The names of the 12 Republican Senators who voted to raise the debt ceiling today, contain the usual list of worthless RINOs and Karl Rove Republicans that you would expect. This comes less than 24 hours after the House passed a hike in the debt ceiling, no strings attached with only 28 Republican votes. These are the numbers of the worthless RINOs who voted for cloture on the debt ceiling hike.
John Barrasso (Wyoming)
Susan Collins (Maine)
Bob Corker (Tennessee)
John Cornyn (Texas)
Jeff Flake (Arizona)
Mike Johanns (Nebraska)
Orrin Hatch (Utah)
Mark Kirk (Illinois)
John McCain (Arizona)
Mitch McConnell (Kentucky(
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
John Thune (South Dakota)
Now that cloture has been envoked, the debt ceiling bill itself can pass the Senate with 50 votes. The same 12 Republican RINOs who voted for cloture can vote for no on the actual bill and claim they are fiscally responsible. Some stupid people would actually believe it too.
Update: Just as expected, none of those twelve REpublicans who voted to cut off debate voted in favor of the actual bill to raise the debt ceiling. It only needed 50 votes to pass, and the Senate has 55 Democrats. If these dingbat karl Rove Republicans think that by voting no on the actual bill, but voting to cut off debate is going to save them, then they are dumber than Joe Biden.