Totally ridiculous. They spent 2012 running for re-election instead of working for the American people and this is the result.

True to the Demonrat strategy of creating a "crisis" then having staff members craft a horrific bill chocked full of pay backs for their cronies into a must pass right now bill. Then they walk away grinnin´ at their cleverness knowing that the Pravda press will spin it and blame the Republicans.

I detest the Demonrat party. Will never vote for any candidate with a D after their name.

I picture them all "seig heiling (sp?)" at the state of the union address. The fuhrer has landed.

Democrat/Republica.No difference.

What it is,is the biggest Barnum and Baily Dog and Pony show ever perpetrated on the American people

51 pages per minute, or approximately 1 page per second to read a $600 billion tax increase bill. Let´s see the Russian or North Koreans legislatures top that. This could possibly be turned into an Olympic event, with chants of "USA! USA!"as Harry Reid and his Rob Sled team roared to the finish line in world record time.

Seriously, the ObamaCare nightmare was passed iby Senate and House Democrats in the same manner. At last minute, a 300 page addition to ObamaCare was added with no time for anyone to read. Since the Dems hadn´t read the first 1,200 pages, the extra 300 pages attached at the last minute didn´t really matter.

This is how they will pass gun control. Sneaking it in to another unrelated bill with only moments to vote. It will be passed and signed into law before anyone even knows what happened. Get ready.

It was 3 minutes more than any of them spent reading it. There can´t be more than a couple Senators who aren´t the indentured servant of some moneyed interest - they do what they´re told.

Respect I might have had for any of our politicians has flown out the window and been replaced by contempt. Both of my senators (GA) voted aye on this bill and they will never get another vote, or penny, from me.

The Dishonorable Harry Reid drove up in his Roach-Coach lunch wagon and handed out crap sandwiches for everyone...

Fiscal Cliff is not about raising taxes on the top 2%!

Fiscal Cliff is the federal Debt Bomb, of which none of it has been addressed, not one bit.

Fiscal Cliff still dead ahead.

My senator, Patrick Toomey should not have voted on this heap of junk. But he did. So, I am very disappointed in him and we in Pennsylvania will be looking for someone to replace him. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT.

Three minutes? At most?

Appalling.

They could make a decision in four years, how the hell can they make a decision in three minutes? Answer = they can´t! Morons all!

However, now that they´ve pass the bill, they could find out what´s in it! Isn´t that right Nancy?

These politicians are without a conscience. There is no way that their behavior points to anything else. They have committed theft upon the American voter for decades with absolutely no consequences. I don´t see how they can be made held accountable now. Their actions would put anyone else in jail and ruin their reputation but these guys continue to skate. I am so disgusted and disheartened by their hubris and arrogance. The government is filled with sociopaths and I don´t see anything that will change this.

There could have been a clause inserted to nullify the Constitution for all any of them know. However, more than half the country voted, (many of them twice, illegal or dead), for these clowns so I guess free stuff is more important than doing the right thing.

#17, no... Half the country did not vote for these clowns... Not bey a long shot.

31.5% of all eligible voters pulled the obama lever.
29.5% of all eligible voters voted fro Romney.
39% of all eligible voters were too lazy to go vote.

There were appx 126 million votes cast.
There are appx 315 million people in the USA.

Who wrote the bill? Don´t we have a right to know who wrote the bill? Was it written by Soro´s minions?

When this happens the logical thing to do is to Vote against the bill. If everyone (the majority) did this it would notify the leadership that if the body does not have enough time to read and make amendments, then their vote will automatically be NO!!

It worked so well the first time, why shouldn´t they do it again ..... and again .... and again. Stay tuned.

They had to pass it to know what was in it!


What a sorry damn joke on us!
We are told to "read the fine print" before signing off on things...hell, they didn´t even have a chance to read the regular print!.

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