Congress could be least productive since 1947

Not can't - won't. Too lazy to look beyond the political babble and think for ourselves, I suppose.

sounds like Congress is just a reflection of the baby boom generation.

O so true!

By the looks of the comments I would say all agree on one thing DC has nothing but crooks in it.

I'd say it would be both sides, the democratic congress and the republican house neither being able to give a inch with out the other taking a mile. Both sides of the fence are too obsessed over absolutes.

3 thumbs down... Does that mean that three people actually wanna see that dudes moobies?

am...i said both side were at fault but the 2010 tea party were the biggest decievers...regardless of how you feel about either party...nothing has been done under this congress...the president doesnt pass laws its the job of congress...this has been futile at best..when the demos had control more laws were passed whether you agreed with them or not...thats the point im making...they(tea party) said they were not going to work with the pres in hopes of using it against him during the presidential election..that is a fact that both sides have admitted to.

Troy how is all Repubs fault? Because Bush started a war that cost so much money? You need to know the President is the Commander and Chief but he cant start a war, only Congress can take you to war. Every democrat voted for that war too. They didn't vote them out in 2008 because the last two years of Bush the democrates held both the Senate and the House right up until 2010 when they were voted back in because the people hated where the dems were leading the country. The housing crash occured because of the dems forcing banks to loan to everyone and the greedy banks liking it. Barny Frank was asked to regulate Freddie and Fanny how many times by Bush, but basically gave Bush the finger and was backed up by his democrat collagues. Yet when the crash occured the dems blamed it on Bush. Now you might be a liberal and democrat, but I'm not a Republican, I'm an independent and yet I can see all of this. There is plenty of blame to go around on both sides, but the democrats hands are not clean by any means.

You can't fix stupid Troy. These folks are plain stupid.

I'm a Democrat, but I would go for getting rid of Maxine Waters. Especially if Eric Cantor would go too. In fact I'd trade extremist with extremist down to the last Congressman or Congresswoman ... and the Congress would end up being a bunch of moderates who would get a lot of good work done.

@David- OK u can keep Wasserman Schultz- But Maxine Waters has to go. Pick any 3-5 Republicans , I'm sure Rand Paul would gladly step aside

Seems to me the "career" people got a lot more done before we replaced 80-odd of them with Tea Party types. It's not only that the 112th Congress has little to show for itself, what actually reaches the President's desk is either of appallingly poor quality or of limited relevance. I heard more than half of these bills involve renaming post offices.

I'm wondering if you liberals or Dems know that Romney has released two years of his taxes just like Obama has, the only reason I'm asking is because there was so much screaming for him to release his taxes that I too didn't think he released his taxes until I found out he did release two years of taxes so why do you want him to release 10 years, I will go along with that if Obama will release 10 years also although I think it's pretty dumb because I'm pretty sure the gestapo IRS would be all over Romney if he didn't pay his taxes.

Yes, exactly. His 'greatness' has to be argued because it is so manifestly absent. Arguing for it is the only way it can feel real to some people. I wouldn't say he is a terrible president. But one of the greatest? Not even close. I find him bland and grossly overrated. He can't even get his own budget passed by a senate controlled by his own party. The only reason health care passed was because a single party just happened to dominate Congress at the time. Had he actually been required to make the case to a bipartisan congress and to the American people the outcome would have been much different. His gift of oration is vastly overstated. In 2008 he reminded me too much of the slick black preachers I had to listen to growing up in my home church. Lots of emotion and drama and high flung rhetoric, but little in the way of authentic substance. I think his blandness appeals to a generation that watches too much American Idol, Judge Judy, and Jerry Springer while tweeting the most mediocre thoughts about their directionless lives. It's not hard to look great anymore when you stand before a culture that is addicted to so much bottom-feeding mediocrity. Lastly, he is not a unifier, but a divider. He continually pits the 'poor' against the 'wealthy'. This is a sign of intellectual laziness. It is the age-old blame game: "It must---has to be---someone else's fault why I am not content and successful." I know several small business owners in my state. They all started years ago with nothing but an idea. They are of varying races and from various economic and social backgrounds. None of them are what I would consider to be be of more than normal intelligence. One is a high school drop out (something he still regrets). Today their businesses/small factories make real jobs for real people so real people can raise real families and buy real houses and own decent cars and build real lives. They are also consistently generous to their employees and to their communities. They do not inhabit the phony world of political theory or shallow rhetoric. It is unthinkable, then, when our own president derides these wonderful, hard-working, risk-taking people by telling them, "You didn't build that!" And try as he might, Mr. Obama can't argue about his comment being taken out of context because the actual context of the comment is even worse. (I think Mr. Obama inadvertently wandered off script that day and revealed what he really thinks.) It is the complete antithesis of the ideal this great land of ours promises to everyone who will rise up on their own two feet, with a good idea and a solid work ethic, and build something for themselves. I know your heart is in the right place Jamarcus, but this Democrat is not voting for him this November. My conscience won't permit it.

Dart77, you're saying the tree of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of TRAITORS??? You do realize that the actual quote is "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of PATRIOTS." You've completely reversed the meaning of Jefferson's words.