red states rule
10-01-2011, 11:19 AM
Seems Dems are not to thrilled with Obama's "jobs" bill. Not a single Dem has stepped up and cosponsord the bill
How will Obama and the liberal media blame R's for this one?
Remember when Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress (http://www.debatepolicy.com/archives/2011/09/08/open-thread-the-speech-that-saved-the-economy/) to introduce his American Jobs Act, exhorting them on national television to “pass this bill immediately”? Obama used that phrase in various forms 17 times despite the fact that he didn’t actually have a bill to present to Congress until a week later. And as far as all but two members of Congress are concerned, the bill itself may as well not exist (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-pushes-on-jobs-bill-while-congress-goes-slow/2011/09/30/gIQA3lxUAL_story.html?hpid=z4). No co-sponsors have added their names to either the Senate or the House version even after more than a week, although readers have to dig a ways into the Washington Post report to find that out:
In the House, it has been introduced as a bill (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.12:)by Rep. John B. Larson (http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/John_B._Larson)(D-Conn.). In the Senate, the bill has been introduced (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:SN01549:)by Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.). (http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Harry_M._Reid)
Neither bill has attracted any co-sponsors.
And, earlier this week, Reid said (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-jobs-plan-senate-democrats-wont-take-up-bill-immediately-harry-reid-says/2011/09/27/gIQAWman2K_story.html)that the Senate would not take up the bill when it returns from a short recess. Instead, it would first take up a measure to punish China and other nations for currency manipulation. That bill, in keeping with the Democrats’ strategy, is meant to help several individual senators in manufacturing states, where competition from China is blamed for local job losses.
What about the jobs bill? “We’ll get to that,” Reid told reporters
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/01/just-a-reminder-obamas-jobs-bill-still-has-no-cosponsors/
How will Obama and the liberal media blame R's for this one?
Remember when Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress (http://www.debatepolicy.com/archives/2011/09/08/open-thread-the-speech-that-saved-the-economy/) to introduce his American Jobs Act, exhorting them on national television to “pass this bill immediately”? Obama used that phrase in various forms 17 times despite the fact that he didn’t actually have a bill to present to Congress until a week later. And as far as all but two members of Congress are concerned, the bill itself may as well not exist (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-pushes-on-jobs-bill-while-congress-goes-slow/2011/09/30/gIQA3lxUAL_story.html?hpid=z4). No co-sponsors have added their names to either the Senate or the House version even after more than a week, although readers have to dig a ways into the Washington Post report to find that out:
In the House, it has been introduced as a bill (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.12:)by Rep. John B. Larson (http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/John_B._Larson)(D-Conn.). In the Senate, the bill has been introduced (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:SN01549:)by Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.). (http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Harry_M._Reid)
Neither bill has attracted any co-sponsors.
And, earlier this week, Reid said (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-jobs-plan-senate-democrats-wont-take-up-bill-immediately-harry-reid-says/2011/09/27/gIQAWman2K_story.html)that the Senate would not take up the bill when it returns from a short recess. Instead, it would first take up a measure to punish China and other nations for currency manipulation. That bill, in keeping with the Democrats’ strategy, is meant to help several individual senators in manufacturing states, where competition from China is blamed for local job losses.
What about the jobs bill? “We’ll get to that,” Reid told reporters
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/01/just-a-reminder-obamas-jobs-bill-still-has-no-cosponsors/