Senate Democrats Short of Votes for Stimulus Bill

the most ineffective majority ever?????

~snip~ WASHINGTON — Emerging from a hastily called meeting on efforts to aid the struggling economy, Senate Democratic leaders said on Thursday that they were short of the 60 votes needed to advance a $161 billion economic stimulus package toward approval in the Senate.

The Democrats said that though they were still trying to bring the stimulus plan to the floor, a vote on the bill would almost certainly be delayed until next week.

They also said that they had yet to reach agreement on extending the Bush administration’s terrorism surveillance program, which Republican leaders have set as a condition for allowing the stimulus bill to move ahead.

“If it fails, we’ll pass the House bill,” Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, said of the Senate version. “But we’ll give it a try.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/washington/31cnd-fiscal.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

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Republicans are blocking economic stimulus plan until Telcoms get immunity.

they blocked it to cover their own asses. their sorry asses that are far more important to them than the country or its people.