What a surprise:
The Senate easily passed a $15 billion jobs bill on Wednesday morning amid hope that the measure could provide a blueprint for other items on President Obama’s agenda.
The measure passed 70 to 28, with 13 Republicans joining 57 Democrats in support of the package. One Democrat, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, voted against it.
Stunning that so many in the GOP who so very recently were so opposed to this bill that they wouldn’t even let it come to a vote changed their minds on it. Thank Christ Scott Brown so bravely crossed the lines and let this bill come to an up or down vote such that these teeming hordes of Republican Senators, who so very recently were mortally opposed to it even being considered, could rethink their positions on jobs-creation. A victory for independent thinking!
Or: how the GOP sticks a fig leaf onto its blanket opposition to any votes on any matter, large or small, by letting Brown appear to break ranks, knowing that serially shit-canning jobs bills is tantamount to political suicide.
We report, you decide.
Lemkin 