"Buffet Rule" fails

[Vosem]

Gotta love that 3/5 supermajority requirement

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00065

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While I simultaneously agree and disagree with you in principle (to clarify, agree about the filibuster, disagree about the Buffet rule), it doesn't matter in this case, because the present composition of the House would not approve the Buffet rule if you threatened to poison them.

[Vosem]

Oh yeah Elizabeth Warren's going to get some campaign ads out of this.

True, unfortunately. In a better world Scott Brown would get to use this in his advertisements ("Look! I opposed the Buffet Rule and Warren supports it! Vote for me!"), but Massachusetts politics doesn't quite work that way...with hope, yet.

[Vosem]

Oh yeah Elizabeth Warren's going to get some campaign ads out of this.

True, unfortunately. In a better world Scott Brown would get to use this in his advertisements ("Look! I opposed the Buffet Rule and Warren supports it! Vote for me!"), but Massachusetts politics doesn't quite work that way...with hope, yet.

Wait, what? In what world would running on opposition to a popular idea be good?

Haha, sorry. I meant that in a better world the Buffet Rule would be quite unpopular.