If Congress Can't Do Their Job, Fire 'Em!

Republicans have decided not to vote today on the Senate plan.

Didn't the Senate decide not to vote of the House plan? Where's the ire for Senator Reid?

Instead they want to send the bill to committee.

That's normally what happens when the Senate and House pass differing versions of legislation.

Also, the National Payroll Reporting Consortium said the Senate bill cannot be implemented properly.

And BECAUSE Congress was so SLOW and UNRESPONSIVE, that's the reason HR departments cannot pull it together in time to implement the legislation (HR departments really need to get modernized as well though -- like implement an automated workflow process to enable them to make electronic changes on the fly)
Again, get the lazy asses out of Congress if they can't do their job.

Harry Reid did his job. He negotiated a deal. He's telling Boehner that he's not going to play the GOP game anymore. Democrats did what was asked of them and then Republicans backed out of the deal.
This is what's been going on for at least the past 6 months in D.C.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/19/harry-reid-payroll-tax-cut_n_1158198.html

If somebody were about to cut Boehner's pay, I bet he would have gotten his supporters together and pushed through a vote long ago. Republicans DO NOT care about people. They are selfish and greedy.

Here is a guide if it helps.

See steps 11 & 12.

Lora, For a thinking person, you are all wrong on this one! The DEMS want to PUNT again, so they can cause this again in 2MONTHS. Think about it! The House is holding out for a full year extension, as Well They Should! If you had a care for the unemployed, you would support the House, and admit we are all sick of the insecurity of short term bills the people need.

In addition to this, the business community is livid, because 2 months does not give them the security to hire or administer the law, much less to worry about this again in 2 months!

Nope, this one is all Harry Reid's. And Pelosi still believes that saying it makes it so, and evidently that is true to the blind loyalists.

For the record, I think Harry Reid is weak and Boehner is weaker still. I don't believe there's a strong leader in Congress. They are the blind leading the blind. It's PATHETIC.

Reid is deluded into thinking the Dems still have full control, and being intransigent. You just have to begin seeing how both he and the President prove more and more each day they do not care about the people OR the economy. Every single thing other do is to assure their POWER. They put little poison pills in everything to make sure they can either do things that the Repubs know are bad for the economy, and then scream obstructionist at them.

I believe Boehner is doing his best, but both parties have very experienced politicians in control. So, we get back and forth from both sides. All we can do is stop taking the side of the Dem or Rep, and figure out EVERY time, which side has the position that is better for the people! There is very little difference in them. The side just doesn't seem to matter much anymore, the graft os so great. Very sad, honesty is probably more important than anything, right now.

Two months? Only to play this game again?

That's a success?

The "success" is that both parties were able to work together to do something - as small as it was, it was something.

That's because the bill didn't address any of the real problems! It's sure is easy to pass something that doesn't require any real hard work or compromise.

If your are impressed with this, you are easily duped!

Why don't they pass one bill at a time? Why is there so much crap in one bill? If they voted on one issue at a time, it would be more clearly documented as to how each person voted on specific issues. With things involving Medicare and unemployment rolled into a tax bill -- legislators can vote down an entire bill with one issue they support, because two issues they don't.
That is unproductive.

That would make sense and end their dishonesty.

Republicans are so busy trying to protect their millionaire friends, they don't care about the unemplyed, the foreclosed, hurt on Man Street.

We do need a new Congress, one that will represent us and not Big Business.

So taxing them more will help our economy recover? Taxing them more will provide more private sector jobs? Taxing them more will make them want to invest in more employees?

If you tax something, you want to promote less of an activity, like smoking, or using gasoline. By taxing work, you get less work.

Agree completely Mary Ann but when you have people like jj that want to be part of the 1% and continue to vote these azzclowns in despite the fact that they essentially cut off their noses to spit their faces.

We the people need to wise up.

Republicans are so busy trying to protect their millionaire friends, they don't care about the unemplyed, the foreclosed, hurt on Man Street.

The Republicans are pushing for a 1 year extension while the Democrats will only agree to 2 months! Dems are more interested in a political issue for the election than helping their constituency.

Amen Mike, and they call us sheeple! At least we see who is really lying! They only hear one side and blindly believe. Sad.

I love spin doctors, in the ulcer forming, nauseating to the point where one wants to vomit sort of way. I mean you have to be kidding me. This has been the greatest do nothing Senate in the history of the body. The number of bills passed by the house that are just lying on the Senate table is beyond insane.

So let me get this right. Harry Reid couldn’t pass an extension to the payroll tax (by the way, does anyone know what the payroll tax is … it’s Social Security folks … this is a vote to ROB THE SOCIAL SECUTRITY TRUST FUND ... isn’t that supposed to be going BROKE) which was passed by the house, so they managed to kick the can down the road for TWO MONTHS, and somehow this moronic compromise in the Senate is somehow Boehner’s fault for calling a pile of manure what it is?

The House has done its job, again and again. It’s passed the bills, again and again. Reid can’t even get the president’s legislation passed by his own party.

Here is an example. It’s not Boehner that can’t get the job done in the House, it’s Reid in the Senate.

Balanced Budget Amendment - Vote Rejected (21-79)

The Senate rejected the Democratic balanced-budget amendment that would have taken Social Security off the books and prohibited Congress from cutting taxes for millionaires if the cut increased the deficit. A two-thirds majority is needed in both chambers to send constitutional amendments to the states for ratification.

Lot of truth in that...

You are right! The only way they all agreed to pay for the spending was to rob social security. I am livid at both of them for that!

Sounds good to me, but it goes for Democrats AS Well as republicans!

The problem is not that congress is in gridlock, they were designed to deadlock like this when the parties are so polar and cant agree. This is the way it has always been the surprise to me is that others are surprised by this.

But what is not so shocking to me and has become very common is the democrats need to spend money to fix every problem and the Republicans / Tea Party attempting to fix problems while living within a budget.

My question is why do you define “compromise” as Republicans giving in to spending what we don’t have. Soon we will be $16 trillion in debt and who is going to pay that back? Soon the president will want another debt limit increase. Who is going to pay that back?

If you divide the debt among the current tax payers, it would cost over $133,000 per tax payer to pay it off. Now because we can’t afford that in one lump payment, we could not pay that off in over 30 years assuming the interest rates stay low for that same duration.

Why are you so willing to spend money your kids and grand kids will have to pay back?

Why? That is a real question!

What is your plan to pay it back?

My plan is simple, stop spending money on everything that is not listed as required in the constitution. Let the states pick up the tab for what is the states responsibility and we the people will have to take care of the rest.

Any other solution that does not require personal responsibility will fail.

Look at Greece, Italy, and Spain as they fail for the same reason we are failing.

If you divide the debt among the current tax payers, it would cost over $133,000 per tax payer to pay it off.
Why are you so willing to spend money your kids and grand kids will have to pay back?

How about George W. Bush pay it all back. He's the one that spent the surplus, he's the one that went to war without Congress's approval.

Compromise is Republicans willing to roll back the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy -- that we couldn't afford in the first place. That's not spending. Those Bush supporters should be made to pay back every dime he "saved" them when the country couldn't afford it.