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Barney Frank talked today about the rethugs obstructionism....
"I hate to have to say this," he said, "I think it's very clear: [Republicans] don't want to see things get better. That's why they're obstructing the small business loan bill which by every calculation they should have been for... If you looked at the numbers last week -- private sector jobs went up. Not by as much as they should have, but they went up. The job loss was because of the kind of public sector job layoffs that this bill would have avoided if it had passed a month ago. So that's the other point is that there's frustration, that [Republicans] are kind of benefiting politically from their economic obstruction."
The jobs bill is paid for by closing a loophole that allows U.S. companies to get a tax break for moving jobs offshore. Unions are particularly pleased about this provision.
"Not only did these Republicans vote against saving jobs in America," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka in a statement, "they voted to keep encouraging corporations to outsource jobs during this recession."
It's clear, Republicans hate middle America, they hate public schools, they hate union workers, they hate progress, they hate progressives because we stand for progress...
