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![]() Part of the Rebuild America Jobs Act, containing Republican proposals of $10 billion to establish an infrastruture bank, and the Republican proposal of $50 billion in immediate job creation funding for roads, bridges and airport construction projects, Constitutionally passed by a majority vote of 51-47 today in the Senate.
However, as the Republicans are filibustering every single thing the Democrats try and pass, just because they want the Democrats and Obama to fail, this bill failed as it didn't get 60 votes to overcome cloture. Way to go, Republican party! including members Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman. What a disaster, what a useless mess, what a shame on this country, this political party has become.
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![]() Bravo! We have wasted enough money. If we have the $50 billion to spend put it towards the debt Obama has created, to the tune of $5 trillion.
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![]() from todays paper:
'After Republicans blocked Obama's infrastructure plan, the president's Democratic allies immediately refused, on a 53-47 vote, to advance a Republican plan to extend federal highway, public transportation and surface transportation programs for two years, ease some environmental rules and give Congress more oversight of agency rule making. It would have been paid for by rescinding $40 billion in unspent funds appropriated for other domestic programs.' yep, it's all the republicans fault. yepyepyep.
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![]() Politicians of both parties acting like spoiled children while the country suffers, nothing new but certainly more obvious in difficult times, have to wonder if these folks are so arrogant as to think this type of behavior can be tolerated forever?
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![]() don't misunderstand riot. i have no great love for the reps, i think they're a sorry lot. where you and i differ is that you seem to think the dems are the opposite. i do not. i think they're a sorry lot as well.
both parties might have a good apple somewhere mixed in the usual harvest of wormy, mushy fruit. hard to find them tho, and they seldom get anything accomplished, as party politics come to the fore. you mentioned in the initial post that it was obstructionist per usual. was it a good bill? a good idea? we have the not-so-super committee working to reduce debt, did this add to it or reduce it? supposedly the republicans wanted to shift unused funds from elsewhere (that exists?!?! unused money, really??). i just feel that most likely there is more to the story. a suggested idea isn't necessarily a good one. i have been out of the loop the last two weeks, having been out of town for more job training, etc have to play catchup...but i have to assume, knowing the n-s-s committee is 'working' that perhaps no new spending bills will move thru at all til they've announced their suggestions. yeah, i can't wait for that!! ha!
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![]() I will break Riot out of the false left-right paradigm. It will take time but she's got potential.
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The former Republican party is gone. Jon Huntsman used to be a "conservative" Republican. All that's left is wholly-owned corporate lackey's and John Birch Society members. Michelle Bachmann? Herman Cain? Rick Perry? Seriously? That party is over and done. That's happened before in this country, political parties die and reform all the time. The Dems? They have about 2/3 of wholly-owned corporate lackeys, indeed. But they are not trying to make this country run under their evangelical brand of religious law, they are not try to end multiple rights of Americans, not trying to steal the last social programs we have to give the money to their corporate masters, are not the Big Government ownership party of spend and spend recklessly. Quote:
Two-faced hypocrites, obstructing the President just for political reasons and not even being shy about saying it in public. Quote:
These guys don't realize it, but for many of them, their careers are alot more done and over than they think. They have zero pulse on what is happening out in this country. The Republican party has repeatedly voted against multiple ideas that are strongly supported by the majority of the American public. They are completely cocooned in Washington, completely clueless. It will be a rude awakening for most of them, to be unemployed next year.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts |