Senate rejects Obama-backed deficit task force

Yahoo! ^ | 01/26/2010 | staff

[BJClinton]

The Senate has rejected a plan backed by President Barack Obama to create a bipartisan task force to tackle the deficit this year.

[BJClinton]

lol

[Col Frank Slade]

He can’t even get his own party to go along with his proposals.

[Charles Martel]

Mmm, mmm, mmm...

[BJClinton]

A little back ground http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2435990/posts

[exit82]

Is Soetoro gonna blame that on the GOP too?

[counterpunch]

The Democrats who control the Senate didn't like the word bipartisan.
 

[blueyon]

But the plan garnered just 53 votes in the 100-member Senate, not enough because 60 votes were required.

Who voted yes and who voted no?

[Tarpon]

You mean the Republicans actually avoided the tax increase trap ZERO laid for them?

So now why don’t they prevent approving the huge debt increase ZERO wants. No increase in debt ceiling, no more out of control spending. And then we can make real cuts instead of ZEROs pretend cuts.

I bet ZERO blows a gasket.

[BJClinton]

Well clearly it was a problem inherited from the previous administration.

[all the best]

George W called Harry Reid & Co. and told them to say no, or else. Bush’s fault.

[SE Mom]

Uh-oh...Barry doesn’t take rejection well...

[YouPosting2Me]

Senate America rejects Obama-backed deficit task force

[NMEwithin]

They are just reacting to the same sort of anger at the previous administration that got Obama elected....oh, wait a minute...LOL!

[The Sons of Liberty]

Somehow Barry will blame that on Bush.

[BJClinton]

Good question.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00005

Akaka (D-HI), Nay
Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Barrasso (R-WY), Nay
Baucus (D-MT), Nay
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Begich (D-AK), Yea
Bennet (D-CO), Yea
Bennett (R-UT), Nay
Bingaman (D-NM), Yea
Bond (R-MO), Yea
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Brown (D-OH), Nay
Brownback (R-KS), Nay
Bunning (R-KY), Nay
Burr (R-NC), Nay
Burris (D-IL), Nay
Byrd (D-WV), Nay
Cantwell (D-WA), Nay
Cardin (D-MD), Nay
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Nay
Chambliss (R-GA), Yea
Coburn (R-OK), Nay
Cochran (R-MS), Nay
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Yea
Cornyn (R-TX), Yea
Crapo (R-ID), Nay
DeMint (R-SC), Nay
Dodd (D-CT), Nay
Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Ensign (R-NV), Nay
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Feingold (D-WI), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Franken (D-MN), Yea
Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Yea
Grassley (R-IA), Nay
Gregg (R-NH), Yea
Hagan (D-NC), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Nay
Hatch (R-UT), Nay
Hutchison (R-TX), Nay
Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Inouye (D-HI), Nay
Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Johanns (R-NE), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Kaufman (D-DE), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Kirk (D-MA), Nay
Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Kyl (R-AZ), Nay
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
LeMieux (R-FL), Yea
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Lieberman (ID-CT), Yea
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Lugar (R-IN), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Nay
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Nay
Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
Merkley (D-OR), Nay
Mikulski (D-MD), Nay
Murkowski (R-AK), Not Voting
Murray (D-WA), Nay
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Nay
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Risch (R-ID), Nay
Roberts (R-KS), Nay
Rockefeller (D-WV), Nay
Sanders (I-VT), Nay
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Nay
Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Snowe (R-ME), Nay
Specter (D-PA), Nay
Stabenow (D-MI), Nay
Tester (D-MT), Yea
Thune (R-SD), Nay
Udall (D-CO), Yea
Udall (D-NM), Nay
Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Voinovich (R-OH), Yea
Warner (D-VA), Yea
Webb (D-VA), Yea
Whitehouse (D-RI), Nay
Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Yea

[240B]

Actually, it is Bush’s fault.

GW was the spendingest, bleeding heart Globalist, amnesty loving President, since Carter.

I have no love for Bush.

He did a lot that damaged the economy. Not as bad as Bammer of course, but he was headed the same direction.

[BJClinton]

Yup. Dubya lowered the bar, 0bama has demonstrated he can limbo under it.

[RightWingConspirator]

Looks like lots of Republicans fell for the trap—lots of “Yea” votes from them.

[240B]

Yup. He is not limboing under the bar, he just got rid of the bar altogether.

And then we get to watch BamBam Clinton and Bush laughing and doing kissy-face on the White House lawn.

And why not. They are all birds of a feather anyway.

[rurgan]

That's a bunch of liberal media lies.

Republicans never had a filibuster proof Senate (60 or more votes) and so could pass nothing almost nothing without the approval of the Democrat party.

In fact the big government machine progressives/democrats/marxists built in the last 120 years remained practically the same size as when Republicans and Bush “took control” they never had. The number of government employees didn't increase. 90% of the budget, the government machine, has mandatory spending and spending increases. Did Bush create social security, the government schools, medicare, HHS, HUD, FEC,FDA, EPA, dept of Energy, Dept of transportation and the thousands of other government agencies? NO. The democrats/progressives/Marxists created almost all those agencies we now have .And Democrats did it when the MSM had a monopoly and there was no internet so that the public didn't know what was going on and how bad big government/socialism is.

You so called conservatives have been brainwashed by liberal media lies and Michael Savage to turn against the GOP and so leaving the way clear for Democrats to pass their socialist agenda which thankfully now since democrats NOW don't have 60 votes now too bad for you is now in stopped. The "spending increases" when Republicans had a bare majority were in actuality inflation, military spending increases, spending increases for 2 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and population growth. the media used dollar numbers without taking into account inflation , military spending etc to demonize Bush and the GOP as being big government advocates and so to turn unintelligent "conservatives" against the GOP. I guess you are against the Afghanistan and Iraq wars (spending increases)? If so then you are no conservative. Sure you can point to a few bills or agencies here or there but that is a very small percentage of the budget and that didn't increase government size overall.