Obstacles Ahead: Poll Finds Sharp Partisan Divide on Priorities for Washington

So here's what is going to happen. Partisanship will lock the Congress up. Extremists on the fringes won't fall in line with their parties, and the whips will be unable to bring enough votes to do things needed to right the ship. We've seen this in California for a decade, and now its coming to a Federal Government near you! With nothing getting done and people out of work, in 2012 the people that get elected will be middle of the road, backed by Independents, who can bargain without philosophies. Want to cut the defecits? End the two wars. Want to govern effectively? You must compromise on everything.

I'm looking for a Congress that will repeal Legislation! If they don't fund it repeal it. It is the only way to reduce the federal bureaucracy. Every agency will spend every dollar it gets in the budget. If you repeal the program you can't fund it this year or next year nor do you need to carry the staff to implement it. There are a lot of federal programs that should be eleminated but neither party has the will. Remember that every Bill passed by Congress takes money from someone and gives it to someone else. Only repealing a Bill gives the money back to "US".

According to this poll, it appears the Republicans ahve already been dishonet. Repealing of healthcare "We the People and Puppets" said job creation, didn't we?

Pollsters will be the ruination of our country. They ask questions limited by their perspectives and postulate that that is the conclusion of the populace. Bullpucky. Ask the healthcare question like this: What type of healthcare do you think Americans need, and what should it cost? The follow on is: How should it be paid for? If you give alternatives, for each of these you will see where people are on healthcare. For the jobs question, you have to look at what people are able to do to have a job. For many, a job in Wyoming does not help a person in Ohio. Should the federal government help you to find a job? If yes, how. Should the federal government help you until you find a job? Pollsters should ask questions that elicit answers not 'sound bites' and opinion.

The real message from this election is that the American people want the members of Congress to work together to provide the best programs/legislation for the USA. It will require "reaching across the aisle," and sharing and discussion and compromise. Any member of Congress that continues to say "NO" will be sent packing in their next re-election bid. There is no other mandate!!!

The first thing the Republicans in the House will do is pay the large money interest who got them elected. They will try to kill health care reform to pay the health insurance companies. They will try to stop financial reform so Wall Street can resume their complete takeover of the country. They will block any attempt to stop giving tax breaks for companies who ship job overseas. They will continue Bush's tax breaks for the rich which will add $700 billion to the National Debt. and will not pay for it. They will justify it by claiming those who make over $250,000 create jobs but the fact is only 2.5 percent of those create jobs. The other 95.5 percent will just invest it to make more money.

To the DC House...........it is not ONLY the earmarks we want eliminated from being embedded in spending bills.....we also want UNRELATED amendments being tacked onto bills, such as adding the DREAM ACT to a DEFENSE BILL. The American people want to know what we will be paying for, and we do not want these issues hidden under the umbrella of a bill supposedly being passed for another purpose.

To our liberal friends, how's the post election week working out? The rationale in defunding and stopping the Health Care Scan is simple: with the fear of excessive and unpredictable cost now removed from businesses ...they will start to hire and soon. And the debt will be reduced by trillions over the next 10 years. Committees will be formed to drag before the congress those who had estimate the cost of what the real numbers are for the health care scam, this in itself will be all that is needed to stop this fraud of a law. Black ..stop already, cluelessness seems to have found a home,does the recent reality escape you? yes, the next two years ought to put front and center what those who actually KNOW how to do things will begin to put the country back on track, With the democrats now more akin to Haight Ashbury has beens they should on their own implode and become even more ridiculous. good riddance.

We gave the Democrats 18 months to create jobs and fix the economy and they failed. Republicans now have 18 months to do the same. If they do not create the promised long-term, living wage jobs and fix this economy, then we will find someone else.

Congress should start with these trade deals that killed jobs: here they are start working.... General Note 4 Products of Countries Designated Beneficiary Developing Countries for Purposes of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) General Note 5 Automotive Products and Motor Vehicles Eligible for Special Tariff Treatment General Note 6 Articles Eligible for Duty-Free Treatment Pursuant to the Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft General Note 7 Products of Countries Designated as Beneficiary Developing Countries for Purposes of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) General Note 8 United States-Israel Free Trade Area Implementation Act of 1985 General Note 9 United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement (suspended) General Note 10 Products of the Freely Associated States General Note 11 Products of Countries Designated as Beneficiary Countries for Purposes of the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA) General Note 12 North American Free Trade Agreement General Note 13 Pharmaceutical Products General Note 14 Intermediate Chemicals for Dyes General Note 15 Exclusions General Note 16 Products of Countries Designated as Beneficiary Countries under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) General Note 17 Products of Countries Designated as Beneficiary Countries under the United States-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act of 2000 General Note 18 United States-Jordan Free Trade Area Implementation Act General Notes 19-24 [Transferred and designated as subdivisions (e) through (j), respectively, of general note 3] General Note 25 United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement General Note 26 United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement General Note 27 United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement General Note 28 United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement General Note 29 United States - Dominican Republic CAFTA General Note 30 United States-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement General Note 31 United States - Oman Free Trade Agreement General Note 32 United States-Peru Free Trade Agreement