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You are here: Home / Open Threads / If less than half the Senate votes for two three dumb things, that’s like the whole Senate supporting it

If less than half the Senate votes for two three dumb things, that’s like the whole Senate supporting it

by Sarah, Proud and Tall|  May 25, 20119:53 pm| 29 Comments

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Some guy at the Corner:

The Senate just finished voting on the Paul Ryan/House Republican budget resolution, as well as the budget put forward by President Obama in February. Both, as expected, were voted down, but only Ryan’s received any votes.

Indeed, the Obama budget failed by the astounding final count of 0 to 97. Not even Bernie Sanders (S., Vt.) could bring himself to support the president’s plan, raising the question, as one observer in the Senate gallery put it: “Are Democrats actually for anything?”

The Ryan budget, on the other hand, was voted down 40 to 57, with five Republicans — Sens. Brown, Collins, Murkowski, Paul and Snowe — voting ‘no,’ along with every Democrat.

Votes on the budget proposals put forward by Sens. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) and Rand Paul (R., Ky.) are expected shortly.

UPDATE: The Toomey budget also fails — but gets more votes that Ryan’s — 42 to 55. Sens. Murkowski and Paul are the two who switched their votes.

Paul’s budget fails as well, 7 to 90, but still gets more votes than Obama’s. Sens. Coburn, DeMint, Hatch (!), Lee, Paul, Vitter and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (!!) voted ‘yes.’

UPDATE II: The Senate Democratic budget f… oh wait, nevermind.

Final score: Republican budgets 89, Democratic “budgets” 0

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  1. 1.

    General Stuck

    May 25, 2011 at 9:56 pm

    “Are Democrats actually for anything?”

    they are for not ending medicare. And that is all you need to know wingnut.

  2. 2.

    General Stuck

    May 25, 2011 at 10:02 pm

    If less than half the Senate votes for two dumb things, that’s like the whole Senate supporting it

    Today was chicken fucking day in the US Senate. There are no wrong answers and all the questions are trick ones. Last Senator left bloviating wins, and loses.

  3. 3.

    Fred

    May 25, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    Bahahaha….gotta luv wingnut math!

  4. 4.

    BGinCHI

    May 25, 2011 at 10:05 pm

    Shorter Corner douche:

    Why won’t Dems commit political suicide with us?

  5. 5.

    Ash Can

    May 25, 2011 at 10:06 pm

    Well, OF COURSE the Corner is going to say something like this. The Corner is AN ASS. Asses produce shit.

  6. 6.

    ErikdaRed

    May 25, 2011 at 10:06 pm

    But why were there no votes at all for the Prez’s plan?? I’m sure there’s more to this than what a wingnut at America’s Shittiest Website has to say, but what??

  7. 7.

    Svensker

    May 25, 2011 at 10:09 pm

    Glad you got your title dusted and polished there, Sarah P&T. :)

  8. 8.

    MikeJ

    May 25, 2011 at 10:11 pm

    @ErikdaRed: There was no upside in voting for somethign that was never going to pass anyway, and all it would do is paint a target on you with specific things to complain about.

  9. 9.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    May 25, 2011 at 10:11 pm

    @ErikdaRed:

    But in an attempt to turn the tables on Democrats, Republicans then forced a procedural vote on President Obama’s budget submission from February. That measure failed by a vote of 0-97, with all the Democrats voting against it because they believe it is now outdated.

  10. 10.

    Fred

    May 25, 2011 at 10:12 pm

    @Ash Can: That is like that epic speech from “Team America”!

    “Sometimes dicks fuck assholes and wind up covered in shit”

  11. 11.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    May 25, 2011 at 10:12 pm

    @Svensker:

    Friends don’t let friends post when drunk.

  12. 12.

    ErikdaRed

    May 25, 2011 at 10:12 pm

    Aaah, thanx, Mike and Sarah.

    :)

  13. 13.

    Hill Dweller

    May 25, 2011 at 10:15 pm

    The stupid, it burns.

  14. 14.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    May 25, 2011 at 10:23 pm

    @ErikdaRed:

    Biden has been working in committee to come up with a new Democrat budget plan that might actually pass, so the February budget isn’t on the table anymore, unless it’s as part of Republican shenanigans like today.

  15. 15.

    Lev

    May 25, 2011 at 10:24 pm

    I’m kind of surprised that Mark Kirk voted for Ryan’s horseshit. He’s allegedly a moderate, certainly from a blue state. Maybe he figures that he’s only getting one term before the Dems run someone whose bank didn’t just get investigated for fraud, someone who can properly flay his nursery school teacher-impersonating ass, and figures he might as well indulge the wingnuts that landed him there.

  16. 16.

    Elisabeth

    May 25, 2011 at 10:34 pm

    @ErikdaRed:

    Thanks for asking because I didn’t understand, either.

  17. 17.

    The Tragically Flip

    May 25, 2011 at 10:43 pm

    Their creative idiocy still manages to astound me.

  18. 18.

    PeakVT

    May 25, 2011 at 11:11 pm

    Not even Bernie Sanders (S., Vt.) could bring himself to support the president’s plan, raising the question, as one observer in the Senate gallery put it: “Are Democrats actually for anything?”

    I’ll be charitable and say this sentence was a poor attempt at comedy.

  19. 19.

    Nutella

    May 25, 2011 at 11:12 pm

    @Lev:

    Kirk’s not too bright.

    Explains a lot of things.

  20. 20.

    opie_jeanne

    May 25, 2011 at 11:33 pm

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: Thanks Sarah. I am just now catching up on today’s news and hadn’t heard that the Obama budget was even brought up.

  21. 21.

    handy

    May 25, 2011 at 11:39 pm

    K-Lo’s House of Crazy strikes backshoots self in foot again.

  22. 22.

    ...now I try to be amused

    May 26, 2011 at 1:12 am

    You could say that Democrats are the real conservatives on this issue.

  23. 23.

    Bobby Thomson

    May 26, 2011 at 7:02 am

    @Lev:

    I’m kind of surprised that Mark Kirk voted for Ryan’s horseshit. He’s allegedly a moderate, certainly from a blue state.

    Yeah, well, he isn’t moderate. Duh.

    @Sarah Proud and Tall:

    Biden has been working in committee to come up with a new Democrat budget plan that might actually pass

    DEMOCRATIC

    Can someone explain how a vote on an even more extreme bill was supposed to shelter Republican senators from blowback?

  24. 24.

    Jay C

    May 26, 2011 at 8:53 am

    Mr. Stiles’ post was lame even by the blatantly abysmal standards of NRO. Does he not realize that when a Senate vote – especially on something like a national budget – fails by an 0-97 margin, that this just might not be a normal bit of legislation, and that something else (like, maybe, a semi-symbolic vote which is basically political posturing) just might be going on?

    But then again, consider the source: “abysmal” and “lame” are usually the adjectives of choice….

  25. 25.

    Ken

    May 26, 2011 at 10:11 am

    By my count, that’s three Republican budgets rejected by the Senate, and (at most) one Democratic budget.

    @Bobby Thomson:

    Can someone explain how a vote on an even more extreme bill was supposed to shelter Republican senators from blowback?

    It’s similar to the logic that says Michelle Bachmann or Herman Cain or Paul Ryan should run for President, since that way all the other Republican candidates will look more statesmanlike, or at least more sane. It’s an excellent plan, flawed only in that it requires other Republican candidates.

  26. 26.

    Sarah, Proud and Tall

    May 26, 2011 at 10:37 am

    @Bobby Thomson:

    DEMOCRATIC

    I’ve been a Republican for my entire life, dear. Using “Democrat” is better than calling them “Bastards” like most of my friends do.

  27. 27.

    Bulworth

    May 26, 2011 at 11:11 am

    @General Stuck: I’m pretty sure just a year ago we Democrats were for universal health insurance coverage, and we passed a bill to do that. So, yeah, we are for stuff like good health care for everybody.

  28. 28.

    inthewoods

    May 26, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    @ErikdaRed: They voted it down because the budget has been superseded by a new budget (forthcoming) – from the WSJ:

    “The Senate followed that up by rejecting President Obama’s budget in a 97-0 vote. That budget has been essentially superseded by a recent speech Mr. Obama gave on deficit-reduction, though that speech didn’t contain the detailed figures that make up a budget”

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304066504576345433136872502.html?mod=ITP_pageone_0

  29. 29.

    PWL

    May 26, 2011 at 12:30 pm

    Makes me think of Oliver Cromwell’s words:

    “You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing lately….Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”

    That’s our Congress these days…

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