From Reuters: The Senate defeated President Barack Obama's job-creation package on Tuesday in a sign that Washington is likely too paralyzed to take major steps to spur hiring before the 2012 elections.
The $447 billion package of tax cuts and new spending failed by a vote of 50 to 48, short of the 60 votes it needed to advance in the 100-member Senate. Voting was expected to continue for several hours but would not affect the outcome.
Obama, campaigning in Florida, said the vote was not the end of the fight for the measure. In a statement after the vote, Obama accused Republicans of obstruction and said he would work with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to make sure that individual proposals in the bill would get a vote as soon as possible.
"Ultimately, the American people won't take 'no' for an answer. It's time for Congress to meet their responsibility, put their party politics aside and take action on jobs right now."
Obama had barnstormed around the country to pressure his Republican opponents to back his top legislative priority, but he did not pick up a single Republican vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Two Democrats, facing re-election in conservative states, also voted against the measure.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/11/us-usa-jobs-idUSTRE79A4D220111011
This was a crappy, totally partisan bill that even Democrats did not support.
Harry Reid doesn't want anything done in the Senate it will give Obama a chance to run against Congress because he can't run on his record.
If the GOP was smart, and they are not, they ought to be passing job bills after bills in the House of Representatives and let the Senate vote them down. That takes away the do nothing Congress argument from Obama and the Dem's and it will show that someone is working on trying to get people back to work. But again, the GOP congresscritters are just not that smart.
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