The Republican defectorswere Sens. Scott Brown (R-MA), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Rand Paul (R-KY). (Unlike the others, Paul voted against it because it wasn't radical enough.) Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Pat Roberts (R-KS), and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) did not vote.
Well it looks like the recent election in New York-26 had a small effect, but there are still 40 Republican Senators on the record supporting the privatization of medicare.
I think the Democrats are aligning some good one liners for 2012 and that have to get right on behind them and sing them out across the land.
Republicans planning to bankrupt Grandma.
Republicans getting between you and your doctor.
Republicans taking away women's rights.
Republicans pandering to the rich.
And those are the easy ones without crossing into the obvious sexism, racism and religious intolerance shown both within the party and their followers.
They have to be made to pay for their fiscal posing and the truth that every time they get into power they throw the fiscal rule book out the window and cause economic chaos.
Republicans may try and pull a Newt and deny what was said, but they all supported the Bill forwarded from the House where once again all but a handful of Republicans supported this toxic waste of time.
Where are the jobs?
Wed May 25, 2011 at 9:42 PM PT: As the WaPo Notes republicans are already hoping
and the calculation by Republican officials that they have time before the 2012 election to neutralize any of the Democrats’ political advantages."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Don't give them this unwarranted luxury