Six weeks LATE while Nancy Pelosi throws a party for their “accomplishments”, and Obozo is overseas on another vacation making a fool of himself at the G-20 summit.

And the dimwitted Democrats blame the Republicans?? They have the majority and still have the majority until January and still cannot get anything done

Republicans won more than 60 House seats Nov. 2 partly by vowing to reduce taxes and trim government spending. The budget deficit for fiscal year 2010, which ended in September, was $1.3 trillion.

In addition to the income tax cuts, Congress faces immediate decisions this month that could add to the deficit, including:

•Lawmakers have until year’s end to fix the alternative minimum tax, or AMT. About 23 million new families will be hit with tax bills that, on average, would be $3,900 higher if the AMT is not adjusted for inflation. A one-year AMT fix costs $70 billion of the $168 billion for the extended tax cuts, the CBO estimates.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including House Ways and Means Democratic Chairman Rep. Sandy Levin and the committee’s top Republican, Rep. Dave Camp, both of Michigan, vowed to address the AMT so that “not one additional taxpayer faces higher taxes.”

•Up to 2 million Americans will lose long-term unemployment benefits if Congress does not act by the end of December. The last extension became controversial, as Republicans resisted because the measure was not paid for. The Economic Policy Institute, a labor-backed economic think tank, estimates it would cost $65 billion to extend the benefits through 2011.

•Doctors who care for seniors on Medicare face a 23% cut in the amount the federal government reimburses for care starting Dec. 1 unless Congress acts. Extending the current reimbursement rates for one year would cost about $15 billion, estimates the Kaiser Health News.

The American Medical Association says the cuts would prompt doctors to drop Medicare patients. The association’s president, Cecil Wilson, said he is sensitive to the challenges facing Congress but, he said, “the longer Congress procrastinates on this issue, the bigger the price tag for America’s taxpayers.”

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