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UPDATE 1-New U.S. senator helps Democrats advance jobs bill

Turn out the lights the party's over.

So Brown says: "I hope my vote today is a strong step toward restoring bipartisanship in Washington," what is he nuts?

Does he not understand the word NO? There have been no new net jobs created so far and this is not going to help either.

UPDATE 1-New U.S. senator helps Democrats advance jobs bill | Reuters

WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - A modest job-creation bill advanced in the U.S. Senate on Monday as the chamber's newest Republican bucked his party and sided with Democrats on a $15 billion package of tax cuts and highway spending.

Republican Scott Brown joined four other Republicans, 55 Democrats and two independents to overcome a procedural hurdle that sets up a final vote later this week.

Brown was widely hailed as a conservative hero after his surprise victory in Massachusetts last month gave Republicans enough seats to block most Democratic legislation.

His election prompted President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats to call for increased bipartisanship, and an earlier version of the bill was written with Republican input.

But key Republicans withdrew their support after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scaled it back.

Brown said the bill was not perfect but would help put people back to work.

"I hope my vote today is a strong step toward restoring bipartisanship in Washington," he said in a statement.

The bill includes a tax credit for businesses that hire unemployed workers, subsidies for state and local construction bonds and $19.5 billion to shore up a highway-construction fund.

Much of the cost is offset by a crackdown on offshore tax shelters.
 
The Senate voted Monday to advance a $15 billion jobs-creation measure, giving Democrats a key victory as they seek to reverse their declining political fortunes by emphasizing legislation to boost the economy. The chamber is now poised to pass the measure later this week.

The Democrats garnered 5 Republican votes on this. One of those votes was Scott Brown. I am truly disappointed.

Here is my problem with the bill -

The Democrats want to give tax breaks to businesses for hiring workers. The problem here is that, if businesses hire workers for the tax break, when consumer demand is down, then the tax break is for nothing. It is a huge waste of taxpayer money, and nothing else. It's like a proposal, made decades ago, that we can bring ourselves out of a recession by paying workers at one company to build refrigerators, pay more workers to transport the refrigerators to another plant, where more workers are paid to destroy those refrigerators. This bill, sent to the floor by Harry Reid, is pure idiocy, and it looks like this idiocy is going to pass.

I am very surprised that even ONE Republican supported this government sponsored insanity, but FIVE?? WTF????

Article is here.
 
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Re: UPDATE 1-New U.S. senator helps Democrats advance jobs bill

Maybe if the Democrats start voting Republicans into office the Democratic agenda will actually succeed.
 
Re: UPDATE 1-New U.S. senator helps Democrats advance jobs bill

I am glad someone finally strepped across the party lines, and I now respect those republicans that voted across the eisle a little more.
 
Re: UPDATE 1-New U.S. senator helps Democrats advance jobs bill

Turn out the lights the party's over.

So Brown says: "I hope my vote today is a strong step toward restoring bipartisanship in Washington," what is he nuts?

Does he not understand the word NO? There have been no new net jobs created so far and this is not going to help either.

Conservative pundits will strike back at Brown and call him a RINO for voting on a Democratic sponsored bill in 3, 2, 1...
 
The Democrats garnered 5 Republican votes on this. One of those votes was Scott Brown. I am truly disappointed.

Here is my problem with the bill -

The Democrats want to give tax breaks to businesses for hiring workers. The problem here is that, if businesses hire workers for the tax break, when consumer demand is down, then the tax break is for nothing. It is a huge waste of taxpayer money, and nothing else. It's like a proposal, made decades ago, that we can bring ourselves out of a recession by paying workers at one company to build refrigerators, pay more workers to transport the refrigerators to another plant, where more workers are paid to destroy those refrigerators. This bill, sent to the floor by Harry Reid, is pure idiocy, and it looks like this idiocy is going to pass.

I am very surprised that even ONE Republican supported this government sponsored insanity, but FIVE?? WTF????

Article is here.

...jesus christ. Tax breaks for small businesses, and Republicans are vehemently against it.

You really will convince yourself via any means possible that anything the democrats do is BAD!
 
Re: UPDATE 1-New U.S. senator helps Democrats advance jobs bill

Maybe if the Democrats start voting Republicans into office the Democratic agenda will actually succeed.

Freaking genius. Obama really is playing jedi chess.
 
...jesus christ. Tax breaks for small businesses, and Republicans are vehemently against it.

You really will convince yourself via any means possible that anything the democrats do is BAD!

Actually I have read enough of Danarhea's post to know he doesn't play that game. Although after reading the source the only thing that was said was wrong with the bill is that the Republican weren't allowed to offer amendments. And while that is probably a problem I do not see the issue with this bill.
 
I am glad someone finally strepped across the party lines, and I now respect those republicans that voted across the eisle a little more.

For what its worth, both sides had already stepped across party lines and put together a bipartisan bill. Then Harry Reid dumped it because he was worried it would hurt the Dems in the 2010 elections.

Reid's about-face stuns Dems, W.H. - POLITICO.com Print View

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid led colleagues and the White House to believe he supported a bipartisan jobs bill — only to scuttle the plan as soon as it was released Thursday over concerns it could be used to batter Democratic incumbents, according to Senate sources.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) worked for weeks with Reid's blessing and frequent involvement to craft an $85 billion jobs bill, a measure that seemed destined to break the partisan logjam that has ground the Senate to a halt.

But as Baucus, Grassley and President Barack Obama were preparing to celebrate a rare moment of bipartisan Kumbaya on Thursday, Reid stunned a meeting of Senate Democrats by announcing he was scrapping Baucus-Grassley, replacing it with a much cheaper, more narrowly crafted, $15 billion version.

"Grassley and three to four Republicans would have voted for it, but all the other Republicans would have beaten the living s—t out of us [during the 2010 midterms], claiming the bill was too bloated," said a Democrat who supported Reid's decision, explaining the leader's logic.

Few felt as good about the decision: Republicans say the about-face will only add to an already poisonous partisan atmosphere, liberal Democrats think the bill is too small to do much good and the powerful negotiators of the bipartisan package were left embarrassed, demoralized and befuddled.
 
Can someone explain why the Left isn't furious that the Senate is passing MORE spending to create "jobs" when two thirds of the previous pork bill are still unspent?

Is fiscal intelligence reserved only to real Americans? You know, the ones that care about their children's future and want to leave them a country that isn't bankrupt?
 
Scott Brown helps Democrats advance jobs bill

New senator helps Democrats advance jobs bill - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A modest job-creation bill advanced in the Senate on Monday as the chamber's newest Republican bucked his party and sided with Democrats on a $15 billion package of tax cuts and highway spending.

Republican Scott Brown joined four other Republicans, 55 Democrats and two independents to overcome a procedural hurdle that sets up a final vote later this week.

Brown was widely hailed as a conservative hero after his surprise victory in Massachusetts last month gave Republicans enough seats to block most Democratic legislation.

His election prompted President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats to call for increased bipartisanship, and an earlier version of the bill was written with Republican input.

As I said before. Massachusetts doesn't elect conservatives.
 
...jesus christ. Tax breaks for small businesses, and Republicans are vehemently against it.

You really will convince yourself via any means possible that anything the democrats do is BAD!

BOGUS tax breaks for small business.

Gee, they only get the break if they hire someone. So if the employee isn't worth the tax break, there's no incentive to hire.

Whereas if the flaming retarded sociast economic illiterates would just stop trying to micromanage the world because they're so much better than the rest of us and we just can't manage to suck in oxygen without them, and simply gave the economy the tax cuts it needs, across the board and broad, too, the economy might start moving some, with real jobs that are needed being created.

And, oh, by the way, ALL Republicans in the Senate are RINO's. Real Republicans care about the Republic.
 
Can someone explain why the Left isn't furious that the Senate is passing MORE spending to create "jobs" when two thirds of the previous pork bill are still unspent?

Is fiscal intelligence reserved only to real Americans? You know, the ones that care about their children's future and want to leave them a country that isn't bankrupt?
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Because many of them do not have a job currently, and they care about their children's present?
 
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Because many of them do not have a job currently, and they care about their children's present?

Not good enough.

They don't have a job because they've been living their lives assuming their Super Nanny in Washington is going to take care of them Fore-ev-er.

If they cared about their children, they wouldn't have been supporting socialists in the first place. Everyone knows that socialism is a disaster.

I see no reason immature dolts should be catered to.
 
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Not good enough.

They don't have a job because they've been living their lives assuming their Super Nanny in Washington is going to take care of them Fore-ev-er.

If they cared about their children, they wouldn't have been supporting socialists in the first place. Everyone knows that socialism is a disaster.

I see no reason immature dolts should be catered to.

so unemployed people who cannot find a job are immature socialists dolts who lost their jobs because of a nanny state huh? nice to know.

Its easy to live in the land of hyperbole isnt it? don't let reality intrude on your little utopia. The only unemployed people out there are lazy welfare dependent government softened patsies who are not trying desperately to find work, gotcha.
 
Re: Scott Brown helps Democrats advance jobs bill

New senator helps Democrats advance jobs bill - Yahoo! News



As I said before. Massachusetts doesn't elect conservatives.

Yet the conservative republicans were stupid enough to push Mitt Romney as some kind of desirable candidate.

Fortunately, in the next election we've got his irrelevant religion out of the way (I mean that it's irrelevant to his job as potential president, it's not like he's spent two decades willingly absorbing racist crap from Reverend Wright. He's just a harmless Mormon.) so in the next election cycle we can hopefully get to see what he's actually done.

Like signing a compusory insurance bill for Massachusetts. That no one liked, so they expressed their dislike of it's cousin, Messiah Care, by sending a Republican to fill Drunken Teddy's old seat.
 
Re: UPDATE 1-New U.S. senator helps Democrats advance jobs bill

Maybe if the Democrats start voting Republicans into office the Democratic agenda will actually succeed.

No.

The only thing the Democrat agenda can do is pass.

If the goal of the agenda is national improvement, well, it's a Democrat agenda and that's just not going to happen.
 
so unemployed people who cannot find a job are immature socialists dolts who lost their jobs because of a nanny state huh? nice to know.

If they're still hoping the government is going to burp them and change their diapers for them, yes, they're immature dolts.

Its easy to live in the land of hyperbole isnt it?

Don't know, I'm not a Democrat, I live in America, the land where men take care of their own by themselves.
 
If they're still hoping the government is going to burp them and change their diapers for them, yes, they're immature dolts.

I am sure that almost every unemployed person out there is hoping to find a job, and would much rather the government not have to butt in to accomplish this.


Don't know, I'm not a Democrat, I live in America, the land where men take care of their own by themselves.

because unemployment is only a Democratic affliction, the Republicans can all take care of themselves, and are not out of work cuz they live in America.

don't mean to post personal info but:

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For what its worth, both sides had already stepped across party lines and put together a bipartisan bill. Then Harry Reid dumped it because he was worried it would hurt the Dems in the 2010 elections.

Reid's about-face stuns Dems, W.H. - POLITICO.com Print View

Ya, I was pretty mad about that. And then Hatch decided he was going to vote against a bill that still had his proposal because of Reids actions. I would have preferred the larger bill that reid scrapped as well. However, it still worked out, and 5 republicans voted across the party line. I commend them for that.
 
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