One Step Closer

Senate votes to end debate on stimulus bill, 61-36. Three Republicans crossover. Let's all recall, though, that the bill only needs a simple majority vote to pass. The 60-vote cloture rule is a made-up Republican rule that was instituted in 2006 so the minority Republican Party could have more say. And somehow the Dems allow this rule to remain. Asinine doesn't even begin to describe it. But if the bill gets 61 votes tomorrow at noon then it will have passed by an overwhelming vote. Contrary to what the media and Rush Limbaugh want us to believe, this bill is popular and has large support in the U.S. Senate.

*Update:

In 2005 the Republican-controlled congress passed a budget bill that contained 6,371 pork barrel earmarks. Never, not one single time, did the GOP ever oppose a single George Bush spending bill. During that time Bush took a huge budget surplus and turned it into the largest deficit in American history. While in the White House, the Republican Party increased government spending by 60%, never-- not once-- ever shrinking government or people's dependence upon government. And throughout all that, throughout the entirety of the Republican control on the American government Fox News never one time questioned a single cent. Never once did it ask its viewers to help them locate the pork in a bill.

Two weeks out of power, Fox News has now too decided that it will return to its fiscal conservative, fiscal responsibility, small government "core principles." Anyone who can watch this channel and believe anything they say has to lack a chromosome.