Stabenow: 'The Republicans in the Senate want this economy to fail.'

[BurtWorm]

And too many Dems don't seem to be getting that.

http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/06/24/stabenow-republicans-want-this-economy-to-fail/

In a depressing briefing with reporters, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) charged that Republicans basically are holding back measures to extend unemployment insurance and create jobs in a cynical ploy to help their chances in November by crashing the economy and blaming the Democrats for it.

At issue is the large tax extenders/jobs bill, which has been whittled down consistently over the past few weeks, with Republicans continuing to offer a united front against the bill. Today there will be a cloture vote on the bill, and absolutely nobody believes it will pass. All Republicans and Ben Nelson (one Senate leadership aide said to me “What’s the difference?”) oppose the bill, wanting it to be fully offset with spending cuts or other revenue-raising items.

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Stabenow, whose state of Michigan has the second-highest unemployment in the country, did not mince words. “The Republicans in the Senate want this economy to fail,” she said bluntly. “In cynical political terms, it doesn’t serve them if things turn around (in the economy).”

Stabenow charged that Democrats have changed the bill over and over to pick up votes from Republicans, and they keep changing the minds on what needs to be cut. As it stands, the only thing in the bill that isn’t paid for is the extension of unemployment benefits, but that has historically been labeled emergency spending in a time of high unemployment. Said Stabenow, “If 15 million people without jobs isn’t an emergency, what is?”

Expressing outrage over the process, Stabenow said that the constant changes asked for by individual Republicans wishing to get on the bill concerned “numerous issues.” She believed that some were protecting the special interests which made up the revenue raisers in the bill: wealthy investors who would pay more in taxes with the closure of the carried interest loophole, corporations who would no longer be given tax incentives to ship jobs overseas, and oil companies, which under the bill would pay 41 cents a barrel into the oil spill liability fund. She said that Democrats tried to cater to the concerns of these Republicans, but it has become clear that they want nothing to pass. “They want our country to fail to win an election, and they’re willing to take the people of this country with them,” she said angrily.

[Andy823]

1. Damn right they do!

It's their only chance to win seats in November, killing anything that will help the economy! They don't give a damn about the country, or the people that are suffering, as long as they can use a failing economy for political reasons they will try and kill everything that comes up! Sadly there will be many republicans who will lose their unemployment, lose their job, or not be able to find any work because of what they are doing, yet they will still vote for the idiots because they have been brainwashed!

All I can say is if the idiots who vote for these assholes think things will be better if the republicans are in charge will find that if they do regain power, this country is doomed!