Assigning a Jobs Bill as Homework [ When will the Democrats file it? ]

nytimes.com ^ | Sept 14 2011 | Helen Cooper

[Jacquerie]

It sure is. I’m surprised it is not getting more play. When not a single House rat from a safe district is willing to give his opponent next year a club with which to beat him, Hussein is in real trouble.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

No it doesn’t. That’s plain to see. It says he was responsible for the budgets from 2001 to 2008.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

Well, funny you should ask. I did look up the numbers and produce a graph. I fully referenced it and Republican Apologists on FR don't like it. Conservatives love it because it provides clarity and the authority of detail. Republican Apologists try to imitate it but they can't because when the same level of detail is provided, it doesn't say what they want it to say, i.e. Republicans are without fault.
Here ya go:

FR thread on this graph.

[whd23]

No it doesn’t. That’s plain to see. It says he was responsible for the budgets from 2001 to 2008.

Maybe you are drunk

Let's count shall we? You won't even have to take of your shoes for this one:
1) 2001
2) 2002
3) 2003
4) 2004
5) 2005
6) 2006
7) 2007
8) 2008

What'd you get? I got eight.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

Who signed the 2001 budget into law, Clinton or Bush?

[whd23]

Uh uh! You can't change your argument as to WHICH years are the Bush years. You were complaining that only seven years were labeled as the Bush years.

How come Bush served for eight years but is only responsible for seven budget years?

Regardless of whether the correct years are labeled, there are eight years labeled.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

Yeah, I know. I needed you to admit that you were counting 2001 as a Bush year and were not counting 2009.

So who signed the budget for 2001, Bush or Clinton?

Who caused the $650B revenue loss in 2009, Bush or Obama?

Who asked for TARP and signed it into law in 2008, Bush or Obama?

Who signed a continuing resolution (with discretionary spending increases) for the first five months of 2009, Bush or Obama?

So what were these references you were talking about? I gave mine. Fair is fair so you should give yours, right?

[whd23]

You're confusing me with Cobra64 who posted the chart you were commenting on.

I simply jumped in to point out that you were counting wrong.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

Foiled by my own inattentiveness!

[Cboldt]

Here are some durable links. The first one has the text, the second one is a summary page, with links to all sorts of related information.

Congressional Record - 112th Congress - Page S5539 [Sept 13, 2011]
S.1549 - American Jobs Act of 2011

[Cboldt]

-- So there have never been a democrat that introduced Obama's bill. --

Even Reid didn't personally "sponsor" it. He's named as the sponsor, followed by the notation "(by request)". There are no co-sponsors.