Who Switched On The Jobs Bill?

I can't imagine the House taking this thing up. The House wanted a jobs bill not a tax holiday.

Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
James Inhofe (R-OK)
George LeMieux (R-FL)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Roger Wicker (R-MS)

so passionately opposed to the jobs bill they won't allow it to come to a vote, but once it does come to a vote they vote FOR it. Only in today's dysfuynctional Senate.

Scott Brown was savaged by the far right yesterday and Sunday. Wonder what the savages will say today?

I'm suprised more Republicans didn't vote for this joke of a jobs bill. It reads as if one of them wrote it.

Your Democratic Senators bring the 10% of Americans who are unemployed relief in the form of tax cuts consisting of a 10 month suspension of the payroll tax and a $1000 a head tax credit for new hires kept on for one year to help them! That's what they've been waiting for! Thank god for the Democratic Senators!

And they did it without endangering any of that really matters to them, their parlimentary rules and collegial senate coutesies!

Everything with these fucktards is about strategy, and fucking over their constituents. Now they can stand in front of the tea party idiots and say they tried to stop the jobs bill, and then with a straight face tell unemployed people they voted for it.

These self-serving assholes need to go. Now.

Lamar Alexander's flip-flop is predictable. He has about as much spine as Harold Ford.

They play the Senate like they play the market. Hedge hedge hedge.

In the Republican (ie, the Supply Side Economics) way of thinking, tax cuts and incentives do create job growth, because companies have more money to spend. They believe that government creating jobs is bad because big government is bad. And they believe that any regulations requiring companies to create X jobs are bad because they impede profit.

These guys feel more comfortable blocking a popular bill than they do actually voting against one, because they realize that most people either don't know what a filibuster is, or don't really understand the significance. They made a calculation that they can be hurt by voting against the jobs bill, but are unlikely to be punished by voters for exercising (or more often just threatening to exercise) a parliamentary maneuver. This shows how important it is to make these guys mount a real live filibuster if they want to stop something. That might actually attract some media attention, and educate people about the level of undemocratic obstruction that these people engage in.

Disgusting!!! If only the Democrats had the 'stones' to call these fools out by name.

The voted for it in the end for the same reason the other five Repbulicas voted for it - it has additional transportation funding for their states. When they failed to kill it with the cloture vote, they turned around and voted for the bill rather than risk being criticized for not bringing home the bacon to their states.

And if any Democratic party political operatives need me to spell it out for you, I'll do that -- start now using this vote to drive a wedge between congressional Republicans and their new BFFs the Teabaggers...

What pisses me off is that the bill sucks!

I find it very discouraging to read all of the posts on this site that have no more understanding of the legislative process than the tea baggers, cable "news guys" and other wackos. Voting for or against cloture and then voting differently on the actual legislation has been part of the political process from the beginning. The purpose of the two votes are entirely different. One is to end debate the other to actually pass or turn down the legislation.

It would seem to me that the big story here is in the end this was a truly bipartisan bill with several republican votes. Promote the positive or you are just a tea bagger in lib/progressive/Dem clothing.

A Joe Lieberman move if I ever saw one. Remember during the vote to approve Sam Alito to the SC, Lieberman voted for cloture, but against the nomination in the "up or down" vote, knowing that Alito was a sure thing. Having it both ways. What a bunch of weasels.

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They were against it before they were for it.

Not to be a stickler for full disclosure and all, but the the filibuster is supposed to work this way.

Senators join filibusters not necessarily to object to the legislation but to respect another senator's prerogative to block it.

To vote for something after opposing cloture is not hypocritical.

Of course, a lot of things have changed as of late.

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