pintobean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Oct-04-11 06:27 PM
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Reid blocks attempt by McConnell to vote on president's jobs bill
By Josiah Ryan - 10/04/11 03:16 PM ET
In a lively spat on the Senate floor Tuesday, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) attempted call up President Obama’s jobs plan for an immediate vote in the upper chamber.
However, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who supports the legislation, blocked the vote.
Reid used a procedural maneuver called "filling the tree," which allows the majority leader to say a piece of legislation has had all of its possibilities for amendments.
McConnell had tried to offer the president's job package as an amendment to the China currency legislation, which was being debated in chamber. By "filing the tree," Reid blocked that move.
More:
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/185455-rei...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2055810
0bama keeps yammering on how the republics are obstructing this, so McConnell called Bary's bluff and Dingy Harry shot it down.
Broderick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Oct-04-11 06:29 PM
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1. I thought Republicans were blocking in the Senate?
That's what you get for attempting thought.
Imajika (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Oct-04-11 07:01 PM
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4. Well, it looks kind of pathetic...
It's pretty hard to accuse McConnell of blocking the Jobs Bill when he is offering to vote on the entire bill as is right now.
The problem, again, is a handful of "moderate" and conservadems.
Don't worry facts haven't stopped 0bama in the past, so he will stil yammer on how it's the repukes fault. Your talking points won't go away, and the same group who believes them won't change their mind.
pintobean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Oct-04-11 07:14 PM
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5. The problem is
the whole ****ing lot of them - Dem, Rep, and Obama. They all need to quit playing politics with our futures. This shouldn't be a campaign issue, it should have already been done. They need to get their asses together and work something out. Americans need to go to work ASAP.
How about leaving people alone and not try to squeeze every nickle out of them?
