42 Republican Senators to American Workers: You Should Pay to Lose Your Jobs

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.workingamerica.org/2012/07/19/42-republican-senators-to-american-workers-you-should-pay-to-lose-your-jobs/

Working America members sent thousands of messages to their U.S. Senators over the past few weeks in support of the Bring Jobs Home Act, which ends tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas and creates a tax incentive for American companies to bring jobs back home.

The vote that was held today was the vote to consider the bill. Since 2009, Republicans in the Senate have required 60 votes to invoke cloture on every piece of legislation, and today was no different. To actually debate the bill, 60 Senators needed to vote on the affirmative.

The final vote on the motion was 56 to 42. With the exception of Senators Scott Brown, Susan Collins, and Olympia Snowe, every Republican Senator voted to not even consider the Bring Jobs Home Act.

We want to be clear about what this vote says. The motion was not to ban outsourcing, or to dictate what companies can and can’t do. The motion was to change the law so that American taxpayers are no longer subsidizing companies moving expenses when they pick up and leave town. The motion was to change the law so American workers no longer pay to help companies ship their jobs away.

FULL story at link.

[DocMac]

1. This is getting so common that I need a rubber stamp.

FUCK EM

[HankyDub]

3. sick freaks

fuck 'em for real.

As post #2 mentions, the D's should put this in every single ad they run against republiklans this cycle.

[DCKit]

2. There's a host of obstructionist votes that will make great commercials against the (R)s...

but this one is going to really resonate.

Every single Dem challenger needs to get together, produce one commercial (regarding the obstructionism of the (R)s), then tailor it to their individual races. It'll work everywhere.

Think of all the money they'd save!

[secondvariety]

4. I'm sick to my stomach.

This country is toast...

[graywarrior]

5. I'm amazed at Scott Brown's vote

Oh wait, he's running against Elizabeth.

[valerief]

6. "Thank you, sir. May I have another?"

[B Calm]

7. and people think there is no difference between republicans

and democrats. . .

[sulphurdunn]

8. The filibuster

is the most undemocratic insurance policy a plutocracy could ever hope to devise and still maintain the trappings of representative democracy. Until it is abolished along with private financing of political campaigns, our professed system of government is a joke.

[Hotler]

9. So nice to see you all upset over this. Does it upset you enough to....

take to the streets in protest????? I keep asking the question here on DU. How much worse does it have to get before you are willing to take to the streets and all I get is excuses.

[nashville_brook]

10. kick rec.