A Midterm Election Reality Check

[Dulcinea]

Republicans are poised to win enough U.S. Senate seats that anti-jobless deficit hawks will be in control. Right now, Democrats are losing five seats, and four more are hanging by a thread. That means Senators Orrin Hatch and Jon Kyl – leaders of the Coalition of the Heartless – will have the votes to kill every program aimed at assisting the jobless.

And de facto control, if not de jure control, of the U.S. House of Representatives will pass to the Coalition of the Heartless. The Republican Caucus and Blue Dog Democrats will have enough votes to block any new jobs program. All the great work done for the unemployed by George Miller, Dave Obey, Henry Waxman, Barney Frank and, yes, Nancy Pelosi will be erased.

Now, America’s jobless may think that the Democrats did not do enough. But there was – and remains – one massive obstacle to the policies that would have made a big difference that Coalition of the Heartless.

If the unemployed and underemployed vote – and I believe 70 percent of them are registered and 70 percent of them will vote on November 2nd – they can defeat the grab for power of the Coalition of the Heartless. America’s unemployed and idled millions can vote against their real tormentors – the Republicans and some Democrats who voted over 7,300 times against the jobless and for their corporate allies who triggered this Grave Recession – and they can BITE BACK.

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Thanks in advance, The Jobless of America

[doc03]

1. You have one big problem with the unemployed and

underemployed, if they vote who will they vote for? I talked to one of my co-workers that was laid off when our plant shut down 1 1/2 years ago. He said unless they extend the unemployment he will be out of benefits on November 1st. I said the problem is after November 1st the Congress is probably going to flip and there won't be anymore extensions. He said he is sick of every few weeks worrying if the unemployment will be extended, he said I want a job not unemployment extensions. So our Democratic Congressman is going to get voted out because people perceive he hasn't dome anything for jobs. I am fortunate I am a few years older and took my retirement and I don't have to worry about either.

[JamesA1102]

2. That is a problem of perception

and is the fault of the MSM. They are not telling the people what has really been going on.

[doc03]

3. If it doesn't fit in a 5 second sound bite the media isn't

interested. The Republicans say "the failed Stimulus plan" or "the Stimulus was suposed to keep unemplyment under 8%" or "Obamacare gutted Medicare." How do you answer that with a 5 second sound bite.