[Tuxedo]

It will pass. Voinovich voted aye.

[rwfromkansas]

How did Chafee vote on the Nickels Amendment (nay I take it?) and yet it still passed.

[clintonh8r]

I thought the $350Bn version was not in doubt. Could be wrong.

[July 4th]

Cheney: 51-49. It has passed.

[Mo1]

51 to 49 Vote

[WarSlut]

I can't even put into words how much I LOATHE John McCain. And I mean in the worst way... not the best way.

But alas, Johnny, ya' took on Bush and ya' lost again. I hope you have a 1000 nightmares of 2000 tonight, you petty, bitter, miserable SOB.

[LurkerNoMore!]

Thanks so much for the heads-up. Just got home from work and was about to watch an Everybody Loves Raymond rerun.

[RoseofTexas]

This is a comfort to me after spiting nails all day over the WICKED DEMON RATS skiddled to OK to avoid the Re-zoning!! They are on thier way back to Texas, the whatever you call it expires at midnight!! The bastards GOT AWAY WITH IT and the pubs can't do a DAMN THING about it!! I am fuming!! WHO THE HELL IS GOING TO PAY FOR THIER LITTLE ADVANTAGE? The taxpayer that's who!! Down on my side of the woods the RATS dominate my city and these bastards are being hailed as HEROES! I better go take some prozac before my head explodes in anger!! AAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!

[Timesink]

WASHINGTON (AP) Senate passes $350 billion tax cut package suspending dividend taxes for three years.

[ArneFufkin]

Maybe it's a gift, but for some reason I can always pick Barbara Mikulski out of the crowd in those wide chamber shots.

[Jesse]

BFD. Temporary dividend cut. The feds are slated to spend 28 trillion dollars in the next decade, and this is just what is projected. Given the rate the GOP is increasing spending, will probably be more. Yet the lords of the Senate have decided the peasants can keep a fraction of the shekels for our use.

Republican party is a party of whores and liars. Just like the dems were 40 years ago...just haven't had the experience yet of screwing us over, but I will say, they catch on quick.

[aruanan]

The Senate revived the backbone of President Bush's formula for stimulating a laggard economy Thursday, narrowly passing a $350 billion package of tax cuts that would suspend all taxes on stock dividends for three years.

What good is a backbone if it's been trimmed of its arms, legs, and vital organs (well, except maybe as a donated organ for the French)?

[CyberAnt]

This means, when they consolidate both of the bills, we'll probably end up with 425-440; maybe.

The bigger it is, the better chance I'll have of finding a job.

[Clinging Bitterly]

>> Senate Passes $350 Billion Bush Tax Cut

Nope.
This is the Senate's own tax cut. Bush's was much larger.

[supercat]

Prediction: companies will start paying much more in dividends; the Democrats will claim that means the tax cuts costs even more than predicted.

[flamefront]

This sure looks like the same deal as worked out last month:
BUSH COMPROMISES ON TAX CUT
where what was originally $700 Billion turned into $350 Billion.

[Salvation]

WooooHoooooo!

[BlackbirdSST]

This is all moot really. The States are lining up, and we'll be doing good to break even. No one else sees this pattern? Stop monkeying around with this convoluted tax code and scrap it. Blackbird.

[The Wizard]

with the 90 in offsets, the real total so far is 440, but the media just can't bring itself to say so