At 5:30pm (eastern) the Senate is going to have a vote on cloture. Are there going to be more than three Republican votes? I doubt it. Although it’s possible that a Murkowski or a Lugar will come through, I don’t predict it.
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Collins, Specter, and Snowe, I’m presuming?
Yep.
Cloture? Somebody started a filibuster already?
Lugar and Murkowski voted against.
Such good little soldiers.
Party first!
Hmm, figured Murkowski would have wanted to bring in that good ol Alaska state pork.
It’s not like rural Alaskan are suffering under this economy or anything.
specter: no
same ol arlen, eh
I thought he was an aye. He’s getting money for the NIH, ya know.
Chuck Grassley is a tool.
According to this, he voted yes?
l stand corrected…he was an “aye”…was multi-tasking and, obviously, doing a poor job of it.
61 / 36
Who was the extra republican?
There are 58 Democrats and Independents, so with three Republicans on top, that makes 61. Kennedy returned for the vote.
We’re going to miss him once he’s gone…
I really feel bad for him getting what he got over Chappaquiddick….but there were unanswered questions.
Thank goodness it didn’t prevent him from serving the people of MA and the USA from the Senate…
Cornyn didn’t vote. Weasel.
Obama needed those 3 republican votes and he got them.
3 votes out how many? 41? My calculator says 92.7% of Republicans voted against. What a huge victory for bipartisanship.
The hundreds of thousands of people who get those union jobs will think so.
?????? My comment was about bipartisanship, not the bill.
I hope Obama lavishes praise on the GOP Senators who stood with him, and does everything he can to marginalize the other 36. Fuck them. And if the stimulus succeeds, I hope he will remind everyone that it succeeded in spite of most of the dimwits in the GOP.
With this vote in his pocket, the President can make the choice increasingly grim for the holdouts. They will lose. They have no leverage. They get no goodies.