Do Nothing Congress?

The political game of compromise

The Democrat campaign theme spread by the media is that Republicans are standing in the way of economic progress that “would” be taking place if it were not for “their” total lack of compromise.

The GOP view is that they are valiantly standing in the way of Democrats implementing more scandalous economic “fixes” that have moved the USA forward with higher taxes, high unemployment, more dependents on Big Gov, more food stamps, bigger government, slow job creation, stagnant business growth based on uncertainty and unknown future regulations, economic disaster and second class word status.

The GOP counters the Democrats by noting that Democrats had control of Congress for four years and did not pass any of the critical legislation they are now accusing the GOP of blocking. Democrats had all of the votes needed but they did not bring up their critical bills because they knew that this would cause them to become big losers at the ballot box.  


A prime example of Democrat failure is the Paycheck Fairness Act. It failed when Democrats controlled Congress and had the 60 votes needed to pass it. This legislation failed then and it failed again recently, except at Democrats now blame the GOP for their own failure. 


The topper to this bit of legislation is that Democrats pay their female staffers 18% less than their males staffers and Ms Pelosi justified this practice. See link here.

Those who complain about the poor performance of Congress want Republicans to agree with Democrats. This is the compromise that Democrats want. There is no interest in Democrats agreeing with Republicans and passing GOP legislation. =TheRightJack on 6/14/12