Super Congress: Super Failure

Well Surprise, surprise, surprise. The White House and congressional leaders had thought that by empowering the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction with broad powers to sidestep the traditional congressional quagmire, the panel would somehow be able to craft a "grand bargain" that trimmed Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid while perhaps raising taxes on the wealthy and cutting the defense budget. Oh no, no, no....EPIC FAIL, EPIC FAIL! What genius came up with the idea that 12 people could accomplish what 535 people couldn't do?

The Congress that somehow, this Super Congress would be adults and do what they couldn't do and actually LEGISLATE AND GOVERN. What did the gang of 12 morons fight about? Bush tax cuts. Again with the same crap. Democrats want them to expire before they'll accept deep cuts to entitlement programs. Republicans have been insistent on lowering tax rates further. The elderly, then, have Republican recalcitrance to credit for the continuation of their benefits.

Instead of the 12 members of the super committee writing landmark legislation in backdoor meetings that is quickly rammed through Congress, public policy priorities will be determined by the American people in the upcoming election. None of these people care about the human cost of sitting idly by while they wait for the 2012 elections and the electorate are too dumb to understand they are being manipulated by the people they elected to help them.


 This so called Super Committee was ridiculous to start with in the first place due to the fact that it gave the US Government a 4th branch of government, which is not dictated in the US Constitution. Of course the 6 GOP members have taken the Opal Ring oath from Grover Norquist, promising never to raise taxes ever, country and government be damned. Democrats are prepared as usual to negotiate, i.e. totally capitulate and give Republicans what they want with a custom hand job. They had signaled they were prepared to extract savings from providers in Medicare, thereby invalidating every talking point they had ever made about Paul Ryan and the Republican's wanting to kill Medicare.

Set fire to the rain!

The world has seen what is painfully obvious, we have a failed political system in this country. There is nothing in this country that should make any of us proud. If you are an elected of official, you especially should hang your head down in shame. You are a disgrace to the American people. Then again, we are the one's to blame for electing these fools in the first place. Everyone knew and could see from the get-go that this Super Committee was a joke and doomed to failure from the start. Congress and the Super Committee gave us what we expected..­..NOTHING!­!! I can't believe we actually pay our members of congress. I can't get a real job or health insurance but these inbred monkeys get on TV, have government run health care, cars, per Diem's, assistants, ipads, and have the nerve to pontificate about the needs of ordinary Americans. What we are witnessing is the slow death of our US democracy as well as another example of the death of common sense in this country. Actually it died years ago...It really is appalling that we don't have any REAL leadership anyone can feel good about. This country is led and governed by a bunch of bought and sold losers. They had no incentive to succeed, they get their government welfare check no matter what happens to us. Let Rome Burn!


What would happen to the average citizen if he/she sat at their desk and produced absolutely nothing for months? The person would be jobless, ho­meless, and broke. Unless they are an American politician and say "Jesus" , and "No taxes", the requisite number of times. Do I get a refund from the federal government come tax time for paying their useless salaries? Everyone loves to bash so called "entitlements" like it's a bad thing. I worked since I was 16 and when I lost my job, I needed my unemployment, every dime. That was money that was taken out of my check since I was 16 and that was money that I was entitled to. Theoretically, I should be able to claim funds from the time employment years since I was 16 until now which about 15 years. We allowed ourselves to be brainwashed by the Bush administration, the Tea Party morons, and America's need of Imperialism and Voter Apathy.

Un Super Congress

These morons were given one job and one job only and they couldn't even execute that correctly. The members of Congress, and only the members of Congress are responsibl­e for our mess..Congress spent the money, and gave everybody a tax cut during a war...I know that was a boost to the economy from the Twin Towers and the tech crash, unwisely given, but completely unpaid for. Congress has not taken any responsibi­lity for their insane run a way spending, remember the bridge to nowhere?. They deflect the issue to President Obama, the poor, unemployed­, gay, women, kids, Hispanics on and on....

Congr­ess, you group of parasites,  stand up apologize to the nation, if you have any honor and get down to real work, instead of the daunting task of reaffirming our National Motto, but do what you what you were elected to do and create....jobs, jobs, jobs.

Obama - The Greatest Republican President in History

Republican in Liberal's Clothing

President Obama surrenders again...I swear...If we are going to have Republican policies we might as well have a Republican President to blame when they go wrong. Once again the President that so many worked so hard to get elected has turned his back on the supporters and rolled over like a cheap harlot.

Congressional leaders and President Obama on Sunday night announced they've cut a deal to avert a historic U.S. default, saying they have assembled a framework that cuts some spending immediately and uses a "super Congress" to slash more in the future. Great a Super Congress, does that also mean Super Dysfunction? That's fantastic...Democrats have been consistent, cave, cave, cave.

The deal calls for a first round of cuts that would total $917 billion over 10 years and allows the president to hike the debt cap -- now at $14.3 trillion -- by $900 billion, according to a presentation that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), the worlds saddest tangerine, made to his members. Democrats reported those first cuts at a figure closer to $1 trillion. It was unclear Sunday night why those two estimates varied. I don't know what I am going to eat tomorrow, much less over 10 years, I guarantee this is going to be a disaster of our own making, just like this fake debt crisis.

The next round of $1.5 trillion in cuts would be decided by a committee of 12 lawmakers evenly divided between the two parties and two chambers. This so-called super Congress would have to present its cuts by Thanksgiving, and the rest of Congress could not amend or filibuster the recommendations. Really?! So this two party, divided government has been working swimmingly, and we want to make this part of the process? Let's just play Russian Roulette, it would be quicker, neater and more enjoyable than a repeat of this phony debt crisis.

But if the super Congress somehow failed to enact savings, (and we know it will), the measure requires automatic cuts worth at least $1.2 trillion. Those cuts would be split equally between military and domestic programs. Social Security, Medicaid and programs for the poor would be spared, but Medicare providers -- not beneficiaries -- would take a hit. When providers get charged money, they pass the burden on to whom? The beneficiaries! Yes...this is the dumbest crap I have ever heard and it will be a disaster of epic proportions. We know good and well, that these pandering monkey's in both the house and the congress can't agree on anything other than each party's mascot should be Satan.  But what was accomplished? tax cuts (that never created jobs and were made - and extended - during times of war, an Read More... activity that is rarely cheap) are overlooked­, as are corporate entitlemen­ts/subsidy­/welfare-f­or-the-ric­h/etc. Yet we can no longer afford education since that will be cut, but then we will be told we're not educated and need better results to "compete" in a so-called "global marketplace", which is another topic in of itself... People lose jobs, lose income, live with stagnating wages, but the banks get bailed out because nobody's bright enough to notice that it's the working class that earns the money to pay the banks in the first place.

"Live within your means" sounds great, until you realize that cars, education for degrees companies say they want*, houses need rather a long time to save up. Especially for those who have families. With stagnating or dropping wages, to indeed catch up and become "competiti­ve" is starting to look like empty talk. * except those that will call you "overquali­fied" for a job as a result...

Here's the best part: White House officials confirmed that there would not be an extension of unemployment benefits as part of the final package. The administration had insisted that an extension be part of the grand bargain it was negotiating with Boehner. But when those discussions fell apart, so too did efforts to ensure that unemployment insurance was part of a final package. The worst recession since the Great Depression, no jobs from the "job creators", unless you want to relocate to India, and our Republican President isn't willing to fight for unemployment insurance, but tax cuts for the wealthy is fine. This is all cuts and no revenues, the opposite of the dueling speeches that was given last week. When did the Power of the President become diminished to the line of "call your congressman?" When did the number 3 guy become more powerful than the number 1 guy?   I sit here and I wonder if better things are coming down the road. I'm looking for that moment of victory that is supposed to come after years of hardship. I'm waiting for that revelation that good things do come, that there is a master plan....

....and I keep getting more and more disappoint­ed. It's beginning to hurt. This system is designed to keep the bad guys winning over and over again. This was planned from the beginning, this was the Republican's/ Obama's master plan. They know how to work the system. We've lost.           

"Super Congress" seems eyebrow-ra­ising, to say the very least. But whatever. Maybe the 'reset' button will be pressed and a new way of doing things will come about. Whether it's slave labor for everybody or something else, I am no mind-reade­r, I have no clue. But, status quo and the current situation prevailing since the here and now is not a fiction, people are upset, worried, suspicious­, and/or whatever else for very good reasons. Except certain factions, but they will eventually realize that what they are wishing for may not be coming in the way they want it. Again, mind reader I am not. But then, some of those were the same types telling government to stay out of medicare when, duh, medicare is a government program...