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Republicans cross aisle to help stimulus bill move ahead
(CNN) -- The Obama administration's $838 billion economic stimulus plan survived a key vote in the Senate, putting a compromise version of the bill on track for passage Tuesday.
With the help of Republican Sens. Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter, the Democrats locked in the votes needed to end debate on the bill.
One dissenting voice in the Senate is Republican Sen. John McCain, Obama's opponent in the presidential race. The Arizona senator called the bill "generational theft." "We're laying multitrillion dollars of debt on future generations of Americans," McCain said on CBS. "I can't support such a thing."
TG: Oh, the guy who voted for the multitrillion bank bailouts proposed by a Republican president has suddenly grown some principles when a lesser bill is proposed by a Democrat president. No wonder so many conservatives are suddenly finding fault with things Obama is doing after ignoring the same things the past eight years when a Republican did them. They are just following their idols.
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