Posted on 09/28/2011 4:29:31 PM PDT by Kaslin
Leadership: Despite the president's calls for Congress to "pass this jobs bill," it looks like his own party doesn't even want to bring it up for a vote. Republicans should force one.
When Sen. Harry Reid on Monday was pressed why — more than a week after Obama commanded Congress to pass the jobs bill without "division or delay" — he still hadn't scheduled a vote on it, his excuse was that the Senate floor was "pretty well jammed now."
Oh, really? Over the past three weeks, the Senate has been grappling with such burning national issues as:
• Designating Sept. 12 as National Day of Encouragement and Sept. 23 as National Falls Prevention Awareness Day.
• Passing a resolution in support of National Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month.
• Declaring October National Principals Month.
• Creating a National Estuaries Day.
• Honoring this the International Year of Chemistry.
• Passing the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act.
• Recognizing Sept. 24 as a Worldwide Day of Play.
Given all that hard work, we can see how squeezing in a vote on Obama's must-pass-without-delay jobs bill would be tough.
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Why bother?To even ENTERTAIN the bill on the floor lends it more credibility than it could ever get otherwise.
Do you hear that screaming?
It's the Founding Fathers.
If you make it to Heaven they would like a few words with you.
If you don't, well, you'll then get what you so richly deserve. Perhaps you will be soothed by some cowboy poetry.
Orwell was a genius who foresaw the future. Sadly, we have the misfortune of living that future.
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