Sooooooooo how long can the Republicans in the house..

[samrock]

sit there in a giant circle jerk with stuff that they KNOW will never even get a vote in the senate before they will be forced by the passing of time to do some actual work????

[lame54]

1. Who's gonna make 'em?

[samrock]

3. well eventally events will

I mean as the economy recovers.. they will want to be able to claim some credit and it they get NO measures signed into law they will get 0..

[cleanhippie]

2. Who cares? Let 'em.

They can waste their two years.

[Cal33]

8. Looks like two more years of damage to our whole country. Haven't they already done enough?

[Cal33]

4. Could this be one of the many ways of "shutting down our government?"

[jwirr]

5. Of course, they have done it in the past. The Eisenhower years were

basically do nothing years with a few exceptions.

[former9thward]

6. Bad example.

Eisenhower years had a good economy, very low unemployment and no wars.

[WCGreen]

7. Very high top rates, put together the interstate system, put satellites

into space, started forced desegrigation...

[jwirr]

10. But he did very little for the poor. The only thing I can think of was he

added farmers to social security. See my post above.

[jwirr]

9. Well you would have had to tell my father a small farmer how good

the economy was - many small farmers went broke. He had a really hard time feeding our family it was so bad. Yes, the rich were doing fine - many of the middle class were moving up but that did not extend to farmers.

[former9thward]

11. Small farmers have been going broke since the end of WW II

The interstate freeway system which was set up in the 1950s radically changed food distribution in the U.S. For better or worse agri-corporations took over and haven't looked back.

[jwirr]

12. Fine, Ike was a hero - but I was one of four Democrats who stood up

against him in my high school. I still would.

[Cal33]

13. Yes, I remember the Eisenhower years being described as

"do nothing" years, although I didn't know what it was all about, since I
wasn't yet interested in politics at that time.

[oldlib]

15. You forgot the Korean War.

I know, as I was in the military during Ike's term as president.

[quaker bill]

14. If they aren't going to pass anything nice

perhaps it is better they pass nothing at all.

[Silent3]

16. Who has time for legislating when there's so much investigating to do?

They've got a lot of work to do to launch one of their important 2012 talking points/memes, the "scandal-plagued Obama administration".