US Senate GOP to Teachers and First Responders: Fuck You!

[LynneSin]

Fuck you because to the US Senate GOP it's more important that they defeat anything that Barack Obama does than to help the people who teach our children and take care of us when we're in trouble.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/obama-jobs-bill-first-responders-teachers-senate_n_1023229.html

Obama Jobs Bill: Senate Scuttles Legislation Aimed At Helping Teachers And First Responders

WASHINGTON -- Despite a campaign-style push this week by President Barack Obama, the Senate on Thursday scuttled pared-back jobs legislation aimed at helping state and local governments avoid layoffs of teachers and firefighters.

Obama's three-day bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia -- states crucial to his re-election race next year -- didn't change any minds among Senate Republicans, who filibustered Obama's latest jobs measure to death just as they killed his broader $447 billion jobs plan last week.

The 50-50 vote came in relation to a motion to simply take up the bill and fell well short of the 60 needed to break a filibuster. Democrats Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut broke with Obama on the vote. Two Democrats who voted with the president, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana, however, said they couldn't support the underlying Obama plan unless it's changed.

Thursday's $35 billion measure combined $30 billion for state and local governments to hire teachers and other school workers with $5 billion to help pay the salaries of police officers, firefighters and other first responders. The White House says the measure would "support" almost 400,000 education jobs for one year. Republicans call that a temporary "sugar high" for the economy.

[malaise]

1. Amazing isn't it

Fuck all ReTHUGS

[KharmaTrain]

2. The Rushpublicans Are Measuring The Drapes...

I heard a very ugly assessment of Democratic Party chances of holding the Senate next year and that appears to be behind all the obstructionism. It worked for Pruneface in the past and polls show the more the rushpublicans obstruct it hurts the numbers of Democratic Senators as well. They figure if they get people pissed enough the voters will take out their anger on the incumbents, including the 23 Democrats who will be up for re-election next year and that all they need is to win 4 of those seats and they win control of the Senate. In a world where all that matters is power at all costs, the American people are an impediment into the GOTB's all out putsch to either strangle a second Obama term with majorities in the House and Senate or total control of the government (including judicial)

[WillParkinson]

4. People are sheep...

You can get the word out. Show them what's being done and they're still going to vote against their interests.

Baaaaa-d sheeple.

[LynneSin]

5. Because the GOP scare the sheep with the 3Gs - Gods, Guns and Gays

GOP tell them that if you vote democrat that the Democrats will take away your God, take away your Guns and make you to Gay like it's a fricking choice.

How anyone can be so dumb to believe that is beyond me.

[valerief]

3. Why do we call it the US Senate when it's really the Wall St. Senate?

Same with the House. It's the Wall St. House. And SCOTUS is actually SCOWS. POTUS is also POWS.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Yep

They send their kids to private school while their rent-a-cops guard their gated communities.