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I went into my series of interviews with current and would-be members of Congress (Markey, Tsongas, McGovern, Kennedy, Bielat and Warren) looking for a reason to hope things will bet better. But while the Worst Congress Ever is out facing the voters, it’s not clear there will be any accountability.
As I say in my column today,
The Tea Party Congress elected in 2010 simply can’t get anything done. It has enacted just 173 laws, about half the production of a typical Congress, and less than half the laws passed by the Congress that served from 2009-2010.
Its members haven’t passed a budget. They crashed into the debt ceiling and broke the nation’s credit rating. They failed to enact either President Obama’s jobs proposals or any proposals of their own. They failed to do anything about expiring tax cuts or the doomsday deficit-reduction bomb set to go off Jan. 1. Their failures to make decisions have created uncertainty that is an additional drag on the recovery. You could call them acts of economic sabotage, and Obama should.
