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Senate Republicans likely to kill Obama jobs bill
Yahoo News / ATT ^ | 10/11/2011 | ANDREW TAYLOR

Posted on 10/11/2011 6:50:58 AM PDT by mazda77

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's jobs bill, facing a critical test in the Senate, appears likely to die at the hands of Republicans opposed to stimulus spending and a tax surcharge on millionaires.

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Didn't I just read an article earlier this morning that Harry is having trouble getting the Democrats up for re-election to sign onto it. So it is ther Republican's fault. Right.
1 posted on 10/11/2011 6:51:03 AM PDT by mazda77
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Scratching my head. If Prince Harry invoked the nuclear option to reduce Senate activity to simple majority, how can the Pubs stop anything?


2 posted on 10/11/2011 6:53:55 AM PDT by PDMiller
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I saw Joe Lieberman this morning on TV and he said that he couldn’t vote for it because A) the bill costs about half a trillion dollars and B) it does nothing to actually encourage investment and growth.


3 posted on 10/11/2011 6:54:19 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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Yep, has nothing to do with Senate Rats, who face re-election next year, running away from it. It’s all the Pub’s fault.

New York Times, you can’t fail fast enough.


4 posted on 10/11/2011 6:55:08 AM PDT by hattend (If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
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To: hattend

Oh, that said ATT not NYT... well, I still stand by it...LOL!


5 posted on 10/11/2011 6:56:11 AM PDT by hattend (If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
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To: mazda77
Here we go again.

How many times are we going to fall for this.

Just go ahead and vote for the damn thing now, Republicans. We already know you're going to cave. Just get it over with.

6 posted on 10/11/2011 6:56:11 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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How can Republicans kill anything in The Senate? They aren't the majority.

They might be able to filibuster but that's not the same as killing it.

There are enough Liberal Republicans like Lisa Murkowski, Scott Brown, Olympia Snow, Susan Collins and a few others to overcome what Republican might deign to filibuster.

Stupid Yahoo News. You'd think they'd know that by now.

7 posted on 10/11/2011 6:58:38 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: mazda77

TO ALL RINOS, DINOS, AND ALL CONGRESSMEN AND CONGRESSWOMEN: NOW IS THE TIME TO COME TO THE AID OF AMERICA.

VOTE TODAY TO DEFEAT THE DEBT GREED, AND SPENDAHOLIC “JOBS” BILL OF THE DEBTOCRAT”S OBAMANATOR-IN-CHIEF, MR. YOU LIE OBAMA.

IF YOU CAN’T DO THIS FOR YOUR COUNTRY, THEN DO IT FOR THE FINANCIAL FUTURE OF YOUR DESCENDANTS.


8 posted on 10/11/2011 7:03:18 AM PDT by Graewoulf ( obama"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND is illegal by the U.S. Constitution.)
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Reid thinks he really pulled a fast one but he is in for quite a blow-back. Harry, you and your pack will again be reminded why it isn't much fun to be a rat.
9 posted on 10/11/2011 7:05:09 AM PDT by JPG (America is worth saving. All hands on deck!)
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To: mazda77; PDMiller; Army Air Corps; hattend; Texas Eagle

On one hand, you’ve got the media spinning this furiously as the minority somehow killing Obama’s bill.

On the other hand, you’ve got conservatives clamoring to replace the same R’s with hardcore TEA Party activists.

If you’re a D in Congress, you’ve got to be amazed.


10 posted on 10/11/2011 7:05:20 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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The headline should be “Minority set to outvote majority”.


11 posted on 10/11/2011 7:05:56 AM PDT by glorgau
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Should all the Republicans simply vote “present”?


12 posted on 10/11/2011 7:09:07 AM PDT by Ingtar (I closed my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone...)
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On the other hand, you’ve got conservatives clamoring to replace the same R’s with hardcore TEA Party activists.

Damn straight.

13 posted on 10/11/2011 7:10:40 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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...hardcore TEA Party activists.

Who will have their neophyte asses handed to them in short order by the entrenched capitol hill cronies?

14 posted on 10/11/2011 7:12:48 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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Who will have their neophyte asses handed to them in short order by the entrenched capitol hill cronies?

Are you a Susan Collins staffer?

15 posted on 10/11/2011 7:15:17 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: mazda77

Why would Republicans try to force a vote on the so-called jobs bill by tacking it to another bill as an amendment, then when it comes up by itself filibuster it to stop a vote on it? Is this story correct or just propaganda?


16 posted on 10/11/2011 7:16:05 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (Anyone see the democrat budget yet?)
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Are you a Susan Collins staffer

Olympia Snowe! lol. Yeah right. Whatever.

I'm just a rational boy from Central Texas.

I know BS when I see it.

And I've yet to see any politician on the current stage who can hold a candle to the real, actual conservative governance of Ronald Reagan....who would not survive the internecine squabbles of the right today much less win the presidency again.

Who was your super-duper conservative candidate in 2008? 2004? 2000?

17 posted on 10/11/2011 7:24:48 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Texas Eagle
R's didn't cave on Obamacare.

They didn't cave on Porkulus.

They're not going to cave on this one.

18 posted on 10/11/2011 7:31:35 AM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: mazda77

Last time I checked the Democrats were the majority in the Senate. That along with Reid’s “nuclear option” means that the only people who can stop “Obama’s Jobs Bill” are the Democrats.


19 posted on 10/11/2011 7:36:17 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: hattend

I just canceled my subscription to MAD magazine and subscribed to The New York Times. The Times is much funnier.


20 posted on 10/11/2011 7:55:33 AM PDT by Will we know the moment
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