Today is a holiday...so Congress takes a week off.

[kentuck]

What in the hell are we paying them for??

When they return, they will have 4 days to fix the debt limit problem. Shouldn't they be trying to fix that this week?

I understand this is common with Congress to take off weeks at a time for holidays and the entire month of August for summer recess. But these are dire times. We have critical issues that need to be addressed. What are they doing back in their districts? Raising money?

Mark me down as one unhappy constituent.

[Seedersandleechers]

1. Boner is no Pelosi

[drmeow]

2. And how many of us working stiffs

don't even get today off! Not me! We "gave up" President's Day for MLK Day.

[Keith Bee]

3. No surprise there

Even on working days, Boehner likes to be done by 5 so he can still make Happy Hour. :beer:

[madokie]

4. This is when they do the back room deals which later turn into laws

Not when they're in washington, they only set up the "get togethers" on our dime.

[atreides1]

5. I work for the federal government

And all I get is today off...anymore time and it comes from my leave...

I think that members of Congress should have to follow the same leave policies as all other federal workers...just think how surprised they would be when that pay stub reads LWOP(leave without pay) and their paycheck is much smaller because of all the time off they took...

[kentuck]

6. I know few people that get today off..

Most folks, including myself and my wife, work today.

[City Lights]

7. Overpaid and underworked.

Pampered little things. They should spend a week in the shoes of an average American.

[old mark]

8. K&R-Well, they need all that time off after having worked so hard to get jobs

for everyone who is unemployed...or was that just a dream?




mark

[upi402]

9. Hey Boner - where my jobs at?

fony phucker

[lonestarnot]

24. ickyleaker doesn't have a clue about a job. Claims to have worked shit jobs.

Yeah ugh hugh. More likely hid under a table and let someone else do the work while he took the credit for the job done.

[calimary]

10. Dear God, remember when the republi-CONS bellyached when Nancy Pelosi decreed

that Congress would work a full five-day week? She changed the way the GOP had preferred doing it:
Monday off.
Tuesday you stroll in sometime. There may be stuff going on in the afternoon. Or was that morning only? Meh, who cares?
Wednesday work.
Thursday bug out sometime after the morning session wraps up. Or whatever.
Friday off.

They had approximately two to two-and-a-half days' worth of ACTUAL ON-SITE WORK. MAN they whined and bellyached when Pelosi changed that.

Bastards.

[kentuck]

11. We should put them under a collective bargaining agreement.

:-)

[former9thward]

12. They never worked a five day week under Pelosi.

Before she became Speaker she called for a five day week but members of both parties rejected it when she became Speaker.

[calimary]

25. Too bad she couldn't have made that stick. I thought it was a great idea!

I never heard the conclusion of that. All I remember is the huge harrumph that went up about the very idea of Congress having to work a full five-day work week. Everyone I saw quoted, who was doing the harrumphing, was a republi-CON.

[dkofos]

13. It's not like they were going to get anything done anyway.

Can't fuck up the country when they're not there.

Maybe they should take the whole year off.

[emilyg]

14. Often we're better off with them gone.

[kentuck]

15. May be right?

They are up to no good.

[emilyg]

16. I want you to know - I always

read what you post. I'm a fan. Hug

[kentuck]

20. Thanks emilyg..

I read you too. :-)

[Bluebear]

18. emily -

:applause:

[emilyg]

21. Hug to you.

[Dappleganger]

19. ^^^^^This.

[Dappleganger]

17. It's good to be the King!

[StarsInHerHair]

22. I think ofvt hem more and more as overpaid trash

with few exceptions

[lonestarnot]

23. House has scheduled every other fucking week off for the entire fucking session. Rachael did

a big segment on their schedule a couple of weeks ago