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House Republicans Are So Serious About the Fiscal Cliff that They are Going Home for Christmas
House Republicans keep warning the country about the fiscal cliff, but they refuse to stay and work through Christmas to avoid it.
The cliff is upon us. The end of fiscal days, or so House Republicans tell us. The House Republicans want you, the American people to know that they are serious about the fiscal cliff. They are so serious that they have decided to go home for Christmas.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor tried to hide the hypocrisy by tweeting out the news that they are bolting town.
The House of Representatives has concluded legislative business for the week. The House will return after the Christmas holiday when needed.
— Eric Cantor (@GOPLeader) December 21, 2012
Did anyone really expect anything more
from the laziest legislative body in American political history?
The Republican led House works an unbelievably light schedule. They are only scheduled to work 126 days in 2013. There was absolutely zero chance that the welfare queens sucking up taxpayer dollars who lead the House of Representatives would miss Christmas. That’s a holiday, sort of just like the other 239 days that the House won’t be in session.
Consider that our nation is supposedly facing a crisis that could plunge the country back into recession, but McDonalds workers will be putting in more hours on Christmas Day than the House of Representatives.
House Republicans are so lazy that unlike the Senate, they won’t even set a return date. Forget about the House storming back into session to keep the nation from plunging off the cliff. House Republicans will only work, “when needed.” (This House passes so little legislation that it might be time for a national debate about just how needed they actually are.)
If House Republicans were serious about the fiscal cliff, they could earn some of those millions that we pay them every year and actually do what is expected of most Americans. They could work on a holiday.
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20 Responses to House Republicans Are So Serious About the Fiscal Cliff that They are Going Home for Christmas
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Tom
Dec. 20th, 2012 at 11:01 pm
without pay! they say it’s good enough for us.
Diana
Dec. 20th, 2012 at 11:52 pm
Take all their benfits,retirement,and salaries,they are useless and don’t let them return with Salaries Stop their Checks and raises like they want to do to Social Security and veterans benfits. Atleast we worked for ours they sure don’t.Cry Baby(Boehner)should loss his set,What a Dumbie
Michael Brooks
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 12:02 am
Fire everyone of them before they return, and let the President sign an Executive Order to put his plan in place to save the economy from going over the “Fiscal Cliff”!
Angie
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 12:04 am
ok i am some one that beleives nobody should work on holidays but they should be working more that 126 days a year
Sally
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 2:39 am
Indeed. When they they vote to become a part-time legislature, and when did they agree to part-time pay? I am working part-time running between two middle schools, and I get no mileage and make $7.86/ hour. That sounds about right for the US Hosue too…and look what we’ll save on benefits…wanna bet they vote themselves a raise in 2013 too?
Sharon Kidwell
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 12:26 am
The House has had the proposal for tax cuts on Harry Reids desk since March of this year. I would hardly think they have done nothing. At least their vacation isn’t costing the taxpayers over 4 million like Obama’s. Oh BTW, Obama is off to Hawaii tomorrow – the republicans have done their part and and Obama is going on vacation. How about the media getting the news correct and informing the American people.
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 12:30 am
then why are they just voting on it tonight? The proposal the house had was totally not acceptable with no revenues
So its wrong that Obama lives in Hawaii? Sorry, thats the best any of you have had. But, but…Obama….4 million…but
Lets remember the House and Senate are also on vacation ok?
Sally
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 2:44 am
AND the House has decided to only work 126 in all of 2013, for full pay. But I guess that’s OK since the GOP decided on that schedule? I can imagine the froth had a Democratic House tried to pull this crap.
Sally
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 2:42 am
4 million? Is that like his 2 million a day trip to India four years ago? You know, the Fox lie? Hawaii is where his relatives are, where he was birn. Did you also have an issue when Bush spent three entire years out of 8 down a Crawford riding his bike, Secret Service in tow? On our dime? Of course not..because Fix never got upset about that, so neither did you. Go back to sleep. Fox will wake you when they make up the next horror.
And by the way, we’re still here, so the Mayans were wrong. Again. (See a pattern?)
Cindy Reynolds
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 12:57 am
One thing I’ve noticed this election cycle is how hateful the reporters are on Fox news. They like Republucans will never have a kind word about our President. Fair and unbalanced??? When. I’d like to see that.
KatzKids
Dec. 22nd, 2012 at 8:59 am
Faux is the official propaganda arm of the GOPTP. Roger Ailes (Murdock) is Joseph Goebbels. Guess what that makes the GOP?
Jill Sharpe
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 2:09 am
I’m with Michael!
Reynardine
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 6:32 am
In fact, the man convicted because he tried to set fire to a mosque did it because he said Fox told him all Muslims were bad and they were infiltrating the government. As for Bat Boy of Sandy Hook, who knows what he was watching.
Reynardine
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 7:43 am
Here is the link:
www.splcenter.org/blog/20...
msbpodcast
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 9:20 am
Hey, lets keep some perspective here.
I’m sure the millionaires would have paid money to watch the kids kill and maim each other, or would have picked some of the better looking daughters for, uh, clothing-optional fun and games.
Its the trickle-down economics….
The rich 1%ers get to build a second garage with a car elevator, that’s what millionaires do, and the poor 99%ers get to stay off the f*cking road.
clarence swinney
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 9:21 am
FLIBUSTERING
DAMAGE A GREAT NATION
1994-2000=201
2006-2012=385
Victims were American Jobs act that would have created
4 milllion jobs in a great recession
Clean Energy and Security Act
Disclose Act
Dream Act
Employee Free Choice Act
Bring Jobs Home At
Website—Fix this senate now .org
Worst Senate in history.
Anne
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 11:02 am
They can’t stick around long enough to help solve a crisis they claim is imminent. Yet they can waste years attacking women’s reproductive rights and union rights among other things. The bottom line, though, is that they can’t get what they wanted, which includes extending tax cuts for the wealthy and gutting programs for the middle class and poor Americans. That’s why Speaker Boehner’s budget wasn’t even enough for them. I would like to know why any American would still think they were worth voting for.
Ruby Andrews
Dec. 21st, 2012 at 10:01 pm
The President is going to Hawaii to the funeral of the Senator who passed away, Iotta passed away a few days ago. The President isn’t the only who is going to the funeral..forgive me if I spelled the Senator’s name wrong..
KatzKids
Dec. 22nd, 2012 at 9:14 am
Ruby, Senator Dan Inouye’s funeral is what the President will be attending in HI. He credits the Senator’s role on the Watergate investigative committee (awesome) with starting his interest in politics at age 11. They became fast friends later.
The Senator was a Statesman’s Statesman. He was highly respected by all who knew him Democrat & Republicans alike. The President further honors him at the Memorial Service at Punchbowl Military Cemetery.
anthony
Dec. 24th, 2012 at 4:40 pm
I’m so worried about the fiscal cliff even though I don’t live in the US now. I’m Canadian working in real estate and constantly following the development of this particular sector and I have to say the outlook for 2013 is quite optimistic as far as the real estate market in Canada is concerned. However, there are certain threats that could put a halt to that positive development, one of them being inflation pressures out of the US. The mutual interconnection between the two countries is very strong so I hope the US government will do its utmost to find a solution to the fiscal cliff and thus prevent the worst from happening.