Stop Me Before I Vote Again

Stop the presses! Senate dembos play naughty "spoiler" role once again!

Here's a droopy pwog account:

"Yesterday in the U.S. Senate, the banks won the key vote on S. 896, the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, which has already passed the House as H.R. 1106. The vote was on Senator Durbin’s amendment that would allow judges to modify residential mortgages in bankruptcy....

Even though the Durbin amendment was supported by President Obama, it failed 45 to 51 with 11 “centrist” Democrats voting against....

Without this bankruptcy provision, President Obama’s plan to address the housing foreclosure crisis will essentially be limited to federal subsidies — which can’t do a lot of good....

There is a moral to this story. No matter what progressive measure President Obama proposes, and no matter what slightly-compromised but still strong legislation is passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, it won’t become law without the support of the so-called “moderate” Democrats in the Senate."

Do tell! And so -- even the filibuster bypass option won't stop these fiends.

Lesson? Ummmh... elect more Democrats?

Yeah! That's the ticket! Once we have, you know, 70 or 75 dembots in the Senate, we might squeeze out a few simple majority votes expressing the popular will!

Here they are -- all -- errr, 12?

• Max Baucus (MT)
• Michael Bennet (CO)
• Robert Byrd (WV)
• Tom Carper (DE)
• Byron Dorgan (ND)
• Tim Johnson (SD)
• Mary Landrieu (LA)
• Blanche Lincoln (AR)
• Ben Nelson (NE)
• Mark Pryor (AR)
• Arlen Specter (PA)
• Jon Tester (MT)

-- Stalwart members all of the Orthrian Center Aisle society, including Dem newbie Benedict Arlen.