Nation-building
  UNCONSTITUTIONAL “Patriot” Act.
  UNCONSTITUTIONAL NDAA
  UNCONSTITUTIONAL UC
  UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEMA
  UNCONSTITUTIONAL food police
  UNCONSTITUTIONAL SOPA/PIPA/CISPA
  UNCONSTITUTIONAL global welfare
  Debt ceiling hikes
  TREASONOUS amnesties
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  I am not sure this is correct. The Rep. Controlled sent bill after bill to the Senate and Harry Reid made the decision to table them and not allow a vote
  
  It may be true now that the Rep. Party has chosen the liberal agenda but that doesn’t mean that Congress didn’t at least try.
  
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AmericanStrega
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:23pm
Well I’m surprised (sarc). Are any of you? Both Dems and Reps are nothing but crooks looking for their next mark (that would be you and me American Tax Payer). All these crooks look out for is their own bottom-line. They don’t give a rat’s-red-patoot about us low-life-unwashed-masses (who pay their salaries. Well crap, they’re all millionaires, so the chump-change we pay them doesn’t really make a difference. They’re just in it for the power they can hold over us poor tax paying slobs). Question: Who impeaches the unimpeachable when those who should be impeached hold the vote to impeach those who should be impeached? Hmmmm?

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chips1
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:23pm
There should be a law that no more laws can be passed untill they get rid of at least half of the ones on the books now.

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- Diane TX
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 12:20am
  I couldn’t agree with you more! Enough with all the laws, rules , and regulations.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:21pm
The less laws the lawbreakers pass the better,I never could understand how someone gauges their congressman’s effectiveness by how many new laws and regulations the lawbreakers create,it’s illogical.
As for a budget they do need to do that and Barry tried but no one not even the communists in the so called democrat party voted for it,tells you how much he wants to pass a budget huh? He knew the commies in his own party wouldn’t support it,he doesn’t want a budget because it doesn’t fit with his agenda to have one.

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- booger71
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:55pm
  But in doing this, Barry has ramped up spending by executive order.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:04pm
  All spending originates in the house,they vote on what to waste our money on.
  
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- JustMeHere_01
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:53pm
  @progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:08pm
  SOY We have a one party system that’s the problem.
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  Well I didn’t think that before. I know the Tea Party attempted to put conservative candidates on the ballots. For the 1st term they tried and passed bill after bill and sent it to the Senate only to have Harry Reid to toss the bills in the trash and not bring them to the floor.
  
  Now ;you have the MSM bashing Congress and all that they have tried to do and give the Senate a pass.
  
  You may be right, Congress tried and the Senate made sure they failed. Now you have the Rep. Party wanting to change and take the liberal policies because they think it will help them. Got news for them. If that is true then yes the Republican Party is dead and you people that wanted to be controlled or provided by the Government are probably going to get your wish.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 7:37am
  @Justmehere
  The evidence is not the last couple years…..The evidence is the last 50 YEARS!!! If you dont see it, then please question with boldness (and without bias).
  
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- Chromo200
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 10:09am
  The GOP has been relegated to being a small minority because we elect crooks and people that lie with the best of them. When they had the majority and people’s support, they screwed us just like the Dems do. They lined their pockets, voted in fancy benefits for them selves and left the tax payers out in the cold.
  
  People seem to be pushing Libertarians and Conservative parties, they have no record to show us that they are any better than the Dems and Reps. They want to show they have anything to provide, they need to run for local and state positions and demonstrate that they are better.
  
  The problem with Washington is when you get there you get corrupted with all that money. Think of it .. What would you do for a million dollars, nothing .. well how about five million dollars .. What would you do for the Boss if he gives you a promotion. As long people abandon their principles for money and power, there is no hope. Yes I live in a glass house and yes I abandoned some of my principles for a better job and more money but what I did did not hurt or mess people’s lives. Also I pray that the Lord forgives me for my sins.
  
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dadsrootbeer
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:19pm
It’s Bush’s fault

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- Brother Winston Smith
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:30pm
  Well… Bush, Obama and thousands of other democrats/republicans (same thing).
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:49pm
  clinton blamed bush. bush blamed clinton. obama blamed bush. next republican will blame obama
  
  it never ends with these two parties
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:08pm
  SOY We have a one party system that’s the problem.
  
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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:55pm
  I blame those who did not serve the country figure out who hasn’t served and you’ll find them as anti patriotic.
  
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- JustMeHere_01
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:33pm
  @progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:08pm
  SOY We have a one party system that’s the problem
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  It is true that we have one party system. As long as we have a press that features the values that this Senate wants to give us then yes we do. The people voted for more of what this Administration promised them and that was more government control and we will get more taxes to give more to you.
  
  This is exactly what the people voted for. You are correct that now the Rep Party wants to go along with the liberals in hopes that they can get votes later.
  
  Guess what, if this is what America wants then they will get it. I am a conservative and will not vote for liberal Republicans. It looks like the Communists have won and America is destroyed.
  
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SaturdaysWarrior76
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:16pm
Least productive congress…least productive president…least productive economy.

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- eyestoseeearstohear
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:58pm
  Please join the most ” effortless” protest against Obama….
  
  Listen to the instructions here:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jO_5Yue6FoQ
  
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Modern_Cicero
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:15pm
Since when has the number of new laws passed been a measure of legislative efficiency? If we’re going to use that as a standard, we should just count pages of legislation passed and call Pelosi’s Obamacare legislature the most productive Congress in history.

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thibx
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:14pm
damn democrats and left wing nuts including president.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:03pm
  Agreed.
  
  Yet I will be clear on one thing, as the ‘most unproductive’ Congress for generations, so long as it blocked the madness of Obama and the Progressives, and enabled Americans to hold onto some of our freedoms for a little longer, than for that portion it is a success.
  
  Congress should not be measured by the count of the bills passed into law, but by what they do to ensure the freedoms of the people and the nations economy and the armed forces.
  
  Obama and the communist left of course are massive disasters in all aspects to our way of life and freedoms.
  
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