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What is the point of having this long sought after majority in the house and senate? This vote needs a 3/5ths majority because it appropriates money. 4 Dems strayed from the caucus. Even with the 4 the Dems would have been 4 shy, but still... Even if we spend all this time courting a-holes like Lieberman, there will still be 4 nozzles who will vote against their party. Without a tighter control of the party line, that 60 member Senate filibuster-proof majority is more or less a pipe dream.
On the vote itself: Screw the American auto industry. They do more damage to this planet than can be made up for with their creepy factory jobs. Anyone been to Detroit lately? I have. The best thing that could happen to those people is if the auto industry disappeared overnight, then they might get on with their lives and rise above the crime and poverty and soulless existence of the factory slave.
You have to have ashes to rise out of them like a Phoenix. Burn it down.
