Wonkbook: Senate Republicans filibuster state aid

The Senate blocked the shrunk-down jobs bill, reports Rosalind Helderman: "Nine days after President Obama’s $447 billion jobs package was blocked in the U.S. Senate, one of the plan’s key components -- which would provide $35 billion to states and local governments to hire teachers and first responders -- suffered the same fate late Thursday. The vote represented the legislative part of a strategy by Democrats to convince voters that they are pushing popular job-creation bills that are being thwarted by Republican opposition. All 47 Republicans voted against allowing the bill to proceed to a full debate, arguing that temporary stimulus dollars for state and local government would do little to bolster the private sector...Two Democrats also opposed proceeding with the measure, as did Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.); 50 senators voted to move ahead with the bill."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/wonkbook-senate-republicans-filibuster-state-aid/2011/10/21/gIQAFZ9F3L_blog.html

Republicans are idiots.