Oh, were we suppose to do something while we're here?

A bad year for vintage congress. The worse congress ever! What a distinction. “Do nothing congress” doesn’t even describe this current congress. A comatose congress which is DOA and MIA at best. Ladies and Gentlemen, get rid of your incumbent congressman or woman. Do yourself and your neighbors a huge favor, if you read on the ballot this fall the description “incumbent” next to the candidate’s name be sure to vote instead for the challenging candidate. And if you need a good reason, read the USA Today article below. Think smart. Vote Smart.

61 bills By Susan Davis, USA TODAY Congress is on pace to make history with the least productive legislative year in the post-World War II era. Just 61 bills have become law to date in 2012 out of 3,914 bills that have been introduced by lawmakers, or less than 2% of all proposed laws, according to a USA TODAY analysis of records since 1947 kept by the U.S. House Clerk's office. In 2011, after Republicans took control of the House, Congress passed just 90 bills into law. The only other year in which Congress failed to pass at least 125 laws was 1995. These statistics make the 112th Congress, covering 2011-12, the least productive two-year gathering on Capitol Hill since the end of World War II. Not even the 80th Congress, which President Truman called the "do-nothing Congress" in 1948, passed as few laws as the current one, records show…
Read the rest of the article in today’s USA Today.

Even old white men need to retire. And, ASAP.

If there ever was a good time to clean out the congressional dead wood, it right now. Congress is where it is NOT happening. Congress is comatose. Asleep at the wheel. Out to a long lunch. Fallen off the wagon again. Simply not working as designed. They have been making a career of doing mostly nothing. Thanks to their lobbyist friends.

Vote for America. Send the TEA party back down the rabbit hole. Send the rich and wealthy a message. It’s time to pay the rent. Your dues are way past due. America is tired of subsidizing your slothful decadent life style.

Never the less, we need more women in congress. We need more Latinos and African Americans in congress. We need people willing to roll up their sleeves and get to work. Time is wasting. America needs a fix. America needs jobs. Not rancorous party bla bla bla.

Send the good old white boy back home to retire. Give them the retirement party of their life. Fire them!!! Old farts, all of them.

The people we hire to help, often hurt and get in the way.

OP-ED COLUMNIST. Debt, Depression, DeMarco. By PAUL KRUGMAN. There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama's handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama's mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way -- and who now, having blocked the president's policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed. And this week's shocking refusal to implement debt relief by the acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency -- a Bush-era holdover the president hasn't been able to replace -- illustrates perfectly what's going on. Some background: many economists believe that the overhang of excess household debt, a legacy of the bubble years, is the biggest factor holding back economic recovery. Loosely speaking, excess debt has created a situation in which everyone is trying to spend less than their income. Since this is collectively impossible -- my spending is your income, and your spending is my income -- the result is a persistently depressed economy. How should policy respond? One answer is government spending to support the economy while the private sector repairs its balance sheets; now is not the time for austerity, and cuts in government purchases have been a major economic drag. Another answer is aggressive monetary policy, which is why the Federal Reserve's refusal to act in the face of high unemployment and below-target inflation is a scandal. But fiscal and monetary policy could, and should, be coupled with debt relief. Reducing the burden on Americans in financial trouble would mean more jobs and improved opportunities for everyone. Unfortunately, the administration's initial debt relief efforts were ineffectual: Officials imposed so many restrictions to avoid giving relief to 'undeserving' debtors that the program went nowhere. More recently, however, the administration has gotten a lot more serious about the issue. And the obvious place to provide debt relief is on mortgages owned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored lenders that were effectively nationalized in the waning days of the George W. Bush administration. The idea of using Fannie and Freddie has bipartisan support. Indeed, Columbia's Glenn Hubbard, a top Romney adviser, has called on Fannie and Freddie to let homeowners with little or no equity refinance their mortgages, which could sharply cut their interest payments and provide a major boost to the economy. The Obama administration supports this idea and has also proposed a special program of relief for deeply troubled borrowers. But Edward DeMarco, the acting director of the agency that oversees Fannie and Freddie, refuses to move on refinancing. And, this week, he rejected the administration's relief plan. Who is Ed DeMarco? He's a civil servant who became acting director of the housing finance agency after the Bush-appointed director resigned in 2009. He is still there, in the fourth year of the Obama administration, because Senate Republicans have blocked attempts to install a permanent director. And he evidently just hates the idea of providing debt relief. Mr. DeMarco's letter rejecting the relief plan made remarkably weak arguments. He claimed that the plan, while improving his agency's financial position thanks to subsidies from the Treasury Department, would be a net loss to taxpayers -- a conclusion not supported by his own staff's analysis, which showed a net gain. And it's worth pointing out that many private lenders have offered the very kinds of principal reductions Mr. DeMarco rejects -- even though these lenders, unlike the government, have no incentive to take into account the way debt relief would strengthen the economy. The main point, however, is that Mr. DeMarco seems to misunderstand his job. He's supposed to run his agency and secure its finances -- not make national economic policy. If the Treasury secretary, acting for the president, seeks to subsidize debt relief in a way that actually strengthens the finance agency, the agency's chief has no business blocking that policy. Doing so should be a firing offense. Can Mr. DeMarco be fired right away? I've been seeing conflicting analyses on that point, although one thing is clear: President Obama, if re-elected, can, and should, replace him through a recess appointment. In fact, he should have done that years ago. As I said, Mr. Obama has made plenty of mistakes. But the DeMarco affair nonetheless demonstrates, once again, the extent to which U.S. economic policy has been crippled by unyielding, irresponsible political opposition. If our economy is still deeply depressed, much -- and I would say most -- of the blame rests not with Mr. Obama but with the very people seeking to use that depressed economy for political advantage.

The Republicans are about to step in to a Nine Field. Thanks to the Supremes.

Even before James Carville said it, I was thinking , it would be to the Democrats advantage if Obamacare were struck down by the Supreme Court. The Democrats could take this one to the bank in November. Blaming the Republicans for anti-health care. Plus energizing America Democrats to get out and get rid of the Republican congress and start afresh on an all new “Single pay” health plan.

Momentarily it might hurt Obama but in the long run striking down the current health care law might be a good thing. Helping the Democrats and giving the Republicans a big black eye. And more than likely, turnover congress to the Democrats favor. Giving President Obama a more workable usable “Do Something” congress. Passing laws that would advantage all of America. Not just the few one percent.

Aah, I can see the headlines coming this November, “America sweeps out the old bags of TEA.” Or, “Finally Health and Education for all.” Maybe a headline like this, “Made in America is coming back to America.” God bless America.

Nada senor. Congress has done nada. Zip zero!

So far, the current Congress is the biggest “Do Nothing Congress” since the Truman administration. This is according to the latest statistical research. Not much has been accomplished since 2010. Barely much has happened. Nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada. Blank. Just an empty space. Batting .000.

How did this happen? Or, should I say, how did this not happen? What went wrong? How is it that nil was accomplished? Or, unaccomplished? The congressional records only have two and a half pages in its logs. All the invocations, flag pledges, and break for lunch motions and seconds going back to Jan 2011. That’s it. Nothing else. Fade to black.

How could it be that four hundred plus U S Representatives couldn’t get anything done? Was there not a quorum? No House bills to debated and vote on? Could they have been all asleep? Maybe more like out to lunch? Drunk under their desks? What?!

There are no excuses. The zeros speak for themselves. You cannot deny numbers or the lack there of

I think we might have a good case here for an all-new congress. Empty out the house and hire a new batch of Reps. Start all over again from scratch. What do you think?

Congress really doesn't know this but...

It’s oh so easy to berate Congress. Congress is at its lowest ratings according to a CBS/New York Times poll. Congress is now a Nine Percent Congress. Only 9-percent of the American electorate approve of congresses performance. Hmm. Who are those nine percent? Relatives? Lobbyists? Girlfriends? Boyfriends? Hookers?

But anyway, Congress is easy to besmirch, malign, demean, disparage, put down, and generally poo poo. A person could go on forever. Writing, pointing, laughing, wise cracking, joking, and sometimes wetting one’s pants. Congress could easily be The poster boys and girls of “do nothing.” A representation of how things can easily become inert and useless. Stuck in a mire of distrust of others like myself and too much time spent yapping with interns and eating fried chicken.

Yes, I could say and write all that but I wont. Have a nice day. God bless America anyway.