Congress needs to park their egos at the door and keep away from the cable news microphones. They are already running for reelection. Their use of catch phrases with little meaning to pander to their supporters is juvenile. (fiscal cliff, kick the can down the road...)

Now I see Boehner on TV vacillating from previous remarks which had indicated he might be open to compromise.

List definite cuts and be willing to compromise. It will require pain on all sides, but is necessary. The public is fed up with Congress. How much lower can their approval ratings go?

I hope Susan Rice is selected to be the next SOS. The debate could provide content for the next election cycle's ads. Maybe the Democrats should just let the GOP select their candidates for positions. They probably still wouldn't vote for them.

It reminds me of a joke I read. If President Obama said, don't eat yellow snow, FOX NEWS would be touting the benefits of doing so.

And the selection by the GOP leadership of 19 men to head all of the congressional committees puts a face to their disrespect for women in their party. Did they forget that more women than men vote?

As for spending cuts, start with their own Congressional budgets. If you aren't doing anything, you don't need hundreds of aides and workers to help you do nothing, do you? And cut your salaries, too. Join in the austerity that your voters are enduring.

The public needs to come together and let congress know it is "We the People" who hold the power, not them. They serve us, not the other way around.

I believe this country is headed to a second civil war and Obama may be the President that will preside over it.

Last night on Pierce Morgan, the" money man" made the statement that some middle class have already fallen off the cliff.

Well I certainly know that one side would not show up!!

that America is sliding headlong into war, and it will rip the country to shreds. It is no longer avoidable, its coming.

Footnote: Once again, I do not promote nor condone violence or war, I am just sharing a vision of what's to come in our once great nation.

They must be the ones we used to see @ all the Tea Party Rallys , wearing cammo ,sporting weapons and carrying racist signs.

First we had the Mittster fund raising in Israel with his casino pal while talking tough on Iran & Syria , now the local yahoos here are even getting motivated.

Guess they dont understand even now , when you cut taxes and charge a couple expensive wars to the country credit card ,you eventually end up in debt .

Better start praying the GOP controlled US House of Reps starts thinking about voting on the BUSH tax cut extension the US Senate passed some time ago.
That would be the one the President said he was ready to sign then held up his pen !
Doubt that was on the Faux Entertainment Network.

hoping they can snag a floating log, all the while spreading bitterness and discontent. I've never been to any teaparty meetings, I did send Mitt money so he could displace the current partisan thug in office. Even though he lost, it was money well spent, letting the current leader know that some of us dont appreciate him selling our great country to the Mexican cartels.

It is interesting to note that some of the DFL'ers are willing to admit we are deep in debt due to the wars, but they refuse to come to the table and make deep budget cuts. They would rather just keep taxing and taxing and taxing. They don't care, its not THEIR money!

and possibly for good reason.

"As a general principle, I believe that the Constitution confers an individual right to bear arms. But just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can’t constrain the exercise of that right, in the same way that we have a right to private property but local governments can establish zoning ordinances that determine how you can use it."

Barack Obama 2008

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty."

Adolf Hitler

that all you have to do is come with 25 ft of the target and the vacuum created by that chunk of lead flying past will knock it down! :)

If some have already fallen off the cliff, then it would be safe to assume they were on the private sector side of things, eh?

50 cal.? Could you imagine getting pulled over by a CO with that baby uncased? That Canadian, with the mile and half snipe shot, must have sent the camel dung down the legs of the survivors and sent them to the next valley...three miles away.

If there is some kind of law against flapping their finger's on a keyboard if you're a part time Fed that is supposed to protect people?? I bet his supervisor would like to hear that??

F&B I would feel safer with the NVA.

Will it cost me a lot of money, yes. Will I be able to survive it, yes. Will it damage my business, yes. It will be worth every penny of it to see how President Obama explains to a family of four making $40,000 per year how he just cost them an addition $2500 in taxes. Especially when he had it within his power to completely avoid it.

me and you need to start a little bet/lottery......

Looks like the rabble is after you.