Senate passes pay-as-yo-go bill, 60-40

Courthouse News Service ^ | 01/28/2010 | Courthouse News Service0

[Jet Jaguar]

Did Kirk vote? (MA)

Vote is null and void.

[woofie]

oh ok everything is fine now

[Rick_Michael]

Not sure what this means....simple explanation would help...anyone?

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

It greases the skids for tax increases.

[Tzimisce]

Great! I was just thinking my taxes are way too low. :)

[KeatsforFirstDog]

lol - I almost woke my husband up when I read your post because I literally laughed outloud

[SaxxonWoods]

Guess what’s going to happen.

Taxes are going up, and so is the deficit.

I keep thinking these idiots will run out of stupid things to do, but no such luck.

[PhiKapMom]

Kirk wasn’t supposed to vote — is this why they delayed Brown?

[Jet Jaguar]

Kirk, as far as I last read, has voted three times since the election. Probably one today. (yesterday)

[Tzimisce]

Thank you.

[fortheDeclaration]

What is this nonsense of having the non-Senator from Mass. still voting?

[avacado]

The Democrats just raised the debt level another $1.9 TRILLION dollars today. That’s a lot of wiggle room to “pay as you go!”

Con Artists screwing us every day.

[MrDem]

Can’t a citizen SUE to void Kirk’s vote? I would think ANY MASS legal resident would have standing? Any MASS patriots up for the fight?

[rae4palin]

Rule Of Law is for suckers.

[denydenydeny]

"Strict pay-as-you-go budget rules created record surpluses in the late 1990s," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said in applauding the passage. "And when this standard was abandoned under President Bush, it created record deficits."

Revisionist history worthy of Stalin and Beria.

The budget surpluses of the late 1990a had less to do with the "pay as you go" (read: corresponding tax increases for every big spending bill) than with the presence of a Republican House of Representatives.

[world weary]

Not going to matter, any legal challange will have to go through the courts (years) before a decision would be granted, and then the only thing that would happen is the vote would be 59-40, so it would still stand.

[Right Wing Assault]

I thin it was Teddy who officially voted.

[USNA74]

Are you really Ricky Ricardo?

[Right Wing Assault]

Ah doan know. I thin I goan check wit Lucy. Ay, Lucy, ees eet true I’m Reeky? Chee say no, I’ne no Reeky. Reeky ees dee bebe. Chee say I joos dumb sunnabeech.