BREAKING-Senate Republicans force delay on spending bill

[jenmito]

"WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans, demanding the right to try to change a huge spending bill, forced Democrats on Thursday night to put off a final vote on the measure until next week. The surprise development will force Congress to pass a stopgap funding bill to avoid a partial shutdown of the government."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090306/ap_on_go_co/congress_spending

[maseman]

1. Not enough votes to pass a filibuster

Where's those "up or down" votes the Repukes always talk about?

[vaberella]

2. hahahaha!!! n/t

[jenmito]

3. I edited my OP to reflect article...

I thought they only needed 51 votes to pass a budget bill!

[karynnj]

6. This is NOT the budget bill but a spending bill that should have been passed last year

When they couldn't pass it, they passed a continuing resolution that allowed spending at the year before's level. The article I read said that Reid was 1 vote short of the 60 he needed.

The budget will need just 50 and that is why Obama will include things like the cap and trade carbon provision and health care.

[jenmito]

7. Oh, ok...

I guess I should've read the whole article. I just saw it reported on CNN and then found an article about it. As Michael Steele said, "My bad." :D

[karynnj]

12. no problem - it is very confusing with both of them

being spoken of at the same time. (Someone explained it to me earlier this week) :hi:

[Uzybone]

4. Bayh and Feingold voted with the Republicans

They both want the bill vetoed.

[jenmito]

5. Didn't they only need 51 votes for this bill?

[Uzybone]

8. I'm confused about that as well

but it looks like this is yet another 60 vote deal. The GOP will vote for this eventually, they are just playing the "no" game.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

9. That's the budget, not this spending bill, I believe.

[progressivebydesign]

14. Did Bayh get his feeling hurt because he's not VP? Why would he vote against this? n/t

[Phx_Dem]

17. We were one vote short so we can thank or blame these two.

I blame them.

[DevonRex]

19. What's the deal with Feingold voting with the republicans? Bayh

might as well BE one, but Feingold?

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[MannyGoldstein]

11. You Couldn't Buy Something This Great

Nobody is more intent on ending the Republican Party than the Republicans themselves. Just stand back and savor it - this kind of stuff only happens once in a lifetime.

[progressivebydesign]

13. M-A-N-D-A-T-E! The gloves need to come off NOW.

President Obama and the DNC have been far too polite by not pointing out to these republican asshole obstructionists that it was a MANDATE that got him in the White House, and it got us Dems all those new seats. It's time to give the hell up on unity. They tried, we tried, but Lumpbaugh, Santelli, and others are doing everything they can to further destroy the Country.

If they have such a BETTER idea, then why the hell didn't it work for the past 8 years? We have a mandate.. no actually.. it was more of an ass-whoopin on the republican "ideals", and it's time to remind their sorry asses. We wiped the floor with them because people WANT this! But the Pharmaceuticals, tobacco, oil, credit card companies, insurers, are vested in the failure of this Administration. Who the fuck asked THEM to obstruct our government? Their own constituents helped to put Obama in office, and yeah.. the republican ones.

Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!

[old mark]

15. I'd be happy with just "get the hell out of the way". GOP's have nothing

to offer America, and have no reasin to exist.


mark

[jenmito]

18. Bayh and Feingold voted with the Repubs., though, as pointed out above...

if they would've stuck with the Dems., it would've passed. This one isn't about trying to be bipartisan.

[high density]

16. GOP playbook: Infinite war spending: Yes. Domestic Spending: No

The press is still wired for the GOP political machine... Will they ever notice that they're so far out of touch with America?

[marshall]

20. This could work to Obama's advantage

If they are 'forced' to take out some of the earmarks, Obama won't be held as tightly to his "I will go over it line by line" thing that he said last year. Just cut out enough to keep the peeps happy and then pass and sign the damn thing!

[Better Believe It]

21. Senator Reid is lying. 51 Votes are needed to pass legislation and approve appointments

If Senator Reid and company hold to their misleading false claim that 60 votes are needed to pass anything in the Senate, that will mean the Obama administrations agenda will be crushed by a Republican minority that represents 12% of the voting population and the Republicans will easily regain control of the Senate, House and White House in 2012.

Watching the Democratic Senate leaderships behavior one would conclude that the Republicans won control of the Senate in 2008!

Perhaps if the Democrats won control of 99 Senate seats they would not surrender to the demands of a Republican Senator in order to achieve bi-partisanship.

That might be just a bit optimistic. So maybe not.