Breaking: Finally! a deal has been reached! OMG...

You know your country is in sad shape when its NFL football players are smarter,
more mature and possess more astute negotiating skills than the politicians who run
the country and the world economy.

NFL, Players Agree on New Deal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903591104576467941192669806.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#articleTabs%3Darticle

Today's crop of Republicans will never be that mature. To them, defeating Obama and Democratic principles is far more important than Americans or the well-being of our nation.

...that our politicians are just playing game. There is no deal
because they don't want a deal.

They want to posture, backstab, manipulate and lie--but they certainly
don't want a deal.

Grown ups can sit down, discuss and negotiate if they so choose. Our politicians
aren't working toward those goals. Bohner and Cantor are behaving like goons.

Pretty sad when the NFL could teach global world leaders a thing or two...

Maybe the NFL should run our country?

Precisely.

Fact is that both parties have issues they never want to solve, so as they have that issue to bring up again and again to gain points. A good example on our side is minimum wage. When we controlled everything, why did we not increase minimum wage to an appropriate level and then index it to inflation. This would solve the issue for 99% of the issues and we would have a win. However, that win would last a few weeks (maybe a month) and be forgotten. Politically, it is better to have issue to bring up again and again.

Republicans are pulling that shit here (with much more dire consequences). Sometimes, I want to just be the typical ignorant voter and ignore everything. Unfortunately, that is the reason we are where we are.

players and their employers actually love football and want to play football. The Congress does not care for the country, and does not want to govern the country.

Obama and Boener and the debt limit possibly ruining our economy. We have our priorities here in the USA!!

the politicians think their life is a game.

...bumper-sticker worthy.

Well played.

:applause:

he was a Republican. Sure he made some mistakes, but I always believed he had the welfare of the country foremost in his actions, not blind loyalty to the Party.

He may have been mixed up in some shady things (Warren Commission, anyone?) but he was head and shoulders better than the actor the Republicans put up after him.

sportscaster and now a political pundit. He says he won't run for office, but could and I believe he would be a good voice for labor in Congress. He's certainly no dummy.

A handful of wealthy guys battling a bunch of merely rich guys over how to divvy up an enormous pile of money. Yeah, a deal was reached. In Washington, you have the same handful of wealthy guys working the merely rich guys into a dispute over how to funnel even more money to the already wealthy. Oddly enough, some of the rich guys aren't persuaded. And millions of unrich people, who create and generate the wealth, are shut out of the conversation entirely.

along with the ape-roars being howled out from its fans. =/