Well the President got his 51 votes in the Senate so he can say that his American Jobs Acts would have passed if the Republicans haven’t been filibustering it. The problem is that it has as much chance of becoming law as Legalizing Marijuana does. And since it is a bad law that might create some jobs in the short term before the 2012 Presdientail Elections but will possibly sink us into recession because of tax hikes in 2013, that is fine. Here is an article of why some Democrats voted against the bill:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/why-some-democrats-oppose-obamas-jobs-bill/2011/10/12/gIQAILfBgL_story.html