[Washington Post] The House of Representatives The words you're probably looking for are "unmitigated scoundrels." They can be used with or without reference to fornication. I usually use them with, in either the first or the middle position.
is poised to vote as early as tonight on a bill addressing a series of tax increases and spending cuts taking affect this week. But first politicians voted on a plan to freeze the salaries of politicians and federal employees.
Don't bother. It's not gonna do you any good.
Despite Democratic objections, the bill passed 287 to 129, with 55 Democrats voting with Republicans to approve the measure.
Districts aren't that safe, are they?
They know Harry Reid's got their backs in the Senate...
House Democrats charged that the vote to freeze salaries was intended to provide political cover for conservative Republicans planning to vote against the fiscal cliff bill passed early Tuesday by the Senate.
There's no political cover at the bottom of a crater.
The fiscal cliff deal, passed with 89 votes in the Senate, includes language that would block a 0.5 percent cost of living pay increase for politicians, reversing parts of an executive order Obama issued last week -- because Congress had yet to set the federal government's pay scale for 2013.
Whoa! Reversed an imperial decree, did they? Took a bunch of guts.
Voting against the fiscal cliff plan might leave some House Republicans open to charges by future political opponents that they voted to give themselves a raise, or didn't vote to block a congressional pay raise, Democrats charged.
The GOP-backed bill introduced late Monday would freeze the salaries of politicians and the nation's 2 million federal employees for the remainder of fiscal 2013. Currently, federal worker salaries are frozen through the end of a short-term spending agreement that expires in March. As part of efforts to curtail the deficit, federal employees have not seen a cost of living increase in their paychecks in more than three years.
And they're still overpaid for the same work done in the private sector...
| An awful lot of people in the private sector have seen pay cuts over the same period, and at the state and local government levels an awful lot of jobs are gone for good. It's ugly for pretty much everyone these days. |