Boehner will go down in history as the worst Speaker of the House, unable to get anything done other than returning a bust of Winston Churchill...
These politicians are pathetic!
In an implicit jab to President Obama, who returned a bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill back to the UK in 2009 while the Oval Office was undergoing remodeling, Speaker of the House John Boehner is bringing the statue back to Congress.
According to ThinkProgress’s Alex Seitz-Wald, “the Churchill bill was approved via unanimous consent.”
While seemingly an innocuous gesture, Gawker’s Jim Newell calls the move the “climax of a nearly three-year right-wing crusade against Barack Obama, whom they believe got rid of a White House bust of Winston Churchill upon assuming office in a fit of uppity anti-colonial rage.”
And while House Republicans were able to give the thumbs up on art featuring the former British Prime Minister, they failed to approve the considerably more pressing matter of extending the payroll tax holiday and unemployment benefits.
Watch Boehner announce the new bust below and view his full resolution at TheHill.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/congress-votes-no-on-payroll-tax-cuts%E2%80%A6but-yes-on-winston-churchill-bust/
Congress Ends 2011 With Record-Low 11% Approval
Annual average for 2011, 17%, also lowest in Gallup history
by Frank Newport
PRINCETON, NJ -- A new record-low 11% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, the lowest single rating in Gallup's history of asking this question since 1974. This earns Congress a 17% yearly average for 2011, the lowest annual congressional approval rating in Gallup history.
The record-low 11% rating is based on a Gallup survey conducted Dec. 15-18, and comes at a time when Congress is wrangling once again at the last minute over extensions of a payroll tax holiday, unemployment benefits, and higher pay for Medicare doctors.
This discord in Washington caps off a year in which Congress fought bitterly before reaching a last-minute agreement to lift the debt ceiling, instructing a bipartisan supercommittee to cut more than $1 trillion from federal spending by the end of November. That objective was not reached, and the supercommittee ultimately announced that it could not reach an agreement, and disbanded.
The previous low Gallup reading for congressional job approval was 13%, recorded in August, October, and November of this year, and in December 2010. The highest approval rating for Congress is 84% in October 2001, a month after the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C.
The current 86% disapproval rating for Congress is the highest in Gallup history, two percentage points higher than the 84% recorded in August.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/151628/Congress-Ends-2011-Record-Low-Approval.aspx
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