Stalemate in Washington

Two unrelated items that will let you see what is wrong with the GOP.

One, the Senate blocked a jobs/tax bill that would have given business a 20% tax break for bringing jobs back to U.S. soil. 20%! Voted it down. It wasn’t along party lines. Several GOP Senators voted for the President’s proposal and one even said afterwords "We’re going to pay hell for this." He’s right about that.

Second item. GOP-led House of Representatives voted for a $606 Billion military-spending bill. That’s $2 billion more than the White House asked for. That’s $2 Billion more than the Pentagon asked for. That covers defense programs Dick Chaney lobbied for. How many Americans could have used a $ 2Billion decrease in taxes, or coverage in healthcare or funds placed into the system to help support job growth?

Now you read these and you have to wonder whose side Washington is on?  Congress sure doesn’t get it. The Tea Party has raised all kinds of ruckus for lowering taxes and reducing spending. Here are two bills that, in their original states would have done both, and yet it was the Republican block of votes that stopped them.

Why?

It is a way to get at the President. Stop a jobs bill and no jobs can happen from it. When economic reporting shows a slow down in new jobs, you can take a punch or two at the President’s financial policies not working.

You wonder why we have a stalemate in Washington. We have idiots in Congress. And most of them (not all) sit on the right hand side of aisle.

If you had offered American businesses  a 20% Tax Credit under the Bush administration, on top of the tax cuts they already had received, the Chamber of Commerce would have paid to have a giant W carved on Mount Rushmore. But put a black, democrat in the White House and all hell breaks loose. “Do anything to slow down his policies from working. Discredit him at every turn.” That is the mantra in the Republican controlled Congress. But people are starting to see through this. In a recent Pew Poll, Americans survey said by a 67% majority that most of the blame in the faltering economy now belongs to Congress. Not Obama. Read that again. Over 6 in 10 Americans think congress is the culprit in not solving our economic woes and are standing in the way of the president and his policies. (The number is growing, by the way. The last survey had it at an even 50-50 split.)

I keep getting messages from my right-wing buddies saying, “Fear the government. Fear it.” They are absolutely correct. Fear the extreme right-wing Congress because it is going to ruin the American system.

The most dangerous movement against America is not from outside our shores, it is from the Tea Party. It is vindictive and ignorant. Two very bad traits to have in one political movement.