52-48 - GOP blocks bill to end oil subsidies

[malaise]

ReTHUGS{/b] filibustered the bill.
Good Reid got them on the record.

[flamingdem]

1. Did you catch the website with the petition against the subsidies? nt

[RKP5637]

6. Here it is -

http://endbigoilsubsidies.com/

[flamingdem]

31. thanks! nt

[FLAprogressive]

2. Your thread should read: Reid allows GOP to block bill to end oil subsidies.

[arbusto_baboso]

11. It wasn't going to pass anyway.

So why not make political fuel of it?

[Drale]

3. Just more ammo to use in the attack on the GOP in 2012

It seems like they are not even thinking about the future anymore. They are just trying to get out with as much money as possible.

[Angry Dragon]

4. Link??

[RKP5637]

9. FYI - Here's the site for the petition.

http://endbigoilsubsidies.com/

[malaise]

10. No link yet - Cenk on M$NBComcast n/t

[Angry Dragon]

22. Okay

[Jack Sprat]

5. I guess capitalism doesn't work without

public money subsidizing it. Is that what they are saying with that vote?

[TheKentuckian]

15. That is a fact not a proposition.

Capitalism depends on socializing or individualizing the downside. If the exploiters were responsible for the damage they leave in their wakes, profits would be tough to come by in many industries.

[KansDem]

16. Good observation...

I wonder if they gave a reason?

[liberal N proud]

7. A government for the corporations by the corporations

We do not have a peoples government.

[DainBramaged]

8. The sad part is the Dems who voted with them....

[jmowreader]

35. And they are:

Begich (Alaska) -- property of oil companies
Landrieu (Louisiana) -- property of oil companies
Nelson (Nebraska) -- had to vote with the Republicans just because of who he is

Other than that, it was a straight party-line vote. Even Lieberman voted for it.

[marmar]

12. ............

[RagAss]

20. "In their eyes there's somethimng lacking. What they need is a damn good wacking"..G.H.

[notadmblnd]

13. Now the media needs to make them wear it like a scarlet letter till after 2012

[daggahead]

14. Roll call will be published ...

in about an hour:

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/a_three_sections_with_teasers/votes.htm

[spanone]

17. democrats should be shouting this from the treetops

[hifiguy]

18. Everyone who is surprised by this

Stand on your heads.

When Repigs are bought, they STAY bought.

[KansDem]

19. Their drink of choice...

[robinlynne]

21. There are 52 Pubs? I thought there were 49. or 48.

[daggahead]

23. Some usual Blue Dogs sided with the Repugs ...

The roll call should be up soon.

[SoCalDem]

29. My thought too, but if 40 of them filibustered, dems would have to get to 60

isn't that the way it works? we don't have 60 and even when we did have 60, we still didn't have 60 :grr:

We would have to have 75 (at least) to ever really get some liberal bills passed:(

[Atman]

24. We WON this one...Dems were the 52. Repubs "demanded" a 60-vote filibuster proof majority.

How do they get away with this shit? And why do our feckless "leaders" keep allowing them to kick us in the balls? I don't get it.

[malaise]

25. 100% correct

I do wish I knew how they get away with this shit.

[Luciferous]

30. They get away with it because the Democrats let them get

away with it.

[jp11]

32. Senate rules democrats didn't want to change it out of fear that

they would be in the minority and republicans could then beat them with a simple majority. Nice to know that democrats think that even if they got what they wanted it wouldn't secure their future, as in they think/believe the policies they'd pass would be such crap or that it would be spun so that they'd lose the senate.

[bvar22]

34. Then HOW did the Republicans get everything they wanted?

They NEVER had 60 votes in The Senate,
and it didn't stop them, or even slow them down.


"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will stand up for working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone


"By their works you will know them."

[jp11]

37. Our side caves, the president wants to move forward as the adult...etc

[daggahead]

26. Roll Call is up ...

Nelson, Begich, Landrieu sided with the bastards.

[malaise]

27. Apparently Collins and Snowe

voted with the 52

[Atman]

28. It doesn't fucking matter... WE WON. So how did we snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?

:shrug:

[Exilednight]

33. Alaska, Florida and Louisiana. It's their states that are getting subsidized. n/t

[tishaLA]

36. I'm glad you pointed out that it was Nelson (FL), not nelson (NE)

I'd already tarred and feathered Ben Nelson mentally.

[robinlynne]

38. oh, right. the republicrats.