Boehner: Number of JOBS bills voted on in the 112th Congress? A big fat zero

[flpoljunkie]

It's the economy, stupid. It's not the long term debt. Remember what Dick Cheney said, 'Deficits don't matter.'

Have you so soon forgotten!

[medialeansright]

1. ZERO

That is how many.

[sad sally]

2. Contrary to a long-held belief, congress can't chew gum and walk at the same time.

Their priority right now is to get out of DC so they can start their month-long much needed vacations. As for jobs bills, remember this story:

Another Jobs Bill Killed
June 23, 2011 - by Donny Shaw

On June 6th, the Senate opened debate on the Economic Development Revitalization Act of 2011, a bill to reauthorize and expand a long-running and consistently successful job-creation agency, the Economic Development Administration. The EDA has traditionally enjoyed bipartisan support, and this reauthorization bill was introduced with bipartisan co-sponsorship and passed out of committee without any dissent from Republicans. But after two weeks of debate, the bill was unanimously filibustered by Republicans and has now been pulled from the floor.

Like the last jobs bill to die in the Senate, the bill was bogged down and ultimately killed by dozens of controversial and unrelated amendments that were submitted to it. Senate rules do not require amendments to be germane to the bill they are submitted to, so individual senators can choose to use any bill to force a vote on any of their pet issues. By the time the EDA bill was killed, 99 amendments had been submitted, and the list read like an overview of current hot-button political topics. The amendments included everything from raising the debt ceiling, to repealing health care reform, repealing financial regulatory reform, expanding offshore oil drilling, and more.

http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2324-Another-Jobs-Bill-Killed?du

[Creideiki]

3. Too busy trying to harm women, gays, and minorities

Remember when Cantor went on the Daily Show and said that the Republicans "learned their lesson"?

Yeah. Not so much, apparently.