….so the next time that John Boner Boehner in the House asks “ Where are the jobs?” just remind him that either he or Bitch Mitch McConnell and their partners in crime keep killing any jobs bills that would help the American citizens. All of this crap just to regain the White House in order to loot even more cash from the United States and to put the middle class down into the poverty class.
By MinistryOfTruth @ Daily Kos Sat Jun 25, 2011
On June 22nd, Senate Republicans filibustered to death yet ANOTHER jobs bill.
This time Senate Republicans killed funding for a 40 year old program, the EDA (Economic Development Administration). I have written about this bill as it moved through Congress recently, but now it is DEAD, and we have Republican politicians and their voters to thank for it.
If you want JOBS, don't vote Republican.
via Steve Benen.
The result is the apparent end of a program that even the most far-right members have embraced in the recent. Hell, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), arguably the Senate’s most right-wing member, held a workshop last year to help South Carolina businesses and organizations take advantage of EDA opportunities. Yesterday, DeMint led the fight to kill the EDA. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said last month that funds from an EDA grant “would pave the way for the creation of new jobs and business opportunities, which will strengthen the region’s economy.” He voted to kill the program, too.
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said just two weeks ago that an EDA grant would bring “a much needed boost to the local economy.” He voted to kill the program, too.
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) has called EDA projects “key to our region’s future economic development.” He voted to kill the program, too.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) recently boasted, “I have long been a supporter of EDA programs.” He voted to kill the program, too.
It’s bad enough when Republicans rely on a bizarre ideology to stand in the way of good ideas. But what are we to think when Republicans won’t even allow a vote to fund a program they claim to like?
The Political Animal
I know what we ought to think.
We should all be thinking that Republicans are total assholes.
We should think that Senator Jim DeMint is Captain Asshole.
We should all see how obvious it is that the GOP is fighting to keep things as fucked up as possible. I mean, it's not like Republicans can run on Obama's bad economy if they just let Democrats go around fixing it. No, instead, Republicans are trying to throw a monkey wrench into the works by doing everything they can to keep a real recovery from taking place in America, because that would be good for Obama. Only assholes hope for more suffering, and if people aren't suffering by the time the 2012 elections roll around the GOP is going to be in deep shit, so it is very important to the near future of the Republican party that things suck as much as possible for the lower 98% of America.
Senate Democrats are trying to do something to create jobs, and Senate Republicans will not let them. They WANT things to get worse so they can blame it on Obama.
Just like any real patriot would. Nothing is more patriotic than causing suffering to your fellow citizens so you can score political points and undermine the President of the United States.
You know, real patriotic stuff.
A bit more detail on the bill that was filibustered.
The EDA has traditionally enjoyed bipartisan support, and this reauthorization bill was introduced with bipartisan co-sponsorship and passed out of committee without any dissent from Republicans. But after two weeks of debate, the bill was unanimously filibustered by Republicans and has now been pulled from the floor. Like the last jobs bill to die in the Senate, the bill was bogged down and ultimately killed by dozens of controversial and unrelated amendments that were submitted to it. Senate rules do not require amendments to be germane to the bill they are submitted to, so individual senators can choose to use any bill to force a vote on any of their pet issues. By the time the EDA bill was killed, 99 amendments had been submitted, and the list read like an overview of current hot-button political topics. The amendments included everything from raising the debt ceiling, to repealing health care reform, repealing financial regulatory reform, expanding offshore oil drilling, and more.
OpenCongress.org
This is the GOP game plan every time: Waste as much time as possible, then vote NO, even if you used to support it before.
Because we all know that what Republican voters REALLY wanted as they screamed "WHERE ARE THE JOBS!" before the 2010 elections is a bunch of Republican politicians who would kill any job initiative or jobs program they can. You see, according to assholes, what the American economy needs now more than ever is for the Republican party to kill every jobs creation bill possible so we can get down to what American workers really need, which is obviously more tax breaks for the rich.
Total assholery achieved.
So every single Republican voted to filibuster this jobs bill, and Ben Nelson (D-NE), Tim Johnson (D-SD), Amy Klobaucher (D-MN) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) helped. Hooray for liberty.
At this point, I don't know who the biggest assholes are, the very wealthy GOP politicians and insiders, or the misinformed saps who voted for them and just cost themselves their own jobs, their Medicare, their Social Security, and all so they can pile on more tax breaks for the rich and Corporations as they fight to take our country back to the glory days of George W. Bush and Herbert Hoover.
Spiteful assholes, cynical fools, corrupt bastards, each and every one of them.
Because the last thing America needs right now is Economic Development. That would be good for Obama and bad for the GOP, so we can't have that.
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