GOP Supported Parts Of Obama's Jobs Bill

WASHINGTON -- In blocking the American Jobs Act, Congressional Republicans are voting against positions that broad swaths of the party have supported in the past. It's a flip-flop that President Obama is working hard to highlight on his campaign swing through the battleground states of Virginia and North Carolina.

The White House built the jobs bill with pieces of legislation that had been previously supported by leading Republicans so that they could hammer them with those past votes and statements, making the case that the GOP's opposition to jobs legislation is rooted in pure politics.

That indictment was made most directly by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), head of the Democratic National Committee, on Sunday when she accused Republicans of stalling jobs legislation so that they can capitalize on economic misery at the polls.

"They're the ones that have just been crossing their arms and hoping for failure. I mean ... it's so irresponsible for them to allow the economy to just remain stagnant, you know, so that they can get a political victory in the election next year," she said.

The jobs bill was beaten back in the Senate last week, with 51 Democrats voting to end a GOP filibuster, nine short of the 60 votes needed. The Republican Party was united in opposition.

Democrats have vowed to continue bringing the jobs bill to the floor, with Obama mocking the GOP on the campaign trail Monday.

"Maybe they just couldn't understand the whole thing all at once," he said, offering to break it into digestible "bite-sized pieces."

Comments

[marilyn 63]

01:44 AM on 10/20/2011

phony fake posers liars> THE GANSTA OPPORTUNITY PARTY!! YOU LOW INFORMATION VOTERS PUT THIS CRAP IN OFFICE. AND YOU WHINERS WHO DIDN'T GET YOUR FAVORITE TOY FROM OBAMA HELPED SO WHAT ARE YOU GETTING FROM BOEHNER, MCCONNELL, CANTOR AND THE OTHER GOP LIARS? REMEMBER THE JOBS BOHENER PROMISED WITH A TEAR IN HIS EYE? WELL AT LEAST ONE SIDE OF HIS FACE THE OTHER SIDE WAS LAUGHING AT HOW DUMB PEOPLE WERE TO REELECT THEM (GOP) AFTER THEY SPENT THE COUNTRY DRY. SO NOW THEY FEEL THEY CAN JUST GIVE THE COUNTRY THE FINGER. THEY DONT EVEN OFFER A LIE ANYMORE THEY EVEN GO AGAINST THEIR OWN BILLS THAT OBAMA INCLUDED IN THE JOBS BILL. WHEN BUSH WAS IN OFFICE A BIPARTISAN CONGRESS VOTED ANYTHING BUSH WANTED TO THE RUIN OF THE COUNTRY. AND OBAMA'S TRYING TO HELP AND THEY SAY NO!! TO HIM NO!! TO THE COUNTRY SO VOTE SMART THIS TIME AND SAY NO!! TO THEM IN 2012. YEAH TROLLS ALL CAPS.

[norkas]

09:03 PM on 10/19/2011

Here is the very sad part of all this.

Many Republican voters and Democratic voters agree on so much that the only thing that is separating are the lobbyist who understand this is a business.

This bill could of been passed had their been a true interest in Americans instead this is Republican politics that does not even represent the vast majority of Republican voters.

Grow up and state in very simple language what you do not like and how you can double the jobs for ALL American that Barrack Obama proposed. Start a dialogue NOW and bring your differences to the media so we can hear and analyze what the hell you complaints are and how we can improve upon the bill.

Little children playing games to the detriment of America.

[KirbysMom]

03:03 PM on 10/19/2011

How will Obama fund Social Security if he cuts the payroll tax?

[clifcourt]

09:30 AM on 10/18/2011

Parts of it are good. Parts of it are bad. If the bad outways the good, you don't do it. The sad part of this is that most of the good parts got blocked at the Senateby Reid, so O could use them against his enemies. The main stream media sure knows how to spin a tale better than the Reps. To many sheep out there today, created by the Libs who run our education system while the Conservatives are out earning a living. You've turn kids on their own parents now. O, the great uniter?

[jwredd]

09:39 AM on 10/18/2011

I'm confused... were your parents liberals and the public education system turned you against them? And are all the unemployed people liberals while all the republicans are at full employment?

[clifcourt]

02:28 PM on 10/19/2011

Sorry you're confused. Full employmentis not a possibility. The rest of your comment makes no sense.

[dmgg711]

03:19 PM on 10/18/2011

Hah, the only way the Tea Party Republicans will pass anything is through their way or no way and that's by cutting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security but heaven, don't touch the wealthy tax cuts, loopholes, oil subsidies or tax the rich and Corporate America. That's why Senator Reid and Democrats will not accept their spending cuts, at the expense of the middle class and working poor.

[clifcourt]

02:30 PM on 10/19/2011

So it's ok for Reid to block the same thing that O now wants passed. Either you show an utter lack of logic or you misread my post as reply is just the same talking points.

[khandoor1]

09:12 AM on 10/18/2011

Gee, you think it might have something to do with his "all or nothing" demands?...and then only after its defeat he says he'll take bits and pieces. Clearly, this pres has no clue on what to do....other than attack

[jwredd]

09:15 AM on 10/18/2011

Are you saying that instead of his "all or nothing" demands he should only ask for the elements that republicans support? If so, why wouldn't you call that "all or nothing" on the republicans' part?

[khandoor1]

09:20 AM on 10/18/2011

What I'm referring to is obama's ineptitude. The president is trying to blame Republicans for obstruction, when the facts clearly show his dishonesty, by presenting an "all or nothing" and then using the defeat as a bludgeon.

[clifcourt]

09:33 AM on 10/18/2011

The parts that Reps want are the very same things they passed in the house but Reid held up in the Senate. Now they added those separate "good" things in to use as leverage. Another Lie from the great UNiter!

[Shelby596]

08:57 AM on 10/18/2011

THIS is how I know, beyond any doubt, that not only do they not care what is best for this country, they want the black man out of office and they'll do anything to achieve that. They have reduced themselves to nothing but an bunch of lying hypocrites and with only two parties in our political system, that is bad news for everybody.

[khandoor1]

09:12 AM on 10/18/2011

That's foolish

[nickpasq]

09:25 AM on 10/18/2011

They want the black man out and want to put a black business man in? Any other BS for us?

[jwredd]

09:32 AM on 10/18/2011

If by "they" you mean a portion of the uber teaparty fringe that has a strong showing in the primary but will be a miniscule portion of the population during the general, then yes... they want to put Herman Cain, a black business man in.

[dmgg711]

03:38 PM on 10/18/2011

This isn't BS because the Koch brothers are putting in their puppet so that the Kochs can take over the White House completely. Do a little research as to who is handling Herman Cain, lol:

Koch-Cain: Cain and the Kochs have worked hand-in-hand for years to advance corporate-friendly conservative policies:

- Cain held an official position in the Koch-funded group Americans for Prosperity: Dating back to 2005, Cain led Americans for Prosperity’s new “Prosperity Expansion Project.” The position allowed Cain to barnstorm the country, giving speeches, holding town halls, and sharpening his skills for an eventual presidential bid.
Herman Cain is a fraud. He's a Koch brothers puppet spreading their "Ponzi 999 Scheme".

The Koch Brothers’ investment in Herman Cain appears to already be paying dividends in advancing their corporatist agenda. Cain has centered his presidential bid on the “999″ economic plan, an enormous corporate giveaway that would reduce companies’ income tax rate from 35 percent to 9 percent. Not only would Koch Industries reap massive benefits, but the Koch Brothers themselves — already tied for the fourth richest people in America — would personally see their tax rates fall from approximately 28 percent to around 11 percent.


More: http://thinkprogress.org/

How naïve you all are in thinking that the Republicans are for the people and not the 1% and Corporate America.

[camelias and sweet tea]

08:56 AM on 10/18/2011

It is the GOP way, Be for it before you are against it...especially if Obama suggests something.

[Jose Hill]

09:02 AM on 10/18/2011

Or if they suggest something and Obama goes along with it...

[camelias and sweet tea]

09:31 AM on 10/18/2011

Is that the dumbest thing you ever saw...They are sooooo obvious in what they are doing too, but not the least bit embarassed. faved.

[khandoor1]

09:13 AM on 10/18/2011

I believe kerry coined that phrase

[Harpo1129]

08:56 AM on 10/18/2011

I inadvertently flagged the post below by JUSTALURKER so I am reposting it in it's entirety. My sincere apologies JUSTALURKER. F & F by the way.

Harpo1129

justalurker edited my micro-bio 259 Fans Become a fan Unfan
2 hours ago (6:54 AM) If we had a liberal media, it would be common knowledge that Obama has passed more progressiv­e legislatio­n than any president since LBJ over 40 years ago. And it would be common knowledge that unemployme­nt would have reached 12-13% without the recovery act. And it would be common knowledge that Obama is going to win again with another landslide in 2012. And it would be common knowledge that the tiny tea party contingent in the House caused the first downgrade to America's credit rating. And we wouldn't need OWS, Buffett and Obama to point out the wealthy have sacrificed nothing in a time of war and economic disaster, because it would be common knowledge.

[khandoor1]

09:14 AM on 10/18/2011

thanks for the morning laugh

[Harpo1129]

10:44 AM on 10/18/2011

What exactly was funny? You find the truth somehow funny?

[marilyn 63]

02:06 AM on 10/20/2011

truth hurts

[TexianLife]

08:37 AM on 10/18/2011

GOP: hypocrites & liars

[nickpasq]

09:27 AM on 10/18/2011

The REAL hypocrits are libs running around Walmart buying Chinese stuff and then whining where are the jobs?

[khandoor1]

10:00 AM on 10/18/2011

Wasn't it a crowd of libs who stampeded and killed that greeter lsat Christmas?

[clifcourt]

09:39 AM on 10/18/2011

Democrats = Lawyers = Liars.

[AZreb]

08:12 AM on 10/18/2011

The so-called "free trade" agreement sure passed with support from BOTH parties - more cheap imports that will cause more of our own workers to be laid off and more manufacturers to close.

We have ONE - repeat, ONE, athletic shoe manufacturer in the U.S. - New Balance. Will they be able to stay in business when the cheap athletic shoes come in from S. Korea? Slave wages - dangerous working conditions - but, hey, cheaper goods and a feel-good foreign policy is all that matters.

[cshae89546]

08:03 AM on 10/18/2011

The Democrats and Mr. Obama are working hard to create new solar jobs in Nevada.

The Tonopah Solar company in Harry Reid's Nevada is getting a $737 million loan from Obama's DOE.

The project will produce a 110 megawatt power system and employ 45 permanent workers.

That's costing us just.....$16 million.....per job.

One of the investment partners in this endeavor is Pacific Corporate Group (PCG).

The PCG executive director is......Ron Pelosi......who is the brother to Nancy's husband.

[jwredd]

09:06 AM on 10/18/2011

"That's costing us just.....$­16 million...­..per job."

BY your wording how much does it end up "costing us" once the "LOAN" has been paid back? And you should be aware that investments in technology spur innovation across the industry so looking at it as "$16 million....per job" is simpleton thinking. If that investment turns out to be fruitful in terms of technological advancement the ripple effects should be obvious to anyone that has a clue about industry.

[nickpasq]

09:28 AM on 10/18/2011

Like the last stimulus scam and the last solar loan that have cost us nillions per union job?

[cshae89546]

09:40 AM on 10/18/2011

jwredd: When the LOAN or perhaps considering what occurred with Solyndra, GM etc., etc., etc....IF...it is ever "paid back". The fact is the Obama administration has clearly established a very, very poor record with respect to returns on Tax Payer backed funded federal loans.

[75thRangers]

07:46 AM on 10/18/2011

Kepp voting , NO so we can kick every one of you clowns OUT

[TygerLilly]

09:08 AM on 10/18/2011

No they will pass it, they know it is just Stimulus two...and will fail the same way..and then he will have to defend it...so its a win....

[Christober]

07:34 AM on 10/18/2011

And the beat goes on. Despite these glaring examples of pure hypocrisy, the American people are fixated on who got booted off Simon Cowell's new show.

[Shelby596]

08:58 AM on 10/18/2011

Apathy is America's worse disease.

[Olethea]

07:33 AM on 10/18/2011

Cantor expressed a willingness to put aside partisan differences in order to create jobs, but added, there are "better ways to focus on small-business growth."

Eric, when nobody is spending on goods and services, the answer is not to provide more goods and services. The answer is a jobs bill which funds projects that create jobs that put money in the pockets of middle America, the they can then go out and spend to create the DEMAND for more goods and services. It jumpstarts the economy, get it?

I love how these shmucks have their constituents fooled into thinking that if you just produce more widgets people will buy them. It's commmidty trickle down.

[beingthebest]

08:56 AM on 10/18/2011

As a business person I can't begin to tell you how right you are. It isn't that I'm not producing enough, or that I can't afford to produce enough, it is that I don't have enough buyers.

[nickpasq]

09:31 AM on 10/18/2011

Well the article quotes Obama as saying that the tax cut encourages hiring so you should have been hiring since the tax cut, which reduces funding to SS and Medicare, has been in effect for almost a year.

[Susan42]

02:24 AM on 10/19/2011

Fanned for politeness in the face of the uninformed.

[jwredd]

09:10 AM on 10/18/2011

....seconded by another business owner. Lack of demand is the ONLY thing that creates "uncertainty" (as they love to mention) when trying to grow.

[Don Giovanni]

07:12 AM on 10/18/2011

Hammer away!