The Congressional Floor is a Battlefield

The politicians are at it again.

Since Obama's Jobs bill failed to get the votes it needed in the Senate to go to the floor on Tuesday, the democrats are utilizing their backup plan - break the bill up into smaller legislations and pass it along. Given that many of the singular components mirror legislations Republicans have historically voted in favor of, the Democrats are essentially pressuring the Republicans to either pass the smaller pieces of the Jobs Act or clearly explain themselves to their districts why they didn't support them. It's just really messy and everybody's pointing fingers.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) accused President Obama of "running around the country campaigning on a bill that he knows won't pass".

President Obama himself called out the House Majority Leader Eric Cantor for impeding efforts to get the Jobs Act to the floor for a vote. "I'd like Mr. Cantor to come down here to Dallas and explain exactly in this job bill what he does not believe in", the president said.

Gary Jacobson, a poly-sci professor at UCSD, pointed out that the Republicans really "have no incentive to decrease unemployment before the next election", which is the reason so many of them voted against the Jobs Act. Honestly, I think this theory holds a lot of truth. If the unemployment rate remained high, just think of all the chances the GOP will get to criticize the Democrats, especially President Obama, in the upcoming primaries and election.

Honestly, I just think this overinflated partisanship is really affecting the pace at which work is actually being done and changes are actually being made by our government.