Over at The Plum Line, Greg Sargent describes the Senate as 'out of touch' over its likely vote-down of a jobs bill: The key provisions in the jobs bill have strong public support. They are backed by majorities of moderates and independents. Unemployment is basically a national emergency. Yet we’re now at the point where we don’t even know if a simple majority of the Senate will support a sensible, balanced measure to deal with that emergency — Dems can probably only afford to lose two or three defectors — that contains ideas that both parties have supported in the past.
On a common Senate fallacy
On a common Senate fallacy
On a common Senate fallacy
Over at The Plum Line, Greg Sargent describes the Senate as 'out of touch' over its likely vote-down of a jobs bill: The key provisions in the jobs bill have strong public support. They are backed by majorities of moderates and independents. Unemployment is basically a national emergency. Yet we’re now at the point where we don’t even know if a simple majority of the Senate will support a sensible, balanced measure to deal with that emergency — Dems can probably only afford to lose two or three defectors — that contains ideas that both parties have supported in the past.