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Originally Posted by Gouge
1.5 years? January 5, 2011 is when the Republicans took over the Lower House. And they cant have a Jobs bill without control of the Upper House, all they can do is piggyback on what the Upper House and Barry already have in place.
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I saw my typo, but it was too late for me to be able to edit it. They have been in control of the house for about 9 months now.
They can feel free to pass bills and send them on to the senate. It is a two way street. They did it with their deficit reduction bill even though they knew it would be DOA upon arrival at the senate. If they had a legit jobs bill they could pass it, send it to the senate and then work with them to come up with a version of it that the senate would pass. Since the dems control the senate they would have to do this on the democrats time, but they could do it.
The reality they have no legit plan, or at least they don't want to put one out until after the election. They want the economy to be bad so that it hurts Obama and gives them a better chance of wining back the white house so they came back into power in the house on the campaign chant of "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!" and like the democrats they too have done nothing to follow through on that promise.