Honestly, what do you expect from a bunch of cowards who have the emotional range of a 6 year old children and the educational level of middle schooler.

I assume payback for 'being' is reasonable in the eyes of imbeciles.

Why is anyone surprised by this? The republicans have made it clear that they are not going to cooperate with Obama for almost four years now.

so get rid of the fillibuster

Vicious, selfish, shameless. This is your GOP.

Be proud.

Historic levels of obstructionism are historic.

/Albeit scarcely mentioned at all by most of the corporate media.
//Except for Fox who actively deny it.

Lionel Mandrake: Grassley also noted that Halligan is only 44

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Only 42 when he became President. God, what a reign of terror followed...

I for one would love to see him reanimated using an unholy combination of science and black magic, and then set loose upon congress with an assortment of heavy weapons.

/But that's just me

GAT_00: It's like they want the President to campaign 24/7 on the Do Nothing Congress.

Help me out here on the political vectors. What if he spends the next ten months gorging them on great bills that would make normal Republicans happy that they can say 'no' to, then when he starts on the 'do nothing' congress deal in the election cycle, they chain-gun through it all super-duper quick and leave it in the senate's lap?

Could that happen? Would that happen?

2012 will boil down to being a vote against the GOP, not a vote for someone.

It's sickening how childish our government has become. That said, it's interesting to note that things have been improving in this country steadily, if slowly, since the government became completely deadlocked. Maybe Congress not being able to do a damned thing is really the way to go.

/shrug
//tired of this crap

TalenLee: GAT_00: It's like they want the President to campaign 24/7 on the Do Nothing Congress.

Help me out here on the political vectors. What if he spends the next ten months gorging them on great bills that would make normal Republicans happy that they can say 'no' to, then when he starts on the 'do nothing' congress deal in the election cycle, they chain-gun through it all super-duper quick and leave it in the senate's lap?

Could that happen? Would that happen?

Um, Congress is both the House and the Senate, so passing it um to the Senate and leaving it there just means that the attack vector changes from House Republicans to Senate Republicans. That's assuming that the House could actually pull off stalling and then passing those bills (challenging without flip-floping so hard that it makes Mitt Romney look consistant), and that the independant (R and D voting bases aren't going to change no matter what at this point) voting public doesn't see through the scheme.
Could it happen, sure. Will it happen, highly unlikely.

Why not? They've blocked almost every other one of Obama's appointees.

Ned Stark: so get rid of the fillibuster

That would require Harry Reid to grow a spine

/or maybe his testicles to descend

`
Many theories of causality prevail, but most concern the disintegration of
political,
economic,
military,
and other social institutions,
in tandem with foreign invasions
and usurpers from within the empire.
`
Some old dead guy said this about the fall of Rome.
It is becoming true for the US as well.

bionicjoe: FTFA Comments
The Repukes and teapartiers will find themselves vomited up by the voters. We are organized now in Occupy which won't go away. Besides if you know Vedic astrology Obama is unbeatable in 2012. He'll sweep the Democrats in with him and appoint whomsoever he likes.

Finally people are starting to talk some sense.

Vedic Astrology? Is that some sort of obscure Deep Space Nine reference?

God if I was president, it would be a scorched earth policy with these assholes. How long can you let them spit in your face?

Maybe it's a good thing I never will be?

Payback, shmayback... yes it was totally wrong when we blocked the Bush nominees, and now it's totally wrong for them to block our gal.

This cycle of paybacks has to end. It would be wonderful if both sides agreed that no matter who gets elected in 2012, that this shiat was stopped.

Obama should just name himself king. He could fix the economy in like 3 seconds if it wasnt for CONGRESS!

Gingrinch Doctrine.

Republicans choose to be dicks because they're still having their temper tantrum from losing in 2008.

jayg22: Obama should just name himself king. He could fix the economy in like 3 seconds if it wasnt for CONGRESS!

Doubtful.

We would, however, be making a HELL of a lot more progress without one party intentionally hamstringing any sort of recovery because the president is a black Democrat.

Remember, the Republicans have stated that their number one priority is to make Obama a one-term President. And if the economy is still recovering in November, 2012, he will be re-elected, almost without a doubt. Therefore, the Republican party's stated, primary goal is to trash the United States economy for political gain..

But keep pretending that noticing Republican obstructionism means people think Obama is the Messiah or some such bullshiat. See how that works out for ya.

As of December 2010, President Barack Obama has nominated one hundred five individuals for federal judgeships. The overwhelming majority of them have been filibustered.

During President George W. Bush's two term tenure in office, he nominated thirty-nine people for twenty-seven different federal appellate judgeships that were blocked by the Senate Democrats either directly in the Senate Judiciary Committee or on the full Senate floor using a filibuster.

WaitWhatWhy: I for one would love to see him reanimated using an unholy combination of science and black magic, and then set loose upon congress with an assortment of heavy weapons.

/But that's just me


No. It's me too.

A lot of people here assume that the Republican party will be punished for this behaviour by voters.

My feeling is that this is rooted in the misconception that the voting block being targeted (the 'independent undecideds') will bother to learn the reason why judicial appointments are unfilled, or that they can be shaken from their feeling - caused maybe by movies and other non-rigorous sources - that the President can simply do whatever he wants, so what's the problem?

These are the people during elections who, when asked by breathless 'reporters' what they thought of a debate say idiotic things like 'I really wanted more specifics' despite the literal 1,000s of pages of detailed policy available freely from all major candidates these days. Alternatively, if they get a wonkish speech, they say that it was 'boring...people want a leader to inspire them.'

Perhaps worse are the total morons who whine that President Obama hasn't done 100% of everything they thought he would, so now they're gonna stay home, cause they've 'had it with him.' Forgive me, but tha seems like probably the dumbest 'strategy' ever. But they'll do it...why? Because they, again, believe that he can just do whatever, so what's the hold up? Forget Congress they say, just do it!

You assume that these people will punish Parliamentary intransigence, when just this week a poll was released giving a very low (single digit?) approval rating for 'Congress,' but an average 46% approval for 'my Congressman.'

They will not be punished for this, the are likely as anything to be rewarded.

Ned Stark: so get rid of the fillibuster

We need to elect more Democratic Senators so they can do that. The Do-Nothings currently have enough votes to block any procedural changes.

/not calling the GOP that any more
//they are now the Do-Nothings in my book

FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY!!!

keylock71: eddyatwork: Why is anyone surprised by this? The republicans have made it clear that they are not going to cooperate with Obama for almost four years now.

Pretty much... The GOP has amply demonstrated they are more concerned with getting Obama out of office than any of the myriad of problems we face as a country. They've demonstrated time and again that the needs of the wealthiest Americans should be catered to at the expense of the poor and middle classes. They've proven their contempt for women, homosexuals, minorities, immigrants, and non-christians over and over.

The entire party is rife with petty, selfish, mean-spirited sociopaths.

Let me go one step further, how about treasonous scum that should all be rounded up and detained...indefinitely, preferably on any island we will do one more nuclear test on. At this point it is almost insanity to think that the Republican party should be in power at any level. They screech about class warfare all the time, while doing nothing but class warfare. I say it's bout time we fire back. I seriously can not understand anymore how anyone would willingly say out loud they are for these morons, aside from them being too farking stupid to understand what this party is all about. But yeah, please do go on all you poor saps and middle class reality TV show watching twats, please do continue to vote in the one party that wants to fark you royally up the ass, then ask you to pay them more for it.

The GOP are the whiniest, most sniveling little butthurt bunch of children I've ever seen.

WTF Indeed: Honestly, what do you expect from a bunch of cowards who have the emotional range of a 6 year old children and the educational level of middle schooler.

It just dawned on me that this commercial sums up the Republican response to the idea that we need more revenue in order to cut the deficit/debt.

GOP code of ethics:
- Act like children
- Believe in a child's idea (Grover Norquist claims he was 13 when he had his tax pledge idea)
- Have sex with children