Let's ask (insist) that Prez. Obama makes sure that he names the offenders--outright. He uses some nice language .... which is nice ... i.e. members of congress were in recess ....

BUT!!!!

I think it is much better to name the culprits outright--and for him not to forget the FAA and all of the taxes and the layoffs they walked away from too.

WHO is destroying the economy?????

Who is NOT creating jobs???

It's NOT Obama.

I say, Obama should just tell the American people that a Republican based Congress and strong-leaning Republican Senate Simply" left" with a bunch of very important unfinished business, I say, obama should name the exact tax losses and tie it all into the exact number of needless layoff of Federal aviation and the PRIVATIZED construction workers. ALL these people are now gravely affected by such disruptive and mean-spirited actions. How can those workers ever possibly beleive that Republicans are FOR a strong economy and job growth?

I SURE CAN'T.

Thanks Tom--You're so hip! I'm about to agree with many .... OUR DEAR Obama is too nice! They are using this to destroy him. He needs to call it for what it is. Not in his campain--he should do it NOW.

If I could ask Obama just one question, it would be this: "Tell me, is there ANY situation in which you would just kick ass and take names among the republican party? Is there ANYTHING the republicans could do that would cause you to just lose it and go presidential postal on them?" Because every day he's looking more like a congenital woos to me. Kennedy used to get injection of drugs to help him perform his presidential duties. Maybe Obama could get testosterone injections or something. And if the injections work, he could tell Harry Reid about them.

While the billionairs are sitting by the pool, have Bernie Sanders do a quarm call. When no one answers, the senate will no longer be in session.

We can all Thank Fox Rush Beck Palen Bachman loyal followers / ditto heads for giving Congress to Tea Baggers. Cons Worried about your jobs, SS or medicare yet ? .No one is immune to Tea Baggers massive greed , bullying and blackmailing. Th is is a whole different breed of animal and they run Congress & Speaker Boehner Baggers and Cantor have the Speaker by the cajones and will not let go

Yes WE must march call E-mail Protest & Not donate Speak out now Tell Obama & your reps in both houses of Congress often. GOP Baggers lies, corp cuts & gutting our kids education, old sick on medicaid, disabled, and SS -Medicare will not stand . GOP Ryan hatchet job will not fly Mr Obama .We still have Bush tax cuts This bill done under duress, threat of default is very UNFAIR We got

NO end to giant corp OIL loopholes and subsides This can not stand Pres Obama and Bagger run Congress We must FIGHT hard TO SAVE USA OUR ECONOMY,WAGES / JOBS Folks Please Hammer this home often till they listen.to reason. Not Tea Baggers who are anti US, ANTI middle class, anti women , anti GOOD jobs but PRO CORP BILLIONAIRE LOOPHOLES -SUBSIDES

Palindromedary: I'm referring to all those blindly accepting the incremental economic slide, and will only take notice of the situation when things get to the point where their homeless and broke. At this point I would think people might pay some attention to meaningful change... like DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM!

The so-called debt ceiling crisis has nothing to do with the government running out of money. It is about the creation of a super committee, a council of thirteen, designed to circumvent Congress and ignore the will of the American people.

The ruling elite have a plan to take America down. The takedown has a timeline, a schedule, and it has been interrupted and set back by Congress. Despite the fact Congress usually does whatever the globalists tell them to do, certain members hold up the agenda by holding hearings and introducing resolutions on everything from the Federal Reserve to the globalist wars in the Middle East, South Asia and now Africa.

The handpicked "super Congress" - six members from the Senate, six from the House, and the president forming a committee or gang of 13 - will now push through the elite's agenda behind closed doors in direct violation of the Constitution.

Like the Supreme Soviet, the Council of 13 will take on the trappings of democracy - because the committee was proposed by elected officials, namely Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his counterpart Majority Leader Harry Reid with the consent House Speaker John Boehner - but will act as dictatorship by committee. If allowed to stand, the United States will have its own Central Committee, just like the former Soviet Union.

The Constitution allows each house of Congress to set its own rules. Early on, debate and filibuster were added to the rules. The Committee of 13, however, will strip Congress of its power to filibuster. It will prevent the Speaker from stopping a vote in the House. It will end amendments to laws and only allow an up or down vote on legislation. It will turn Congress into a rubber stamp even more than it is already.

In their wisdom, the framers envisioned the House as a place of heated debate and the Senate as more staid place where rhetoric would cool down. It has its origins in the concept integral to our political system that the rights of the minority must be protected from the force of the majority. The idea and practice of a super Congress, a Committee of 13, puts an end to this tradition. It is a totalitarian steamroller.

By voting for the so-called debt ceiling bill, both houses of Congress are voting to legitimize the Soviet-style super committee of 13 globalist grocery clerks. It is another step by the elite to throw the Constitution under the bus.

As a first step, the Gang of 13 will impose taxation as a solution to the astronomical debt placed on the American people by the international bankers who own the private Federal Reserve. A super committee will be required to keep the debt and debt slavery scam going now that an increasing number of Americans understand that the Fed is nothing but a money printing machinedesigned to devalue the worth of our currency under the guise of stimulating the economy and the perpetually unfulfilled promise to create jobs and prosperity.

It is contempt for the Constitution and the intellectual and spiritual laziness of our so-called representatives that has allowed this atrocious state of affairs to exist under the excuse of confronting a debt the American people do not owe.

Direct political action will be required to put and end to this monstrosity. Short of that, we can expect another dagger to be stuck in the heart of our liberty as the global elite continue step by step to build their authoritarian control structure designed to turn the earth into a sprawling slave labor gulag and plantation.

BY KURT NIMMO

Thom or Louise-Please have the webmaster turn on spell check

Joint committees or reconciliation committees normally only work after the normal - democratic - congressional sausage making process has produced two bills - one in each house. This committee short circuits Congress, eliminates deliberation, takes away the ability of elected representatives from representing their constituents. This Politburo goes straight to reconciliation from nothing - before there is any democratic process.

Quite a few people feeling frustrated and helpless. We have an alternative. Let us know what you think.

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I don't think many people understand the so-called Super Congress.

Congress has had plenty of joint committees (and still does), and this one is temporary--it's existence ends in November or December this year. Committees are used to generate legislation all the time; that's really their purpose, because it's hard to get 100 or 435 people to argue efficiently enough to create a bill out of whole cloth. The unusual aspects are 1) that the bill creating the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction also streamlines the process of passing the legislation that it's supposed to produce, and 2) that something will happen if the committee doesn't produce a bill by a deadline. So it's not the committee that's super, it's the bill passage process.