Reid blasts Republicans as tax extenders bill sinks in the Senate

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: The Hill

The Senate's tax extenders bill, which includes an extension of unemployment benefits, appears on death's door.

An increasingly frustrated Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Thursday said he would make another effort to move the bill, but made it clear he lacks the 60 votes necessary to win a procedual motion.

Reid also blasted Republicans for blocking the legislation and said he had concluded the GOP doesn't want a deal.

"Somewhere along the line, throughout these charades, this job creating, tax cutting, loophole closing bill has become a political football and that is really too bad," Reid said in comments on the Senate floor.

"The debate is focused on winning and losing and not on doing what's right, and that's really too bad."

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/105245-reid-blasts-republicans-for-making-extenders-a-political-football

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Once again this proves the point, you can't work with the Republicans.

[DJ13]

1. you can't work with the Republicans

Most of the time I get the feeling the Democrats use Republican resistance to have an excuse for their own constituents on matters they really didnt want, the old "we tried" line.

When the Republicans are in power the tables turn, but not surprisingly the few resulting pieces of legislation passed when either side is in charge always seem to support big business over the average person.

[SoapBox]

2. The Party of No...

continues their "slash and burn" tactics. They don't care who they hurt
as long as they keep up their terrorist ways.

Party of No...Why do you hate Americans so much?

[florida08]

3. republicans smell blood

they haven't "worked" with democrats from the beginning..not going to. They want back in. The goal is and will continue to be to prove that democrats can't govern, that government is bad and the best thing is for them to take charge and hold down the spending. The villiage idiots buy it and want them back in as well. I'm afraid we have a corrupt electorate as well as government. Am really quite sick of this neverending transition of no government and no rules. The haves do not care about the have nots.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

4. BOOT THEM TO OBLIVION

[florida08]

6. lol

I'd love to see it believe me.

[hvn_nbr_2]

5. A new reason to make them actually filibuster: Joe Barton's mouth.

60 votes is only needed if they filibuster. Effin' make them filibuster. Make them show their real loyalties. If you make them talk and show the world where they stand, people will see it. But the new reason to make them filibuster is this: They can't keep their lunatic wordjaculations in check. They'll be giving us a Bartonism every day if you make them stand up and talk to defend their position. They just can't help themselves.

[mbperrin]

9. Yes, make them do it! I'm sick of caving in as if the threat to do it was

the deed!

DO IT!

[Bitwit1234]

7. I think....in each state where one of those republicans in the senate

live, the people on unemployment should picket that member of the senate. They should write to the newspapers, deluge the TV make it as miserable for them as humanly possible. I'd even follow them outside eateries. Plaster notices all over their hometown as to why do republicans want people in this country to starve.

Republicans were so good at sending the jobs these people had overseas now they don't want to pay the consequences for it. I would be damn sure the country and especially the state the senator comes from knows this. Because one day one of those radical republicans or tea bags might need that unemployment money also. Wouldn't you just love to see the tea bags in the same straights.

[kiranon]

8. Great ideas. Bring home to their constituents the harm their elected

representative/Senator caused.