Republicans continue to show their contempt for the working class and unemployed......

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from HuffPost:




The Senate voted 61-38 on Wednesday to break a Republican filibuster of a bill that will provide $26 billion in aid to cash-strapped states. Republican lawmakers, who opposed previous domestic aid bills because of their deficit cost, opposed this bill even though it would reduce the deficit.

Senate Democrats said the measure would prevent states from firing 290,000 teachers, firefighters and police officers and would reduce the deficit by $1.4 billion. But it wouldn't reduce the deficit in a way that appeals to Republicans (aside from Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, who support the measure).

"We didn't cut wasteful spending to do something good," Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), one of the GOP's foremost deficit hawks, said after the vote.

HuffPost queried Coburn's office for details but did not immediately get a response.

The offsets themselves were not the only Republican objection: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that the measure would perpetuate "state bailouts." ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/04/state-aid-clears-senate-h_n_670440.html