Buh-bye, shitbags. Waytago demonstrating wasted payouts to the indolent, though.
Congress does nothing, goes on vacation
Our view: Do-nothing legislators hit the re-election trail, demonstrating how federal tax dollars are truly wasted on payouts to the indolent
The best news to come out of Capitol Hill last week was largely buried in the back pages. It was the statements made by senior Republicans that if President Barack Obama wins reelection in November, they will retreat in their position on raising taxes on high-earners.
Finally, a sign of compromise of some sort. It's hardly a guarantee that Congress will retreat from the looming "fiscal cliff" of massive tax increases and spending cuts that could easily plunge the nation back into an economic recession early next year, but considering how ridiculous and self-destructive the political standoff in Washington has become, it's something.
The concession looms large particularly given how little the 112th Congress has accomplished this term. As others have noted, these representatives have made Harry Truman's "do-nothing" Congress of 1948 look like over-achievers by comparison, having passed four times as much legislation as the current edition.
And that isn't even a fair comparison. Has there ever been a time when so much important legislation was left behind as Congress left for recess prior to an election? Lawmakers even wrapped up their business early the House's Friday adjournment marking the earliest election-year recess since 1960. These must be the lazy, entitled victims on the government dole that Mitt Romney was talking about.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bs-ed-congress-20120924,0,5631485.story