Anyone in either chamber can add their name to the bill as a co-sponsor. It’s not as if there are only a couple of Democrats in Congress. The House has 193 Democrats, 192 of which apparently don’t want to be associated with Obama’s job-creation track record. Democrats control the Senate with 51 members and two independents, although on this legislation it looks more like one Democrat and 52 independents.(via Instapundit)
We have a federal system, not a parliamentary system, so our legislature doesn’t take votes of no-confidence to force an executive out of power. But given the high-profile rollout of the AJA by Obama, including his demand for a joint session to escalate pressure for action, the lack of any co-sponsors on these bills is about as close as we’ll get to a vote of no confidence in this executive short of an outright floor-vote failure in the Senate on the bill.
Monday, October 03, 2011
QOTD
Weeks later, and President Obama's jobs bill (the one he wants Congress to "pass now!") still has no co-sponsors in the House or Senate. As Ed Morrissey observes:
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>>> as close as we’ll get to a vote of no confidence in this executive
I predicted as soon as he got the nomination that, if elected, he would bring people to appreciate the mountain of incompetence that was Jimmy Carter.
It is with complete schadenfreude that I can now say: "I told you so."
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