That doesn't mean they can't get 50 votes also it takes 61 votes to break an inevitable Republican filibuster.
This isn't about a filibuster. The Senate repubs moved to vote on the bill as Obama handed it to them. Political positioning? Yes. But what is Oblame doing these days? Preemptively blaming the repubs for the envitable failure of his bill. It shows how little faith he has in it. So then why did he propose it?
Obama never stopped campaigning. He was sworn into office and continued the campaign. The Solyndra thing shows that - he won't admit he might have been wrong...all he gives a damn about is 2012.
Proj John is getting the point right here. Reid blocked the vote simply to protect Obama and the democratic party from looking like idiots. They're hoping to pin the blame on the repubs for a bad bill. I mean, what if they do vote on it, and it fails? They then skip all the BS positioning they're doing now and move to finding some compromise. Instead they're voting on...NOT jobs.
Hell they ran on Jobs,Jobs and more Jobs!
When unemployment is a over 9%??? LMAO I call that not having not having a clue on how to fix the problem .
Guess what: Reagan's administration created MILLIONS of jobs without a job bill. During Clinton's term, Gingrich and Clinton agreed on a capital gains tax cut which directly lead to there being a surplus as business surged. Better, jobs were created.
The dems seem to believe that 50% of nothing is better than 25% of something. Heavily tax capital gains and discourage businesses from hording tons of cash and what will they do? Find loopholes, and more importantly, keep the money and assets offshore...which means jobs stay off shore. Make the US friendly towards corporations and, my god they may actually bring jobs back to the US.
Fail. This is a bill that the Democrats supposedly believe will stop the burning. The Republicans are saying "Fine, let's vote on it." Instead of calling their bluff, the Democrats are saying "No no no, we have lots more fiddling to do."
The bill is a turd as written. Democrats up for reelection can't be seen to vote for it, yet the only thing on which Democrats can campaign is Republican obstructionism. So the Democrats have to prevent a vote at all costs, at least until they make it so abominably worse that Democrats can safely vote for it knowing Republicans can't chance voting for it. That puts Democrats in the awkward position of having to obstruct whilst also blaming the Republicans for being obstructionist. They know their Yellow Dog Democrats will take whatever they dump on them, but they must really be sweating whether or not independents are so vapidly ignorant as to buy this juggling act.
No, no, no. Compromise is when Democrats write a bill behind closed doors, Republicans vote for it, and then Democrats blame Republicans for the bill being most suitable for fertilizer.
We've endured the the previous congress forcing obamacare down our damned throats. They skipped reconciling the bill. Obama proclaimed the bill would be debated IN THE OPEN. ON CSPAN. In the end, Obama publicly ordered the bill to be forced through behind closed door. Reid's move simply shows nothing has changed. They're still willing to force things. If I had some control over the next congress, I'd start finding loopholes for this nonsense and remove them. Same as redoing the interstate commerce clause to further limit the federal government's meddling.
But you're right, werepossum. This is an admission that the dems know the bill cannot pass in its current state and needs a massive overhaul.
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