22 Replies to “Democrat Harry Reid blocks vote on Democratic President Obama's jobs bill”

1. newrouter says:

   October 4, 2011 at 5:33 pm

   polls just closed in w va. we get to see how the scoamf fairs in klansman byrd’s state

2. Joe says:

   October 4, 2011 at 5:54 pm

   Obama’s entire campaign strategy? Is that all he’s got?

   Well they always have allegations of racism. And bashing Sarah Palin (regardless of who is the nominee).

3. newrouter says:

   October 4, 2011 at 6:17 pm

   Earl Ray Tomblin Democrat 16,718 52.96%
   Bill Maloney Republican 13,912 44.07%

   Total: 58 of 1,874 Percentage: 3.09%

4. newrouter says:

   October 4, 2011 at 6:28 pm

   Earl Ray Tomblin Democrat 21,511 51.04%
   Bill Maloney Republican 19,340 45.89%

   Total: 179 of 1,874 Percentage: 9.55%

5. happyfeet says:

   October 4, 2011 at 6:32 pm

   west virginia mountain momma

   that’s where that anti-american rockefeller dickface is from

6. newrouter says:

   October 4, 2011 at 6:39 pm

   Earl Ray Tomblin Democrat 33,499 49.79%
   Bill Maloney Republican 31,550 46.90%

   Total: 335 of 1,874 Percentage: 17.88%

7. McGehee says:

   October 4, 2011 at 6:42 pm

   A man named merely “Bill” beating somebody named “Earl Ray” in the South — that’s unprecedented.

8. newrouter says:

   October 4, 2011 at 6:46 pm

   Earl Ray Tomblin Democrat 46,968 51.61%
   Bill Maloney Republican 41,066 45.13%

   Total: 487 of 1,874 Percentage: 25.99%

9. newrouter says:

   October 4, 2011 at 6:49 pm

   note on this election winner has to run again in 2012(filling out former gov/us senator manchin’s term)

10. newrouter says:

    October 4, 2011 at 7:04 pm

    Earl Ray Tomblin Democrat 72,717 51.19%
    Bill Maloney Republican 64,660 45.52%

    Total: 794 of 1,874 Percentage: 42.37%

11. happyfeet says:

    October 4, 2011 at 7:08 pm

    Mr. newrouter you’re quickly becoming my go-to guy for West Virginia election results

12. geoffb says:

    October 4, 2011 at 7:12 pm

    West Virginia isn’t the South. They were on the side of the North in the Civil War. It used to be part of Virginia till then. I’m just surprised that the State wasn’t renamed “Byrdland” at some point though.

13. McGehee says:

    October 4, 2011 at 7:14 pm

    If they’d been really serious when they seceded from Virginia, they would have named their new state South Pennsylvania.

14. sdferr says:

    October 4, 2011 at 7:33 pm

    After “…we made a bet…” I’m thinking to start calling it roulette-socialism . . . or maybe craps-socialism would be better?

15. newrouter says:

    October 4, 2011 at 7:37 pm

    close but no monica

    Earl Ray Tomblin Democrat 124,071 50.16%
    Bill Maloney Republican 114,995 46.49%

    Total: 1,587 of 1,874 Percentage: 84.69%

    good news it that maloney can do it again in 12 months if he wants

16. bh says:

    October 4, 2011 at 7:38 pm

    If they’d been really serious when they seceded from Virginia, they would have named their new state South Pennsylvania.

    Every time I think I’m smart another joke zips over my head.

17. guinspen says:

    October 4, 2011 at 7:41 pm

    Jay Cutler !

18. newrouter says:

    October 4, 2011 at 7:47 pm

    “Every time I think I’m smart another joke zips over my head.”

    yea maybe an allusion to railroads

19. motionview says:

    October 4, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    Damn Republican obstructionists calling for a vote on this bill. If we vote on it, how can we claim that you are holding it up?

20. McGehee says:

    October 4, 2011 at 10:16 pm

    Every time I think I’m funny I get that look.

21. Slartibartfast says:

    October 5, 2011 at 6:24 am

    Someone keeps fucking with Obama’s strategy:

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are scrambling to rewrite portions of President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, even as Obama tries to blame Republicans for Congress’ failure to act.

    Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell moved to call the president’s bluff Tuesday by pushing for a quick Senate vote on the bill, but Democratic leader Harry Reid derailed the effort as all sides maneuvered for position in a potentially defining battle in the 2012 presidential campaign.

    In the Senate, Democrats made plans to jettison provisions that Obama recommended to pay for the $447 billion jobs bill, substituting them with a tax increase on millionaires, officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door developments.

    Reid, D-Nev., outlined plans for a 5 percent surcharge in a meeting with the rank and file Tuesday, according to participants in the session, as Obama traveled to Texas to deliver his most caustic challenge yet to House Republicans who have not allowed a vote on the legislation unveiled nearly a month ago.

    “What’s the problem? Do they not have the time? They just had a week off. Is it inconvenient?” he said in Mesquite, Texas, singling out House Majority Leader Eric Cantor for special criticism.

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    Democrats said Reid’s proposed millionaires’ surtax was designed to quell much if not all of the opposition from his own rank and file.

    Gotta put in some red meat for the base!

22. Slartibartfast says:

    October 5, 2011 at 6:29 am

    I had missed this scathing evaluation of the jobs bill until now.

    What is so striking about Obama’s shopworn rhetoric is its juvenile intellectual quality. His explanation for how the AJA will create jobs is a non-starter because he does not explain how we get from here to there. As in so many other cases, the president thinks that waving a wand over a problem will make his most ardent wishes come true, even when similar earlier efforts have proved to be dismal failures. This dreadful hodgepodge of a bill will likely be dead-on-arrival in Congress, but it remains a patriotic duty to explicate some of its worst provisions.

    The most evident feature of the AJA is that it is a combination of ill-conceived, disparate measures. The wandering quality of the bill makes it impossible to cover all of its silliness, but it is possible to focus on some of the core job provisions, all of which kill the very jobs that the AJA is supposed to create.

    One does not have to dip very far into the bill to find trouble. Section 4 of the AJA imposes “Buy American” restrictions on the use of funds appropriated under this statute for work on public buildings. “[A]ll the iron, steel and manufactured goods” used on such projects are to be fabricated in the United States. There are obvious administrative difficulties in deciding what counts as a “manufactured good” for the purposes of the act. But don’t sweat the small stuff. The fatal problem with this form of jingoism is that, in the name of economic efficiency, it forces American taxpayers to pay more for less. That upside down logic may seem sensible to a die-hard Keynesian, but not to ordinary people who realize that deliberate overpayment for inferior goods makes no more sense in the public sector than in the private one.

    More at the link.

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