Senate Republicans have blocked a Democratic measure to extend the payroll tax cut.

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

(Banner) Senate Republicans have blocked a Democratic measure to extend the payroll tax cut.

Read more: cnn.com

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Either the GOP leadership has lost control of its Caucus, or they've decided they don't care how bad they end up looking.

[Harmony Blue]

1. Payroll tax holiday needs to cease

and all tax cuts to expire.

[aquart]

6. Yes.

[RBInMaine]

11. BULLSHIT ! You keep the payroll tax holiday and pay for it by taxing the rich.

[trotsky]

2. REPUBLICANS ARE RAISING YOUR TAXES!

This is how they play the language game. It's way past time we beat them over the head with it.

[savalez]

3. [phone]

[riverbendviewgal]

4. The republicans are really mean

and they are the party of hatred.

I think there should be a lot of PR and info going out that the pipeline will not be providing all these jobs like the republicans say they will. I feel so sorry for the USA but then again, I am starting to worry about my Canada with Stephen Harper in power...He is a bush boy.

check out this
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-13/green_sheet/30393379_1_keystone-xl-keystone-pipeline-tar-sands

Excerpt: Here are the facts:

• In an interview on CNN, a TransCanada executive admitted on camera that permanent jobs would only number “in the hundreds, not the thousands”: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201111110019

• The Washington Post reported that TransCanada said the project would likely yield only half the current talking point number of 20,000, mostly short-term temporary jobs. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/keystone-pipeline-debate-heats-up/2011/11/04/gIQA824rpM_story.html

• The Cornell University Global Labor Institute analysis says that the project will produce fewer than 5,000 jobs at best---and could cost the nation jobs. http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globallaborinstitute/research/upload/GLI_KeystoneXL_Reportpdf.pdf

• The Council on Foreign Relations’ Michael Levi, who is actually a proponent of the project, blogged that U.S. Chamber of Commerce numbers were based on a “dead wrong” study. http://blogs.cfr.org/levi/2011/10/27/keystone-oil-jobs/

• The State Department’s own analyses estimated 5-6,000 jobs. http://www.keystonepipeline-xl.state.gov/clientsite/keystonexl.nsf?Open

Preying on Americans desperate for work with puffed up job numbers is a cynical way to advance this dangerous project. We hope you will inform your readers of the facts.

Sadly, the jobs canard is not the only distortion being perpetrated by pipeline boosters.

[SoapBox]

5. And according to the Baggers and Crazy Shelly...Tax cuts don't create jobs!!!

I LAUGHED how the Thugs and Bullys have tried to say that cuts don't create jobs.

The LET the BushCo. tax CUTS, expire!!!!

[Iliyah]

7. American people

are waking up to the party of no and the party that only care about the 1%. 2012 will be their waterloo.

[FarLeftFist]

8. Hang this around their necks.

[sofa king]

9. Quick! Someone call Grover Norquist!

He's gonna have to find about forty-five primary candidates to run against the Republicans for voting to raise taxes. Remember, as we were all programmed this time last year, letting a tax cut expire is raising taxes.

And by the way, since we're talking about terrorists and those, like Grover, who represent them, let me be the first to note that also in Washington today officials from Virginia Tech were making the rounds, trying to appeal their fines from the previous mayhem. So the necessary distraction from this vote may well have knocked on their very doors.... Something to think about as that story unfolds.

[McCamy Taylor]

10. They think Super Pac money will wipe the slate clean. "GOP Steals $1500 from each American worker!"