***** Official LIVE BLOG Senate = Tax Cuts Debate II *****

[L. Coyote]

C-SPAN 2
Now streaming, Sen. Bernie Sanders.
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN2.aspx

DEBATE about to begin.

Part one was Bernie Sanders FILIBUSTER last week Friday:
***** Official LIVE BLOG Senate = Tax Cuts Debate *****
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9744049

[lamp_shade]

1. I'll be watching.

:popcorn:

[sasha031]

2. thanks

:hi:

[L. Coyote]

3. C-SPAN links to Friday's ENTIRE FILIBUSTER stream online in three parts

C-SPAN links to the ENTIRE FILIBUSTER stream online in three parts
http://cspan.org/Watch/Media/2010/12/11/HP/R/41812/Sen+Sanders+Holds+8+12+hour+Tax+Cut+Filibuster.aspx

Let us know if you can watch the entire filibuster standing and without a bathroom or food break :rofl:

[L. Coyote]

4. VIDEO: KO: "Berniebuster"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x534358

[L. Coyote]

5. Senate now gavelling in!

Prayer time for the kiddies

Pledge ...

Cloture vote to be at 3 PM, in four hours.

[lamp_shade]

9. I believe Eastern Time - in 45 minutes.

[L. Coyote]

14. LIVE now, McConnell talking about flag burning.

[malaise]

21. Can't see anything

Any other links

[L. Coyote]

6. McConnell calling last two years "experiment in big government"

and saying continuing unemployment is deficit spending, while saying we need to extend the tax cuts!!!

[spanone]

7. i can't stand that pasty-faced POS

[Skidmore]

8. He just totally ignored the * administration and his own role in

helping push forward large spending programs and cooking the books for unpaid for wars.

[L. Coyote]

10. He is certainly spinning out lies and twisting the truth

The Republicans fell down a rabbit hole when Bush stole the Presidency.
That rabbit hole was in the rabbit hole they were in.
That rabbit hole .....

NOW, they can't even tell if up is down or not. :rofl:

[Skidmore]

11. And it will go unaswered by Reid, who apparently is focused

on basketball.

[L. Coyote]

12. How weird was that? The future of the USA and global economics is on the line

and the Dem leader is going all chit-chatty on us.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

13. Talked to the VEC. Lady said no more benefits for me (just ended my tier (thought

it was Tier 1, but she said it was Tier II). I'm in VA and was laid off in January of this year. She said there's a remote possibility I might be able to get EB (emergency benefits), but it's not looking good. Even if they pass this legislation, I might not get any kind of extension. This blows.

[L. Coyote]

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[madamesilverspurs]

16. Is McConnell planning

to continue spewing for 8 1/2 hours? He is soooo frigging tedious. And inane. Icky, too.


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[L. Coyote]

18. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) at the podium

Four hours of debate to be equally divided.

More small talk to massage the damn Pukes.

[valerief]

19. DINO, where's Bam-Bam? nt

[spanone]

20. shocked!! max baucus will support the 'bi-partisan' bill the the President proposes

shocked

[Skidmore]

22. Shocke,I tell you, shocked!!! McCain is railling about earmarks...

said he's having "an Orwelliawn experience."

[madamesilverspurs]

24. sheeeyut...

McCain IS an Orwellian experience!

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[madamesilverspurs]

26. delete...damned computer!

[jillan]

23. F-off McCain - what the people said on Nov 2nd is keep Democrats in power in the Senate.

so shut your annoying pie hole up once and for all.

[spanone]

25. mccain says he will vote for bill against his principles....in so many words

what a man!

[L. Coyote]

28. Pretend you can't support deficit spending and give your friends a trillion dollars

like giving away a trillion dollars today is not a deficit at all..... idiots.

[DoBotherMe]

27. kick

[madamesilverspurs]

29. Did I hear that right???

Did Grassley just assert that discontinuing the tax cuts would cause people to lie and cheat?

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[golddigger]

30. Grassley said we need to act because

we need to turn this economy around. If Obama agrees with grassley, I'm sold.

[L. Coyote]

34. Roll Call Vote to move the bill forward. 60 required.

[madamesilverspurs]

31. delete - ucky bug

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[spanone]

33. grassley is now defending the corn constituent in his state...ethanol

taking on mccain

[L. Coyote]

35. Roll Call Vote to move the bill forward. 60 required.

Damn DU is buggy today, with an endless loop if you try to close a window in FireFox

[Graybeard]

36. This vote will last 2 1/2 hrs.: MSNBC

Reid is holding the vote open until
5:30pm ET because some Senators are
having weather delays getting back
to D.C.

[lamp_shade]

37. He did that at least once during HCR voting so Sen. Byrd could make it in. Nice.

[gateley]

54. That is nice. This is such a hot issue all the Senators who want

to be there should get a chance to vote.

[Cleita]

38. I really can't watch this Republican clown show.

We, the hurting and faceless masses, are being ignored by them in order to force the Senate to vote for the tax cuts that will complete the deal to sell us to international corporate interests and a totalitarian country known as China.

[NorthCarolina]

45. And they will do it with Democrats in charge of the Executive Branch and BOTH houses of Congress.

Amazing, simply amazing. :banghead:

[L. Coyote]

49. And when the dollar crashes, they will blame the Dems and Obama.

[Graybeard]

39. c-span: Vote so far is 51 aye - 5 nay.

Vote count as of 3:35pm ET.

[spanone]

40. we'll probably have more democrats vote for it than thugs

[sasha031]

43. Tom Udal Feingold,Leahy,Sanders no

[NorthCarolina]

41. Voting NO so far

Bingaman
Feingold
Leahy
Udall
Sanders
Gillibrand

[cali]

42. depressing

[NotThisTime]

46. This tells you who has our backs and who doesn't

[Tom Rinaldo]

48. I am both suprised and pleased with Gillibrand

I called her office today, her aid listened politely but gave no indication of her position.

[BlueCheese]

44. It's hard to believe how much this all stinks.

Yes, the Dems get stuff, and the GOP gets stuff. But our stuff is popular, and their stuff isn't. Why can't our party fight at all? If we can't win this issue, what can we win?

[valerief]

47. Send the Senate to HUAC!!!!! nt

[L. Coyote]

50. Currently 67-8 so the bill advances = Senate backs vote on tax bill

This is not over yet. The House will block consideration of this version of the bill.

[Imajika]

51. This has been over for a long time...

The bill will pass in the Senate and House and be signed by President Obama.

All the rest is theater.

[L. Coyote]

52. The House remains an uncertainty, in my view.

I would like to see a version that does not raise the taxes of 50 million Americans, that does not extent tax cuts to millionaires, and does not alter the estate tax. Plus, dump the damn pork for special interests.

[sad sally]

53. Wish I could believe that, but I'll bet the defeat for what's right

will happen in the House also.
The smug look on Gibbs' face this morning said it all.