Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Harumph! The filibuster is good for something.
When two of the dumbest US senators come up with a dumb plan to make Congress even less effective and gut some more of the safety net then the 60 vote margin actually has a positive result.
The Senate rejected a proposed bipartisan commission to recommend ways to reduce the U.S. government deficit as a report projected this year’s shortfall will reach $1.35 trillion, the second-biggest since World War II.Kent and Judd are also short a lot of human virtues like honesty, integrity, intelligence.
The vote was 53-46, falling seven short of the 60 needed for passage. The legislation would have required that the panel’s recommendations be voted on by Congress without being amended. Its chief sponsors, Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad and ranking Republican Judd Gregg, had said they were short of the votes for approval.
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