WOW: The GOP Continues Its Fine Tradition Of Doing Jack Shit About Unemployment
I’m having a hard time mustering the motivation to write about anything because everything sucks:
Every single Republican voted against even discussing whether or not to pass the jobs bill. Every.Single.One.
Even though they campaigned on a “Create Jobs” platform, not only have they refused to come up with a plan to put Americans back to work, but they’re playing games by, among other things, suggesting that their plan to pollute us all to death by delaying two pending EPA rules actually creates jobs.
<blank stare>
It’s no mystery why they’re doing this — the GOP loathes Obama so much that they are willing to sacrifice the livelihoods of millions of Americans all in the hopes that they can render one American — President Obama — unemployed in thirteen months.
And for what? So that he can make boatloads of cash on the lecture circuit four years earlier than expected?
For the next thirteen months, the GOP will block everything that the president supports because they are fucking children.
I hate everything.
[image via MoveOn]
[cross-posted at Balloon Juice]
Obama knew the so-called Jobs Act had no chance of passing in it’s entirety. It was nothing more than a cynical attempt at creating an issue to campaign on.
Whereas the first $787 stimulus was rammed through without any chance to debate, this time around the Dems are now going to break Stimulus 2.0 into smaller parts and there will be a chance to consider it in bite-sized pieces.
Obama must be pretty bummed the Dems are splitting the bill into smaller parts though, because the GOP will support some parts of the bills. Whoops, there goes your campaign issue.
Shut up. Your word salad of inaccurate talking points won’t work in this forum. Just shut it.
Talk about a blind follower above and a blind follower below.
“Shut up.”
We don’t take to your kind around here.
“Just shut it.”
“Stuff you.”
Awesome debate skills, love the way neither of you could even address one thing I said. Stay angry, stay close-minded, I’m sure you’ll be winning a lot of people over to your side with that formula.
As they said in the edited version of CASINO:
“Stuff you, you freaking maggot.”
love the way neither of you could even address one thing I said.
you didn’t say anything. you gloated at the notion that republicans won’t even DISCUSS the bill.
that makes you the asshole, not marc or reginahny.
the fact that you think obama is “bummed” about having to break up the bill speaks to your teabilly “obummer sux” mindset. obama cares about putting americans back to work. republicans care about ousting obama at the expense of the millions of americans who need jobs.
next time, if you’re going to gloat, you might want to make a cogent argument first.
then again, i don’t expect republicans to be able to make a cogent argument, so… ::shrug::
Two and a half years into his presidency, it was early August when Obama announced he was going to release a jobs plan – just as soon as he got back from vacation – so a month later, he addresses Congress and suddenly he’s got this new sense of urgency, “pass this bill now”, “we need pass this bill now”, “pass this bill now”, but even his own party didn’t jump when he finally found his sense of urgency.
The Democrats took their sweet time, a month later it was actually the Republicans who first put Obama’s “Jobs” Bill up to a vote, Harry Reid blocked the vote, then finally on Tuesday, the Democrats are able to put it up for a vote themselves, and as predicted, it was voted down.
You can’t really blame Republicans for voting it down, they’re only holding Obama to his own words . . .
“The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of a recession, because that would just suck up, take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.” – Barack Obama, August 5, 2009
I noticed you didn’t deny that Obama surely knew the bill with it’s tax raises stood no chance of passing, so it’s pretty obvious the only motivation he had in bringing the bill forth was to put up a “Jobs” bill the GOP could not support, and then use that as a campaign issue, he can’t run on his own record, but at the very least he could try to run against a “do-nothing” Congress half-controlled by Republicans.
So it takes away a campaign issue for Obama, I’m not gloating, just making an honest assessment there, but I think it’s a good thing for the country that Democrats are willing to break the bill into smaller parts.