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It’s certain that many Americans remember the outcry when President Obama took time off this summer to relax with his family.<\/p>\n

“How dare he leave town with all this important work to do?” came the outcry from conservatives. He had crises to manage, they said.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/nice-work-if-you-can-get-it-0<\/p>\n

OK, now the other side has taken a powder — to campaign for re-election.<\/p>\n

The GOP-run House of Representatives has left town, leaving a ton of important work still undone. It doesn’t matter to them that they<\/em> are now the slackers in this equation.<\/p>\n

Yes, the House did stick around long enough to vote on a Syrian-training-and-arming resolution, as did the Senate. Obama praised them for their votes and the bipartisan support his request receives in both congressional chambers.<\/p>\n

Then Congress said, “You’re welcome, Mr. President. We’re outta here.”<\/p>\n

Take a look at the graphic attached to this post and you’ll see why Congress has earned its moniker as the latest edition of the “Do Nothing Congress.” They’ve done, well, virtually nothing. They’ve passed little legislation.<\/p>\n

Now the legislative branch has split. They’re running for re-election. How will the incumbents frame their “accomplishments” to voters?<\/p>\n\n

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It’s certain that many Americans remember the outcry when President Obama took time off this summer to relax with his family. “How dare he leave town with all this important work to do?” came the outcry from conservatives. He had crises to manage, they said. http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/nice-work-if-you-can-get-it-0 OK, now the other side has taken a powder … Continue reading No outcry over congressional break<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[540,1112,2179,4202],"class_list":["post-6516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-house-gop","tag-senate-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}