5 issues on Congress’ to-do list with Less Than One Day to go before August recess

http://www.syracuse.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/07/congress_final_week_august_recess_issues.html

Today’s question: How much did Congress accomplished on their to-do list before Recess thus far, for the little boys & girls on Capital Hill?

NOT A DAMN THING!

This is history repeating itself:

1999: “Like restless students yearning to burst out the schoolhouse door, members of Congress are preparing to quit the steamy capital today for a month’s vacation, leaving many of their toughest assignments unfinished.”

2003: “Senate Republican leaders will try this week to pass a massive energy package sought by President Bush and are threatening to force colleagues to delay a cherished August recess until the work is done.”

2004: “Halfway through the year, Congress has spent its time on a mix of politics and business, but leaves for the rest of summer with some major work yet unfinished. Lawmakers return after Labor Day and plan to break again Oct. 1.”

2005: “In a mad dash to rack up some accomplishments before Congress leaves town for its five-week August recess, the Senate on Tuesday temporarily abandoned work on a defense policy bill and took up a measure, likely to pass and laden with political implications for Democrats, that will shield gun manufacturers from lawsuits.”

2006: “GOP leaders were scrambling yesterday to bolster a thin list of legislative accomplishments before the House recesses tonight for a five-week summer break. But a minimum-wage deal was far from certain, and pension legislation was near collapse. Last night’s struggles underscored the divisions in Republican ranks that leaders had hoped to paper over before the August recess.”

2007: “Congress stumbled toward its August recess on a discordant note Friday as angry partisanship and distrust slowed the House and Senate in the latest example of the ideological standoff that has made progress difficult all year.

2008: “Lawmakers sped for the exits yesterday as Congress was to begin a five-week recess after a summer session noteworthy for bitter partisanship and paralysis on the issue topmost in the minds of many voters: the cost of gasoline.”

THE RECESSION BEGINS AND THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF CAPITAL HILL RAN HOME KNOWING THAT OUT COUNTRY WAS IN DEEP SHIT!!! INCLUDING OUR ALLIES AND ITS BEEN AN UPHILL BATTLE EVER SINCE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE.

Right Wing Facebook page “Barack Obama Must Die” being promoted on social media

http://www.examiner.com/article/right-wing-facebook-page-barack-obama-must-die-being-promoted-on-social-media

July 29, 2014

An anti-Obama Facebook page was recently taken down, but has since returned with more vile images and content.

The right-wing Facebook page titled “Barack Obama Must Die” was reported enough by disgusted viewers on the social networking page that it was removed last week. Despite the removal, the page is back and up and running. The main picture on the page is President Obama photo-shopped as the evil character The Joker from the Batman films. The cover image, which appears in a larger form above the page, shows a smiling Obama holding an American flag while straddling an airplane. Above the president is a slogan reading: “Live from Gitmo Nation, No Agenda.”

A growing number of protesters have left messages on the page, making note that they have reported it to Facebook, the FBI and even the Secret Service. As of press time, the “Barack Obama Must Die” Facebook page is still active and it’s unknown if it will get removed a second time.

This isn’t the first time Examiner.com has reported on a hateful and dangerous Facebook page about President Obama. This past January, the right-wing Facebook page titled “Americans the next generation” showed a picture of President Obama photo-shopped in a noose, calling for his hanging to be a national holiday. Shortly after the story broke, Facebook took down the page.

Isn’t America Land of the Free?

REPUBLICANS AGREES WE SHOULD RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE

So Republicans agree that they can’t live on the minimum wage, but they don’t want to raise it? Excuse me while I bang my head against the wall a few times.Timeline Photos

Remember, the November 4, 2014, The House of Representative election, less than 4 months, experts says, Republicans will win because;

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LEO was the first computer for ordinary businesses. We’ve named our Senate forecasting model after it. Our model, created by Amanda Cox and Josh Katz, combines polls with other information to predict how many Senate races Democrats and Republicans will win this year. 

 

HERE’S WHY Polls of registered voters tend to be more favorable to Democrats than polls of likely voters, especially in midterm elections. But different pollsters make different decisions about how to define likely voters and how to reach them. These decisions tilt their polls toward Democrats or Republicans in systematic, and predictable, ways. Systematic differences among pollsters are sometimes called “house effects.”

WHAT IT MEANS IN PRACTICE Public Policy Polling, a Democratic-leaning firm, and Harper Polling, a Republican-leaning firm, are among the most frequent pollsters. If they were to conduct polls of the same race on the same days in 2014, we would expect PPP’s result to be about 4 points more favorable to the Democrat. To make apples-to-apples comparisons between polls, we adjust the margins accordingly, using information from all of the polls we’ve observed so far this cycle.

Do you believe this? If so, why in the Hell are we voting? Didn’t the experts say the Iraq War would be over less than a year?

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Don’t believe in Polls until the battle is over. That’s why we’re not polling first time voters and strong women of America. We discuss only by text, because Polling is just a cheap marketing strategy to get people riled up or excited about nothing anyone can benefit by, which works on older people. Today, you have to research to find results, and don’t take the media for what it’s worth. It’s propaganda only. This is from a first time voter who’s a strong woman of America! I’d say someone raised her right!!!!!!

First Time Voters/Strong Women of America

First time voters/Strong Women of America if you didn’t receive a text on how to vote for Nov election, when in doubt if you’re on campus, take your homework with you, go home and vote, its not midterms or finals, its your future at stake, and to be honest it’s the United States school system at stake. We’re supposed to be a Super Country and we’re placed at 15th in Math and Science in the world for being smart. Once upon a time…………….