Say What?! Republicans Filibuster Tax-Cutting Jobs Bill

"Sen. Mary Landrieu (R-LA) and McConnell, who ultimately cut her off by forcing a scheduled vote on ending the filibuster."

Yeah, she often acts like one but not in this case.

I hope McConnell's kidneys fail! There I said it.

Labeling Landrieu a Republican may be less accurate, but it is more informative.

This is transparency in the Senate.

Why do Republicans consistently hate our country?

The Top 10 reasons the Republicans filibustered this bill:
1) It doesn't provide enough tax incentives to export more jobs
2) It's geared to helping Main Street and NOT the Top 1%
3) This bill is not something Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater, or Ronald Reagan would support....it's not a trickle down tax cut for the rich.
4) This bill is not Wal-Mart Economics....it's geared to helping us finance making things right here in the US vs buying Chinese things at Wal-Mart.
5) This bill was not drafted by the Republican & their lobbyists....
6) This bill would actually create jobs
7) Wal-Mart is the single largest lobbyists in DC and they told the Republicans to stop this bill.
8) The Chinese didn't like this bill so the Republicans are stopping it
9) This bill didn't include any military spending so the Republicans stopped
10) This bill was good for America..

It's been crystal-clear for awhile but this ids more proof that the GOP wants everything to suck as much as possible so they can blame the Democrats. Fox hammers this point 24/7

This is more great political ad content for the Democrats in November!

So here we have a week in which the GOP voted against Small business lending, voted against 9/11 first responders health claims and now voting against Tax cuts? Did hell freeze over or does the GOP seriously have no clothes on? Is it opposite day? So I am guessing the Dem's can release the hounds on the airwaves to show the American people just how much the GOP and its congressional members care about the American people, namely the openly don't give a rats a%s about the American people as it is much more lucrative to be a group of lock-step soldiers for their parties attempt to get back in power.

And if as Hoppy says on here the MSM reports that the "GOP successfully blocked Democrat efforts to increase taxes, increase spending ..." this country is f&ck*d and I am tempted to walk away from hope. The MSM should be hammering the GOP members every chance they get by simply asking how they can claim for decades or for however long they have been a member to be for small business, a GOP mantra but vote against it? How can they be for tax-cuts but vote against it? Do they simply have no values or are they simply a party of no for as long as President Obama is in office and as long as Dem's control congress.

It's time for Mr Obama to play hardball just the way these bastards do. Hold congress in session and keep bringing this jobs bill up for a vote. Do it now.

I've got news for you. In the 111th Congress, Republicans have never filibustered a single bill. What they regularly do is threaten filibuster (you know, stand up in the well of the Senate and read the bible, or my pet goat, or (god forbid) tell Americans why they are so opposed to a particular measure that they won't even allow an up-down vote. And what Democrats regularly do is cave to the threat, call a cloture vote and lose 57+ to 40-, a classic display of tyranny of the minority.

Republicans lose nothing by making threats; Democrats lose a bunch by predictably caving.