You wouldn’t know it by anything you might read at the following link, but I think this is the Senate Vote on Extending The Bush Tax Cuts For The Wealthy.

Question: On the Motion (Motion to Concur in the House Amdt. to the Senate Amdt. with Amdt. No. 4753 to H.R. 4853 )

Measure Number: H.R. 4853 (Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2010, Part III )

According to the H.R. 4853 Bill Summary:

Latest Title: Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010

This is a bill to give tax relief to the middle class (and oh by the way, we also give tax relief to the ultra-wealthy that will end all hope of ever balancing the budget without cutting Social Security and Medicare.  There is no positive economic benefit to extending this cut to the wealthy. All this is just a minor detail, though.)

Despite the news reports you may have heard, there is only 1 Independent in the Senate, Bernie Sanders, and he voted no.

If your Senator is not in the list below, then you can decide if this is really the type of person you want to vote for in the next election for that office. I have sent my emails to Senators Kerry and Brown to let them know that they have lost my vote for their re-election. (Well, Brown never had it to begin with.) I have emailed Representative Richard Neal to let him know of the consequences if he too caves to the demands of the Republicans.

This blog post will remain on this blog so that when the time comes, you can look it up.  (Use the search box at the top of this web site to find this article in the Novembers to come.)

Politically, I long for the days when we were living in Oregon.

I have already told Harry Reid and Al Franken that they can stop sending me any more email.  They were not on the above list.

If the elected officials that passed this abomination think this will all blow over by 2012, they are badly mistaken.  By then even the people who are willing to give them a pass on this vote now will know of the bad consequences of this surrender.  This won’t blow over, this will blow-up.