How to avoid accountability

2 of the only 3 US senators who abstained from voting one way or the other on the US economic stimulus package were, who else: Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Voting “yes” were 46 Democratic senators, 33 Republicans and the Senate’s 2 independents. Sixteen Republicans voted “no.” Three Democrats did not vote: Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama, who are campaigning for the presidency, and Ben Nelson of Nebraska.

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