I thought this didn’t come up until tomorrow?
Here’s the article:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/20/senate-votes-down-trimmed-version-obamas-jobs-bill/
The most telling line from your article....
“They’re also pressing for passage of a poll-tested financing mechanism — a surcharge on income exceeding $1 million.”
So instead of leading by principle, they are simply leading by polls. That’s surely not what they were elected to do...let polls tell them what to do? What kind of men/women are these that let their spines blow with the wind?
Only in AP-land is a failure to invoke cloture equivalent to rejecting the bill.
< /roll >