Dems can INCREASE debt limit but NOT manage to pass spending freeze.

[dixiegrrrrl]

Senate rejects near-freeze on spending.

WASHINGTON – Just days after President Barack Obama endorsed a partial freeze on domestic spending, his Democratic allies in the Senate have rejected a plan attempting to do pretty much the same thing.

Old-school Democrats were the driving force in killing the bipartisan legislation, sponsored by Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions and Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill. Their plan was slightly modified version of Obama's that would have permitted domestic agencies an increase of just about 1 percent, with slightly higher boosts for the Pentagon.

A 56-strong majority of senators supported the plan but it failed because 60 votes were required. The vote came the morning after Obama threatened to veto spending bills that would exceed a domestic spending freeze.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128/ap_on_bi_ge/us_senate_spending_freeze

Isn't it interesting that the Dems can manage 60 votes to increase the debt ceiling
but not 60 votes to freeze spending?
Particulars of the bills count, of course.

[atreides1]

1. It's not just the Republicans

It would seem that some Democrats won't do what's right for this country either.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. An AWFUL lot of people here have criticized the spending freeze

I'm surprised to see Dems getting knocked for opposing it.