Funny thing is, the poster at DU didn't actually read, or comprehend, what he thinks he's being so witty about. Republicans voted as they did because they knew it was nothing more than a Democrat charade, and that if you were really concerned about being fiscally responsible, you wouldn't pass bills that were fiscally irresponsible in the first place - making the Democrats' bill irrelevant as anything other than a rhetorical political ploy. Secondly, the Democrats have so many carveouts and exceptions to their supposedly "fiscally responsible" rules that the exceptions simply swallow the rule up whole. In other words, even if this bill had passed, it wouldn't have had any effect other than generating stupid little posts like that on DU. It most certainly wouldn't have automatically converted the Senate to fiscal responsibility.