Senate Votes to Stop Tax Cuts

Senate Votes to Stop Tax Cuts

Are you KIDDING me?

The Senate, the REPUBLICAN SENATE, voted and passed a bill that would require a 60 vote supermajority in order to confirm tax CUTS? Whiskey tango foxtrot?

Are we sure they didn't misread it, thinking that it meant it would taje 60 votes to CANCEL a tax cut or to RAISE taxes?

Nope.

Somehow the spineless jellyfish we have in DC pretending to be Republican Senators managed to actually vote to impose restrictions on tax CUTS.

Thank whomever you hold holy that the HOUSE will certainly cowboy up and stop this madness.

And, heaven forbid, if this actually made it to Bush's desk and he SIGNED it, I would seriously think about voting another way. UGH!

Senate delivers setback to GOP plans for tax cuts

WASHINGTON - The Senate voted yesterday to make it tougher for Republicans to muscle tax cuts through Congress as Democrats won an election-year struggle that could hinder some of President Bush's economic priorities.
By a 51-48 vote, the GOP-dominated Senate agreed to require 60 votes for tax cuts considered over the next five years that are not paid for with other savings.

That requirement could doom all but the most popular tax reduction plans in the 100-member Senate, which Republicans control with 51 seats. It also would complicate Republican efforts to deliver the core of Bush's plan for reviving the economy, making $1.1 trillion worth of tax cuts permanent that will otherwise expire by 2011.