GOP Senators have said 'FUCK YOU' to all students. I hope students remember this in November

[LynneSin]

Student Loan Vote: Republicans Block Bill To Extend Low Interest Rates

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/08/student-loan-vote-fails_n_1499917.html

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a bill that would have frozen student loan interest rates before they are set to double on July 1.

In a partisan vote of 52 to 45, the Senate failed to reach the 60 votes needed to begin debate on the Democratic bill. Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine) was the lone Republican to vote "present." A Snowe spokesman told The Huffington Post her vote was related to her practice of voting "present" on legislation that contains the potential or appearance of association with the private business activity of her husband.

The vote wasn't much of a surprise: Republicans have been signaling they would filibuster the bill because of its cost offsets. Democrats would cover the $6 billion cost of keeping student loan interest rates at 3.4 percent for another year by raising Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes on certain high-earners. By contrast, Republicans have called for nixing a preventive health fund to pay for it.

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"We agree with President Obama, we agree with Gov. Romney, we agree with the House of Representatives that it should stay at 3.4 percent," he said. "The only difference is how we pay for it. They want to raise taxes on people who are creating jobs, while we're still in the midst of the greatest recession since the Great Depression."

What jobs?

All the wealthy do is just horde their money and send our jobs overseas. They aren't creating shit when it comes to jobs!

[upaloopa]

1. You know who creates jobs? It's people who have money to spend that creates demand for goods

and services. Those people are you and me. In the aggregate we can spend billions more than the so called job creators!

[byeya]

2. I hope the students remember and are not disenfranchised by the RepubliKKKans.

I suppose this is Exhibit A of the process to keep college students from voting
where they go to school.

[Drale]

3. To be fair, TO BE FAIR!!

They have said "FUCK YOU" to all of America not just students.

[librechik]

4. don't forget womens healthcare--if the GOP version is passed

(now that the Rs have killed the Dem version) the measure if passed will be paid for by striking parts of the ACA. Bastards!

[Cali_Democrat]

5. Romney is talking out of his ass again

We aren't still in the midst of the greatest recession. A recession is two consecutive quarters of declining GDP growth. That decline in growth has since passed.

[Scurrilous]

6. K & R

[Bandit]

7. Trouble is students can't be bothered to vote..

Some do of course but the large majority never even give it a thought.. No sense of civic responsibility at all...Ifr things go wrong daddy will take care of it..

[lastlib]

8. Q: What's the difference between a Republican and a wood tick?

A: One is an insidious, primitive, small-brained, disease-carrying, bloodsucking parasite--the other one is an insect.

[gratuitous]

9. If Democrats remind them, they might remember

Trouble is, Democrats play the "Psycho Killer" game: Say something once, why say it again? They need to take a page out of the Republican playbook and say it once, say it twice, say it repeatedly. Show some message discipline, and keep hanging this around the GOP's neck. When we see the endless parade of Republicans on the shouting shows getting asked about it, then we know we're starting to make it stick. Then say it again and again, until Republicans are sick of explaining why students have to pay higher loan rates, but their fatcat bankrollers don't have to pay higher tax rates (and who's in a better financial position to pay more?).

If the Republicans have to pay a little price for their obstructionist ways (instead of being rewarded as Democrats bid against themselves to hand over more and more), maybe they'll have to come up with another strategy. But as long as Democrats maintain silence (or make one feeble objection, never to be voiced again), Republicans will continue doing what they're doing, because they are never held responsible.

[FarLeftFist]

10. Welp, that's about it ladies and gents. The GOP have finally alienated every single demographic

They possibly can.

[LynneSin]

11. Everyone but wealthy white land-owners

[savalez]

17. Well they still have the stupid idiot vote.

Because they don't know they've been alienated too.

[Erose999]

12. Well I was paying, now I'll probably have to get deferments again. I imagine many will.

The GOP has made the student debt problem worse. Greedy bastards ask for more and they're gonna end up getting less than they started out with, haha.

[maxrandb]

13. Republicans don't give a "eff", and some Democrats don't either

No student is bankrolling their political power.

They seem to have forgotten a simple truth that has been verified time and time again throughout history..."Revolution is powered by the oppression of the powerless"

We still believe that we can influence our government, and that's the only reason we haven't eaten the rich yet.

[Oilwellian]

14. Republicans continue to prove...

time and again, that they could not give a shit about the common person.

[WI_DEM]

15. hopefully they will get out and vote and not shrug it off.

[freshwest]

16. Questions is, will they be allowed to vote? If so, will they take the time?