Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

Richie, if you really in your heart of hearts believe that this 'fast and furious' thing with Holder and Obama is anything more than a political response to Obama upstaging the GOP with his immigration order, then I would say you've brought naïveté to an Olympic championship level.

My argument is that Congress has a whole lot more important things to address than the death if a border agent. When are they going to address the 10% tax increase everyone is going to pay starting on New Year's Day? Or what will they do about the deep and damaging cuts to the defense budget, which start on the same day? And if their inaction leads to another credit downgrade as the result of our political inability to come up with any fiscal reforms...who will they blame then? Almost all economists say that if these things happen, it will have a disastrous effect on our economy.

Romney says wait until after the election. What the heck does that mean? Will the lame duck Congress do anything between the day after the election and when they leave for their three-week Christmas vacation? What do you think?

Then after the swearing in of the 113th Congress on January 3, will they wait around and do nothing until after the presidential inauguration on January 20? Then if Romney is elected, he'll be very busy repealing legislation for a couple weeks. Who knows what Congress will be doing. Waiting for his 'leadership' to kick in maybe?

In the meantime the Pentagon checks will be bouncing, they'll be well into cancelling military contracts and laying off people. And we'll all have a helluva lot less take home pay after the new, elevated tax rates kick in.

And you're telling me I'm naive because I expect and demand better from Congress? Like I said, neither you or Bucco or DKlassen will convince me that Congress holding hearings, launching an impeachment proceeding for the attorney general, and maneuvering to get heir pusses on then evening news rises to the importance of what they should be working on. But naive? No I'm not naive...I'm PO'd!