[cc2k]

If your Republican Senator voted against this, they need to hear from you. If you live in a state that went for McCain, but you have a Dem Senator that voted against this, they need to hear from you.

The Republicans that need to be scolded are:

• Alexander (R-TN)
• Bennett (R-UT)
• Bond (R-MO)
• Cochran (R-MS)
• Collins (R-ME)
• Murkowski (R-AK)
• Shelby (R-AL)
• Snowe (R-ME)
• Specter (R-PA)

[batter]

IMO, Hatch and Bennett are using a tag-team approach to a lot of these issues. Hatch votes for one, then Bennett (especially on election years) that way they only take part of the grief for poor votes and can spin stuff by saying, "but I voted against the other bad bill".

I get the feeling from these guys that they are just playing a shell game.

[txnativegop]

Politicians are such scumbags. I hope the Republicans who voted for this get hauled over the coals by the citizens of their states.

[musicman]

"The Republicans that need to be scolded are: "

Change SCOLDED to :" SEVERELY WATERBOARDED WITHIN AN INCH OF THIER SOON TO BE OVER RINO POLITICAL LIVES" , and I'm with ya.

[mojitojoe]

Specter, Collins and Snowe, bought and paid for. They are *owned* by the dems.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

It isn’t difficult to imagine how each of these politcians would fare were they running their own businesses and actually INCREASED spending while business was in a downturn.

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[Abathar]

Bayh voted for i t??

My jaw just hit the space bar...

[TomasUSMC]

So this amendment would have frozen spending at 2008 levels?

[whatisthetruth]

Why does McCain offer an Amendment that he knows will go down to defeat, is he grandstanding?

[Diogenesis]

Collins, Snowe and Spectre must have thought it was Fri the 13th again.

[vox_freedom]

32 to 63. wow, really close...
Shows how far the politics of appeasement gets ya, eh?

[MindBender26]

Translation please. Waht was this about in plain English?

[hocndoc]

What is Shelby doing voting against this amendment?

[KansasGirl]

WTH is wrong with these Republicans?

Snowe, Collins, Specter. Big freakin’ surprise. NEWSFLASH: They are going to vote with the Rats on EVERYTHING—they are Rats. The Rats have a filibuster proof majority. We are so screwed.

[BlueNgold]

At first I was shocked by Senator Shelby’s vote.
Then I went to his website and looked up news releases:
http://shelby.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.NewsReleases

The good Senator, who happens to sit on the Senate Appropriations (A-Pork-Creations ??) Committee, is bringing home the aforementioned bacon.
02/27/09
Shelby Announces $502,679 for the University of Alabama at Birmingham
02/27/09
Shelby Announces $385,020 for Alabama Department of Public Health
02/27/09
Shelby Announces $695,272 for Jack Edwards Airport
02/27/09
Shelby Announces $26,125 for Taylor Volunteer Fire Department
02/27/09
Shelby Announces $64,600 to Rehobeth Fire Department
02/24/09
Shelby Announces $1.9 Million for Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport
02/23/09
Shelby Announces $193,365 for the University of South Alabama
02/20/09
Shelby Announces $373,535 for the University of Alabama
02/20/09
Shelby Announces $197,375 for Shelby County Airport
02/20/09
Shelby Announces $205,928 for Russellville Municipal Airport
02/20/09
Shelby Announces $48,693 for Guntersville Municipal Airport
02/20/09
Shelby Announces $128,124 for Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport
02/20/09
Shelby Announces $272,419 for Madison County Executive Airport
02/20/09
Shelby Announces $80,154 for Wetumpka Municipal Airport
.
.
.
*** Rough calculation - around $5MM and this is just a partial list.

[river rat]

Once again, McCain demonstrates his impotence and in doing so highlights the impotence and inconsequential state of the Republicans in both houses of Congress....

He KNEW there was no hope for this amendment.
He KNEW is would cast the GOP as the weak sister they have become...

Since there is NOTHING the GOP can accomplish in the Senate or the House without the APPROVAL of Obama and the new Thugocracy -— they should show their contempt for the contempt being heaped upon them and GO HOME...

STOP showing up...
STOP voting....
Deny the Thugocracy the “appearance” of being a Congress of the People and for the people.....
Don’t give the Thugs the ability of claiming Bipartisan support of their Kleptocracy....

[metmom]

We don’t have Republican anything to speak of.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Alabama:
Sessions (R-AL), Not Voting
Shelby (R-AL), Nay

Wonder where Sessions was today.

And why’d Shelby vote NO?

Alabama ping!

[Primetimedonna]

What happened to all McCain’s “bipartisan buddies” that he has supported over the years??? /sarc

[pctech]

I think it’s time to level Washington and start over, term limits for everyone, and a background check to check for socialistic tendencies.