A very productive Congress, despite what the approval ratings say

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Source: Washington Post

There seems to be little to endear citizens to their legislature or to the president trying to influence it. It's too bad, because even with the wrench thrown in by Republican Scott Brown's election in Massachusetts, this Democratic Congress is on a path to become one of the most productive since the Great Society 89th Congress in 1965-66, and Obama already has the most legislative success of any modern president -- and that includes Ronald Reagan and Lyndon Johnson. The deep dysfunction of our politics may have produced public disdain, but it has also delivered record accomplishment.

The productivity began with the stimulus package, which was far more than an injection of $787 billion in government spending to jump-start the ailing economy. More than one-third of it -- $288 billion -- came in the form of tax cuts, making it one of the largest tax cuts in history, with sizable credits for energy conservation and renewable-energy production as well as home-buying and college tuition. The stimulus also promised $19 billion for the critical policy arena of health-information technology, and more than $1 billion to advance research on the effectiveness of health-care treatments.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012902516.html

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Much more at the link and it certainly beats the hell out of having a GOP congress.

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1. Absolutely!

“…it certainly beats the hell out of having a GOP congress.”
Absolutely!

It isn’t just that Republicans are dead weight on American society; it is that Republicans are counterproductive to American society.

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2. If Dems were getting a fair shake in the news I don't think we would be having any problem holding

on to the majority in both houses.

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3. Exactly!

Whoever controls the media controls the world. The media is only as liberal as the conservative businessmen who own it.