"Jobs Bill"? Nah, it is Obama's "Spend Like a Drunken Sailor with Other People's Money" Bill.
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Obama's Jobs Bill Fails Critical Senate Vote
By Audrey Hudson
Human Events
10/12/2011
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46806
President Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill failed in a crucial vote in the Senate on Tuesday night despite weeks of his begging lawmakers to “pass this bill now.”
The procedural vote required 60 yeas to pass but failed mostly along party lines, with two Democrats, Senators Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Jon Tester of Montana, siding with Republicans 50 to 49.
In one final delay, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) went so far as to allow the vote to go on for more than two hours to allow Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D.-N.H.) enough time to fly back to Washington from an awards ceremony she was attending in Boston to vote for the plan.
And although Senators Joe Lieberman (I.-Conn.), Jim Webb (D.-Va.) and Joe Manchin (D.-W.Va.) sided with Obama in Tuesday night’s cloture vote to cut off the filibuster, all stated they would not vote in favor of final passage for Obama’s bill in the future. [Sen. Tom Coburn (R - Okla.) wasn't there because he is currently recuperating from surgery, so the cloture vote would have certainly been a 50/50 tie. But, on Obama's POS bill, itself, with no votes from Lieberman, Webb, and Manchin adding to those of the two other Democrat senators, the final tally would have been 53 against and 47 for. B.]
“Out of respect for the principles of free and open debate, I will be voting to proceed to debate on the American Jobs Act,” Webb said. “However, I cannot support final passage of the bill in its current form.”
Republicans labeled Obama’s bill a permanent tax hike for a temporary spending bill, while Democrats have delayed voting on the measure for weeks knowing that they didn’t have enough support to pass it and that it would embarrass the White House.
“This is not about a victory for President Obama, it is about a victory for unemployed people across the country,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D.-Ill.) said during a floor speech prior to the vote. [Durbin is a pathetic buffoon. Obama's bill is nothing but the same ol' tired Marxism of using the government to steal from productive Americans and use the ill-gotten funds to pay off your political supporters - you know the ones ... those 2008 voters who actually voiced their expectations on television that Obama would pay their rent, make their car payments, and pay their utility bills with his "stash" once he got in The White House or the "Occupy" dunce who publicly demanded a free college education simply because he does not want to pay for one. B.]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) called the package another failed stimulus bill, and said defeating it “is the only way we can get Democrats in Washington to finally abandon this failed approach to job creation.” [That's because this has nothing to do with job creation ... government cannot create jobs in the first place ... it's all about wealth redistribution in favor of the Democrat Party. B.]
That stimulus bill cost taxpayers $825 billion, and yet three years later, there are 1.5 million fewer jobs, McConnell said. “That’s the clearest proof it was a monstrous failure."
“By proposing a second stimulus, Democrats are showing the American people that they have no new ideas for dealing with our jobs crisis,” McConnell said. “Today’s vote is conclusive proof that Democrats’ sole proposal is to keep doing what hasn’t worked—along with a massive tax hike that we know won’t create jobs.”
Obama tried to rally support for his bill just hours before the vote, telling a crowd of union supporters in Pittsburgh that “our economy needs a jolt.” [Yeah, you're right, B. Hussein ... the "jolt" it needs is for you and Joe Biden to immediately resign and for the Democrat Party to dissolve and cease to exist. B.]
“The Senate of the United States has a chance to do something, right now, by voting for the American Jobs Act," Obama said. “This is gut-check time,” Obama said.
In an e-mail to supporters before the vote began, the Obama campaign accused Republicans of voting down his plan for political purposes, and urged them to call Congress and voice their support. [Nah, B. Hussein ... the Republicans are against your wealth redistribution bill because it's an anti-American piece-o-shit that will do no good for the economy, which is the same reason why 5 Democrat senators are against it, too. B.]
“Their strategy is to suffocate the economy for the sake of what they think will be a political victory,” the e-mail said. “There’s still time for principled Republican senators to declare their independence from this kamikaze political strategy.” [ROTFLMAO! You've already pissed away more than three-quarters of a trillion dollars on failed "stimulus," Obamoron, and now you want to piss away another $447 billion. Einstein said the definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." You and your Democrat comrades are the ones who are mindlessly flying a kamikaze political strategy. B.]
Obama originally proposed paying for his program through a combination of tax increases on families making more than $250,000 and eliminating so-called “loopholes” for the rich. Democrats reworked the plan to levy a 5.6% surtax on those earning more than $1 million.
Still, Reid was not hopeful he could convince his entire caucus to hold the party line.
“To get all my senators to agree that I can take a break to go to the bathroom — I can’t quite get that,” Reid said last week. [Well, Harry ... I bet you'd get a majority vote if you promised to go to the bathroom, stick your vacuous head in the toilet, and give yourself a swirly, you idiot. B.]
Some 100 protesters from antiwar groups and an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street brigade tried to disrupt work in one of the congressional office buildings as a show of support for the Obama administration.
A half-dozen activists were arrested by Capitol Hill Police for unlawful conduct, and others were escorted out of the Hart Senate Office Building after shrieking and shouting slogans in the building’s cavernous atrium, and attempting to unfurl banners from a balcony calling for an end to war, and “People for the People."
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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