The Truth About The Defeat Of The “Jobs” Bill

J.J. Jackson | September 28, 2010 

I have been reading some news stories decrying how it was Republicans that scuttled the “Jobs” Bill in the Senate on Tuesday. The bill, anything but a “Jobs” bill, was really just the latest attempt at big government overreach. There is no Constitutional authority for Congress to poke and prod manufacturers to create jobs domestically through legal incentives and disincentives. But, as usual, liberals just don’t get that. They think that it is their role as our “rulers” to push us to do what they want us to do.

But the facts are that it was not just the Republicans that filibustered the bill. The truth is that four, count them four, Democrats and Joe Lieberman, a Democrat who the Democrats did not want but who still won reelection despite not being far left enough for the party leadership and has since been begrudgingly welcomed back into the fold, also joined in the filibuster. The final vote on bringing the grossly misnamed bill to the floor was 53-45.

But I am sure that in the media’s attempt to vilify Republicans the story template will continue to be that Republicans killed a “Jobs” bill that was anything but. And I am sure I will continue to get emails from liberal lemmings proclaiming the same nonsensical claim.

Hey, Republicans are pretty bad in their own right. There is no reason to start making up things about what they have done to criticize them. The problem is that the left needs a villain and the Republicans be that villain. Because we all know that the left is never wrong and their plan are always good for the country right? Right?

The truth is that the Republicans who stood up against this bill and these other five Senators got this one right. Why they got it right and whether they got it right for the right reasons however is a topic for a whole other discussion.


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