Senate Republicons just say NO to Paygo

[pscot]

All forty senate Republicons voted no on Pay as you Go budgeting. The bill passed the senate by a vote of 60 to 40. In spite of their non-stop whining about deficit spending, not one of those hypocrits voted for the measure.

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

[tblue]

1. It's official. I hate them.

Damn, it feels good to say that. I'm tired of bring so freaking nice. I hate them!

[gateley]

4. I almost posted the same thing today while watching a clip of Boehner and Cantor

SMIRKING at Obama during the SOTU. I really do. I really hate them.

[gateley]

2. Doesn't sound too fiscally conservative to me. How do they explain this to their constituents? nt

[Orrex]

3. And immediately after the vote, they were howling about the "runaway" deficit

They want to have their shit-fit and eat it, too.

[shraby]

5. They must know the public can see what they did.

I can't figure them out unless they are stupider than I thought.

[SlingBlade]

6. And that is Surprising Why ?

Oh yea, Obama scolded them REAL BAD during his Address.

That really taught 'em a good lesson, Didn't it, Those mean old republicans.

"Change You Can Believe In"

[Djarun]

8. yeah, i know, did you see how fast the RepubliCONs tried to leave after Obama's speech?!?

[Oregone]

7. Paygo is a great philosophy. Its a shitty law

Especially in a recession.

Oddly enough, its also a Republican wet-dream. So its strange times indeed

[hughee99]

9. One of the problems with the law is

that it lets them off the hook for tax increases. They'll use the excuse, we don't want to raise you taxes, we HAVE to raise your taxes, it's the law.

In my home state of MA, the state legislature redesigned their pay structure so that if some convoluted economic equation involving mean, median or average income went up, they AUTOMATICALLY got a pay raise, which prevents them the bad PR from having to vote themselves a raise anymore. They didn't want a raise, they say, they HAD to get a raise, it was the law.