Post Tagged with: "jobs bill"

• Reid’s Jobs Bill Advances

  February 23, 2010 6:25 am no comments

  Celebrating the GOP aisle-jumpers that helped prop up Harry Reid’s stature in the senate, the Washington Post announces that Reid’s jobs bill has advanced past the filibuster stage: Five Republicans, including new Sen. Scott P. Brown (Mass.), joined 57 Democrats in voting to break a filibuster of the jobs bill, [...]

   

• Elections Have Consequences Folks

  February 22, 2010 6:09 pm no comments

  I’m personally ok with Scott Brown deciding the pared-down jobs bill would be a great first way to display his brand of bi-partisanship. But a lot of people that believed his election was going to put an end to the Democrats railroading bad legislation through Congress (and shoving it unceremoniously [...]

   

• Shock: Obama Plans A Bill That Doesn’t Accomplish Anything

  February 10, 2010 5:29 pm 1 comment

  I don’t want to mock too indiscriminately here…God knows how badly I would like to see a jobs bill that would foster a genuine hiring environment and help drag us out of the depression-like environment we’ve suffered with for so long, but really?: It’s a bipartisan jobs bill that would [...]