Republicrats Join Opposition in Blocking Jobs Bill (Again)

[bigtree]

Oct. 21, 2011, 1:42 a.m.



Senate Blocks Two Parts of Obama’s Jobs Bill

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized a provision of the president’s jobs measure that would have provided $35 billion to save teaching and first responder jobs Thursday, saying a millionaire’s tax to pay for it would hurt small businesses. The Senate rejected the proposal Thursday night.


Two elements of President Barack Obama’s jobs bill failed on procedural votes when Senators tried to move them as individual measures late Thursday. The chamber then plunged ahead on a long series of votes on amendments to a package of three appropriations bills before advancing the measure, setting up a vote on passage for the week of Oct. 31.

A Democratic proposal to provide $35 billion to keep teachers and first responders from being laid off was the first portion of Obama’s $447 billion jobs proposal to receive an individual vote. It went down 50-50, short of the 60 needed for the Senate to take up the measure. Three Members of the Democratic Conference — Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) — joined all Republicans in opposing the procedural motion.




read: http://www.rollcall.com/news/senate_blocks_two_parts_obama_jobs_bill-209674-1.html

[Selatius]

1. This is exactly the kind of Democrats that threw a fit when the Public Option was still in play.

In order for the health insurance bill to pass, they had to delete the Public Option before all the Democrats got on board. You can watch the Republicans deliver you a stinging defeat, but with these Democrats voting against working class interests along with the Republicans, they can deliver to you a catastrophic defeat instead.

[jpbollma]

2. It's not just Republicans.

[RickFromMN]

3. What consequences do Lieberman, Nelson, or Pryor have to fear? Why do they have any chairmanships?

[jpbollma]

4. they are the cover guys..they won't suffer.

[Old and In the Way]

5. When you vote 100% of the times as a Republican, you probably aren't a Democrat.

Time to make people accountable to the brand. Boot 'em out of the caucus and primary them ASAP.

[jpbollma]

6. some people here

support conservadems no matter what. I understand that in certain states you have to vote a certain way but, where do we draw the line between principled voting and pandering?

[MrSlayer]

7. How I hate those sons of bitches.

Hate, hate hate. They are a big part of the reason I cannot convince a lot of Occupiers that we have allies in Congress already. I've had a ton of confrontation today with OWS people and it hasn't been pretty or fun.

[hfojvt]

8. would this be a good time to dust this off?

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/93

Although, actually my prediction was wrong, apparently Liebermann did not do much with his committee chairmanships, but buddying up to him hasn't seem to have accomplished much either.

But it does seem to be a very early indication of Obama showing that he is not a tiger, just a tame little housecat. A tiger would not have gone all purring up to an enemy. A tiger would have taken an arm off, and given a look that said, screw with me again and you will lose a lot more limbs.