On December 11, 2008 the United States Senate voted down the Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider H.R. 7005 (Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008 ) which would have been weighted down with earmarks to provide the $14 or 15 billion that the liberal Democrats and President Bush wanted to give to the auto industry and their labor unions; the Republicans, except for 10 RINO’s and 8 weak-kneed wusses who did not even care to vote (see below) kept the motion from passing.
