ONE repub will vote for this, and the media will scream BIPARTISAN!!!
This is an abomination!!!
From Hot Air with more details:
A group of Senate moderates working on an amendment to cut up to $100 billion in spending from the economic stimulus package have completed a tentative proposal that will be presented to Senate Democrats at a 5:30 p.m. caucus meeting, Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad told reporters. “There is a proposal that is sufficiently fleshed out and we will have a caucus and discuss it,” Conrad said after emerging from talks in Senate Majority Leader Reid’s office. Democrats hope the proposal, developed by Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Ben Nelson, R-Neb. [SIC], will attract several GOP supporters and be acceptable to all Democrats, which would allow for passage of the plan as early as tonight.
I’m with you, but, well, I guess my spirit broke with the first bailout. After all that work, and stopping it dead, they voted to overrule us. I knew it would happen again. I’m sick about it, but if it passes, I’m going to try and get a pony out of it. Might as well have something to ride to the slaughterhouse.
You know that's what I loved about the House vote because no Pubbies voted for it. Of course in the smallest of terms it was bipartisan because 11 Dems voted with the Pubbies.
That being said I don't care if it gives the LMSM the ability to claim it is a bipartisan success. The Pubbie side of things on the net, talk radio, tv will make it clear to even the most biased lib that if one Pubbie vote in the Senate bill is bipartisan then the House vote with 11 Dems voting with the ENTIRE Pubbie caucus was, by their definition, bipartisan. The fact is a week ago the LMSM often failed to note the 11 Dems that voted against the House bill.