CONGRESS BREAKS FOR 5 WEEKS, BUT MUCH WORK UNDONE

[xchrom]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CONGRESS_NOT_DONE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-08-04-09-03-27

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress' performance matches its approval rating - abysmal.

Lawmakers headed home for a five-week break with a lengthy list of uncompleted work and little to show for the past year and a half except an eye-popping amount of dissatisfaction.

Nearly 80 percent of Americans are unhappy with them.

Partisanship and election-year politics have left a drought-stricken nation wondering if new help will ever come and the U.S. Postal Service uncertain about its solvency.

[Amak8]

1. Frontal assaults on popular government programs are hard.

Just obstruct, stand there and do nothing is the strategy.

[hobbit709]

2. I'm not sure which is worse.

Being there and doing nothing or not being there and doing nothing.
At least when they're not there they can't screw something up worse.

[lunatica]

3. Doing nothing is hard to do

It's hard to know when to stop. Thank God for vacations because otherwise they'd wear themselves out.

[Lint Head]

4. Wonder how many people will die or lose their homes because they don't have health care,

how many people will go without jobs, how many wrecks will be caused by degrading infrastructure in the next 5 weeks?

[inthemiddle2]

6. right on

[99Forever]

5. Welcome to the New Reality.

Corporatocracy hard at work for it's Masters.