In another great chapter in filibuster history,
yesterday cloture for the jobs bill was secured with a vote of 62-30. Today they voted on the jobs bill. It passed 70-28.
Six republican senators (2 were absent) acted to make sure the bill could not be voted on by their colleagues, but when it was brought up to vote, they found it to be such a good bill they would in fact vote for it.
Cute, huh?
It'd be like if we are deciding on dinner, and people mentioned chilis, and then someone said "well lets take a vote" I would be like "NO we can NOT vote on this!" but then when we do vote, i vote yes for chilis.
It used to be the opposite, you'd vote to end debate because everyone had their say, but you'd vote against the bill because you didn't like it.