WOW: The GOP Continues Its Fine Tradition Of Doing Jack Shit About Unemployment
I’m having a hard time mustering the motivation to write about anything because everything sucks:
Every single Republican voted against even discussing whether or not to pass the jobs bill. Every.Single.One.
Even though they campaigned on a “Create Jobs” platform, not only have they refused to come up with a plan to put Americans back to work, but they’re playing games by, among other things, suggesting that their plan to pollute us all to death by delaying two pending EPA rules actually creates jobs.
<blank stare>
It’s no mystery why they’re doing this — the GOP loathes Obama so much that they are willing to sacrifice the livelihoods of millions of Americans all in the hopes that they can render one American — President Obama — unemployed in thirteen months.
And for what? So that he can make boatloads of cash on the lecture circuit four years earlier than expected?
For the next thirteen months, the GOP will block everything that the president supports because they are fucking children.
I hate everything.
[image via MoveOn]
[cross-posted at Angry Black Lady Chronicles]
sukabi
a minor tweak ABL, “they are fucking sociopathic children.”
Villago Delenda Est
@sukabi:
Most three year olds grow out of this sort of thing.
Not these 49 petulant shits.
kansi
They are sociopathic children fucking the rest of us.
Loneoak
@sukabi:
That’s redundant. All children are sociopaths.
Linda Featheringill
It is interesting that the Republicans aren’t even trying to appear to care about what happens to folks who aren’t rich.
ABL
this thread moved from funny to hilarious in 4 short comments.
HA!
KatinPhilly
We might as well all go fuck off and die now, before they pass a bill mandating this.
ABL
@Linda Featheringill: i’m so pissed off about it. i don’t know why. i knew this would be how it played out, but jesus f. christ — they are fucking insane.
Zifnab
I can’t get mad about this anymore. It is so terribly, utterly predictable. The Republicans ran successfully on obstruction, denialism, and baseless character attacks on the President two years ago. Then they won big. Why change the game plan now?
boss bitch
@ABL:
I’m pissed because more people aren’t pissed. and by people, I mean the media. They don’t care though. Look how giddy they get when pols like tell the middle class/poor to go fuck off.
Menzies
Hard to think about creating jobs for the rest of the nation when yours is essentially ensured by Wingnut Welfare LLC.
General Stuck
I hear ya, ABL. There is only one thing that really interests me about politics right now, and that is whether, and or, how much the clueless voting public is,, or is not getting it. Seems like it takes a sack of atomic hammers to get thru to the rubes what the wingnuts are up to. And that is without care for anything remotely related to helping average Americans, of which most wingnuts are included. They lie cheat and steal to get back power, to lie cheat and steal more better, for a tiny fraction of citizens to feel immortal, or something.
So I check the polls regular, and see little sparks of clues being got, what with the OWS, but nothing yet much to take to the bank, as it were.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Zifnab: No shit, they were never going to vote for it.
Menzies
@boss bitch:
Not that I endorse murder, but if someone ever put Lloyd Blankfein or Jamie Dimon out of our misery, the best case scenario would involve getting David Gregory, Wolf Blitzer, or, best of all, Larry Kudlow as a bonus.
(Kudlow and I come from the same undergrad institution, so I think I have some right, aside from that afforded me by my current festering mood, to wish him worst.)
Claessens1
Almost. Every. Single. Democrat. voted for the Jobs Bill (or as McConnell terms it ‘the so-called Jobs Bill’).
Linda Featheringill
So now MoveOn is playing the role of Madame Defarge.
This is not a criticism BTW.
beltane
I’m thinking about attending my local OWS protest with my oldest son on Friday. A little yelling will be therapeutic, much more so than signing an online petition for the thousandth time.
beltane
@Linda Featheringill: Not fair. I wanted that role for myself. Why does MoveOn get to have all the fun?
Anna in PDX
16: Knit one, purl two.
Roger Moore
@Anna in PDX:
Drop three (banksters out their windows).
Ruckus
@KatinPhilly:
Not me.
I’d like for them to have to see my rotting corpse. I’d like them to know what their whiny, sociopathic behavior looks like when the money can’t cover the smell. It wouldn’t be much but that looks like all the satisfaction I could get.
gnomedad
Whenever I think about this sort of crap, I fume about how quickly “up or down vote!” will return if Goopers retake Congress.
Jenny
This is all Obama’s fault!
If he had only used the bully pulpit and campaigned around the country, raising public support for the bill to 75%, the Republicans would have fallen in line.
/oh, wait…
shano
And they just passed more ‘free trade’ and created a new offshore tax haven for jamie Blankfein.
We just lost 160,000 jobs. In one bill supporting N & S Korea.
boss bitch
@Menzies:
I have a very intense hate of the media. I would have them knocked off first. Then Repubs.
shano
Thanks for continuing the neo liberalism and free trade that has already failed America, Mr. Obama.
Menzies
@boss bitch:
If the media were directly charging me for their services, I might be on your side with this.
Either that or we can divide the labor very nicely, I think. ;-)
scav
A phalanx of knitters as part of of the demonstration. Bet the needles would give pause to some of the shirted ones and the circular ones are especially multi-purpose in defense or offense. PDF of code for wannabe Defarges
Triassic Sands
Of course the GOP does nothing about unemployment. They want high unemployment so wages will be kept low. The ideal GOP economy is one in which workers have to fall all over each other in their race to secure work by asking for lower and lower wages.
In the ideal Republican world there would be no minimum wage, no overtime, and no costly benefits.
Linda Featheringill
http://dane101.com/current/2011/10/12/protesters_converge_on_sen_ron_johnsons_milwaukee_office_several_arrested
Those wild and crazy guys in Wisconsin!
Marc McKenzie
@shano:
“Thanks for continuing the neo liberalism and free trade that has already failed America, Mr. Obama.”
What the hell are you talking about? Jesus H. Christ, couldn’t you direct some of that anger at the GOP, the motherf***ers who just killed passage of a bill that could help this country out?
(Of course, if you’re just saying that in jest, I apologize.)
Villago Delenda Est
@boss bitch:
I have long contended that after we dispose of a few lawyers (five sitting on the USSC, in particular, along with “Judge” Starr) we go after the media types next.
Mnemosyne
@shano:
Really? You can look at that list of 48 Republicans who refuse to even discuss the job situation and the first thing you think is, “Obama sucks”?
I think they have medications to help obsessive compulsive conditions like yours.
AA+ Bonds
“Republicans don’t like to debate on jobs because they know they’ll lose.”
That’s my line for the week.
AA+ Bonds
@shano:
You smell like plant matter. What leftist would even respond this way to an infrastructure bill
AA+ Bonds
Everyone should kindly note that as Florida has pushed up the primary season, so to have the Kochs pushed up their online sockpuppetry.
They’re going to double- and triple-hire disgruntled B-school dropouts to manufacture controversy on the left. Why wouldn’t they?
I don’t care if I come across as paranoid – this election will see more online dirty tricks than any other election in the history of the world, and y’all know that’s right.
Ben Cisco (mobile)
Just stumbled across LOD ripping Raisin Cain’s 999 plan.
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Holee Shit.
shano
Obama supports a Jobs bill while at the same time supporting the Bush ‘Free Trade’ bills to S. Korea, columbia and another tax haven for the 1% in Panama.
WTF is wrong with him? the S.Korea bill alone causes the US to lose 160,000 jobs. So, fuck him, really. What hypocrisy. And yea, i sent money to Obama every month and voted for him the last election.
The only solution is to :
http://www.getmoneyout.com or #OccupyWallStreet
I am not optimistic.
shano
And note this: during the election, both Hillary and Obama CAMPAIGNED on renegotiation of NAFTA, CAFTA, et al to include living wages and environmental protections.
Have any of you heard one word about this since they both took office? HELL NO.
We have Hillary at the State Dept. going with neoliberal policies supporting the Keystone Pipeline. Hiring a subsidiary of Keystone to do the ‘environmental assessment’. Crony Capitalism.
Neoliberalism and the global economy are screwing us, they have screwed us and will continue to screw us until we change these terrible labor & trade policies
shano
And here is another point: which bills are going to pass? The jobs bill? Or the neoliberal Free Trade bills that ship US jobs overseas and create one more tax have for the 1%.
Hell, we know which bills will pass. The ones the Corporate state supports. And Obama supports these bill, too.
Nice to get brownie points for supporting a jobs bill while you ship American jobs overseas.
Brian R.
In fairness, Mark Foley is no longer a representative of the GOP.
gene108
Tip O’Neil taught these Republicans a valuable lesson. Tip O’Neil worked with Reagan and gut stuff done.
Reagan, whose ideas were controversial at the time – even within his own White House, as his VP dubbed his economic policies “voodoo economics” in the prior Presidential primaries – could’ve been crushed, if Democrats ground government to a halt in the 1980’s.
I’ve pulled up old articles from early 1983 and Reagan gets crushed by Mondale and other Dems in theoretical match ups, because unemployment was high and inflation and interest rates were high.
But O’Neil worked with Reagan and the economy improved. Reagan crushed Mondale in 1984 and the Democrats have been thrown into disarray ever since.
The Republicans know, if they cooperate with Obama and things improve, they will face the same struggles the Democrats have faced in 1984, in attempting to define themselves and win elections.
somethingblue
Well, technically, they voted to continue discussing it indefinitely. They like discussing it so much they don’t want to stop!
ABL
@shano: it’s President Obama, to you, pal.
ABL
@AA+ Bonds: the “Mr. Obama” gave it away. It probably typed and deleted “obummer.”
cat48
Actually, the Trade bills were renegotiated by Obama b/c Bush did them first. After he did that, he held them in his office until the rethugs agreed to special subsidies to unemployment for displaced workers. McConnell has been screaming for the trade bills all yr & Obama would not send them until the Bill Labor wanted was attained.
Cris (without an H)
And Jon Tester. I spent this morning reminding myself that he has kept his promise to vote against extending the Patriot Act.
RalfW
@beltane:
A friend of mine who is a self-described workaholic is taking the day off work Friday, and we’re headed downtown to OccupyMN for our first visit.
Another friend of mine is probably the most introverted person I know (and I have a lot of friends and acquaintances). He grabbed his sleeping bag last Friday, and camped at OcucupyMN for 3 nights. Says he had dozens of fantastic conversations.
Chris Cillizza or whatever-the-f*ck his name is can make fun all he wants, the Occupy movement is drawing in people who really, really don’t usually participate. Which is very cool.
Paul in KY
@boss bitch: How about we tie one to the other & then drop them in the river. Sort of a latter day Vendee.
One banker, one bullet.
pattyp
@Brian R.: FTW
robert thornton
As if I weren’t mad enough, now this. I can’t help but believe that the people that put these idiots in office don’t know what havoc these elected representatives are causing in our country and how the representatives are presently robbing all Americans of a future. What to do? How about starting a letter writing campaign to the newspapers in these guys districts/states. Pointing out, vote by vote how the people they elected are screwing them. God help us. Let us hope that knowledge is power and that maybe, just maybe the inmates don’t run the asylum.