But, just keep trying. Maybe the Republicans will change their minds.

Same for health care. Just keep trying to reach a bipartisan agreement with the Republicans. Surely they'll have to say yes someday. I just know it.

And I'm pretty sure that this is the year I'll get a pony for my birthday. I'm going to wish real hard and make it happen.

They're not going to get Republican votes.

This is insanity.

It's like there are 3 Democrats and 97 Republicans in the Senate.

Republicans hit Democrats consistently for obstructionism, and the media picked it up and put it in terms of asking Democrats to justify obstructing. Why can't Senate Democrats ever figure out they need to talk about Republican obstructionism if they want the media to talk about it.

If the Republicans want to filibuster, hold the vote and get them on the record as opposing a jobs bill.

MAKE. THEM. FILIBUSTER. THE. JOBS. BILL.

which part of that is so fucking difficult? senate dems wonder why the republicans-as-obstructionists narrative isn't sticking. BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT CALLING THEIR BLUFF AND MAKING THEM OBSTRUCT.

people outside TPM and the beltway don't see back-room threats from republicans to filibuster. here's what people outside the beltway see: dems in charge, dems squabbling, and nothing being done. no change. no nothing. notice what they're NOT seeing? republicans -- because they have been able to stay off the stage. PUT THEM ON THE STAGE AND MAKE THEM OBSTRUCT.

Pathetic on both sides.

What do you expect from the party of "NO"?

Bring it to the floor, vote on it and if it fails, it fails. The American people will then know exactly who to blame. If it never gets a vote, then it's both parties voting against us.

Yup, bring it to the floor. Remember when public opinion began to change concerning GOP obstructionism in the Clinton era? It was when Gingrich's lock-step troops prevented a budget bill from moving through, causing a federal government shutdown. Republicans were sure this shutdown would mean trouble for Clinton, but instead it ensured their own defeat at the polls. Of course, it helped greatly that Gingrich belittled his own stance by seeming to suggest that his alleged snub by Clinton on Air Force One was a big reason for his tactic.

But we have plenty of similar, obnoxious tactics by Republicans now, which can relate to the jobs bill. For instance Sen. Shelby's insane universal hold on Obama appointees until his state gets billions in pork.

So: Flog the hell out of that and similar developments, pointing out that the very same party that claims Obama is failing to create jobs is standing in the way of any legislation that actually attempts to do just that -- unless, of course, it involves corporate or high-income tax cuts.

"Hope is prospective"

We didn't elect your sorry asses to "hope" for us. We elected you to get something done.

Bring the bill to the floor and make Republicans filibuster it, if that's what they are going to do.

Ok, I tried being nice.

Harry: get some gonads and dust off your left hook, you're going to need it to knock out Tweedle Dee McConnell. Nancy: Get off your sweetie cushion and get tough--get your bitch-on, girl!!!! It's not jobs, jobs, jobs. It's the right is obstructing, the right is obstructing, the right is obstructing. Say it until you are ill.

In this corner, the Dunces.

. . . and in this corner, the Reprobates.

We the People need a third party.

The Dunces are, well, incompetent. The Reprobates, they're what they are, corporate hacks of the first order.

Election reform, break the strangle-hold these two corporations have on our election system, and have real people doing the Peoples business instead of installed corporate shills.

We are so screwed.