What's With The Dems & The Jobs Bill? Are The Repugs Right That Many Dems Don't Support It?....

[global1]

Just heard Sen. Harissa from Wyoming on CNN being interviewed by Carol Costello. She is terrible. She lobbed him a bunch of softball questions. Didn't really challenge him on his lies. She let him get away with saying OWS was put together by the Unions. He also said the Dems don't support the President's Job Bill. Says the Repugs have made attempts to vote on it in the Senate and Harry Reid won't let that happen. What's the real background behind his contentions?

[OHdem10]

1. Fox has run this Lead more than once: Obama's Job Plan is being blocked

by his own party--not Republicans.

United we stand--Divided we fall.

[midnight]

2. I just read this article and it might be Mitch McConnell's doing...

"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday he is open to changing the way the package is paid for to win more Democratic votes. Several Democrats have objected to Obama's proposal to raise taxes on the wealthy and impose a new tax on health benefits.

"There's a wide range of things that we're looking at," Reid told reporters, emphasizing that "the majority" of Democratic senators are already behind the bill.

But in a calculated move designed to show that the bill currently lacks full Democratic support, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took steps to bring the bill immediately to a vote. He cited Obama's call on Congress to take action on the bill "right away," and suggested that he, too, would like to do just that.

"I've noticed a number of Democrats have expressed their concerns with parts of it," McConnell told reporters. "But what the president has asked for is not parts of it, but the whole thing, and he's been critical of Congress for not giving it a vote. So I think we should. I think he's entitled to know where the Senate stands on his proposal."


Read the rest. It talks about how the scuffle starts between Reid and McConnell..http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/04/obama-jobs-bill_n_994702.html

[Edweird]

3. I think some of us have made the connection between 'free trade' and some of our problems.

[OHdem10]

6. I have done extensive Posing here, over and over. Free Trade

Policies, not mangaed properly, is directly responsible
for large portion of Joblessness.

The early citizen Tea Parties said this also.

[Bonhomme Richard]

4. What is the tax on health benefits?

I missed that.

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. Not all Demcrats in the Senate support President Obama's jobs bill

McConnell want to hold a vote in the Senate to show that lack of GOP support is not the only reason it has not passed.

[Lurks Often]

7. It seems that they are, not one Democrat has co-sponsored the bill in the

House or Senate.

S1549/HR12 have no co-sponsors from either party.

For the status of S1549 see http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s112-1549

For the status of HR12 see http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-12

[WI_DEM]

8. Not many--just the usual suspects--conservadems like Nelson of NE & Landreau who wants

to protect oil and gas interests. But when you have only 53 the defection of 4 or 5 can defeat it.

[Yo_Mama]

9. The jobs bill is a joke

It's not going to work and it has no chance of passage.

[DonCoquixote]

10. Congress is untouchable

If Obama does not attack congress, he is a scum,
If obama atttacks congress, he is a scum,
and everybody just sits at home, protects their congressperson, and has another beer or joint.