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Republicans block Obama jobs bill

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disneydude said:
The good thing to come out of this....is that it just further cements which party represents the interests of the 1%....and which party represents the interests of the rest of us.
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The 1% being the OWS and that's a generous number... the 99% is the rest of America who's still going to work everyday to pay their bills, feed their family's or is out searching for a job and have been for a very long time to do the same things.
 
Ockham said:
The 1% being the OWS and that's a generous number... the 99% is the rest of America who's still going to work everyday to pay their bills, feed their family's or is out searching for a job and have been for a very long time to do the same things.
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Nice try....but the facts speak for themselves. The Republican party's true interest lies in ensuring that the top earning 1% of this country pays less in taxes than much of the rest. The REpublican party will fight tooth and nail to protect the wealthy and will do little to help the remaining 99%. This just further solidifies it.
 
disneydude said:
Nice try....but the facts speak for themselves.
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The fact is, if you add up all the OWS protests around the country, the number of people is < 0.01% of the total population, so it's a gimme you should take when I state it's 1%. I'm being VERY generous.

disneydude said:
The Republican party's true interest lies in ensuring that the top earning 1% of this country pays less in taxes than much of the rest. The REpublican party will fight tooth and nail to protect the wealthy and will do little to help the remaining 99%. This just further solidifies it.
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Problem is we're not talking about the Republican party - which was a nice red herring to divert the issue. So tell me DD... when will these people start rioting and breaking ****? A week or two? Month maybe before they get frustrated and the idiots within the groups start getting the rest all ginned up to go kick ass?
 
conservativeguy said:
The vote they had yesterday was not on the actual bill, it was a procedural vote to advance the bill so that it could be voted on in the future. Numerous liberals senators said they were either not going to vote for the bill or they were leaning against supporting it. Those senators were given a gift yesterday by Dingy Harry. Dingy allowed the senators to vote on considering the bill, knowing full well it wouldn't pass the 60 vote mark, so that the lib's could claim they want to help create jobs. Had the actual bill been voted on, the dem's would not have received even 48 votes in it's favor.
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There were only a few Democrats who stated they would vote against it. There were still enough to pass it. If the bill had no chance, Republicans would not have needed to stick their neck out and block it.
 
Sheik Yerbuti said:
There were only a few Democrats who stated they would vote against it. There were still enough to pass it. If the bill had no chance, Republicans would not have needed to stick their neck out and block it.
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Is that why Reid blocked McConnell's request to vote on Oct 4th on the procedural vote - because there were still enough to pass it? Maybe that's also why there were no co-sponsors on the bill too.
 
disneydude said:
Nice try....but the facts speak for themselves. The Republican party's true interest lies in ensuring that the top earning 1% of this country pays less in taxes than much of the rest. The REpublican party will fight tooth and nail to protect the wealthy and will do little to help the remaining 99%. This just further solidifies it.
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No, the Republican party's interest lie in protecting freedoms. Unlike the democrats that have chosen to create classes and assign liberties and freedoms to the classes they deem more suitable.
 
All that obumble wanted was a headline

GOP BLOCKS JOBS BILL

which of course his toadies in the press gave him

there was never any intention for this bill to pass-it was merely to get a headline to use against the GOP

the only job it was trying to save was that of the turd in the whitehouse
 
Ockham said:
The fact is, if you add up all the OWS protests around the country, the number of people is < 0.01% of the total population, so it's a gimme you should take when I state it's 1%. I'm being VERY generous.
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What was the percentage of Egyptians that protested? And what percentage is required to affect decisions by the public?
 
disneydude said:
Nice try....but the facts speak for themselves. The Republican party's true interest lies in ensuring that the top earning 1% of this country pays less in taxes than much of the rest. The REpublican party will fight tooth and nail to protect the wealthy and will do little to help the remaining 99%. This just further solidifies it.
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why are you lying so much? the top one percent pay 40% of the income tax which is more than what the bottom 70% pay. are you saying the top one percent should pay 51% of the federal taxes?
 
Sheik Yerbuti said:
There were only a few Democrats who stated they would vote against it. There were still enough to pass it. If the bill had no chance, Republicans would not have needed to stick their neck out and block it.
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That not a single one would sign on to it says a lot about it's chances if there had been an actual vote on it. The GOP was elected to vote "no", so why shouldn't they?
 
Oh that's an easy one - because bipartisanship only exists if you adopt the Democrat viewpoint. If Reid sponsored a bill forcing people to eat cat feces while locked in an iron maiden, they would accuse Republicans of partisanship for voting no.

The last president who had a Congress worth a damn was Clinton. That was true teamwork.
 
apdst said:
The American people gave the Republicans the biggest landslide victory in 60 years, so they could stop insane bills, just like this one. Ultimately, the Republicans are doing the job they were hired to do.
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Uh, yeah ... I don't think so ...


Americans, unlike the Senate, approve of Obama’s jobs bill, poll says

Nearly two-thirds of the respondents to a survey from NBC/Wall Street Journal voiced their approval when pollsters were told them the details of the president's "American Jobs Act"-- including that it would cut payroll taxes, fund new road construction, and extend unemployment benefits. NBC reports that 63 percent of respondents said they favored the bill, with just 32 percent opposing it.​


... anything else you wanna make up?
 
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Know what that tells me? It tells me that 32% actually read two or three paragraphs of the bill, while 63% looked at the name of it.
 
Catawba said:
What was the percentage of Egyptians that protested?
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Don't know...

Catawba said:
And what percentage is required to affect decisions by the public?
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It's not the number, it's the reason... if there's a good enough reason that resonates --- the numbers will follow. So far, the numbers are not significant because there is no clear reason.
 
Gipper said:
Know what that tells me? It tells me that 32% actually read two or three paragraphs of the bill, while 63% looked at the name of it.
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That's not what the article states. It states that the Dems supported it and the rest of the country didn't.
 
mike2810 said:
Was it not Reid who change the Obama bill? seems he said "no" to Obama's plan.

So for you all bills must be approved down party lines. Care to explain why two dems voted it down. If it was a good bill, some repubs would most likely vote for it.
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I can only gather from that you don't know what Reid voted against his own bill. That aside, I don't believe Congressional Republicans want the economy to improve under Obama. They woull vote down any measure he tries to pass.
 
1Perry said:
The vote was to overcome the filibuster, not a vote to pass the bill. Did you read the article?
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No, you don't say. :roll:

Again, Democrats had the4 votes to pass the bill had Republicans not filibustered it.
 
This wasn't Reid's bill. It was Obama's, and he used his executive strong-arm powers to essentially put Reid's name on it.

Why? He didn't want any part of it - evidenced by the fact that it had no co-sponsor.

Apparently in the Oval Office, the pen is indeed mightier than the sword.
 
Sheik Yerbuti said:
I can only gather from that you don't know what Reid voted against his own bill. That aside, I don't believe Congressional Republicans want the economy to improve under Obama. They woull vote down any measure he tries to pass.
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your opinion which I do not share.
 
1Perry said:
That not a single one would sign on to it says a lot about it's chances if there had been an actual vote on it. The GOP was elected to vote "no", so why shouldn't they?
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If Republicans don't filibbuster and the bill is voted against because of lack of Demcorat support, Republicans come out smelling like a rose while Obama gets embarrassed because his own party doesn't support his jobs bill.

If the bill dies because Republicans kill it with a filibuster, Democrats come out smelling like a rose and Republicans come off like they are blocking a jobs bill.

If the bill had no chance, Republicans would not have needed to stick their neck out like a chicken on a chopping block. They filibustered because they knew the bill would pass.
 
1Perry said:
That's not what the article states. It states that the Dems supported it and the rest of the country didn't.
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I don't know what you're reading ... what I'm reading says nearly 2/3rds of those polled wanted the bill to pass.
 
conservativeguy said:
LMFAO....only 50 lib senators voted for BO's Porkulus II
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I'm sorry, I didn't hear the constructive ideas from the loyal opposition. Is that because they have no ideas, nor are the particularly loyal to America either? Hard to believe we have an entire political party that is willing to put the welfare of America at risk just so they can return to power. The entire Republican party should be rounded up and shot as traitors.
 
upsideguy said:
I'm sorry, I didn't hear the constructive ideas from the loyal opposition. Is that because they have no ideas, nor are the particularly loyal to America either? Hard to believe we have an entire political party that is willing to put the welfare of America at risk just so they can return to power. The entire Republican party should be rounded up and shot as traitors.
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Let's see... eat **** (more failed stimulus) or eat nothing (no ideas).... I choose nothing. That was easy.
 
mike2810 said:
your opinion which I do not share.
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Of course it's just my opinion, hence I said, "I believe." I believe that because I don't see Republicans doing anything to promote economic growth but see plenty of examples of them blocking bills, like they did last night, which do.
 
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