Yesterday, the Senate voted 51-49 in favor of bringing the infrastructure portion of Obama’s Jobs bill to the floor. However, a majority of the Senate was not enough, because Republicans filibustered to obstruct the measure, so America’s crumbling infrastructure will continue to rot and the thousands of Americans, who could have found work repairing it will continue sit idle, unemployed. Why? Republicans object to a tiny 0.7% (seven tenths of 1%) surtax on income over $1 million. All the Republicans goose-stepped together in opposition. Two others joined them. They were Traitor Joe LIEberman, (ASSHOLE-CT) and Benedict Nelson (DINO-NE). If either is your Senator, express your outrage, nonviolently of course.
There’s nothing partisan about a road or a bridge or an airport; Democrats and Republicans have voted to spend billions on them for decades and long supported rebuilding plans in their own states. On Thursday, though, when President Obama’s plan to spend $60 billion on infrastructure repairs came up for a vote in the Senate, not a single Republican agreed to break the party’s filibuster.
That’s because the bill would pay for itself with a 0.7 percent surtax on people making more than $1 million. That would affect about 345,000 taxpayers, according to Citizens for Tax Justice, adding an average of $13,457 to their annual tax bills. Protecting that elite group — and hewing to their rigid antitax vows — was more important to Senate Republicans than the thousands of construction jobs the bill would have helped create, or the millions of people who would have used the rebuilt roads, bridges and airports.
Senate Republicans filibustered the president’s full jobs act last month for the same reasons. And they have vowed to block the individual pieces of that bill that Democrats are now bringing to the floor. Senate Democrats have also accused them of opposing any good idea that might put people back to work and rev the economy a bit before next year’s presidential election.
There is no question that the infrastructure bill would be good for the flagging economy — and good for the country’s future development. It would directly spend $50 billion on roads, bridges, airports and mass transit systems, and it would then provide another $10 billion to an infrastructure bank to encourage private-sector investment in big public works projects.
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican of Texas, co-sponsored an infrastructure-bank bill in March, and other Republicans have supported similar efforts over the years. But the Republicans’ determination to stick to an antitax pledge clearly trumps even their own good ideas… [emphasis added]
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The bottom line is simple. Republicans place expanding the excess luxury 345,000 millionaires over the desperate need of everyone else. Ed Schultz calls out the GOP and interviews DCCC Chair, Steve Israel (D-NY).
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There is little else to add except to remind you of this. Republicans govern exclusively for the benefit of millionaires, billionaires, and corporate criminals. They do NOT represent YOU!
12 Responses to “GOP: Millionaires Si, You No!”
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What I find even more disheartening than repubican Senators pulling this same stunt over and over and over again, is that so many Americans have bought their charade. How does anyone with a working synapse vote for these A$$HOLES? I just don’t get it. *sigh*
Those who get their news from Faux Noise have no idea it is happening.
The video isn’t working. But that’s okay because I know all their standard responses. It’s all a game of one-up-manship to them. They should find out that they are not invincible at the pols next November. I only wish it was this year.
Yeah, I know. If wishes were horses, we all would ride.
It’s working Patty.
The ugliness just keeps on going–
-and getting uglier.
I keep telling myself…KARMA….there has to be some really BAD Karma coming for all of the RepubliFascists in November 2012…..there just has to be. Not to mention what’s coming for LIEberBUSH and Nelsom…and Tester…and a few other DINO’s….
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!! Unless you really LIKE being a third world country and enjoy aristocracy lording it over you and you begging for bread in the streets…. Dawg….SIGH
May you be right about Karma!
Republicans will get on board. In fact, conservatives like Cameron ran on this platform to implement the Robin Hood tax.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/7487081/Conservatives-will-impose-tax-on-banks.html
Welcome, PJ. 🙂
I’m afraid that US Republicans are completely different from British Conservatives.
And what happens if a bridge that is in a poor state of repair, but still being used by many, happens to fall one day and kills many? Can the families of the victims sue the crap out of McConnell & company, the ones that knowingly ignored the state of repair for a few pieces of gold?
The Republicans have to go! They are destroying the US hand over fist. I wish I could help you guys with the vote but I have my own republican, PM Harper to worry about and he does have a majority government for the next 4 years.
Great video with the Ed Show. He and Olbermann, I love them both!
I don’t think so, Lynn. That bridge in Minnesota fell killing several shortly after R$epublicans blocked another infrastructure bill.