Dick Durbin claims Republicans will “pay a price” for opposing Obama’s jobs bill

    Barack Obama has been crossing the country on the campaign trail telling anyone who will listen that the Republicans in the Congress are holding up his jobs bill while demanding that the Congress pass the bill right away. But that is not quite true is it? In fact it is the Democrats in the Senate who are unwilling to vote on Barack Obama’s latest round of stimulus spending disguised as a jobs bill.

  At one point REPUBLICAN Mitch McConnell asked Harry Reid to bring the president’s job bill to the floor for a vote but this was blocked by DEMOCRAT Harry Reid who claimed that the Senate had more important issues to work on before they got to the jobs bill.  Still, this hasn’t stopped the Democrats from trying to blame the Republicans for this bill being stalled in the Congress and Dick Durbin is the latest to speak out on this issue:

I hope there will be. And I’ll tell you, if the Republicans take the current position and hold it, that they’ll do nothing, I think they’ll pay a price for it,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said about the jobs bill

  Yes, the Republicans do oppose this jobs bill, but what Dick Durbin is ignoring is the fact that the Democrats also oppose this legislation as evidenced by the fact that Harry Reid will not bring the bill to the floor for a vote; if the Democrats supported the bill Harry Reid would bring it to the floor in an attempt to get the Republicans on the record as being opposed to this legislation, thusly proving Barack Obama’s point.

  This bill actually has bipartisan non-support and the reason for this is simple; the American people have rejected Barack Obama’s failed economic policies and they see this as more of the same. Nobody in either party is ever going to vote in favor of this legislation before the election and Barack Obama knows this. But that will not stop people like Barack Obama and Dick Durbin from claiming that it is the fault of the Republicans if this bill does not pass.

  The problem with this argument is the fact that the vast majority of the people do not want this bill to pass and this strategy could backfire on Dear Leader because Republicans will be credited with–not blamed for–stopping Barack Obama from wasting trillions more of the taxpayers dollars, and Dick Durbin must be living in an alternative reality if he thinks the people will hold it against Republicans if this bill doesn’t pass.

  But this just goes to show us the low regard in which people like Dick Durbin and Barack Obama hold the intelligence of the American people because they do not think we can see through their little game.