Senate Votes 40-59 To REJECT RYAN BUDGET

[Segami]

The Senate voted 40-59 to reject the Paul Ryan budget on Thursday night.


Republican Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Rand Paul (R-KY) joined a unified Democratic caucus in voted against it. Republicans did not offer the Ryan budget; Senate Budget Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) forced the vote by bringing up the plan as a substitute to her own Democratic budget.


"There seemed to be some resistance among my Republican colleagues in bringing up the House Republican budget for a vote. And it's pretty easy to see why that is," she said in a floor speech before the vote. "The House Republican approach has been thoroughly reviewed and just as thoroughly rejected by the American people."


Sen. John Thune (R-SD) urged passage of the Ryan plan prior to the vote, calling it a responsible solution and arguing that it balances federal spending and revenue in 10 years.


The Ryan blueprint passed the House Thursday morning.



http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/senate-votes-40-59-to-reject-ryan-budget

[malaise]

1. K & R

This is good

[n2doc]

2. You just know that the t-baggers (all except Collins) rejected it because it wasn't EVIL ENOUGH n/t

[Segami]

6. LOL! Poor little Eddy,..

...couldn't find enough support for his CRAP-RAND Budget!

[malaise]

10. Dems have the ad waiting for them

Saw it on TV last night - they were ready and waiting

[Segami]

14. Thats great to hear malaise,...All Dems need to pushback hard against

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these party thugs who strut around like Mob bosses.

[sadbear]

3. I wonder what the teabaggers have against the Paul Ryan budget?

Maybe there's not enough tax cuts in it.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. my question too. cruz voting w/ Dems. what a psycho he is. nt

[Cha]

4. Wonder why those repubs voted with Dems?

Good on Patty Murray getting it out there for more to see what idiocy goes on in the House and the 40 in the Sen who voted for it.

thanks Segami

[ProSense]

7. Collins is running for re-election and

Ted Cruz and Rand Paul have delusions about 2016.

[Segami]

15. LOL! "Delusions" is right!

[ProSense]

24. Oops!

Wow! Senators Cruz, Lee and Paul vote against protecting Medicare
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022549592

[LonePirate]

5. I'd like to see a vote on the CPC budget. Surely it would garner more than 40 votes, right?

With all of the DINOs in the Senate, it's tough to guess how many votes it would receive.

[chillfactor]

8. that didn't take the senate very long...

up vote by the House, down vote by the Senate....all in the same day!

Good for Patty Murray..I take it the votes were recorded....

[Cedric the Clam]

9. Thank God

...or in this case, the Democrats.

There has been so much bad news posted here of late, that I have been on the verge of a breakdown.

This news is good enough that I can relax and go to bed now.

What's with the Rand Paul vote above? I don't get that guy. He's unpredictable, usually abominable, but now and then he comes out strongly on the good side. (?)

[Segami]

16. Have a good, relaxing nap Cedric the Clam....

Welcome to DU!

[2naSalit]

11. If you want to keep tabs on

who voted for what and how they voted...

http://votesmart.org/

merely for those who might be interested.

[Old and In the Way]

12. That's the way the game is played!

Make the decision-makers belly up to the bar. The House can send any piece of delusional legislation to the Senate....make the Republican Senate own their policy....but they aren't nearly as irresponsible as their nutbag teapublican caucus in the House.

[sheshe2]

13. Good for Patty Murray!

IMHO the Dem Woman are rocking in the senate!

[rurallib]

17. I am all effed up - I thought 40 votes won in the senate

[tarheelsunc]

18. So is Ted Cruz anti-everything? Seems like he's rejected everything so far, left or right. eom

[lastlib]

19. He's the new Jesse Helms--"Senator No"

except that Helms was a much bigger asshole.

[rtassi]

27. He's just getting started ...

[RoccoR5955]

21. What is this, the THIRD time it failed in the senate? n/t

[D23MIURG23]

22. I hope the word is getting out that this guy is a fake.

I would have guessed that the election exposed that fact, but it remains to be seen whether the punditry (excepting Paul Krugman) have figured it out.

[ProSense]

23. Senate roundly rejects radical Ryan budget

Senate roundly rejects radical Ryan budget

By Steve Benen

After the House passed Paul Ryan's far-right budget plan, the blueprint was sent to the Senate, where it obviously had no chance of success. Indeed, for the last two weeks, plenty of Republicans in the upper chamber publicly said they saw no point in even bothering with it.

Of course, their concern was not about wasting time, but rather, being forced to vote up or down on a proposal that ends Medicare, slashes social investments, and gives millionaires another massive tax break. It's why, when the Ryan plan reached the Senate floor last night, it wasn't Republicans championing their own party's vision, it was Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) demanding her colleagues go on the record, either supporting or opposing the House plan.

In the end, it wasn't close -- the Ryan budget failed in the Senate on a 40-59 vote.

GOP Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Dean Heller (Nev.), Mike Lee (Utah), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Ted Cruz (Texas) voted with Democrats against Ryan's plan. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a prospective 2016 GOP presidential nominee, voted for Ryan's budget.

"Enough is enough. Republicans received a vote on their extreme proposal; now that it has failed once more, it's time for Republicans to work with Democrats to enact a budget that reflects our values of fairness and opportunity for all," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said after the vote.

For Democrats, either outcome was a victory. If Senate Republicans voted for the House GOP budget en masse, Dems would use it against them in the 2014 midterms and cite this as an example of widespread radicalism within the party. If Senate Republicans balked, Dems would be able to boast that Paul Ryan's vision is so far from the mainstream, it generated bipartisan opposition in both chambers of Congress.

Murray seemed to enjoy twisting the knife a little, almost mocking her GOP colleagues: "There seemed to be some resistance among my Republican colleagues in bringing up the House Republican budget for a vote. And it's pretty easy to see why that is. The House Republican approach has been thoroughly reviewed and just as thoroughly rejected by the American people."

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http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/03/22/17414441-senate-roundly-rejects-radical-ryan-budget

[samsingh]

25. there are 40 effing morons

[StevieM]

36. Actually, it is 43. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Rand Paul voted against it because they didn't think it

was conservative enough. Their no votes came from the right, not the center.

Only Susan Collins and Dean Heller really sided with the Democrats.

[Left Coast2020]

26. And while it was on the floor...

...I hope they stomped all over it like you would stomp on a cigarette on the ground.

[jmowreader]

28. The cosmetics of the bill were all wrong, for one thing

If you are going to impose crippling austerity on the working class (not "the poor"-this atrocity would have hit everyone with less than two commas in his or her bank balance) you don't put a tax cut for millionaires in the same bill. It starts to look like Death Race 2000's "minority privilege" when you do.

[William769]

30. Recommended.

[underpants]

31. NOT. EVEN. CLOSE.

[Left Coast2020]

32. I'm wondering what part of "No" is it that he doesn't understand?

[RainDog]

33. k&r n/t

[TeamPooka]

34. so proud of a budget they didn't even want to put to a vote. lol

[shenmue]

35. I reject it too.

[iamthebandfanman]

37. i cant believe that many republicans

voted for it even.. believe it or not

lol

guess some of them knew it wouldn't pass and decided theyd take it to show the voters..

sadly for them, I dunno if that's a good thing to be proud of

[iamthebandfanman]

38. Wonder why Senator Lautenberg didnt vote

and give us a cool 60 votes against?

[still_one]

39. yet bloomberg still interviews paul ryan as though his proposals are feasible /nt