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Along with the Maine duo of Collins & Snowe, Ohio's Voinovich, and one Kit Bond, Scott Brown has voted on cloture for Harry Reid's job bills to move it to a final vote. Those five Republicans offset Ben Nelson, who decided to be bipartisan the other way as usual by voting with the rest of Republicans against bringing it to the floor. The final cloture vote was 62-30, and we shall see if this will be the final result overall. David Dayen has some good tidbits on how some Republicans once again voted against a bill where some of their suggestions/provisions were actually placed in the bill. Some fun facts while we wait for the final tally: Orrin Hatch co-authored the centerpiece of this micro-bill, the job creation tax credit. He voted against bringing it to the floor. Chuck Grassley co-authored all the pieces in the bill and has expressed in particular support for the provision allowing small businesses to write off capital expenditures. He voted against cloture. Roger...

Photo from Truthout.com In this case, it is! Thanks to Alan Grayson guy and RON PAUL, bipartisanship was actually in the favor of the American people in the push back on bank lobbying puppet Mel Watt , who tried to take away your chance to see what the hell transactions the Federal Reserve was doing with the financial industry . Thankfully it didn't go Watt and his supporters way : Today, the House Financial Services Committee passed an amendment to their financial regulatory reform bill that would mandate an audit of the Federal Reserve. The Paul-Grayson amendment, named for its chief sponsors, Reps. Ron Paul and Alan Grayson, passed the committee by a count of 43-26. Almost with a similar feeling of last night's "Too Big Too Fail" banks vote , this one has a ways to go in order to be law. The lobbying challenges will get strong, and there virtually is no chance that this will get passed before years end unless the extraordinary happens. But it is a rare, VERY RARE,...

I wonder, even after the health care bill is over (and ONLY meaningful reform can happen with a public option), will they still try to work with these irrelevant idiots and/or liars . Sadly, they already will. But you knew the answer.