Monday, October 3, 2011

Obama's jobs bill falls to pieces in Congress

Reading into this story,

"As Obama continued to press lawmakers for a vote on his signature legislation, Representative Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican, said that was not going to happen.
Asked if the bill as a complete package was dead, Cantor said: "Yes.""
Now Obama will think this gives him some ammo to use against those filthy conservatives who dare to defy him. But the story goes on:
"The bill appeared to be in trouble in the Democratic-controlled Senate as well, where aides from both parties said it will likely fail when it comes up for a vote later this month."
Now how is he going to blame the failure of his "Bipartisan bill" on the failure in the Senate?
Go back in recent history and recall how this bill came about.
After months of bad employment reports, someone in the White House woke up to the fact that Employment was going to be a major issue in the 2012 general election. So someone quickly drafted a speech for the "Speech-Give-in-Chief" and he blindly (and through some obvious stupid political planing called a joint session of congress the day they returned from Summer Vacation and the same day on which the first Republic Debate was scheduled. That was another failure in policy. So the speech was rescheduled.
The Obama made this wonderful speech promising a "bill on Monday" that everyone would like. On Monday essentially a white paper showed up in Congress outlining Obama's spending plan. But where was the bill? How was it to be funded?
The skinny on the street was the Obama White House went to the "super committee" and told them they had to fund his bill by finding an additional $450 billions in cost cuts. That was another failure on the part of the White House. And where is that pesky bill and how is it to be funded?
Two weeks later some of the White House staff stayed up late and drafted the bill including everything the Democrats and Obama wanted and the Republicans had already said they would vote down in the House, as well as, everything the Republicans wanted which the Senate Leadership had already said would die in the Senate. Someone in the White House isn't listening.
So finally when people start reading the bill in the midst of Obama demanding all over the country while campaigning, "PASS THIS BILL!" it turns out to be another Solyndra-style boondoggle funded by a $500 Billion tax hike (on someone, though we can't be sure who at this point).
As an interesting sidebar, I find it hilarious that Obama has redefined "infrastructure" to mean "Solar Panels". How in the world did he do that without telling anyone?
All in all, I never really expected Obama ever thought his cobbled together mess AKA Jobs Bill would ever pass either the House or the Senate. Instead it was only another phoney political move to try to drum up something to blame on the Republicans and make points in the coming election.

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