THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT

Now some may consider the source and not take it seriously, but the Wonkette is not wrong with its facts, they are simply deservedly disrepectful of their subjects. And in this case disrespect is all the Republican/Teabaggers should get.

They basically take regular legislation, include provisions to give money to rich people, then add “jobs” to the title. They looooove saying “job” in front of TV cameras, in this, the hardest of economic times, which also happens to be an election year.

So when presented with a bill that saves 1.9 million transportation jobs and purports to create another million, you might be thinking the JobJobJob Party of Jobber Jobs would be all over it. You might be thinking that because you are a rational human, which the aforementioned JobJobJob Party of Jobber Jobs is not. They want their Keystone XL oil pipeline, and they’ll toss 1.9 million jobs in the garbage if they don’t get it.

The bill we doth speak of, dear reader, is the $109 billion transportation and infrastructure bill that was passed by the Senate months ago, because that is the house of Congress not in the grips of an angry horde that learned its accounting skills from counting out 50 ears of corn to a bushel.

The House has until June 30 to pass and reconcile a matching bill to save those previously mentioned gazillion jobs — and Republicans are holding firm to their threat that they won’t do it unless approval for the Keystone pipeline is built in, a move that has prompted officials to declare the bill, to use a technical term from the Hill, “dead.”

Got that? The Republican/Teabaggers will destroy 1.9 Million real jobs for a pipeline to be built by a Canadian company with a horrendous spill record that will require few jobs after the initial construction. But there will be lots of spot work for cleanup crews. If this is too much to remember, use this simple review.

A moment of review.

Transportation jobs reportedly at stake: ~2.9 million

Number of jobs created by the Keystone pipeline: ~4

Number of shits Republicans give: 0

Simple, as I said.