WASHINGTON — The most partisan, least productive Congress in memory is bolting Washington for the campaign trail, leaving a pile of unfinished business on the budget and taxes, farm policy, and legislation to save the Postal Service from insolvency.
The GOP-controlled House beat its retreat Friday morning after one last, futile slap at President Obama — passing a bill entitled the Stop the War on Coal Act. The measure, dead on arrival with Obama and the Senate, would block the government from policing greenhouse gas emissions and would give states regulatory control over the disposal of harmful coal byproducts.
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"SHAME, SHAME ON YOU CONGRESS ESPECIALLY THE REPUBLICAN SECTOR .YOUR NOTHING BUT A WASTE OF TAX PAYERS MONEY. YOU SHOULD ALL GO HOME AND STAY THERE. YOUR NOTHING BUT A WASTE OF TAX PAYERS MONEY.YOU BELONG IN JAIL .
A CYNICAL article by the Boston Globe. It knows full well what happened. And if it therefore wants congress to be productive, then it should ask voters to make Republicans the majority in the Senate.--Also, the most PARTISAN member isn't even mentioned. Barack Obama, who also chose to illegally bypass Congress many times.
The members of what the Boston Globe calls the "most partisan, least productive Congress in memory" - guys with names like Markey and Tierney and Tsongas and Capuano, among others, deserted their Washington posts to rush home to try and snow their constituents with tales of the wonderful votes and superb constituent services they performed during a session that continues with the threat of a financial cliff at year's end. No effort by Markey or Frank (who departs to wedded bliss at the end of the current term) or Capuano or McGovern or Tsongas to appeal to a California grannie named Pelosi to keep the troops at work to at least finish some of the more important legislative items on the military, farmers, mail delivery or national finances. Of course not, Tierney has a real opponent and has to work to persuade some sponsors of political debates within his district to avoid any mention of the family gambling scandal that reached as close to the congressman as his own wife. And Markey? Will he appear in the district to report how he does his party hack role with near perfection, toting the party water 93 percent of the time? And Markey has a GOP opponent named Addivinola... wowser... And Tsongas, one of those political wives who took on lifetime employment with a big pension after her elected senator husband passed away after a long illness. Exactly what does she stand for except getting rel-elected andkeeping the Massachusetts delegation in the House as strongly Democratic as possible and to be sure to keep all four of her district offices up and running (Markey needs only two such offices, but maybe Tsongas has more important stuff and more constituents than the much older "dean of the Massachusetts delegation" serves). And on and on and on. . . 435 times for the House and not even including another hundred including guys named Brown and Kerry from Massachusetts in the U.S. Senaate. . .