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Subscribe to RSSIn a purely political exercise this afternoon in the Senate, Senate Democrats narrowly passed a bill 51 to 48 to extend Bush-era tax cuts for middle class Americans for another year. With Vice President Biden presiding over the Senate, Democrats lost only two votes: Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who regularly votes with Democrats.
Under the plan, income tax rates for individuals making up to $200,000 and families making up to $250,000 would remain the same in 2013. Rates on upper income Americans would expire on Dec. 31st.
"This is a big victory for the American people today," Vice President Biden said in a show of support for Senate Democrats. Biden's presence in the Senate chamber was a symbolic move, his vote was not needed to put Democrats over the top.
The bill follows through on an election-year call from President Obama to protect the middle class from an income tax hike next year. He has campaigned on the message that wealthier Americans should pay more in taxes to help reduce the national deficit.
"Democrats believe this country can't afford more budget-busting giveaways for the top 2 percent of earners," Majority Leader Harry Reid told his fellow senators on the floor.
But Republicans argue the Democrats’ bill would mean almost a million small business owners in those upper tax brackets would see a tax increase. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Democrats are not serious about the nation's fiscal problems.
"We know this is not about the economy. We know this is about the election," he shot back at Reid on the floor.
"Thank goodness it’s not going anywhere because it would be bad for the economy. The single worst thing we could do to the country," he said of the Democrats’ bill.
House Republicans have no plans to take up the Senate-passed bill; they will move ahead next week on their own legislation that would extend the Bush-era tax rates for all Americans for one year. A similar version failed today in the Senate.
The legislative maneuvering has set the stage for two competing messages heading into November.
As the Senate Democrat's political messaging leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told reporters,
"The House can either pass these middle-class tax cuts, like we did, or it will be clear they're putting millionaires first."
Or the Republican view as articulated by Mitch McConnell: "Here's the Democratic plan for the economy: ‘We'll get this thing going again. We'll get it going again by raising taxes ... give us your money, and we'll handle it for you.’ That's their tax plan. That's their plan for the economy and jobs."
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Good lord the rich don't need more tax cuts...look at all the money their spending just on the 2012 candidates ...only one person is gonna win in every race..all the rest of that money is thrown right out the window..the rich have proven they don't need the money and they ain't never even gonna miss it cause they got the best tax consultants and lawyers money can buy to find every tax loophole to jump through and every tax shelter to hide behind ...the middle class and poor don't get
Greed isn't pretty
Their spending? Really? lmao....what a genius. And we are suppose to listen to your "intelligent" arguments. Tell Obama greed isn't pretty, I seem to see he has out collected and spent Romney by a pretty substantial sum from all those "po" folk...lol...what a maroon...
NEWSFLASH..................The GOP is at WAR with the MIDDLE-CLASS...
We DEMOCRATS will end this war as soon as we take back THE HOUSE
VOTE.....................................................................OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
I'm gonna go on record as of rightnow and let all the Republican and Dems know that yes we will see Obama re-elected. Why you may ask is that? Simply the majority of voters feel that Romney can't be trusted and lets face it he does look like the poster child for slick talking con men. Its really gonna come down to that one issue and the fact that the majority of voters can't relate to him sense he grew up with a silver spoon his whole like not part but whole. Hell, his dads a flipping Billionaire people. Oh and for all those who can't see why those with more money should pay taxes, its really simple you make more you pay more thats just how it is get over it. If someone who makes $50,000 a year has to pay 35% tax but someone making $250,000 or more only has to pay 15% how the hell can you sit there with a straight face and try and argue that the $250000 a year person shouldn't be paying more. Get over it and your selves fair is fair.
koyd27: Do you want to tell me what universe you are living in where someone who makes $50,000 a year has to pay 35% tax? Look, I'm in the same tax bracket as someone who makes $50,000. I'm prepare tax returns for a living and I make $60,000 a year salary, no itemized deductions, filing single and I am in the 25% bracket. If someone makes $50,000 a year and files married filing jointly, no itemized deductions, the tax bracket is 15%. If someone is making $250,000 a year and only paying 15% taxes, that person is claiming the max in personal deductions, earning qualified dividends and capital gains taxed at 15%, earning nontaxable interest from municipals bonds or other tax-free sources. Raising the tax rate on that guy is not going to matter in that case. The only way to raise that guys taxes is to make municipal bonds taxable which hurts cities and states that finance schools, roads, and other capital improvements by municipal bonds. There would less buyers if they income on these bonds were taxable. Same way with qualified dividends and capital gains. Tax those at higher rates and people would begin investing in foreign companies and domestic companies would suffer. Read up on the tax laws and get a clue.
The smartest people in the Republican party are the Wit brothers.Half.Dim and Nit.
The smartest people in the Democrat party are the Sh it brothers, Bull, Fullof, and Oh.
The next time raising taxes during an economic downturn is a benefit to the economy will be the first time. The Democrats did not give anybody a tax break. They just didn't raise existing rates on some, but not all. They raised taxes.
To.Ron """
Huh..?
But yet cutting services for those that are really hurting from the downturn is what the repubs feel we should do .....that's the ticket
wanna end welfare ban abortions restrict access to birth control ....that's the ticket ....
Well they did do a study and Psychologists say conservatism is a mental illness
Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition
28 Aug 2003
Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality, and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include:
Conclusion
They list eight elements that fit into any one of these three categories...
We consider evidence for and against the hypotheses that political conservatism is significantly associated with
(1) mental rigidity and closed-mindedness, including(a) increased dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity(b) decreased cognitive complexity, (c) decreased openness to experience, (d) uncertainty avoidance, (e) personal needs for order and structure, and (f) need for cognitive closure;
(2) lowered self-esteem;
(3) fear, anger, and aggression;
(4) pessimism, disgust, and contempt;
(5) loss prevention;
(6) fear of death;
(7) threat arising from social and economic deprivation; and
(8) threat to the stability of the social system.
Definitions of Conservatism
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/08/270884.shtml
You've really guzzled the Kool Aid Amunky
Seriously who in the hell cares if someone pays more or less in taxes? The bottom line is get the damn economy rolling again and more people will go to work which means more people paying more taxes. This would fix the whole damn problem. Why be jealous of others who might have some dough?
This is how much Obama cares about jobs and businesses in America: Obama's new jobs czar, you know the czar Obama put in place 'to create jobs that can't be outsourced'? Well this new jobs czars knows all about outsourcing. Obama's new jobs czar is Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE. Just this last spring, GE Aviation, a unit of GE announced the opening of it's new plant in, guess where? CHINA. In the past week or so, GE announced it was closing it's last incandescent light bulb plant in the US. It is opening a new compact flourescent light plant in, guess where? CHINA. Seems Obama is a complete hypocrit for accusing Romney for Bain's outsourcing OF jobs after Romney stop managing the company in 1999. The SEC documents do not prove that he managed Bain after 1999 or that he personally shipped jobs overseas. With all that said, if Obama is so against outsourcing, why on earth would he name Immelt as jobs czar. That is insane....not that is Obama.
I almost believe someone is paying people to write all this misinformation. I know when I'm on here and hear something I take the time to look it up from multiple sources to verify or invalidate it for myself. How can anyone believe that Obama has, as stated by many , single hanedly raised the deficit by, insert number here, when he can't get sh*t passed through Congress? They just tried to pass a bill that would help the middle class, which is 98% of you, and congress has guaranteed it will not pass. We still have essentially and for all arguments sake many of the Bush problems in place as Obama can't get shi*t passed through congress as far as a budget goes. From day one as a political stance Republicans have guaranteed opposition to anything Obama puts forth without offering anything to take its place. They say no that won't work and then offer nothing in it's place. They desperately need to get rid of Obama or all the rich supporters won't give them money to get re-elected. Are you the %2 or the %98, because the repubs are going to raise your taxes if their bosses don't get their tax loop holes extended.
Obama does not need Congress to spend money. Besides look at all the money expenditures he made in his first two years.
Obama received the largest donations in history his first campaign from the Wall Street Fat Cats. Some 16 million, watch the hands they can be quicker than the eye.
Midwest, the majority of Obama contributions come from people like me. I make about $22,000.00 a year and am raising two kids. I get Social Security Survivor benefits and what ever else I can make. By the way, I count my earned income credit in my earnings, which Congress just said they will vote down. I don't get food stamps, but I could if I took my savings out of the stock market. I have lost about $6,000 in food stamps in the past year by keeping more then $2,000.00 in an account, stocks, I would have no problem paying 35% tax on my stock earnings, if they ever make money as that is what us poor people are accustomed to paying. If I get a full time job, they will cut my Social Security, and I will have to pay about $6,000.00 a year in child care, it is cheaper for me to stay at home and make money on E-bay, what little I can. I am not lazy or stupid, I am stuck between a rock and a hard place. A catch 22 if you will. I take offense to congress playing politics with my earned income credit as it more or less makes up the difference in mine and my children's ability to buy food. It isn't a hand out, it is a subsidy that sustains the vast majority of Americans trying to pay the bills, which by the way we wouldn't need if employers paid a live-able income. Sure I could go back to school, and accrue God only know how much debt in student loans, which by the way Romney thinks is uppity, but I can't, once again afford to pay to put my kids in day care. Long story short, I gave about $300.00 dollars to the Obama campaign last election and believe it was a good investment. If I made $200,000.00 in one year I could almost retire. Rich people have money problems, I have food problems.
...........what a sucker!
Is it me or does every liberal think that in order for taxes to be fair they should be increased on everyone making a dollar more than they make?
Obama Lama Ding Dong has exploited them like all the Democrats do. They try to convince these folks that they are on their side and against rich folks despite being rich themselves. How pathetic and gullible they must be.
Andrew you are right on,
Larry, why don't you stop and think about the House for a while. Research it a bit of the big three. Cantor, Cantor and McConnell to see exactly what they do. Perhap's you may just think different,
More games by Reid and political gamesmanship. We are for the middle class and the Republicans are not. I call B.S.! The current tax rates are crucial to be held in check for at least a year if not two. The time to fk with the rates and have fair tax reform is when the GDP is above 3.5% and employment levels are below 7.2%. Government can't manage its way out of a paper bag.
I've stated it before I'll state it again. PRO_GROWTH POLICIES! This is driving more divide through out the country and does NOT promote growth but keeps our GDP in stagnant mode! Giving the Government more tax revenues from the upper income brackets will solve nothing! It's obvious the uncertainty will continue for the movers and spenders in this economy! That means more is not less and less is not more just STAGNANT!
Hey Andrew Woody. I don't think you understand economics or what the republicans position is. the point is that if you raise taxes on millions of small businesses, then there are not as many jobs created or middle class people to pay lower taxes. Small businesses provide and create most of the jobs in this country........many of which are middle class jobs. I know it burns all of you libbies up, but rich people wanting more money is what causes then to build factories, plants, and open stores.
you keeping raising taxes on the rich and the corporations and then acted shocked when they go China..........what did you think you they were going to do? I know, i know, as a true lib you don't think it through, it just sounds good and like the right thing to do...... consequences be dammed...
Let them go to China. China can't even feed all of its people. Money is an illusion, food is real.
Why is everyone screaming out there. The Right of course but why. Once it hit's the house the party of no will kill it. Pug Face McDonnell will live another day, Boehner and Cantor, not so sure if it passes..
For the first 2 years they had majorities in the House and Senate- not a move about taxes, not a serious jobs plan but they passed the ACA ( a poorly written poorly enacted law). Now right before the election they will wrap themselves in the savior of the middle class mantle to try and swing the election. The shame- we have become a nation of beggars we depend on the government- and as a philosopher said "“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship.”
Alexander Fraser Tyler, “The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic”
To quote another- "Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation."
Karl Marx
So say good-bye to the republic as was for told we are been destroyed from within by our on greed and laziness- all we need everybody seems to be saying is a little help- and the Democrats are counting in just that
Well it's been been A fun night ...sometimes it just ain't easy being a lib ...I almost feel sorry for you sad and sorry conservatives ...
Almost
Ciao
Congress just voted to again repeal Obamacare for the 33rd time . at the cost to the tax payer of just under 50 million dollars.that should give people an idea how the GOP congress is concerned about spending the middle classes money. they care squat about the middle class, as long as there pockets are full and the rich get richer. little off topic , but just pointing out how little the GOP congress cares for the lower income people.
Will someone please tell Mr. Obama to get a flippin budget...
3.5 years and still not a budget.
You all seem to be worried about the rich....
We are all in this mess and the current thugs in the White House are running a muck.
Tax increases will not make a difference if there is a open check book.
Jeff:
Raising taxes on the top 2% by a few percentage points, while cutting spending on military and domestic spending are the "budget cut" outcomes at the end of the year you are clamoring for.
Intentions are meeting outcomes. What exactly are you whining about?
Even the Democrats wouldn't vote for the Obama budgets for fiscal year 2012 and for fiscal year 2013. The last time he put forth a budget, the vote in the Senate (with a Dem majority) was 99-0. Way to go Obama.
The Democrats say that the Republicans are raising tax’s, anyone that buys that is on some kind of government payment, food stamps or ? I got an idea lets all pay the same, I am not rich but I do pay more than I think I should, Taking from someone that made it and giving it to someone that wants to sit on their but and watch TV all day is not right, if you want to fix the tax bill first of all no one gets back more than they paid in, I don’t care if you got 10 kids, and how come you see people paying for food with food stamps but they got money for 50 lbs of dog food and smokes, cant feed your kids but you got the dog covered.
I remember the Old Days when the Liberals were known as the Tax and spend boys but that has all changed under Obama. They are now and forever will be known as "The Spend and Tax Boys"
This is what you support! NICE JOB!
TO THE IDIOT RIGHT WING. IF THIS IS YOUR IDEA OF CREATING JOBS YOUR HEADS ARE TO FAR UP YOUR ASSES. LIES LIES ALL FROM BONERS MOUTH ON NATIONAL TELEVISION. OH WE PASSED 30 BILLS ON JOB CREATION HE SAID.
WELL ITS 27 AND NOT EVEN CLOSE. THIS IS THE RIGHT WINGS BILL LIST SEE FOR YOURSELF!
DAMN THAT CROW MUST SUCK!
During the 2010 mid-terms the GOP campaigned fiercely on the platform of job creation and, as a result of such promises, the GOP gained the majority in the House of Representatives. As the new Speaker of the House, John Boehner made the welcome claim that the primary goal of the Republican Party was to increase employment in the U.S.
His exact words were: "We're going to have a relentless focus on creating jobs."
The following, therefore, is a chronological list of legislation by the GOP beginning 2-10-2011 which I created purely for my own amusement. That it has reached its current imposing length without one anecdotal citation of new employment as a result of Republican legislation is simply shocking. Shame on these useless hypocrites.
There are those who choose to place the blame for high unemployment on Mr. Obama's shoulders, but keep in mind that it's the House that enacts legislation and controls the governmental purse-strings, not the President. The Stimulus package passed by the Democrats in 2009 helped the economy but would have been more effective if the GOP hadn't limited it to little more than a package of more useless tax breaks for the rich.
Update 6-18-2012: It's officially clear to everyone, even the foreign press, that the GOP will do nothing to help the economy, betting that bad finanacial times will help Mitt Romney in the upcoming presidential elections. In addition, thinkprogress.com offers five ways the GOP has actively sabotaged job growth.
Non-Job Creation Legislation of 2012:
1-2-2012: Congress will return to session on January 17th. They will work for six whole days this month. Must be nice. Don't expect much Federal job creation during this period.
1-18-2012: Here we GO!
On Tuesday, the 17th, the House selected a new as-yet-unnamed Sergeant-At-Arms. On the 18th the House will attempt and fail to vote down Mr. Obama's request for a debt increase. The House will then adjourn until Monday. No jobs were created.
1-23-2012: Not much today. Just a panel discussion on doing business with the military, plus some GOP shenanigans called the Legally Binding Budget Act of 2011. Simply put, it's an attempt to make the president culpable for lousy budgets. No jobs were created.
1-25-2012: Speaker of the House John Boehner claims that the GOP passed 30 jobs bills in the past session of Congress. Well, they passed 30 "somethings" but they certainly had little to do with job creation. Follow the link and laugh.
1-27-2012: The House held hearings on Wednesday trying to cut retirement benefits for federal employees. They also redefined what an "aircraft" is. They then took Thursday off. No jobs were created.
1-30-2012: On Friday, the 27th, the House was in session for a whole four minutes. No jobs were created.
1-31-2012: Today the House voted on a motion to consider the repeal of the CLASS Program, part of the Affordable Health Care Act aimed at helping low-income citizens get health care. It passed on party lines. Don't expect it to escape the Senate. No jobs were created.
2-3-2012: The House proposed a bill that keeps welfare recipients out of strip clubs, casinos, and liquor stores. The actual purpose of the bill was to have Democrats vote against it so that their Republican opponents can claim Democrats are FOR such nonsense. The bill passed 395-27 but it will die in the Senate, so ha-ha-ha, GOP. No jobs were created.
2-6-2012: Last week House Republicans approved language for debate on two bills that would gut Federal programs without having to pass specific legislation. This would, essentially, equal more tax cuts for big business. No jobs were created.
2-8-2012: The consistent upward trend in employment numbers would seem to be an excellent time for the GOP to bask in glory as good shepherds of the economy. But even though they've done absolutely nothing to increase employment for the past year all they can do is grumble that "More should be done". For once, they're right. No jobs were created.
2-10-2012: House Republican's are watering down the insider trading bill so that Democrats will vote against it. Thus, come November, our GOP pals can say that Democrats are actuallyfor insider trading. What more could we expect from these useless conservative sleazebags?No jobs were created.
2-13-2012: Today there will be exactly one hearing about "exploring all energy options." It should be called "exploring oil energy options." Meanwhile, Senate Republicans are trying to kill the Violence Against Women Act. No jobs were created.
2-15-2012: So which party has introduced "the most partisan" and "worst transportation billthat Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood has seen in 35 years"? Go on... guess. (Hint: It wasn't the Democrats.) No jobs were created.
2-17-2012: The House will presumably vote on and pass the payroll tax extension today. Then they'll leave town for ten days in order to celebrate Presidents Day. Cushy gig. No jobs were created.
2-20-2012: Congress is out this week on an extended Presidents Day vacation. Between now and April they're going to take four weeks off. Who the heck made this ridiculous schedule? (Hint: It was the majority party in the House. The idea being, I suppose, that the less Congress is in session, the less gets done.) No jobs were created.
2-27-2012: The Congressional Circus is back in action after a week off for President's Day, and today they'll be considering H.R. 4078, "The Regulatory Freeze of Jobs Act of 2012." It's worse than it sounds as its intent is "to provide that no agency may take any significant regulatory action until the unemployment rate is equal to or less than 6.0 percent." Cue the sad trombone sound. No jobs were created.
2-29-2012: The House failed to pass the Research Works Act, which would have prohibited federal agencies from releasing the result of taxpayer-funded research. No jobs were created.
3-2-2012: Yesterday the House spent most of the day debating and passing the San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act. Meanwhile, in the Senate, Democrats, plus Olympia Snowe, fended off the execrable Blunt Amendment. In addition, Speaker Boehner vows to continuecontraception fight. Because it's all about jobs, right?No jobs were created.
3-5-2012: On Thursday, the 1st of March, the House unanimously voted to allow itself to give oral histories of the civil rights era, then condemned Iran for finding one of its citizens guilty ofapostasy. The House then took Friday off.No jobs were created.
3-7-2012: On Monday the House spent two whole hours naming two federal buildings and then adjourned. On Tuesday they shuffled paper all day regarding a Bureau of Reclamation bill involving hydropower development. No jobs were created.
3-9-2012: The House spent all day Thursday debating H.R. 3606, the "Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act". It is better known as the "Reopening American Capital Markets to Emerging Growth Companies Act". What it actually is, is a financial market deregulation bill. What it REALLY is, is a fake jobs bill. No jobs were created.
3-12-2012: Last Friday, March 9th, members of the House attended a hearing in Saranac Lake, NY, to discuss a farm bill. No jobs were created. Today, the House has scheduled a single hearing on (Are you ready?) "Explosion of Federal Regulations Threatening Jobs and Economic Survival in the West"... in Elko Nevada. DAMN those regulations! No jobs were created.
3-14-2012: The House is in another recess until Tuesday, the 20th of March. No jobs were created.
3-19-2012: The House is theoretically in session. They're back in Washington but nothing much is scheduled this week except for hearings. They might as well be painting their bedroom's black and listening to Led Zeppelin albums. No jobs were created.
3-21-2012: On Monday, the 19th, the House was called to order at 4PM. They then spent the next four hours arguing a bill that would allow Israeli nationals to receive nonimmigrant visas. No jobs were created.
On Tuesday, the House convened at Noon. The GOP spent the balance of the day trying tosteal a Virginia park to fence to their industrialist buddies. No jobs were created.
3-23-2012: For the past two days the House has been debating H.R. 5, the "HEALTH" bill, which is actually about tort reform. No jobs were created.
3-26-2012: The House took last Friday off. No jobs were created.
3-28-2012: The House debated FCC transparency, baby monitors, and a transportation bill but nothing of note passed. No jobs were created, either.
3-30-2012: The House voted to end Medicare again but, thankfully, they signed a 90-day extension to the transportation bill. No jobs were created.
4-2-2012: The House vacated the premises early last Friday and won't be back in session until the 16th of April. No jobs will be created.
4-16-2012: The House is back in session but it's mostly just nuts-and-bolts stuff this week. Although a vote on another corporate tax cut bill (H.R. 9) is in the offing.
4-18-2012: The House voted down the Buffet Rule, awarded Lena Horne a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal, then argued the rest of the day about rules to "enhance" hunting, fishing, and shooting. No jobs were created.
4-20-2012: The House passed "The Small Business Tax Cut Act" (H.R. 9) but they might as well have named the bill "Ponies For Everyone" because it wasn't about small business, and it will never pass the Senate. No jobs were created today.
4-23-2012: The House was in pro forma session to keep President Obama from assigning badly needed federal judges. No jobs were created.
4-25-2012: The House spent the day dealing with the legislative version of cleaning their room. In this case it meant passing bills that dealt with adjustments to the boundaries of parklands, land swaps, and the like. No jobs or anything remotely like them were created.
4-27-2012: The House pased a couple of suspension bills (The DATA Act and the Small Business Credit Availability Act). They also passed CISPA, which is distressing, but the prez has promised a veto. Looking forward to that. Oh, and no jobs were created.
4-30-2012: On Friday the House approved a bill that lowers the interest on student loans, but tacked on a rider which guts the Health Care Act. It's designed to result in a presidential veto, at which point Republicans can claim that Mr. Obama doesn't care about higher education.
To which I say "@!$%# these Republicans! @!$%# these horrible, greedy, useless, poisonous bags of scum!"
5-9-2012: The House is back in session but they only passed a handful of suspension bills. No jobs were created.
5-11-2012: The GOP-led House passed several bills that denied the Obama administration funds to fight for progesssive issues. Read the dismal details here. No jobs were created even though Speaker Boehner again claimed the GOP had a tight focus on jobs... when beingspecifically asked about why his party is passing so much anti-gay legislation. @!$%# this guy. No jobs were created.
5-14-2012: Last Thursday the House passed the Sequestration Replacement Act, designed to fatten the Pentagon coffers at the expense of the elderly and the poor. It is destined to die in the Senate. No Jobs were created.
5-16-2012: The House was not in session on Monday, but on Tuesday the legislators busied themselves passing noncontroversial suspension bills. Ho-hum. No jobs were created, but you already knew that.
5-18-2012: The House passed a watered-down Violence Against Women Act. Basically, if you're an immigrant or a native American woman, you're fair game for any sadist. They'll pass a major defense funding bill tomorrow and then will take the next week off. No jobs were created.
5-21-2012: On Friday the House passed a bloated defense spending bill, even though they were obligated to cut defense spending as part of the Super Committee agreement. Not only did the new bill include discriminitory language it also included an amendment allowing the government to institute propaganda against the American people. The president has vowed to veto this bill. No jobs were created unless you count the military contractors rolling in effluent streams of your tax dollars.
5-23-2012: Say it with me now: "The House is in recess until the 30th of May. Must be nice to have so many vacations. Oh, how I hate those indolent GOP swine."
6-1-2012: Another day, another abortion bill. This time the "Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act." Which was designed to stop abortions based on sex or race. Seriously. It failed to pass. Apart from that bit of nonsense the day was one long last-minute rush to pass bills that pay the government credit card. No jobs were created.
6-4-2012: Last Friday three Democratic (Hahn, Kaptur, Tonko) amendments to increase funding for energy efficiency and renewable energy failed, while three Republican (Hultgren, Chaffetz, McClintock) amendments to reduce funding of energy efficiency and renewable energy also failed. No jobs were created.
6-6-2012: The House was not in session on Monday but on Tuesday it spent the day amending water and energy bills, mostly shuffling money from one account to another. It was not a job creating event.
6-8-2012: The House passed a bill to repeal a new exise tax on medical devices. The GOP refers to this as a "jobs bill". Another waste of time as the Senate will not consider the bill. In the meantime the GOP is still losing its @!$%# over incandescent lightbulbs, voting to restrict funding for the application of energy-efficient lighting (The GOP evidently believes that CFL's are manufactured in Hell itself.) Job creation was not in evidence.
6-11-2012: On Friday the House voted to cut funding for Open World Leadership Center, theCongressional Research Service, and the Washington Botanic Garden. But, on the bright side, they voted themselves funds to print some snazzy new pocket-sized editions of the U.S. Constitution to hand out to constituents. As always, no jobs were created.
The House is in recess until the 18th of June.
6-20-2012: The past two days have seen nothing fancy from the House. Just a couple of suspension bills and some laws aimed at American Indians. No attempt was made to create jobs.
6-22-2012: The cluster@!$%# that is the Republican-led House of Representatives spent much time dawdling over the transportation bill, the only meaningful jobs bill under consideration. (Don't get your panties twisted about the "jobs" part of this bill. This same bill must be extended each and every year and the only time there's any opposition is when the president is black.) No jobs were created.
6-25-2012: The House adjourned on Friday, the 22nd. No jobs were created.
6-27-2012: The House was pro forma on Monday but was in session until almost 11:30 Tuesday night. Nothing got done. They couldn't even agree to name four post offices. No jobs were created.
6-29-2012: On Thursday, the 28th, the House passed several Homeland Security bills, named a couple of post offices, and voted to hold U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of.... something, because the right-wing base is screaming for blood and they must be appeased. No jobs were created.
7-2-2012: On Friday, the 29th, the House grudgingly passed the Transportation Bill, which has never been a problem up until now, and mortgaged the future of college graduates. No jobs were created.
The House is now adjourned until the 9th of July.
7-11-2012: The House spent the entire day Tuesday debating the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. This is the 33rd time in 18 months that they've tried this. According to the Congression Research Service these votes have cost the tax-payers $50 million dollars. For the record, the House has voted on exactly one jobs bill in the same time period. No jobs were even remotely created.
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Non-Job Creation Legislation of 2011
(1) Attempted curtailing of abortion rights.
(2) Attempted defunding of Planned Parenthood.
(3) Attempted defunding of NPR.
(4) Investigating Muslims.
(5) Declaring English as America's Official Language.
(6) Reaffirming "In God We Trust". Yawn.
(Hmm. The list is getting long. Better start dating this stuff.)
(7) 3-28-2011: Challenging AARP's tax-exempt status.
(8) 4-1-2011: Approved defunct funding for failed religious schools.
(9) 4-6-2011: Attempt to destroy Medicaid.
(10) 4-8-2011: Attempt to destroy Planned Parenthood.
(11) 4-11-2011: Planning on shutting down the government
(12) 4-13-2011: Attempt to destroy the EPA.
(13) 4-15-2011: Attempting to eliminate financial counseling.
(14) 4-18-2011: Passed a House budget that gives $4 trillion in tax cuts to the rich.
(15) 4-20-2011: Spent $500,000 to discriminate against gays.
(16) 4-22-2011: Continued toadying for the rich.
(17) 4-25-2011: Pretending the deficit is to blame for slow job growth.
(18) 4-27-2011: De-funded SETI. (ARGH!!!!!!!)
(19) 4-29-2011: Tried to kill Chrysler two years ago... which is now going to pay back all its government loans.
(20) 5-2-2011: The Judicial Branch of the GOP, the Supreme Court, votes 5-4 to deny consumer class-action suits.
(21) 5-4-2011: Redefining rape. Yes, redefining rape.
(22) 5-6-2011: Pushing for spending caps tied to GDP. (That's a really, really REALLY bad idea.)
(23) 5-9-2011: Claimed credit for dropping oil prices because they passed a bill.
(24) 5-11-2011: Refuse to reduce oil subsidies.
(25) 5-13-2011: Stood helplessly and watched as Senator John Ensign made Bill Clinton look like a Carmelite nun.
(26) 5-16-2011: Attempt to retool Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare-killing bill.
(27) 5-17-2011: Prevented the raising of the federal debt limit. Let the catastrophic job loss begin.
(28) 5-18-2011: Watches Rome burn with their Wall Street pals.
(29) 5-19-2011: Filibustered bill to repeal oil subsidies.
(30) 5-20-2011: Rejected Goodwin Liu for judge simply because Mr. Obama nominated him.
(31) 5-23-2011: Abortion. Abortion. Abortion. As in "restrictions".
(32) 5-27-2011: Spent five hours debating NPR, five minutes debating Afghanistan.
(33) 5-27-2011: GOP releases their jobs plan. Hilarity ensues.
(34) 5-30-2011: Continue to hold the debt limit hostage in order to make more money for billionaires.
(35) 6-1-2011: Brought to the House floor a bill specifically blaming President Obama's 2012 budget for raising thestatutory debt limit by $2.4 trillion dollars, a budget the very same Republican-led Congress earlier passed.
(36) 6-6-2011: Pulled from the floor a Democratic resolution to remove soldiers from Libya, because it just might have passed.
(37) 6-3-2011: Conceived a plan to replace three federal employees with just one federal employee. Yes, they're now actually reducing jobs.
(38) 6-9-2011. Nothing. They did absolutely nothing to create jobs. Not a damn thing.
(39) 6-13-2011. Nothing, though they're jabbering a lot about privatizing Social Security. Again. Sigh.
(40) 6-15-2011. Attempts to cut billions from needy seniors and hungry children in order to raise the defense budget... again.
(41) 6-17-2011. The GOP is censoring Democratic congressional newsletters because they're using the GOP's own words to define the excremental Ryan Budget. Nice.
(42) 6-20-2011: The GOP held a convention in New Orleans and hired an Obama look-aliketo stand on stage and tell racist jokes. So +1 to the GOP for giving a man a job but -1,000,000 points for the kind of job it was.
(43) 6-22-2011: I'm sad to report that the GOP didn't do a dang thing to create jobs today, but I'll give them credit for not using senior citizens for skeet shooting practice.
(44) 6-24-2011: Yesterday the Democratic Congress stood up on its back legs and finally barked out what so many of us have been saying for the past six months--- that the Republican Congress is actively trying to stall the economy. There, was that so harrrrrrrd?
(45) 6-27-2011: The Republican Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling EIGHTEEN times for President Bush. Now the the GOP is holding collective their breaths and pitching fits, perfectly willing to cause world economic collapse just because that darned old spendthrift Obama wants to eliminate the corporate jet depreciation tax credit for their rich friends. Oy vey.
(46) 6-29-2011: Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) spent $9 million dollars of his own money in his race for a senate seat in 2010 but afterwards had his own company pay him back to the tune of $10 million in "deferred compensation". Is this illegal? Very probably, though it oddly resulted in one new American job: Senator Ron Johnson. So way to go, GOP! Only ten million more jobs to go.
(47) 7-1-2011: The GOP is on vacation until the 7th of July, even though a world-altering problem with the debt ceiling is looming. But don't worry, Democratic Senator Harry Reid and his left-wing pals are staying in Washington to get some real work done.
(48) The GOP was off for the 4th of July holidays.
(49) 7-6-2011: No new jobs to speak of but the GOP is working diligently to keep their true constituency, Wall Street fat cats, rolling in simoleons by attempting to roll back the financial reforms passed last year.
(50) 7-8-2011: Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's bright idea is to close tax loop holes.... and then give the accumulated monies back to the rich in the form of reduced taxes. That's our little non-job-makers!
(51) 7-11-2011: Speaker of the House John "Weepy-Boy" Boehner admits that not raising the debt limit will cost jobs. Ahhh, that explains everything. Atta boy, GOP!
(52) 7-13-2011: The GOP claims they passed 9 bills that would create 500,000 jobs. Exceptthey didn't create jobs. They really, really didn't.
(53) 7-15-2011: Finally. The GOP is doing some investigating, but it's not about Wall Street or Rupert Murdoch. The target in their cross hairs this time is <groan> Planned Parenthood. Again. This is the official definition of insanity, you know.
(54) 7-18-2011: Not only does the GOP continue to insist on slashing federal spending, which will cost jobs, jobs and more jobs, but now they want to hack the Constitution.
(55) 7-20-2011: Are you ready? The GOP today passed a bill that would "amend the Securities Act of 1933 to specify when certain securities issued in connection with church plans are treated as exempted securities for purposes of that Act." Ooooh, I'm all a-tingle.
(56) 7-22-2011: While unemployment claims are rising again the GOP is putting the screws tosmall airports in order to kill union labor.
(57) 7-25-2011: Speaker of the House John Boehner walks out of a debt ceiling meeting because that mean old pwesident Obama wouldn't knife his health care plan. Poor widdle John.
(58) 7-27-2011: No new jobs but at least 4000 workers have hit the bricks as a result of the GOP's jihad againstairport unions.
(59) 7-29-2011: The GOP wasted the past two days on its version of a debt ceiling bill that even its own party won't vote for. John Boehner is a miserable failure as both the Majority Leader and as a shepherd for these hard times.
(60) 8-1-2011: The GOP breaks out the fiddles while the economy burns. The tune they favor is the "Screw The Poor and the Elderly" polka, and they're hitting the coda HARD.
(61) 8-3-2011: The GOP is screwing everyone over by refusing to fund the FAA. As a result, airlines owners are currently pocketing millions in taxes that should go to the government.
(62) 8-5-2011: GOOD NEWS! The GOP has a plan to create 300,000 jobs.... no, wait. That'seliminate 300,000 jobs. Sorry.
(63) 8-8-2011: The GOP is on vacation but their henchmen continue to usurp the voting process by sending outphony absentee ballots.
(64) 8-10-2011: The GOP is proposing something called the REINS act which essentially gets rid of safety inspectors. So less jobs and more poison in your children's food. It's win-win, uh, lose-lose, uh, whatever!
(65) 8-12-2011: Employees of Boeing had their jobs illegally pulled out from underneath them. Guess which political party is doing their best to see that these employees don't have their day in court. Bingo!
(66) 8-15-2011: Yayyyy! Republican Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee (which investigates government corruption) is keeping his home district busy by securing millions of dollars for road and public works projects. I guess it was just a complete coincidence that most of the work is planned near properties Mr. Issa owns. Uh-oh.
(67) 8-17-2011: Republicans Darrell Issa and Dennis Ross introduced a bill in July that would accelerate thedestruction of the USPS and put all of its employees, hundreds of thousands of good Americans, out of work.
@!$%# Darrell Issa and @!$%# Dennis Ross! @!$%# 'em until their ancestors rise from the dead and beg forgiveness for ever having sired the malevolent little bastards.
(68) 8-19-2011: Hey, look! Good old Darrell Issa, Republican, has hired a guy named Peter Haller to help effect new regulations for banks, like Goldman Sachs. Unfortunately, Mr. Heller used to be called Peter Simonyi when he was a vice president for (wait for it) Goldman Sachs. Oh, you can bet you boots there's nothing underhanded about hiding behind another name. Not a thing. Nada. Zip. Zero.
(69) 8-22-2011: The GOP has a new job-creation plan... to have one rammed down their throats. You see, the Democrats want to include a job-creation trigger in the new Super Committee that will require the Republican Party to vote either for or against it. To vote against it would be, uhhh, dumb but I wouldn't put anything past our little conservative pals. Stay tuned.
(70) 8-24-2011: The GOP has been quiet on the job front lately so I have a request of Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry...
Re-invest in your porno companies, Rick.
It doesn't have to be a large investment but at the very least you'd put a few porn stars back on the cock, uh, I mean clock. Heck, if you're lucky they might even name a new position after you, one that no doubt involves the same anal lube that keeps your hair in place.
(71) 8-26-2011: Hey! It's our old pal Darrell Issa again, and he's hired a very nice man named Kurt Bardella to work for him on the Oversight Committee... only it's the same Kurt Bardella he fired five months ago for breach of trust. Guess this leopard found some really effective spot remover.
(72) 8-29-2011: Suppose you have a job but you need help with your mortgage. There's still $30 billion in theTroubled Asset Relief Program but the GOP wants to re-route that money to the federal deficit. This means more people will lose their homes and perhaps become homeless. Eventually jobless. Nice work, GOP.
(73) 8-31-2011: When the GOP returns from vacation they plan on voting every week to gut every government regulation within arm's reach because, you know, "regulation costs jobs". What they refuse to acknowledge is that regulation has been proven to actually create jobs.
(74) 9-2-2011: After unbridled "success" wrecking the economy once again with their "debt-ceiling" stunt House and Senate Republicans are starting to mumble about stalling the upcoming Highway Bill, costing Americans almost 2 million jobs. (These bills have traditionally been passed by overwhelming margins.)
(75) 9-3-2011: A recent CNN poll reveals that those who self-identify as Republicans would rather the president focus on jobs, not the deficit, by a margin of 54%-44%. So why has the Republican Party not proposed one, single jobs bill in nine months?
Because they're not Republicans! They're shills for their corporate masters who they can't WAIT to get another Republican stooge in the White House so they can screw the American people all over again like they did from 2001-2009.
(76) 9-5-2011: The GOP is on a Labor Day break, which is sort of like atheists enjoying Christmas services with the Pope, so not much in terms of job creation is happening. For now, we'll just have to thank presidential candidate Mitt "Magic Underpants" Romney for hiring all of the workers who will be laboring to quadruple the size of his Californiabeachfront mansion.
(77) 9-6-2011: Michelle Bachmann has a brilliant new answer for lots of high-paying jobs... slash the corporate tax rate to zero.... except corporate America is already paying an effective rate of zero. Even so, job creation is down the dumper. Back to the Etch-A-Sketch, Michelle.
(78) 9-8-2011: Presidential candidates Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney, and Herman Cain have just announced their jobs programs. It's tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts for the rich, and tax cuts for the rich. Why didn't we think of this before?
(79) 9-9-2011: Rick Perry wants to kill Social Security. He also wants to eliminate the FDA, the FCC, the U.S. Post Office and just about all other federal employees except the military, the Supreme Court and himself. It's kind of a jobs plan if you long for 12th century feudalism.
(80) 9-11-2011: On Friday President Obama outlined a job's plan that is seen by economists as win-win. The Republican response to the program is to whine about it.
(81) 9-12-2011: Not much governance today so I think I'll just make a little comparison... which two types of professions do you think result in more jobs? Wall Street commodity speculators, or educators? And which group do you think the GOP is doing its darndest to reduce in numbers?
(82) 9-14-2011: I gotta hand it to the GOP. In this bleak economy they've found a way to increase jobs... in hospital emergency rooms. What they're doing is trying to cut funding in the transportation bill for bike paths and pedestrian walkways, thus ensuring more mayhem on our streets and guaranteed employment for EMT workers. It's pure gee-nyuss I tells ya!
(83) 9-15-2011: Today the GOP-led House passed a bill that would make it easier to fire union workers, union organizers, or simply move jobs overseas in order to bust a union. In essence, an anti-jobs bill.
(84) 9-16-2011: The government has provided loans that help the auto industry create jobs, loans that helped keep the assembly of the Ford Focus and the Nissan Leaf right here on American soil. Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor plans to strip half that money to repair damage from Hurricane Irene... in HIS district.
(85) 9-16-2011: President Obama is trying to fast track job creation for a company called LightSquared and Republicans are pissed, evidently because the owner of the company had the audacity to donate to the Democratic Party. He, uh, ahem, also donated equally to the Republican Party.
(86) 9-19-2011: Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor is back with a pithy statement about Mr. Obama's jobs bill: "While an all or nothing approach might make sense to some communicators, I hope the President realizes it would be better to work together." This from a man whose stated job it is to say, and I quote, "No" to anything the president proposes. I hope he gets a painful boil on his uvula.
(87) 9-21-2011: The leaders of the Republican Party just sent a letter to the Federal Reserve saying "Keep unemployment high." Honestly, the letter says, in essence, "Hey, those guys out there in the ocean are drowning. Hide the life-preservers."
(88) 9-23-2011: Look! It's Darrell Issa, Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, creating jobs. He's stumping for a huge loan package on behalf of a company, Aptera, which makes electric cars. This is great news, especially for the green economy, although I wonder if Mr. Issa would be so ecstatic if the company in question wasn't a major contributor to his campaigns.
Oops.
One more thing... the day after sending the glowing recommendation to the Energy Department Mr. Issa conducted a hearing entitled "How Obama’s Green Energy Agenda is Killing Jobs." Double-oops.
(89) 9-26-2011: The GOP is being suspiciously quiet so I want to take this opportunity to show you just how badly the Bush administration @!$%#ed-over the American people. Here's a chart of the GNP for this country over the past 60 years:
Mine:
Keep it coming. This chalkboard full of crazies may not be the right context, but the teabaggers are far too prone to bumper sticker slogans and prone to "mishandling the truth."
Don't even try math, or higher forms of learning on this crowd:-)
KASEY your to funny. LMAO!
Mine:
The world is full of fools. If you are going to trade your time and energy for something, make it brave and interesting.
do you leftardz really need 100-line rants to make fools of yourselves? i mean the first sentence is enough to let normal people know you are a rabid left-wing idiot
My goodness, speaking of pots and kettles! The height of hypocrisy is certainly approached if not surpassed. Sen. Mitch McConnell accuses the democrats of passing a measure for pure political motives, when everything he has done in the past three years has been solely for political purposes and without any regard for the good of the country or the people of the US. McConnell, you will recall stated that his ONLY purpose as Minority Leader in the Senate was to obstruct any measure by the Obama Administration in order to prevent re-election of the President. He did not care whether his actions hurt the poor and middle class, stalled the economic recovery or slowed the growth of jobs. All that mattered was the "election."
Now he complains that the Senate passage of a bill to extend tax cuts only for the middle class and not for the super wealthy is a stunt intended to influence the election. How quaint!
the Middle class is fleeing Blue states for Red states; yet despite this FACT the loser Left still insists on claiming to be in the corner of the middle class.
Really because most democratic states are doing better.Mor jobs per capita. I think me smell bull@!$%#!
poor idiot leftist; try to say Blue states arent losing population and Red states arent gaining people. stop deluding yourself
there's been a NET LOSS OF JOBS ON OBAMA'S' WATCH.
it's pretty simple leftardz; unemployment is higher now than it was when Bush left office
No their have been a net loss do to congresses inaction Now if you look above at all they haven't done and you think it's the presidents fault you may have been dropped as a baby! You might want to get your facts straight. You can only point so much without facts to back it. Nice try .Above is posted for people like you who like to spin things and not actually know what they are talking about.
do? you mean due. you are an unhinged moron; typical obama-bot
A democrat President, with a Dem-majority House, and a Dem majority Senate; just extended the Bush tax cuts for the rich less than 2 years ago. you left-wing hypocrites
Stoopid!
The goper mobsters control the House and have a large enough body to obstruct every attempt to fix any of the damaged the last 30 years of right-wing incompetence has wrought on this country.
Read some history. Conservative societies ALWAYS fail. The first casualty is ALWAYS the truth. The second, public safety.
But you wouldn't know that since you are one of the brainwashed minions, already absorbed into the mindless body of parrothood.
it's stupid; stupid. not stoopid
you crybaby leftnuts; you just extended these same tax cuts for ALL INCOME BRACKETS A YEAR AND A HALF AGO. what changed so much we dont need to extend the tax cuts to the wealthy now? you know this obamaconomy still SUCKS!
Racists animal.
How do we deprogramm 50 million right-wing wackos brainwashed by the terrorists named Boehner and McConnel, the agents owned by News Crap and ALEC?
I think they should all move to Iran or Syria where their views are welcomed and considered sane.
awww the race card? isnt the lose leftard cute??
lol
Claiming that everything is an attempt to play the race card is the new racism. However, in 40 years the card will not be needed anymore. The minority will become the majority and you will lose the power of numbers. It is at such time that things will change for the better. However, when that time is here, I am convinced that the minorities, who will be the majority, will not display a desire to be superior. We will just try to get along with everyone and advance the nation.
I am as middle class as they come. Paid my own college education on 10 years of work and student loans. Banged around from 5-year job to 5-year job on both coasts and points between. Still rent looking for a way to find a 20% down payment.
But one thing I do NOT want in my middle-class muddle of a life is another tax cut I won't understand or appreciate. What I want are smooth roads and streets. I want airports that work. I want schools that teach. I want fire protection, police protection and education for everyone.
Other things I want are functional government (not since 1981) that makes sense. I want jobs for all my young friends. I want truth in government (can't happen with right-wingers involved) and fair courts for all (not with the right-wing ideological judges we have).
What a really want is democracy and government for the people returned. That isn't going to happen in 21st century United States as long as the right-wing propaganda machine (News Crap) keeps cranking out their 70+% disinformation and the right-wing buffoonery keeps obstructing our society just because they haven't the creativity to do anything else.
As a suspected middle-classer, the last thing I want is another meaningless tax break until this country has managed to heal at least some of the damaged inflicted on us by the worst attack this country has ever withstood, a devastating assault from our own mislead and misinformed right-wing faux-political mobs from the inside.
Congress, keep your tax breaks. Heal the damage form the anti-American terrorist attacks coordinated by the gopers and other right-wing terrorists.
But here is the problem..the money will not be spent well. I agree with everything you said but I have zero faith that the money will be used for anything other than administrators in schools, awards tobuild bridges that will be outsourced to Chinese companies, etc. wish it were different.