[mdittmar]

CNN's Dana Bash, Ted Barrett, Deirdre Walsh and Bryan Koenig contributed to this report.;)

[svcw]

So nothing changes, everything still happens - why is this called a shut down?

[Viennacon]

Peter King TRASHING Ted Cruz on Blowhard O’Reilly. How nice of the bloviator to give this creep airtime.

What train did Peter jump off?

[doc1019]

Cowardly Senate passes the buck to the cowardly House ... the ping pong game begins.

[Viennacon]

Peter King, “Ted Cruz is a phony! I have no patience for him! We made a mistake letting him get out front!”

Listening to this guy cry is actually quite fun.

[bmwcyle]

Many many cowards.

[Revolting cat!]

Hot potatoe [AP/photo]

[rfp1234]

Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Screwy.

[caww]

Well we none should show up to sign up....but of course the freeloaders will first.....I say lets protest at the sites they are signing up!

[upchuck]

CNN's Dana Bash, Ted Barrett, Deirdre Walsh and Bryan Koenig contributed to this report.

This TV station ripped off the story from CNN. It was posted here on FR as a CNN article earlier today: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3072058/posts

[Tanniker Smith]

44 votes? So 25 wusses can go tell their mommies what good boys they were. Next they’ll go boom boom in the potty.

[RKBA Democrat]

Folks, now that the Senate has done us a great favor, we can focus again on the House. That's where this will be won or lost. And I think there is a fair chance that we can eke some small victory out of this.

As for the Senate, they were never going to vote for cloture. It was really just a question of how many senators would vote with the people, and how many would do as they normally do and vote to screw everybody else. Well, we got our answer: 19 voted with the people, which is actually 4 more than I expected. But more importantly, we now know exactly WHO the Patriots are and who the cowards and kakistocrats are.

But wait. It doesn't stop there. Today's vote was really a two-fer, the gift that didn't stop giving! At no time in my life have the political differences been so stark, the choices so obvious, and the villainy so apparent. Today, the majority of gop members in the Senate stood up and did something I never really thought I would see: they publicly murdered their own political party.

[weston]

Cowardly Senators couldn’t wait to toss this back to House where Republicans will get blame.
So what did Pub traitors in Senate gain from voting with Dems on Cloture? NOTHING!

[1010RD]

The 54-44 vote on strict party...lies.

That's the promised cover vote so every weasely RINO can claim to have voted against Obamacare.

The cloture vote was the only real vote. Make certain that gets out there.

[Thorliveshere]

*Sigh*

Okay, I’ll resign to the fate that we’re up sh** creek without a paddle and go on living my life, because I can jump and scream and holler, write nasty letters to my dem senators, etc., and still nothing changes...

It will only get worse folks. I’m going to try to learn how to survive this screwy f****fest.

(Sorry, I’m really in a foul mood right now. I feel like playing the “knockout game” with some Democrats)

[sickoflibs]

No problem. Bohner wont let us down.

It was a great idea to pick Bohner to be the key point man in this fight. How could a plan like that go wrong??

[Redcloak]

Senate tosses shutdown hot potato back to House

Or put another way: Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans run away screaming like frightened, little girls... again.

[RedMDer]

Only Obama and the rats are calling for a shutdown.

[j_tull]

How does it “get tossed?” What happened to the Conference Committee process?

[Flint]

I don't get where "The 54-44 vote on strict party lines" is coming from.

NC Senator Burr (R) and sc Senator Graham (R) both joined Dirty Harry Reid and voted with Obama on this issue.

That's as far as strict party lines as you can get.

I expected NC Senator Hagen (D) to go that way and of course she did. She is also up for election again in 2014.