Pop-quiz hotshot, how many Republicans voted for it?

If the number is greater than zero, I will accept your narrative, otherwise fark off.

50-50 is still a win if the GOP allowed a fair vote - Biden could break the tie.

Math defeats Dems...again

Considering they needed 60 votes to break a philibuster, they would need at least 7 Republicans to vote yes to have ANY chance.

And just to be sure, this wasn't even a vote on the bill. It was a vote to BEGIN TALKING about the bill. Because in the Minority Leader McConnell era Senate, it's not enough to have 51 votes to pass a bill. First you need 60 votes to begin debate on a bill. Then you have a long debate. Then you need to enter a cloture petition. Two working days later, you need 60 votes to invoke cloture, which contrary to popular belief does not immediately end debate, but rather starts an additional 30-hour clock for debate. Then, and only then, can a vote on the bill itself be taken, on which 51 votes pass the bill.

Fark Republicans and their obstructionism, and fark any single person who will defend them in their mission to ensure that no bill which could improve the economy is considered.

Bloody William: First, the problem is these Senators are horribly old guard and run even more conservative than conservative members of the House of Representative. The Senate is almost exclusively older guys more set in their ideology and more beholden to outside interests because of the larger scale of their elections.

Claire McCaskill's got no farking excuse. She's a rookie, and she's working off of the absolutely batshiat notion that if only she votes like a Republican on a few key issues that she'll win an election over an actual Republican.

subby GOP kills Obama jobs bill in Senate by 50-50 vote. Why, those bastards--they should be...wait a minute...there's only 47 Republicans

Yeah subbs, you're right, this is the Democracts' fault. If the vote had just been 53-47, this bill totally would have moved forward....

0bama jobs bill would have created zero jobs anyways.

So, now that the job killing bill is defeated, the jobs should start rolling in any day now.

Right?

Bloody William: "3 Democrats voted against it! DEMOCRATS' FAULT!!!"

And we're done here.

The solution is to make these assholes actually carry out a filibuster, not just threaten it...

Stand up there and tell the country why you don't support this bill, tell us what would be a better solution. Read the phone book. But make these clowns follow through on their threats. Let the American people see them for what they are - Greedy corporate stooges, who do what their masters, the lobbyists, say.

But none of them are interested in that discussion. The GOP is only interested in stonewalling the Obama Administration as they are more concerned with making Obama a one-term president than actually helping people in this country. The Democrats voting against it are more concerned with keeping their cushy jobs than actually helping people in this country.

Spoiled, petulant children, the lot of them.