Republican Senators Vote To Pass Jobs Bill That They Voted To Filibuster Two Days Ago

[Donnachaidh]

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/02/24/sens-flip-jobs/


This morning, the Senate passed a $15 billion jobs bill that includes four provisions: a payroll tax break for hiring unemployed workers, an extension of highway construction funding, Build America bonds to help states fund infrastructure projects, and an extension of tax breaks for equipment purchase. The final vote for passage was 70-28, with 13 Republicans joining all but one Democrat in voting yea.

But this vote only occurred because Monday night 5 Republicans joined the same group of Democrats in order to invoke cloture and overcome a filibuster by a 62-30 vote. Below are the Republicans who either voted against or did not vote at all on the cloture motion, but flipped and voted for the bill today.


more at the link above --

[catbyte]

1. The mind reels

Really, I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone. I actually have a headache...

:eyes:

Diane

Anishnabe in MI

[KansDem]

2. Well, well, well. It appears that when you expose 91 Congressional GOPers as hypocrites...

...who first voted "no" on the stimulus package only to tout how much it benefited their districts/states, they see the error of their ways!

Way to go and keep hammering on how the GOP are hypocrites!

[JaneQPublic]

3. They were against it before they were for it. (nt)

[Better Believe It]

4. What filibuster? I didn't see it on C-Span.

So was it a pretend we are filibustering filibuster, a threat to engage in a fake procedural filibuster, a threat to engage in a Senate floor filibuster, a phantom filibuster, a real filibuster on the Senate floor, a written notice of intent to filibuster, a non-filibuster filibuster or something else?