[onyx]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and some taxpayers’ advocacy groups ripped some of the energy provisions. McCain called the ethanol provision the “Hawkeye Handout” because senators from corn states such as Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) supported the provision.

The ethanol tax credit would cost about $6 billion in 2011. Taxpayers for Common Sense noted the Government Accountability Office found the credit duplicative of the current renewable fuels standard.

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THEN VOTE "no" CORRUPT BASTARD!

[Jim Robinson]

The stupid party just got rolled by Obama.

[Gene Eric]

Thoroughly disappointing.

[Java4Jay]

Only 5 Republicans voted NO

Sens. Tom Coburn (Okla.)
Jim DeMint (S.C.)
Jeff Sessions (Ala.)
John Ensign (Nev.)
George Voinovich (Ohio)

KUDOS to you guys... Others shafted us

[Java4Jay]

Jim DeMint is now my ‘PARTY LEADER’

We don’t forget !

We will act !

[dixiechick2000]

Oh, great. More stimulus. Crap on a stick!

Making notes, and taking names...

Good post, onyx. Thank you!

[Cobra64]

This country has had it.

America in a death spiral.

[Lancey Howard]

It's funny to see Voinovich's name listed with those others.
Voinovich voted against the bill because he thinks everybody's taxes should go up, lmao!

[montag813]

A vote on final passage could happen as soon as Tuesday if opponents agree to waive the 30 hours that must elapse after a vote to end a filibuster.

Please EVERYONE call and email DeMint, Ensign, Sessions and Voinovich and ask them NOT to waive the 30 hrs. If they refuse it will push the vote to Wednesday and push the DREAM Act vote to next week--if at all. We MUST run out the clock on the DREAM amnesty disaster! Forget the tax cuts, or START or DADT. the DREAM scam would push this nation over the cliff.

[Java4Jay]

Can’t understand this mass exodus of conservative values.

What is it going to take for us to overtake this betrayal,

Revolution ?

[Java4Jay]

IMO, to get out of this financial mess, taxes should increase on higher wage earners.

But change the rules so they have to reinvest to get a discount.

Most important is the spending, ‘Corruption has run amuck’.

[Java4Jay]

“Inheritance Tax is Thievery”

[Java4Jay]

“Inheritance Tax is Thievery”

This alone should be enough for a NO vote

[Jack Hammer]

You want a simplified tax package?

Here’s one, and it’s more realistic than anything seen in congress:

“Everything you have or will ever earn belongs to us, your Government Masters. Buying votes is expensive, so fork it over and shut the F*** up!”

[LibLieSlayer]

Time to ping the Mississippi list... we need to tell both of the traitors, wicker and cochran, that THE TEA PARTY will remember! Turncoats!

LLS

[wita]

Obama said he understands members of both parties are “unhappy” with the compromise, but he said the package is “first and foremost” a “substantial victory” for middle-class families.

Can anything Mr Obama endorses, be considered a “substantial victory”?

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

What exactly is in this OBAMA Stimulus part (is it II or III ) bill? Can it be viewed online? Did they all read the damned thing?

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Is this the bill?

http://gregg.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Wyden-Gregg%20Two%20Pager.pdf

There are thousands upon thousands of news articles yet I can’t find the actual bill.

[Fredgoblu]

So...explain to me again why it costs $858 billion to leave my tax rates the same, but it costs nothing to raise my taxes (as the House democrats want)?!?! Whose money is it, anyway?

[Happy Rain]

This vote makes a great campaign ad for any Tea Party conservatives out there who want to challenge some RINOs in the primaries.

That's the only good that can come of this.

[Fredgoblu]

How did they assign an $858 billion "cost", anyway?!?!

My understanding is that they used a 5-year scoring by the CBO, yet this is only a 2-year extension of the tax rates. Disengenuous labeling...from the media and democrats. Go figure.