Where’s that majority?
Posted by TFG on April 23rd, 2008
McCain opposes equal pay bill in Senate - Yahoo! News
Senate Republicans killed the bill Wednesday night on a 56-42 vote that denied the measure the 60 votes needed to advance it to full debate
I seem to remember hearing that Our Progressive Betters had taken over the levers of power in Congress. So, if I’m doing my math right, that means there are 56 Republicans and 42 Democrats, which, I know, it only equals 96, and there’s supposed to be 100, seeing as how there are 50 states times two senators. I’m pretty sure I have most of that math right. Where are those other 4? Were they incapacitated somehow…comas or something? It’s 2008, you know…IM that vote, bitches.
I’ll just say that I know nothing about no equal pay bill, and if you were to ask I’d say that I don’t know why our Senators are dicking around with payrolls, personally. I’m just doing arithmetic, and memory exercises. Did I imagine 2006? Am I done gone senile?
April 24th, 2008 at 4:27 am
You’ve got it backwards. There were 42 NAY votes that featured 41 Republicans and 1 Dem (Harry Reid, which is a procedural vote necessary for the Majority Leader to reintroduce the same bill at some future point). There were 56 in favor, including four Republicans and one Socialist. The two not voting? Both Republicans.
Look for yourself. Cloture votes need 60 YEAs to get by. Dems don’t have that kind of majority. Sadly too, they keep politely rolling over and allowing these cloture votes instead of making Republicans filibuster to stop Dem bills from hitting the President’s desk. This was a snapshot of the use of the tactic from last year July, I’d be interested to see if it’s still on track to set that record.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:10 am
O I C. So the answer is “senile.” Great.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:56 am
No, the answer is phony baloney. The usual razz-a-ma-tazz these oinkers pull to make it look like we all need to keep paying their salaries so they don’t have to actually go to work.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Clinton, Obama, and McCain are just ceremonial members of the Senate at this point. Ever wondered where you can get a job that pays you full time plus expenses and generous benefits to travel the country and interview for a better job? Now you know.