[UPDATE]: I’ve been told in comments that they’re pulling Kennedy off of what nobody wants to call his deathbed in order to pass the debt bill. Just as well: we’ve had everything else, so why not a human sacrifice?
Via Hot Air, and from this report of a tentative deal:
Reid suggested to reporters that he had two GOP backers for the bill but needed at least one more because neither wants to be the crucial 60th vote if all 58 members of the Democratic caucus support Obama.
Unless they plan to bring Teddy Kennedy back to the Senate chamber to vote on this*, Harry Reid only has 57 votes. He needs a third to get it past a filibuster.
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PS: If you have the votes to pass your party’s debt bill, Senator Reid, then go ahead and do it. Take possession of this thing like an adult.
*As the next paragraph of that article kind of makes clear, Senator Kennedy is in Florida right now.
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barry915barry Friday, February 6th at 6:26PM EST (link)nt
MSNBC reports Kennedy coming back to vote
Addison Friday, February 6th at 6:35PM EST (link)As did FoxNews.
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Well, that's all that this deal needed.
Moe Lane Friday, February 6th at 6:46PM EST (link)A blood sacrifice.
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Addison Friday, February 6th at 6:54PM EST (link)…at least we can all be reasonably confident that they didn’t stoop to offering a virgin up to the altar, huh?
I’ll note that media reports aren’t “fact.” Because, of course, the media is stupid and prone to getting things wrong. They may be reporting rumors rather than fact. Gasp.
Just to get my viewpoint on the stimulus package on record here: I would take just the state stabilization funds, with everything else waiting until there were better plans. The immediate action needed isn’t to make new jobs, it’s to stop people from losing the ones they have now. Other stuff can come later. Otherwise it’ll end up being — in the best case — still a net loss of jobs.
But that’s the first thing up on the chopping block! I am so confused and out of whatever loop these people are in.
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