Matt Wuerker for September 19, 2014

You got this one right, Matt!

Congress is again on vacation, well, out campaigning this time. Most should get a permanent vacation. Ohio can be good enough to all of us by getting rid of Boehner first.

Actually Congress works just fine, it’s the Senate and the Presidency that’s dropped the ball. Obama is the first President ever to spend his first term NEVER submitting an actual budget to Congress (and the first year of his second), and the Senate is the first in some time to NEVER act on a bill passed by the House (That “Congress” you’re so down on that passed 40+ bills last year that the Senate never bothered to act on).

So, you want to see Congressional and Senatorial action, wait until next term, where you’ll see plenty of action from the House of Representatives be ignored or vetoed by the real obstruction to government, the Presidency.

Gonna blunt his pen and take away his telephone. Then maybe he can stop scheduling Golf dates, and get back to work. I know its a new experience for him, and that the schedule of a college professor isn’t very rigorous, but SOMEONE has to tell him that “full time” in the WhiteHouse means ALL the time, not 30 hours a week.

Obama Has Had Fewer Vacation Days In His Entire Presidency Than Congress Has This Year

By: Jason Easley more from Jason Easley Saturday, August, 23rd, 2014, 4:39 pm

“Here is a reality check for Republicans who keep complaining over President Obama’s vacations. President Obama has had fewer vacation days in the last six years than Congress will have in 2014.

According to CBS News Correspondent Mark Knoller, President Obama has spent 129 days of presidency on vacation. The Republican led House of Representatives was scheduled to be in session for only 124 days in all of 2014. This means that John Boehner and company will spend fewer days at work this year than President Obama has spent on vacation in his entire presidency. The numbers are actually worse when one considers that the House is only scheduled to work for 97 days between January and Election day in November. Members of the Senate, like Ted Cruz, have had nearly as many days off this year as the president has had since taking office.

This is the point in any story about Republican hysterics about Obama’s vacations that George W. Bush needs to be used as a point of reference. During Bush’s presidency, he took four vacations that were longer than Obama’s longest vacation. Former President Bush took virtually the entire month of August 2001 off. Bush’s vacation was almost twice as long (27 days) as Obama’s current break (15 days). Ronald Reagan took a 25 day vacation in August 1983. Republicans never demanded that Bush and Reagan return to work, so why is it different for President Obama?"

Whew! Read it all. No argument here. But, the main point of the article I pasted (as suggested by another poster) is that the Repubs keep taking cheap shots at the Prez for HIS vacation time!

Again, I agree. As I posted on another ’toon last week, I watched her on “Bill Maher”, and thought she was an embarrassment to the Democrats. Grandstanding!