Is your transaction already broadcast to the network? If so, then it's a matter of time until a pool includes it in its work. I think Eligius used to offer a way to manually push a transaction - not sure if that's still available. At any rate, you need for the pool including your transaction to solve a block. The network just went well over 40 minutes without anyone finding a block so no matter how much you wanted your transaction to confirm it wouldn't have.
This guy has apparently been waiting 12 hours and he paid 0.001 fee!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/48btef/six_hours_still_no_confirmation_with_0001_fee/He used unconfirmed funds. The previous transaction needs to confirm first.
Doesn't matter how big your fee is if the coins you are using aren't even confirmed (possibly because they have a small fee).
well dont frickin matter if it was 2 transactions or 1. they both are not confirming
the parent transaction had a
0.0001 feeI suppose you have misunderstood.
The second one (that one with the retarded high fee) cannot confirm until the first one does.
0.0001 is a decent fee for most transactions, but not all of them.
In any case you should just broadcast your transaction, it will take a lot less time than finding someone who can confirm it fast.
Miners have little control on how fast blocks are found and that's only if they are the ones finding them.
