Million dollar bonuses to a handful of corporate bankers that received TARP money = GOOD!!!
Small bonuses to millions of Americans on fixed incomes = BAD!!!
The Senate Voted 50-47 to reject an amendment to provide a $250 bonus to seniors, that would essentially replace a cost of living increase, to people on Social Security. The proposal was introduced by Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The total cost of the amendment would have been $14 billion. It was a proposal as part of the overall $100 billion unemployment package being debated.
Voting No was all Republicans except Olympia Snowe, and three other Republicans who did not vote (Bond, Hutchinson, and Isakson)
Also voting no on the Dem side was: (MORE...)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennet (D-CO)
Carper (D-DE)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Nelson (D-NE)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Udall (D-CO)
Warner (D-VA)
We'll see how these senators vote when the issue of taxing those big bonuses from bailout recipients come up.
UPDATE: I missed that Blanche Lincoln was one of the supporters of the amendment. I wonder if she would have voted the same last week.