GOP signals opposition to jobs supercommittee

Source: The Hill

House Republicans are unlikely to support a Democratic plan to create a congressional supercommittee tasked with helping to spur U.S. job creation, seeing the proposal as leading to costly and ineffective jobs programs.

Mirroring the debt-deal supercommittee recently created to find at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction, the jobs panel is the brainchild of House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson (Conn.), who could introduce the bill for its creation as early as this week.

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But Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), indicated to The Hill on Wednesday that Republicans would likely resist this bill, and see it as a way to argue for more costly government jobs programs that Republicans have opposed.

"Getting our deficit and debt under control is one of the most important things we need to do to get our economy growing and creating jobs again, and that is the goal of the joint committee," Steel said, referring to the debt committee. "Rep. Larson's proposal sounds like a scheme for more of the same failed 'stimulus' government spending."

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/177235-gop-signals-opposition-to-jobs-supercommittee

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Good for Congressional Democrats to try to place more emphasis on job creation. But, of course, Congressional Republicans are pushing for inaction and a focus on austerity.

President Obama has been talking about jobs and will make proposals for infrastructure spending while Congressional Democrats are saying that a supercommittee on jobs should be created, since jobs are just as important if not more important than spending cuts right now. Of course, Congressional Republicans are declaring such job creation efforts dead on arrival.

The question is whether Republicans get any backlash for not only doing nothing on jobs, but opposing any effort to spur job creation.

For the billionth time

:smoke:

smiling and saying we can compromise. These guys are playing such hardball that they need to be met with effective verbal force and not the nice guy approach.

And, do you hear any Republicans with any job proposals? Heck, Republicans have taken to laughing at efforts of Democrats to try to improve employment over their opposition. But, will they suffer any backlash? No.

The corporate media will play the false equivalency card and say both sides are to blame even though Republicans are just sitting on their collective ass complaining about the debt while opposing tax increases.

we continue our march to a third world nation as the republicans celebrate their success.

That is all.

everyone except the hardest of their base will see through this.

And all dems need to make the push toward job creation, constantly and fervently. The rethugs will oppose any move in that direction, they need to be beat over the head with this to show the public where they stand maybe, just maybe it will soak in and the general public will finally get the message.

than to curse the darkness." Repugs seem to love the dark.

No shades of gray, no partial solutions. If it doesn't fix every aspect of a problem (especially if they didn't come up with the idea), there is no point in even trying to fix a part of it. They would rather the entire nation sit in the dark than pass out a few candles so that someone could find the breaker that needs to be reset.

When I worked in municipal government, we knew that there would be a certain element that would oppose any initiative, no matter what it was. We referred to them as members of the fictitious group CAVE, which stood for Citizens Against Virtually Everything. I propose a similar moniker for the current crop of Republican idiots. How about: Congressional Republicans Against Virtually Everything Now (CRAVEN) and using it as a descriptor here on DU i.e. "now look what those CRAVEN Republicans are doing".

CRAVEN -- I like it! :thumbsup:

ways of doing business. One could always count on the "NO" crowd. Absolute block heads and "no we can't." They are the same ignoramuses. They can sink a country, municipal government or corporation. Exactly the same Neanderthals.

I used to throw then off by saying fine, we'll do nothing, now what's your solution, and as usual, they had no ideas, nothing, and then they shut up, and we proceeded with my plan.

CRAVEN sounds good to me!!!

The CRAVEN wants to win at all costs..no jobs mean angry, confused flip flopping voters.

Unless it is building more war toys.

I think it's catching on.

to know anything about creating jobs?

Mystifying...

Why do they hate Americans and America so much???

It's just wierd.

What is wrong with these people? :wtf:

:eyes:

...Which in turn means that no compromise will be found, which in turn means that half a trillion dollars will be slid out of the Department of Defense budget without a single Democratic vote.

See how that "compromise" works for us? Once again, the President is turning the base nature of his opponents against themselves to get what he wants.

jesus, will anyone just do their fucking job?

we Citizens should be fucking embarrassed.

we are pathetic bunch to allow this total and complete bullshit to happen.