Argh.

Nope.  No cake.  No jobs, either.

So, we are told that "the Senate" voted down Obama's plan to fund state workers, especially teachers and first responders.  Hmm, I would bet that plan is pretty popular.

If only I had a chart.

Well, how about that.  It IS popular.

I guess "the Senate" will really have hell to pay come next November.

Except, it wasn't "the Senate" that failed to invoke cloture.  The "Senate" voted 50-50.  Joe Biden could have cast the tie breaking vote if this wasn't "the Senate" and majority rule ruled.

It was the Republicans who killed the aid to the states plan of Obama's. It wasn't "the Senate" except that the Senate has a bunch of stupid rules that require supermajorities on  the great "paper or plastic" question.

The cynicism of the GOP is truly mind boggingly, but it's also distressing, because it could very well work.

They have decided to do absolutely nothing to help the American economy, inflicting pain on millions of Americans and hurting the American economy for years to come.  But because the "Senate" killed the bill, people become frustrated with Washington, not with the GOP.  And the GOP wants you to believe that Washington is awful and doesn't care about you.

Now, true, the presence of odious shit heads like Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson and Joe Manchin on the GOP voting rolls does give the appearance of "bipartisan" opposition.  But Nelson and Manchin are further from the Democratic party line than any Republican Senators are from theirs.  And don't throw Snowe and Collins at me, those two crones whimper about maybe reaching across the aisle but NEVER DO.

Many on the Left have complained that Obama has not used the bully pulpit enough for things like the public option, DADT repeal, DOMA repeal, closing Gitmo, tax increases on the rich, cap and trade, and any other cause that has gone wanting in the first two years of Obama's term.

Well, he's been out there pounding the bully pulpit into a pulpy mess.

I'm waiting for the success to come.

I'm also waiting for the press to notice that Obama HAS a job's plan.  When that plan is explained to the people (not that the media would want to explain it) it is overwhelmingly favorable to the American people.

Yet a cadre of Senators and every single last member of the House GOP will vote against these bills for the sole reason of driving Obama from office.

In a just world, to paraphrase Henry Adams, these cretins would live caves and wear skins.  As it is, they could be a year from regaining the reins of power and destroying what was left of this country once and for all.