Senate votes to not pass bills it can't pay for. All 40 Republicans voted no.

[Swede]

Tells you all you need to know.


Conservatives Don’t Care About the Deficit
I think that at the moment the DC establishment (and, it seems, the American people) care too much about the deficit. But what’s especially galling is that you can’t get the establishment to see that the conservative movement doesn’t care at all about the deficit. Progressives range from people who care a bit about the deficit to people who care a lot, but conservatives almost to a man don’t care at all.

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/01/conservatives-dont-care-about-the-deficit.php

[MadMaddie]

1. This is the info that has to get publicized

This is ridiculous.

[glinda]

5. Exactly. Just like Obama/Repub Retreat thing but bigger and on more media.

[zbdent]

10. where?

in the "liberal media"???

[MadMaddie]

11. Point taken! Maybe if a sex scandel was involved....

[ananda]

2. Brer Rabbit anyone?

Now we know the secret to getting good legislation passed.

[FarCenter]

3. Does this also cover the perpetual annual "emergency" funds to pursue foreign wars?

It should. They should be part of the regular budget.

[moondust]

4. It would cramp their borrow-and-spend style.

BIG TIME.

[guruoo]

6. "You know, Paul, Reagan proved deficits don't matter,"

Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill was told "deficits don't matter" when he warned of a looming fiscal crisis.

O'Neill, fired in a shakeup of Bush's economic team in December 2002, raised objections to a new round of tax cuts and said the president balked at his more aggressive plan to combat corporate crime after a string of accounting scandals because of opposition from "the corporate crowd," a key constituency.

O'Neill said he tried to warn Vice President Dick Cheney that growing budget deficits-expected to top $500 billion this fiscal year alone-posed a threat to the economy. Cheney cut him off. "You know, Paul, Reagan proved deficits don't matter," he said, according to excerpts. Cheney continued: "We won the midterms (congressional elections). This is our due." A month later, Cheney told the Treasury secretary he was fired.

http://www.ontheissues.org/2004/Dick_Cheney_Budget_+_Economy.htm

[malaise]

18. And that question should be asked to the leadership of the ReTHUG

party.
ReTHUGS do you agree with Dick Cheney that deficits do not matter?

[gratuitous]

7. That can't be right

Because the Republicans were all about the deficit. Last week.

[Control-Z]

12. They were all about it today too.

I heard it with my own ears.

[Obamanaut]

8. I've always wanted to say "Off to the greatest page" and I was #5, this

should be seen by everyone, IMO.

[tridim]

9. Did this vote happen before or after their public flogging today?

[Control-Z]

14. That is a very good

and important question.

[Arkana]

13. Senate proposes bill to declare grass green and sky blue, Republicans all vote no.

'The Sky Is Clearly Orange...It's All Here In Ann Coulter's Latest Book', says Minority Leader

[Ardent15]

15. Exactly! nt

[Ardent15]

16. K and R

This is good news to show to the American people.

[Swede]

17. Vote recorded right from Senate website.

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 111th Congress - 2nd Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate


Vote Summary

Question: On the Amendment (Reid Amdt. No. 3305 )
Vote Number: 12 Vote Date: January 28, 2010, 11:41 AM
Required For Majority: 3/5 Vote Result: Amendment Agreed to
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 3305 to S.Amdt. 3299 to H.J.Res. 45 (No short title on file)
Statement of Purpose: To reimpose statutory pay-as-you-go.
Vote Counts: YEAs 60 NAYs 40

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00012