Posted on 02/11/2010 1:43:01 PM PST by SDShack
Members of the Senate Finance Committee unveiled a long-awaited bipartisan jobs bill Thursday morning – only to have it scrapped within hours by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Reid killed the bill after hearing complaints from members of his own caucus who argued that Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) had gone too far beyond the core goal of job creation in order to win over Republican support.
It was a major rebuke for Baucus, who’d spent weeks working with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking Republican on his committee, trying to come up with a bill that Republicans would support.
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Thank you, Harry Reid for killing this stupid piece of legislation.
I wonder what calculus, if any, went into this.
I would think the Dems should jump at the chance to pass a “bi-partizan” pork-laden bill. First, it feeds their base, second, it inoculates them against Republican charges, and thirdly, it would drive the wedge between the Tea Party and the Republicans.
That they didn’t, despite the White House urging them to, points to either stupidity or real fear that as the economy tanks some more after their handiwork passes, the people really come after them with pitchforks.
Even though only 40% of the Senate Republicans have been able to almost totally stop Obama’s and the democrats/Marxists socialist agenda, not allowing most if not all of the democrats’ main socialist bills from becoming the law of the land.
God bless you GOP.
And Michael Savage and other liberals and some brainwashed populist “conservatives” still say there is no difference between the 2 parties, democrats and Republicans.
Bipartisanship is a euphemism for the 70’s ‘better red than dead” mantra.
Good points — if the experienced RINO Grassley cannot work out a “bi-partisan” bill in months of efforsts, then most Rs and most of the public need to learn that for the Demagogues “bi-partisanship” means simply R. submission and groveling.
Cut taxes and cut government spending 20% this year and things will be fine.
We don't need a government "jobs" bill!
Baucus-Grassley....2 butt-cheeks that surround the obamao-hole!
The only learning that is slow and painful is that the Republicans aide and abet the Democrats by pretending to be slow and painfully stupid. They are neither - they are passively helping the Rats by doing nothing precisely when doing nothing is the most helpful to the Rats. Watching people come up with endless excuses for this traitorous deliberate, knowing, calculated Republican behavior is what's slow and painful.
Too Much (Sung to ‘Too Much’ by Elvis Presley) A 2010 BCAD Parody Production
Well Harry, tries to shove through … too much…
Tries speed legislation … you putz!
Wants fat bills too… no cuts
“We’ll see what lies can move you … to us”
You’ll do all the givin’ if you wanna go on livin’
‘Cause we got you in Dutch
Well, who spends all my money… too much?
I have to hear baloney… too much
When I want some reasons… you’re gone
Voting through more treason, you’re Barry’s pawn
Now we’ve got TEA started, want to see your votes departed
‘Cause we’ve had you too much!
Why’s Reid for spendin’ … every dime?
Reid, you can’t win … please resign!
Reid, you hear me? … Hear real close
Please, please, hear me… you are toast!
Now we’ve got TEA started, want to see your votes departed …
‘Cause we’ve had you too much!
Well every lie flies fast ore’… Reid’s lips
I can feel my mouth go… “Bullsh*t!”
Obama’s such a fool for … your charms
“Take it back, Harry … it’s for Rahm”
Likes to hear you lying, even though he knows you’re dyin’ …
‘Cause we’ve had you too much!
Why’s Reid for spendin’ … every dime?
Reid, you can’t win … please resign!
Reid, you hear me? … Hear real close
Please, please, hear me… you are toast!
Now we’ve got TEA started, want to see your votes departed …
‘Cause we’ve had you too much!
Who's going to pay somebody 40,000 a year just to get a 6,000 dollar tax credit.
Bunch of effing Rahm Emanuels.
In order to reap the maximum benefit ($6600 savings in matching SSI), the salary would have to be $106,000.
If you are a small businessman, would you hire an employee you didn't need and pay him (or her) over $100 grand...to save $6 grand?
It's insanity -- borne of Democrats who have no experience in business and have no idea how it works.
We don’t need no damn Jobs bill! They need to cut the corporate tax rate to 12% Eliminate capital gains for 2 years and lower the marginal tax rate!!!!
When this is all said and done, the Dems will put up a bill that extends unemployment insurance, obligates money for road construction (hugh, where was that in porkulus .1), and it will have some make work government job creation boondoggle that doesn’t do chit for creating jobs.
Dems hate tax cuts, they want us dependent on them.
Republicans need to get in front on this and howl to the moon about how the Dems destroyed the Bi-partisan Jobs Bill and vote against this next version which will be Crap.
how about “A-PORK-Ulypse Now”
I would like to sincerely thank Harry Reid for saving the Republicans from themselves by refusing o give them the opportunity to vote for bi-partisan pork.
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