The Senate passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 tonight by a vote of 60-38. Sen. Sherrod Brown had to fly back from his mother’s memorial service in Ohio to get the Democrats to the magic number of sixty. He will fly back to Ohio to be with his family. Apparently, no Republicans offered to cast their vote for Brown, or for Kennedy who is convalescing in Florida as he continues to fight brain cancer. That is some seriously classless bullshit.
Al Giordano has a piece on the significance of this legislation. It puts a lot of the recent bickering into some perspective.
