Here are the names and party of the 40 Senators who blocked a vote (which would have been successful) for a jobs program aimed at veterans of the recent wars.
The Filibuster is a ridiculous idea, and the GOP is now filled with ridiculous money grubbing campaign donation seeking bunch of jerks in its Congressional ranks.
They also blocked jobs programs for the general public, stimulus, and even infrastructure repair and rebuilding for dangerous American roads and bridges, etc.
They did approve of spending for the Iraq war and allowed their cronies to charge to the American taxpayers for reconstruction in Iraq of medical clinics, which were given pricey specialty marble floors, and many electric plants that had expensive cutting edge technology which, not being designed for use in desert conditions,failed within months of turnover to the Iraqi people.
