Posted on 09/29/2011 7:37:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Note well: It’s not because of a GOP filibuster either.
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said that, at the moment, Democrats don’t have the votes to pass President Obama’s jobs bill, but Durbin added that that would change.
“Not at the moment, I don’t think we do but, uh, we can work on it,” Durbin said according to Chicago radio station WLS…
“The oil-producing state senators don’t like eliminating or reducing the subsidy for oil companies, “Durbin said. “There are some senators who are up for election who say I’m never gonna vote for a tax increase while I’m up for election, even on the wealthiest people. So, we’re not gonna have 100% Democratic senators. That’s why it needs to be bi-partisan and I hope we can find some Republicans who will join us to make it happen.”
Is this news? We knew on Sept. 14 that Democrats were leery of the bill when Reid insisted that they had other business to handle before taking it up. Two days later, we found out that Senate Democrats spent an hour and a half griping about the bill to White House aides in a meeting. Five Democrats — Begich, Webb, Landrieu, Mikulski, and Casey — were specifically named as opponents. Three days after that, Durbin told CNN not to expect any action on it until October at the earliest, a prediction that’ll end up being proved right. To the extent that his latest comments are “news,” it’s for two reasons. One: Despite having had two weeks to convince his own party’s congressional caucus to rally behind him on this extremely prominent measure, Obama’s still up shinola creek. That’s what happens when your job approval trend lines look like this. Two: We all realize, I hope, that the bill is chiefly a political ploy designed to show The One being proactive on the seminal electoral issue of the day. He expects Republicans to block it, at which point he’ll turn around and blame our endless economic malaise on the GOP. That’s perfectly straightforward — except that he forgot to craft the bill to make sure that it would attract the support of Democrats at least, which is essential if he wants to frame opposition to it as blind wingnut partisanship. I’m as confused as Dave in Texas is about that. If you want to isolate Republican obstructionism as America’s big problem, you should probably first double-check with your own guys to make sure they’re not being obstructionist too, huh?
Brand new from Fox News tonight: A clear majority of voters (52/38) say that if Obama were CEO of a company, he’d have been fired by now. I can’t imagine why.
“Just how is FUBO going to accomplish that feat? If gas gets to $1.50 next summer, no one in the world is going to have a job because the only way oil goes down that much is if demand crashes.”
Maybe, or speculators are getting something. All we heard about for 3 years is speculators are driving up the price, oil companies are gouging and the mideast instability is driving up the price. We were over $3.00 a gallon since 2009.
You would think with all the crap between Iran, Libya, Egypt, Venezuela(Chavez is a illin)that the speculators would be driving the price through the roof.
But they aren’t. Gas is down 30 cents over the last two weeks (today it went down 4 cents at my station, now at $3.27. Two weeks ago it was $3.59) Why? It has never dropped like that.
Everything has a reason, and the media isn’t reporting this. If they aren’t saying anything, something is going on.
Close...
These eight were Democrats elected in 2006, who “ran to the right” of Republicans, flipped the Senate to Dingy Harry, and then ran straight into Obama and Reid’s lap.
Until now...
Cause they’re up for reelection next year.
That’s why Dick Turbin says there aren’t enough Democrat votes for the no-jobs “jobs” bill.
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