Senate GOP Considering Suicidal Filibuster of Jobs Bill
What is the #1 issue in America?
JOBS.
What is the Senate voting on on Monday?
A JOBS BILL.
What will the Senate GOP being doing on Monday?
According to the Senate’s top vote counter, there is currently no Republican support for the proposal Democrats are putting forth–and with Scott Brown to be seated today as the 41st Republican Senator, they’ll need at least one member of the minority to come aboard. That sets the stage for a potential showdown between the two parties on the first major issue since the Democrats lost their supermajority, and put health care reform on the backburner.
Gosh I hope we call their bluff and make them bring out the cots and stand there reading the phone book. It would be so wonderful to have the media all over this.
I agree it will be an awesome spectacle. I just wish the jobs bill was simpler and more forceful. There are a lot of loose threads Repubs can pick on as irrelevant to job creation.
As Politico memorably says about the jobs bill: “Democrats say they are starting to coalesce around a hodgepodge of ideas.”
What is the OFFICIaL MAKE AMERICA FAIL ( for our political gain) GOP excuse on this one?
The jobs bill could presumably be attached to the budget and passed with 51 votes in the spring, but the jobs can’t wait that long. So Republicans are proposing to hold American jobs hostage for five more months.
I say Obama should offer the Repubs a deal: Pass the jobs bill now, or we will make it twice as big and pass it with the budget.
oh please oh please oh please OH PLEASE let them filibuster jobs. c’mon Icarus… fly a LITTLE higher!
yeah, renaming Stimulus II a Jobs bill will fool everybody…
yeah lizard. those lazy SOBs who don’t have jobs just aren’t trying hard enough.
Maybe this will teach Dems to stick together. And since they also need one more Repub vote – it might teach them how to play hardball.
Seriously, make ’em filibuster. Also if they were smart, the DSCC would have a commercial pre-made to release when the GOP votes “no” in lockstep.
Making them filibuster also requires the DEMs to stay up all night in order to be present for the quorum calls. It ain’t pleasant. But then, legislating, no matter how difficult, is what they are getting paid to do.
The Repubs want to bring down the entire country, rather than have Obama succeed at anything!