Senate blocks $60B part of Obama jobs plan

[ProSense]

Source: MSNBC

The Senate on Thursday blocked another portion of President Obama’s jobs plan, a $60 billion bill to fund infrastructure projects around the country.

This is the second piece of the president’s proposal to be voted on and rejected in the Senate. The bill would have invested $50 billion dollars to fund immediate highway, transit, rail and aviation projects. And it would have put $10 billion toward a national infrastructure bank.

The Senate voted 51-49 in favor of a procedural motion to bring up the component of President Obama's jobs bill, nine short of the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent who caucuses with Democrats, joined Republicans in opposition to the bill.

Republicans lined up unanimously against the measure which would have been paid for by a .7 percent surtax on millionaires.


Read more: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/03/8619184-senate-blocks-60b-part-of-obama-jobs-plan

[gateley]

1. My blood is boiling. I can imagine how Obama's is doing. nt

[teddy51]

2. Good old Sen. Joe Lieberman, and to think that he could have been

VP.

[No Elephants]

16. and maybe even POTUS.

IMO, his presence on the ticket only dragged Gore down.

The only thing more annoying than Lieberman is Jon Stewart's parody of Lieberman, the difference being Stewart's parody is entertaining and Lieberman's whining never was..

[barbtries]

3. motherfucking bastards.

who is left that actually believes they give a flying fuck about this country??

[Hotler]

14. Party before country is their motto. eom.

[Ship of Fools]

4. Unbelievable. By the way, are these jackasses actually performing the

filibuster? If not, they should be! They should actually vote on it, get it on record, then make those assholes read the phone book ... Joe Lieberman can't be leaving too soon for me. Ben Nelson needs a wedgie, to put it mildly.

[Blue_Tires]

5. I wonder why Obama even bothers to try writing bills that would actually HELP us

When the house and senate piss all over everything...

[Ship of Fools]

6. His way of putting them in the spotlight. Personally, I think it's a good thing.

[No Elephants]

17. +1 Get every fucker on record, even the DINOs.

[jwirr]

12. One of the things I do give Obama credit for is that in all this deal

making he has managed to expose them for what they are. Unfortunately he has tarred himself with the same brush. When he and the congress push the jobs bills it makes it very clear who is trying to help the USA and who could care less.

[Yupster]

15. If it has a tax increase in it

he knows it will fail. Republicans would be committing suicide if they agree to a tax increase at this point. A chunk of their base would revolt and they would be primaried in the primaries and abandoned in the general. The President knows by now that if he proposes a bill with a tax increase, it won't pass.

So why does he bother?

Wouldn't he do better proposing bills that can pass?

Maybe it makes sense for him politically, even if it won't actually pass.

[No Elephants]

18. Getting the fuckers out of power makes sense for everyone politically.

Cutting and cutting on poor and sick people and infrastructure without restoring revenue to past levels makes no sense in this crisis we're in.

[RhodaA]

7. This MSNBC headline is false and article should be replaced.

51 Dems voted Yes. 1 Dem (Ben Nelson) voted No, and 1 Indy (you know who) voted No. 51 Ayes is a majority.
47 GOPs voted No and filibustered it.
Who killed the bill? Not the "Senate"

Biggest, pernicious lie in the media today.

Here's the real headline:

Senate Republicans kill the Democrats' infrastructure jobs bill
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/03/1032905/-Senate-Republicans-kill-the-Democrats-infrastructure-jobs-bill?detail=hide

[RhodaA]

8. PS: For this reason, I can't even recommend the article

[No Elephants]

20. If you think a piece of news is important for DUers to know about, you should rec, but

post about the misleading headline. JMO.

[No Elephants]

19. Bingo, which begs the questions, when will we finally occupy media?

And why did we not do that long ago?

If not sooner, at least when media aided and abetted Dumya, Cheney, Rummy and Condi in beating the drums of war against Iraq?

Our country desperately needs a media that need and earns its First Amendment protection.

Instead, we have a media that distracts us with so-called celebrities when it is not acting as a propaganda arm for the RW.

[Wait Wut]

9. So, what?

At least they're making sure we're forced to accept "In God We Trust" as a motto. Who gives a damn about jobs?

Screw democracy. I want a dictator. (yeah, yeah. "Be careful what you wish for")

[EleanorR]

10. [phone]

In case anyone wants to let McConnell know how they feel about what the repubs are doing to this country. I just did.

[savalez]

11. Ben Nelson: 1-202-224-6551

[AsahinaKimi]

13. Lieberman again

:grr::mad::thumbsdown: I wish he would just DRY UP AND BLOW AWAY!! しね！じぐこえいけこのばかたれ！

[No Elephants]

21. Thank God we will be rid of him in a year. We MUST support the Dem who runs for his seat.

Another Scott Brown or Ben Nelso--or Joe Lieberman--is the last thing the Democratic Party needs.

And, sorry to be a broken reconrd, but let's remember Joe Lieberman was a founding member of the DLC.