Scrooge of the Day: Senator Pete Domenici

The budget bill that makes significant cuts in things like Medicaid, Medicare, student loans, child support enforcement, foster care and more just passed the Senate. A 50-50 tie was broken only by the vote of the always draconian Dick Cheney. Our own Senator Pete Domenici voted for the bill that will ensure that some of the gigantic deficits produced by tax cuts for the rich will be paid for by whacking the poor, the sick, the elderly and those seeking help with obtaining a college degree.

All 44 Democratic Senators voted against this budget travesty, joined by one independent (Jim Jeffers) and five Republicans who have a conscience: Senators Susan Collins and Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, Gordon Smith of Oregon, Mike DeWine of Ohio and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island

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Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) called it "an ideologically driven, extreme, radical budget" that "caters to lobbyists and an elite group of ultraconservative ideologues here in Washington, all at the expense of middle class Americans."

Miserly Pete, however, sided with those supporting the rich elites and the wealthiest of the investor class at the expense of ordinary Americans. Hats off to today's Scrooge of the Day -- good ole Pete Domenici. Click to let Pete know what you think about his enlistment in the Republican War on America's Poor, Seniors, Children, Sick and Students. And be sure to thank Senator Bingaman for hanging tough and voting against this abomination.