Sunday's Doonesbury - Do Nothing CONgress

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[BumRushDaShow]

1. !!!

[existentialist]

2. Doonesbury Sept 2, 2012

Yes,I think that today's Doonesbury is pretty great too.

Technically, it should be watch the House of Representatives Act, because none of this silliness went anywhere in the Senate, but technicalites.

Also, please check out Dooonesburie's new straw poll.

DUers will love that too.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

3. Well done.

[Tab]

4. And, similarly, did not see this one coming... slam!

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[Honeycombe8]

5. Excellent. nt

[Overseas]

6. Hope the Democrats use this theme-- the GOP voted No No No to job creation bills but hey, they said

Yes Yes Yes 33 times on one particular bill -- taking away healthcare reform that helps the poor and middle class!

[lunatica]

7. Now we know they worked at least 33 days

Our tax dollars at work.

[lpbk2713]

8. Trudeau gets it, as always.

[riverbendviewgal]

9. are all the filibusters listed with date and what is being filibustered?

I would like to find a link of when the first one was under Obama's administration.

It would be good to know exactly how many.

Anyone have a link on this?

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Ezra Klein had something from a May 2012 article

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-history-of-the-filibuster-in-one-graph/2012/05/15/gIQAVHf0RU_blog.html



Edit to add - Rachael's blog had a link to the list of Senate cloture votes (and on what) here -

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/cloture_motions/clotureCounts.htm

[tomm2thumbs]

11. I like how he even subtly showed the seasons changing in the BG

this is not done in rapid succession, but a slow, time-wasting drawn out game of losers who can't stand losing

the Toddler Congress is how they should be known

throwing tantrums and dragging furniture on the way to their bath

sad to see them this way

so true-to-form

[SunSeeker]

12. Unfortunately, the joke's on us.

[tonekat]

13. The Literal Cost of Obstruction

And the sum cost of those 33 examples cost the taxpayers $50 million dollars. Fifty. Million. Dollars. Because of the self-interest of what is actually a cabal operating in plain sight. Fifty. Million. Dollars.

[KansDem]

14. It's official...

Republicans are bat-shit crazy!

[DeSwiss]

15. They're only good for beating dead horses.

- K&R

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. Keep in mind each vote was done with lots of grandstanding for the folks back home.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

17. UNFAIR!

Congress managed to name more than twenty posts offices in the past year. Now if that's not attending to the People's Business (tm) I don't know what it.

Clearly I don't know what is...