Fool Me Twice? Dems Say Jobs Agenda Won't Get Bogged Down Like Health Care

Fool Me Twice? Dems Say Jobs Agenda Won't Get Bogged Down Like Health Care

We'll see.

Bring it directly to the floor, and let the GOP filibuster at their peril. Then make sure everyone know that they are trying to kill a jobs bill, and why.

"Don't worry, we won't spend the better part of a year working on a jobs bill only to walk away from it like we just did with HCR. So, we're cool again right? Right?"

No. If they want anyone to have any confidence in them again, they need to FINISH THE DAMN HCR BILL FIRST. PERIOD.

give John Boehner the responsibility of creating a jobs bill. Hold him accountable for whatever failure it becomes.

It's easy for Republicans (or Democrats) to hide from responsibility as a group. Let some of the leading Republicans take individual responsibility for creating something other than saying NO.

I wouldn't have baucus involved in sh*t. Throw him to the side and let someone else take the lead. He is a fool and a tool. He obviously doesn't care about jobs either. How many unemployed in freaking montana????? How many people? He is bought and paid for by special interests that do not give a sh*t about people and the unemployed, which was obvious from the healthcare debacle.

Get one of the big state senators to take the lead and ram this through asap.

i am voting out any incumbent today and especially senators. the dems need to decide whether they would like a thrieving middleclass or whether they want big corporations to rule. if dems would like a thrieving middleclass then the way gov't interacts with the business community is going to have to change. the gov't is going to have to stop blindly awarding contracts to big corporations and trusting the big corps to dole out contracts to small and medium sized businesses. the gov't should restructure how contracts are dispersed to focus on germinating smaller and medium sized businesses in all states not just big city hubs. currently big corporations get gov't contracts and these contracts act as a cash cows for the big corporation and in turn the big corporation funnels money to other business units that are currently competing with small and medium sized businesses on a level playing field, thus driving them out of business or forcing them to sell.

i would suggest, since obama screwed up healthcare so bad and to save his legacy as a big thinker and not just a tinkerer. obama should launch an entrepreneurship revolution for the new economy. the entrepreneurship revolution would focus on small and medium sized business and excluding them from any federal tax for the first 10yrs of the business' existence. in addition, you would give generous capital investment write offs that can be carried forward for 10yrs. this would spur the economic engine in america and truly create an ownership society. in addition, businesses would be graded on building a better mousetrap or providing better service and not just providing the crap we currently get in the way of service or cheap goods from china

Oh. Shit.

leadership is busily figuring out how to enact a meaningful jobs package as expeditiously as possible.

Pass the House bill. Done.

It had better not, because a jobs bill is the only thing keeping the Dems in any sort of shape to stave off the GOP this fall.

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Repubs never change--they were always the party of NO...Check the size of the stimulus that they voted for ---What would that be in todays dollars@!?

I don't see why everyone is SO afraid the GOP will win big in the Fall, except for the fear of massive Chamber of Commerce and financial industry support for them. Apparently it wasn't tea baggers who put Scott Brown over the top; he received $450,000 in the last week or two of the campaign from financial industry employees protecting their million dollar and more bonuses. So pass real financial reform and get the jobs bill done, with HCR along the way and I just don't see the people, apart from the 30% of Republicans who consider Obama to be everything Fox, the birthers and the teabaggers have called him , voting them out.

Just say no.

Well, I am shuddering at what this corrupt congress is going to do at rushing the jobs bill through. I suspect we will have cardcheck; pandering to the unions; higher taxes and backdoor deals and vote buying. Do I trust Congress to do the right thing? Hell NO! I remind you, this is still the same contemptable congress that is trying to cram a healthcare bill down our throats. If they can buy votes; have closed door deals; union pandering; higher taxes hidden, I am sure they have the opportunity to do no good once again. Look for congress to become another boil on the ass of America!

The Democrats have continued to govern as Republicans and Baucus is simply the most visible. Why has the transfer of wealth accelerated under Obama? These are the key questions to ask and the factual answers.

Who are Obama's 'constituencies'? Follow the decisions , find Obama’s constituencies, see where the money has gone and how voters and middle class were left holding the deficit bag.

1. Decision - Ignore previous Republican crimes, misdemeanors and profligacy – tax cuts for the wealthy: Constituencies - Republican voters and Republican Senators and Representatives he hoped would become 'bi-partisan'.
2. Decision - Support a stingy stimulus that was half of what was needed and included one-thirds tax breaks, increasing the deficit and further reducing the stimulus to one-third of what was needed: Constituencies – Wealthy investors, special interests.

3. Decision - Kill the only option that would have slowed the cost of health care & led to universal coverage – $ 753 Billions : Constituencies - Health insurance and pharmacy industries.

4. Decision - Accelerate the Bush bailout, $ 4.3 Trillions in bailouts, guarantees and purchasing assets from the private sector at well above market value: Constituency - Financial industry and banks.

5. Decision - Escalate a meaningless and fruitless war, $600 Billions: Constituencies - military and corporate mercenaries.

6. Decision - Gut real financial reform and substitute finger wagging and silly taxes and fees, while banking fees continue up, lending freezes and credit tightens - $UNK Billions: Constituencies - financial industry and the wealthy.

7. Decision - Not help people with bankruptcy and mortgages remediation – accelerating middle class decline: Constituencies - financial industry, banks and wealthy.
and 

8. Decision - Fiddle around and not pass a jobs bill – accelerating middle class decline (Already spent to much money, cut taxes and increased the deficit – so, sorry, no money for the middle class and American voters): Constituencies: Wealthy and Republicans.

Obama’s constituencies are the health insurance and pharmacy industry, military-mercenary complex, the financial industry and banks, and the wealthy.

Obama’s policies have continued to transfer America’s wealth from middle class families to corporations and the wealthy.

Why has Obama lost the support of the voters? Based on the decisions Obama has made, these appear to be the reasons for the lose:
1. Republicans are better off with real Republicans, hence support Republican voters is all but gone;
2. Independents, who wanted change, see the status quo protected and coddled, hence Independents have retreated from support for Obama and the Dems;
3. Democrats see a so-called Democratic White House and so-called Democratic Congress working to continue and accelerate the transfer of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy, hence they have no reason to support the Obama and his allies in Congress. 


Obama has made decisions that have hurt most Americans, and, he is either:
1. Oblivious to them,
2. Doesn’t care,
3. Surrounded himself with advisors who are up to their eyeballs in the status quo and persuade him to subsidize it with tax money and deficit spending,
4. Erroneously assumed the military-mercenary, health insurance-pharmaceutical, financial-banking industries and wealthy constituencies would remain loyal and rescue him from troubles.
It is not difficult to understand why Obama's ratings and his 'agenda' have been rejected and Democrats no longer enjoy the support of the majority of voters. Obama and his Democratic allies have accelerated the transfer of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy and the corporations. By doing so, they have closed off their options. And have doubled down on bets that have been shown by the facts to be disastrous for the middle class and the vast majority of American voters.
So, it is not going to 'fix' the Democrats abysmal performance to keep it away from Baucus, because the other Democrats will be bad all by themselves. Watch out middle class, here it comes again.