Boehner: House won't approve 2-mo payroll tax cut

I am tired of these stop-gap measures by politicians who are afraid to make REAL choices and decisions!!! Vote them all out of office!!!!!

fire em all

As long as Congress allows for Social Security money to go into the general fund instead of staying in the SSA, I will hold congress in contempt, as anything they do is a shell game. And they know it.

RE-ELECT NO ONE!!!!!!!

At this point, that should be the simple mantra of ALL Americans.

tar and feather them all.

Vote them OUT!!!!!

until when people of this country will finaly say enough to the corruption, fraud waste and abuse... until when people?

Taxpayers don't hate PAYING taxes, we hate the government WASTING taxpayer money.

People who PAY no taxes want MORE PAID to WASTE.

Thumbs up if you are a taxpayer, thumbs down if you are a tax waster.

It is very telling that they are willing to further risk social security just to try to stimulate a little more consumption of foreign made trinkets. Besides, the way food and fuel and local taxes are skyrocketing - there probably won't be much for people to spend at the big box anyway.

I think when the government has to shut down because of budget stuff or if things they do stop social security checks or other benefits to the people, the top of list of "nonpayment" should be Congress, the Senate, and the President. If these people can't protect the income of the people then we really don't need any of them and at the very least they should feel the same pain they inflict on the rest of us.

Absolute lunacy to manage fiscal policy in two month increments! I don't understand why Senate republicans passed it, but I certainly hope the House will either pass nothing or, at least, a fully funded one year extension. Fully funded with cuts elsewhere, that is.

The two-month payroll tax break extension bill would be funded by an increase in mortgage fees paid. The fee would increase mortgage cost 15 per month for new mortgages and refinanced mortgages. What a victory for the middle class, a new 360 dollar per year tax. Where is the press on this one? I am with the house, don't extend one temporary tax break by creating a new permament tax.

In all of my years (81) of watching politics I have never witnessed a more inept, dysfunctional, corrupt and ineffective congress. These guys are a disgrace to this country.and their actions border on treason. The people who are legitimately unemployed are having their holiday season destroyed by the these people. This is really horrifing to watch.

The only thing that is certain is that this way of running a government cannot go on forever.

CAN'T THESE IDIOTS IN WASHINGTON EVEN AGREE TO FIX THINGS FOR TWO MONTHS AT AT TIME? FIRE THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

our politicans do not care one bit about the American people! Vote them all out of office and replace them with third-party candidates who are not afraid to make decisions that will benefit the American people!!!! Washington will sit up and take notice then, eh????

As a middle class democrat I don't understand this payroll tax cut. The 2% isn't enough to make much of a difference in my check and it further shorts Social Security. I intend to collect my benefits at 62 so I'm willing to pay for them now and keep them fully funded.

This is the kind of infighting that makes Americans roll their eyes at Congress. They can't do anything and when they do accomplish something it never helps us. They should all be fired.

Why on earth would the senate approve a 2 month extension, that's completely asinine. I'm actually against this entire extension but if you're going to do it, pass something that's going to have a little impact. What's truly amazing to me is the left's #$%$ about helping the middle class when Obama tried to punt on the Keystone pipeline. Really?, 90+% of those jobs would be well paying middle class jobs. What a lying sack of crap, Obama has crucified the middle class. They've slid more into poverty under this administration than any in history. 30% increase in Americans on food stamps, one in five now live below the poverty level, and unemployment under Obama has averaged above 9% for his entire term. How could anyone with beyond a single digit IQ consider re-electing him?

I agree. Make a final ruling, not keep kicking the can down the road. I believe what Warren Buffet said "Congress or the President don't get paid if the deficit is greater than 3% GDP."

It's easy to say vote them all out until you get to the election season and the person running is just as bad or worse then the incumbent. I guess they would get the message if we voted them all out, but then we would have a lot of new bums to vote out next time. Politics needs to be changed to where a middle class person can compete against a multi-millionaire in an election. These politicians are too rich and priveledged to understand that a 2% tax break and an extra couple hundred bucks can help.