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Obsidion endorsed Roco

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Jan '13

cpier14

v No

of course not the but I am more ashamed of the senate and president. the senate has not put a budget on its floor for almost 4 years or more and the president could not get his budget thru the senate that is lead by dingy harry

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Jan '13
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C_Lassico

v No

There is only hate between the parties. The only good thing is that they are forced to compromise by their fear of popular reproach if no budget decisions are made

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Altonroe

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No

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Squig voted

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Jan '13

MadAmerican

v No

Embarassing when you had all year to work on this. See, the congress and the president want to keep the American public scared over Medicare, SSI, and Welfare checks. That way when they do give you that royal screwing at the deadline they look like heroes, and later you find out they added more taxes and took away more benefits. What happened to Obama's promise of seeing what happens behind closed doors? Another thing is that those republicans that signed a contract to not raise taxes and voted for this will lose their jobs next election. I congradulate those who kept their word. Overall congress is a joke, the senate is a joke, and Obama is the effin ringleader.

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kmchubbs voted

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Jan '13

Cuthawk40

v No

Congress is not doing what is right for its constituents. It's doing what is right for the factions or special interest groups. In other words, the people or groups with money. Every representative is more worried about playing the politics and re-election game as opposed to making the hard and sometimes unpopular decisions that will help get this country back in the black. What is the solution to this problem you ask, term limits.

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Jan '13

Eady

v No

I say vote em all out and start with Nancy who is the worst of them all.

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HouTx79 voted

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cya9

v No

The Speaker Boehner, Cantor & the congressional GOP, have been selfish, arrogant, incompetent & drove us over the cliff.They are acting like they don't know what they are doing. I wish we could fire them. I feel like going there & doing the work myself. They are just playing games, but you better not touch chained CPI. It will affect veterans & seniors. Please, don't vote for them in '14 & '16

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Cleon

v No

There should be term limits for these career log rollers and back scratchers.

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Dec '12
choochamy voted

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taffyh voted

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Sexystrom endorsed Roco

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cpier14

v No

of course not the but I am more ashamed of the senate and president. the senate has not put a budget on its floor for almost 4 years or more and the president could not get his budget thru the senate that is lead by dingy harry

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C_Lassico

v No

There is only hate between the parties. The only good thing is that they are forced to compromise by their fear of popular reproach if no budget decisions are made

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Jan '13

Altonroe

v No

No

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Jan '13

MadAmerican

v No

Embarassing when you had all year to work on this. See, the congress and the president want to keep the American public scared over Medicare, SSI, and Welfare checks. That way when they do give you that royal screwing at the deadline they look like heroes, and later you find out they added more taxes and took away more benefits. What happened to Obama's promise of seeing what happens behind closed doors? Another thing is that those republicans that signed a contract to not raise taxes and voted for this will lose their jobs next election. I congradulate those who kept their word. Overall congress is a joke, the senate is a joke, and Obama is the effin ringleader.

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Jan '13

Cuthawk40

v No

Congress is not doing what is right for its constituents. It's doing what is right for the factions or special interest groups. In other words, the people or groups with money. Every representative is more worried about playing the politics and re-election game as opposed to making the hard and sometimes unpopular decisions that will help get this country back in the black. What is the solution to this problem you ask, term limits.

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Jan '13

Eady

v No

I say vote em all out and start with Nancy who is the worst of them all.

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Jan '13

cya9

v No

The Speaker Boehner, Cantor & the congressional GOP, have been selfish, arrogant, incompetent & drove us over the cliff.They are acting like they don't know what they are doing. I wish we could fire them. I feel like going there & doing the work myself. They are just playing games, but you better not touch chained CPI. It will affect veterans & seniors. Please, don't vote for them in '14 & '16

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Jan '13

Cleon

v No

There should be term limits for these career log rollers and back scratchers.

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Dec '12

RealHonesTruth

v No

This is a rhetorical question.

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Dec '12

CommonSense

v No

It's time we stop thinking alone the lines of "lesser of two evils". Everybody always says "you're voting third party" "you're not voting" and then chastises and criticizes. I wish I hadn't voted for any Republicrats, at least not for the office of president or any congressional office. Time for some deontology. Think what if everybody did it. What if everybody refused to vote for a candidate if their conscience wouldn't let them? What if we had standards other than "this guy's not the other guy he gets my vote"? NOBODY in Congress now would be in Congress and Obama would NOT be president, or if he was he would be much better, because he'd have to be. When people have...

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Dec '12

harold_lloyd

Deontology is why the congress is paralyzed, teabaggers hold it as a guiding principle. Your argument has the weakness that if it isn't universal, it's suicidal.

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CommonSense

@harold_lloyd No if everybody thought like the teabaggers we'd turn into a third world country and drag the rest of the developed world with us. Deontology is not entirely antiutilitarian. Universalizing is in a way a consideration of the consequences. As it is I'm not purely deontological or purely utilitarian, but the way voters have treated politics has been to rely on very, very short-term utilitarianism. Going on deontology and also on more long-term utilitarianism which includes a willingness to sacrifice the short-term good for the long-term good we would not be voting for "lesser of two evils". People rarely have several election cycles in mind when they go ...

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Dec '12

harold_lloyd

@CommonSense So you're suggesting a giant conspiracy to fool the polls? You may want to mull that over a little longer. Any election should always be between the lesser of two evils. Government is a necessary but dangerous tool, much like capitalism. If left unrestrained, government power tends to accumulate beyond what is necessary. I also recognize that some growth in government and regulation is also a side effect of growing population and technological change.

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CommonSense

@harold_lloyd Or we could start basing who can attend the debates not on polls of who people plan on voting for but based on polls of "who is your favorite candidate?" Why should elections be between the lesser of two evils? Why shouldn't we have elections where we actually have the option of voting for a good candidate? And what makes you think the status quo is restraining government power. If people had kicked the "voting for the lesser of two evils" habit generations ago we wouldn't have warrantless wiretaps, we wouldn't have spying on people's e-mails, we wouldn't have the continued exclusion of the Chagossians, we wouldn't have a lot of things. As the result ...

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Dec '12

harold_lloyd

@CommonSense The status quo is not restraining government power. That one of the reasons that you're seeing political dynasties evolving. Think of how many family names are common in the ranks of public service. I think you missed part of my point. I don't see any candidate as anything but a custodian of the public good. The one who can accomplish the most while intruding on us (me) the least is preferable to anyone who thinks he knows how I should live ot think.

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marine1

v No

the fiscal cliff situation shows us the true respect that these assholes have for all of us. Democrat/Republican my ass,get us someone in there that knows how to manage the needs of this country and its people. oh yeh, we were hear, before the U N AND SHOULD COME FIRST

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Dec '12

Romney_Rube

v No

Once again, the nation inept electorate has succeeded in sending a pack of losers to Washington and grind our nation into the dirt.

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Dec '12

DrFunkenstein

v No

We should hold these people's feet to the fire. I think Congressmen should get million dollar salaries and be under constant Forensic Accountant scrutiny to keep them honest. That way the job is something the more qualified people who know things would want to have. We have too many unqualified imbeciles in Congress who are simply there to grab as much under-the-table cash as they can get. Each vote should be up for scrutiny, the entire schedule of every congressmen should be listed for his constituents to know what he does with their tax dollars and their faith in the form of votes. These men should have to justify their votes to the voters and not just vote with the ...

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Dec '12

DogLady_1

Rich people are smarter? Really? Can you prove that rich people make better decisions or can look at the big picture more clearly than poor or middle income people? Are rich people better statesmen? Are they better advocates of the people? Are the rich really more patriotic? More loyal to the Constitution? I see no proof of that... There are more poor and average income people in this country than rich people, so the gov't is supposed to be representative of the people... that is why the House has 435 members while the Senate only has 100. If we were to get back to basic founding principles, we would prohibit millionaires from running for a House seat. T...

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Dec '12

DrFunkenstein

@DogLady_1 Wow, you must have responded to the wrong person, I never said any of what you are arguing with

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Dec '12

DogLady_1

@DrFunkenstein - You said: "I think Congressmen should get million dollar salaries... That way the job is something the more qualified people who know things would want to have." That sounded to me like you thought people who can make money are smarter and would be better statesmen... and I disagree. Or did I misunderstand what you meant by that comment? Everything else you wrote I can totally agree with.

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Dec '12

DrFunkenstein

@DogLady_1 Million dollar salaries would pull more qualified people into politics instead of finance where they become corrupted. Nowhere did I say that rich people are smarter, I said that I'd rather smart people take these jobs due to the incentive of becoming rich and a million dollar salary would bring the best out of the woodwork.

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Jan '13

DogLady_1

@DrFunkenstein - Yes, but you are saying that people who go after million dollar salaries are more capable statesmen and less likely to be corrupted. I think anyone who is lured to be in politics by the money they will make are MORE likely to be corrupt... I think the income for a House member should be no more than the nation's median income. That weeds out the greedy, then only those who want to SERVE will run for office. No more tax-funded perks. Eliminate all money gifts from lobbyists. I see no evidence that millionaires are more apt to listen to the People, defend the Constitution and serve their country better. That might work only if we also give them li...

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armed_liberal

v No

This do-nothing Congress has been focused on getting reelected and stopping Obama from being reelected. How about doing some actual work? Lazy partisan good for nothings!

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Middleman

v No

I have said it before and I will say it again.... These self centered, unself aware, arrogant, dishonest, lying, theiving, jack holes are pure and simple idiots!!! They are are guilty of shafting the American people at a minimum and probably a version of treason if you get right down to it... (Selling us out to fill and line their pockets and feed their huge ego's) Spare me the political rehtoric, both parties are equally complicit and shame on us for not having the brass to do something about it... Until things return to by the people for the people we are all screwed!

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Dec '12

UnCommonBoston

v No

No, this just proves they have lost touch with the very people they promised to represent. I hope people remember how their representatives vote. I certainly keep track.

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Dec '12

jessejaymes

v No

Why pick this subject Politix? You can pick any subject and the answer would be no, no and hell no. This may well go down in history as the Congress who destroyed America. It's time to RE-ELECT NO ONE!!!

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Dec '12

Middleclass

v No

There is nothing about Congress to be proud of!!!!!!

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Dec '12

classychazy

v No

Hell NO! We are paying them an outrageous amount of money to sit on their asses and act like 5 year Old's and not one of them could give a damn about any of us. Everyone of them make sick!

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Dec '12

Randolph61

v No

Absolutely not! I am ashamed that we have an administration that can not pass a budget and understand the basic economics that you can't spend more than you bring in. The continued extravagant spending while having no budget and no money equates to me going shopping for things I could live without right now and paying for them with a check and no money in my bank account. Absolutely disgusted with the whole bunch of them!

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Roco

v No

I'm more proud of any kindergarten class than this dysfunctional Congress. If Congress wants to act like a child, treat them like a child. Spank that behind. Send them to a corner and take their candy (salary and perks).

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DARSB

v No

The unbelievably arrogant House members who say the fiscal cliff will be worth the damage to the economy and the families who will suffer under it should be ashamed of placing ideology over people.

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Dec '12

RedFloppyShoes

v No

What a stupid question.

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Dec '12

questioner

v No

This Congress has proven that it is unable to FOLLOW, either the President, it's own leaders or LEAD by crafting solutions that it can pass and be sent to the President. It has happened before, with less than a desirable result. Is the country, the American people, also dysfunctional?

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Dec '12

Sharpshooter

v Yes

I'll be more proud when we run off it.... "Crash and Burn Economics" Thinking forward, when history is written, the Axelshaft/Jarrett Junta will be remembered as their puppet Barack will be alongside Herbert Hoover as the most economically uninformed, incompetent President in History. Congress may well be partially to blame, but it is El Presidente' who will be remembered; and to think of how hard he worked to be there. Gotta love Poetic Justice.

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Dec '12

Bobolinsky

v No

There was a time when someone could say this... . "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." . ... from the House floor and be taken seriously. Instead they're bickering about how much more to take from us in order to spend and redistribute on our behalf in the name of benevolence.

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Dec '12

texas_cutie75

v No

No, especially since the VP and selected members of Congress got raises!?!? WTF!?! SERIOUSLY!?!

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Dec '12

bsking

v I'm not sure

I voted I'm not sure... because I'm not sure whoever makes these questions note what the hell's going on. how could anybody be proud of how congress or the president has handled this mess?

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Dec '12

JoeJared

v No

It's not just the government that is the problem. The slave labor in china is being used by multi-national corporations as competition to drive the average value of the people of America down. This government is no longer of the people, by the people, nor for the people.

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KyleMFb

v No

How can you be proud of disfunction ???

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