MSM - Fix your math, please!

[Coexist]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17200182/
"The vote was 56-34. That was six short of the 60 needed to advance the measure"

60-56=4

Four short. Sounds much closer now, huh. Add to that - Harry Reid didn't vote Aye due for procedural reasons, and voila! It almost passed, right?!

[niyad]

1. and where in the HELL were the 10- repuke senators?

[tridim]

2. Trying to save their political ass by not voting

That'd be my guess. They know this escalation is wrong, so they just ignore it.

[mvd]

5. LSK has it right - force a vote until every one of them votes and..

they can get something passed.

[louis-t]

8. Easier for them to dare Dems to take away funding.

[TroglodyteScholar]

3. It's pathetic how spineless these flag-waving idiots are...

...don't they know that more and more citizens are onto them with each passing day?

[sweetheart]

4. its gone beyond math

The systemic corporatism has become a long train of abuses and usurpations...

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security."

[Marr]

6. You say 1=1=2, the Washington Times says 1+1=5. Clearly the only thing

to do is to present both sides.

[tblue]

9. It depends on what year it is

[niyad]

7. ** I *** vote that we either dock these bastards' salaries, or find some way to bill them for the

bs they are causing.

pity there isn't a way to bill them for all the death and destruction that continue as they play their infantile, childish, hate-filled political games.