{"id":7174,"date":"2011-10-05T14:40:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T18:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=7174"},"modified":"2011-10-05T14:40:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T18:40:09","slug":"who-is-actually-blocking-the-jobs-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=7174","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Actually Blocking The ‘Jobs’ Bill ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First of all, the best laid plans of mice and men do not always unfold as planned. The current situation regarding the ‘jobs’ bill is an example of this. When President Obama introduced his jobs bill, he made sure it had enough ‘poison pills’ in it to prevent Republicans in Congress from voting for it. The idea was to create a campaign issue by saying, “The Republicans are preventing me from fixing the economy.” There is no way the jobs bill would fix the economy, but as long as the Republicans in Congress prevented it from being passed, most Americans wouldn’t figure this out, and President Obama had a campaign issue that voters who were not paying close attention might believe. Well, life got complicated.<\/p>\n

Harry Reid blocked a Senate vote of the jobs bill yesterday, even as he complained that Republicans were stalling a vote on the bill. The problem–no Democrat running for re-election wants to vote for the bill. The bill raises taxes and increases spending. The Obama administration may be tone deaf to the results of the 2010 election, but the Democrats running for Congress in 2012 are not.<\/p>\n

Guy Benson at Townhall.com<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

So Obama’s jobs act doesn’t have a single Democratic<\/em> co-sponsor in the House, and Democrats<\/em> in the Senate have pulled out all the procedural stops to block even a vote<\/em> on a bill their party’s president insists must be passed right away…and the Obama campaign is blasting out emails<\/a> ripping Republicans<\/em> for obstructionism.\u00a0 Pardon me as I laugh my ass off at the ineptitude.\u00a0 Speaking of ineptitude, let’s also take a moment to reflect on Senate Democrat’s 8-8-8 plan.\u00a0 No, I’m not talking about liberals’ alternative to Herman Cain’s tax proposal, I’m talking about the 888-day anniversary<\/a> of the last time Harry Reid’s motley crew deigned to introduce a budget, which they’re required by statute to do every year.\u00a0 Good work, guys.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Weekly Standard<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n

The Obama campaign sent out an email today asking supporters to urge Congress to at least vote on the president\u2019s jobs bill almost immediately after Democratic majority leader\u00a0Harry Reid blocked a vote<\/a> on the bill in the Senate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the Senate floor today, Republican leader Mitch McConnell asked for unanimous consent<\/a> to proceed on voting on the bill. Reid, who has struggled to find enough votes for the bill in the Democratic caucus, objected to the motion and killed the opportunity for a vote.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The question I have is very simple. How many people are actually paying enough attention to realize what is actually going on?<\/p>\n

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