Readers' forum: Campaign booster

Published: Monday, Oct. 10 2011 12:00 a.m. MDT

Summary

President Obama's jobs bill was sent to Congress with a threat to pass it or prepare to be run "out of town." Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called that bluff with a motion to force a vote on Obama's original jobs package. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., last night triggered a rarely used, and previously denounced, procedure called the "nuclear option" to change Senate rules to prevent Republicans from forcing votes on the president's jobs bill. Why?

Because Reid, McConnell, Democrats and Republicans alike know the president's jobs package will fail. Beneath their political facade, they know that spending more taxpayer money will not create the jobs that the billions of stimulus dollars before it failed to produce. They see it for what it is; a faux offer to be rejected and used to launch Obama's presidential campaign because he has no record to run on.

Gary Petersen

Layton

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ECR

Burke, VA

Mr. Peterson should be honest in his assessment about Harry Reid's actions. It was not "to prevent Republicans from forcing votes on the president's jobs bill." It was to allow debate on the bill before the vote, which is exactly what More..

8:46 a.m. Oct. 10, 2011
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Esquire

Springville, UT

Has the campaign started? This letter leads us to that conclusion. The jobs bill actions in the Senate are high level political posturing, and I am betting the writer of this letter really has no clue as top what is going on. Instead, he uses More..

10:32 a.m. Oct. 10, 2011
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