that is a gigantic and very exploitable split between what republican voters want and what elected republican officials are doing that. into that amazing opportunity for democrats, conservedems are siding with the republican senators who are siding with no voters, not even their own, who are siding against firefighters and against cops and against teachers. just last week, all the republicans in the senate got together and blocked this jobs bill. they refused to even debate it. 100% of republicans in the senate voted against it. we got 100% no from republicans in the senate. also from a small, weird handful of democrats you got nos as well. conservedem senators like these guys always try to get ahead by tracking their own party. that s what makes them conservedems. in this case the calculous is
tracking their own party. that s what makes them conservedems. in this case the calculous is weird. it means tacking to the right of the democrats, yes, which they love to do but means tacking to right of the democrats into what is clearly an electoral no man s land. joining us now is jared bernstein, former member of president obama s economic team, former economic adviser to vice president joe biden and who is now a senior fellow at the center on budget priorities and msnbc contributor. jared, thanks for being here. thank you for inviting me. voters are as close as they get to unanimous. that keeping teachers and firefighters and cops on the job is the right thing to do right now. is there anybody else who is opposed to this along with these republican senators and ben nelson? are economists as a group saying this is a bad idea or something? no, i mean, you can always find some economist to say something bad about anything. overall it s widely recognized that the president s jo
voting against what the voters want by a huge margin. they are voting against even what their own voters want by a huge margin. that is a gigantic and very exploitable split between what republican voters want and what elected republican officials are doing that. into that amazing opportunity for democrats, conservedems are siding with the republican senators who are siding with no voters, not even their own, who are siding against firefighters and against cops and against teachers. just last week, all the republicans in the senate got together and blocked this jobs bill. they refused to even debate it. 100% of republicans in the senate voted against it. we got 100% no from republicans in the senate. also from a small, weird handful of democrats you got nos as well. conservedem senators like these guys always try to get ahead by
trashing their own party. that s what makes them conservedems. in this case the calculus is weird. it means tacking to the right of the democrats, yes, which they love to do but means tacking to right of the democrats into what is clearly an electoral no man s land. joining us now is jared bernstein, former member of president obama s economic team, former economic adviser to vice president joe biden and who is now a senior fellow at the center on budget priorities and msnbc contributor. jared, thanks for being here. thank you for inviting me. voters are as close as they get to unanimous. that keeping teachers and firefighters and cops on the job is the right thing to do right now. is there anybody else who is opposed to this along with these republican senators and ben nelson? are economists as a group saying this is a bad idea or something? no, i mean, you can always find some economist to say something bad about anything. overall it s widely recognized that the president s job
want by a huge margin. they are voting against even what their own voters want by a huge margin. that is a gigantic and very exploitable split between what republican voters want and what elected republican officials are doing that. into that amazing opportunity for democrats, conservedems are siding with the republican senators who are siding with no voters, not even their own, who are siding against firefighters and against cops and against teachers. just last week, all the republicans in the senate got together and blocked this jobs bill. they refused to even debate it. 100% of republicans in the senate voted against it. we got 100% no from republicans in the senate. also from a small, weird handful of democrats you got no s as well. conservedem senators like these guys always try to get ahead by