Tis the season to be jolly! I’m jolly-well irritated at the gamesmanship in Washington, D.C. There is another government shutdown looming and it is all because of political gamesmanship.
Late yesterday the House approved a bill that would extend unemployment benefits, extend the payroll tax holiday for another year, and force approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline. What does the pipeline have to do with extending tax cuts for the middle class, one might ask? Republicans will tell you that it is because the pipeline is going to create jobs.
Millions of people are out of work, 160-million workers could use the extension of the payroll tax cut, and all of that is being held hostage to about 5,000 temporary jobs? This isn’t a jobs bill; it is a Screw Obama bill. What Republicans haven’t seemed to figure out is that screwing Obama is also screwing America, and they just might back themselves into a corner that will cost them elections in 2012. (For the record, some Democrats voted for this bill.)
The State Department has said that the pipeline conditions in the bill could kill the pipeline all together, because it is not possible for them to do all the environmental studies in the required 60 days. Reid has promised to kill the bill in the Senate. Obama has promised to veto it if it ever hits his desk.
Imagine if you are running a business and your employees dilly-dally around all year, then when the books are about to be closed at year-end, they figure out that they can’t get the job done because they haven’t figured out how to work together. Wouldn’t you fire the whole lot of them? If you didn’t, you’d go bankrupt.
I’m ready to fire all of the politicians. They will never get along, so what is the solution? One party rule? Get rid of parties all together? Invest in strong alternative parties? Democracy is blooming all over the Middle East and failing right here in America because of a bunch of bone-headed ideologues who can’t figure out the art of compromise.
Bah Humbug.
Homework
CBS News Story About Potential Shut Down
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Late yesterday the House approved a bill that would extend unemployment benefits, extend the payroll tax holiday for another year, and force approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline. What does the pipeline have to do with extending tax cuts for the middle class, one might ask? Republicans will tell you that it is because the pipeline is going to create jobs.
Millions of people are out of work, 160-million workers could use the extension of the payroll tax cut, and all of that is being held hostage to about 5,000 temporary jobs? This isn’t a jobs bill; it is a Screw Obama bill. What Republicans haven’t seemed to figure out is that screwing Obama is also screwing America, and they just might back themselves into a corner that will cost them elections in 2012. (For the record, some Democrats voted for this bill.)
The State Department has said that the pipeline conditions in the bill could kill the pipeline all together, because it is not possible for them to do all the environmental studies in the required 60 days. Reid has promised to kill the bill in the Senate. Obama has promised to veto it if it ever hits his desk.
Imagine if you are running a business and your employees dilly-dally around all year, then when the books are about to be closed at year-end, they figure out that they can’t get the job done because they haven’t figured out how to work together. Wouldn’t you fire the whole lot of them? If you didn’t, you’d go bankrupt.
I’m ready to fire all of the politicians. They will never get along, so what is the solution? One party rule? Get rid of parties all together? Invest in strong alternative parties? Democracy is blooming all over the Middle East and failing right here in America because of a bunch of bone-headed ideologues who can’t figure out the art of compromise.
Bah Humbug.
Homework
CBS News Story About Potential Shut Down
No Labels
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