Every single taxpayer should be outraged by this...

[pinkkillersheep]

Sen. McConnell came out and said he doesn't want "co-ownership" of the economy. You're an elected official! Shouldn't you already be held accountable for the state of the country?!?! If a Democrat said such a thing, I would be mortified.

[polichick]

1. Especially when we're paying the bills HIS party ran up!

[Enthusiast]

16. Well, according to every single Republican

talking head I see on TV their party didn't run it up at all. Their explanation is that Obama has been spending spending spending causing the entire deficit.

We all know this is ridiculous. But, why doesn't president Obama use the bully pulpit to refute this nonsense? When Obama put the Iraq War and the Afghan War "on the books" it allowed Republicans to make these outrageous claims because they can point to the entire debt accrued during Bush's wars as being owned by Obama. Now why would a Democratic leader allow this to happen? Why wouldn't he go on TV and show the charts that we all know so well illustrating how the Bush tax cuts are responsible for the deficit?

[BlueJazz]

2. The GOP people have never understood the phrase: "One for all and all for one"

[gratuitous]

3. They operate under a different motto

"I got mine so fuck you."

[RKP5637]

6. I've got an update for their motto -

"I got mine so fuck you, and I want yours too!"

[Angry Dragon]

4. Theirs' is more like

One for all, and all the rest for me.........

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[RKP5637]

7. Yep, "performance pay," and if they don't perform they don't get paid. n/t

[Earth_First]

8. Isn't that how many within that party would like to compensate school teachers?

Bad soultion.

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[RedRocco]

9. based off the median income in thier district

that way if they want a raise they have to improve things for their constituents

[thecrow]

12. Take away ALL their money while they're in Congress

Let them get by on minimum wage

Let them try to buy their own health insurance

Foreclose on their houses

Punish anyone who didn't play by the rules

Give them only one term

Did I forget anything??

Think they'd get more real with the people they represent?

[quaker bill]

14. They would owe us alot of money.

[MichiganVote]

10. Hey now, he's not a Teacher so no accountability needed.

And if you don't recognize this as sarcasm, well, you know....

[TBF]

11. Instead of threatening to withhold checks from the elderly and disabled -

Mr. Obama should have withheld checks from the Congress. My guess is that compromise would've been met within the hour.

[JHB]

13. Hasn't McConnell been in the Senate for a quarter century?

How many times did you vote for the crap that made this mess, Mitch?