Republicans pushed a $2.36 trillion budget through the Senate early Friday, a package allowing lower spending and smaller tax cuts than President Bush wants and trimming record deficits faster than he proposed.

... The measure was approved 51-45 ...

The only senators crossing party lines on passage were Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, and Zell Miller, D-Georgia. Sens. John Edwards, D-North Carolina; John Kerry, D-Massachusetts; Harry Reid, D-Nevada, and Tim Johnson, D-South Dakota, did not vote.

How do you get that Kerry agrees with Bush when Kerry didn't cast a vote either way?

He didn't vote?

Nope. Two lists there. Edwards and Lott. And the second of Senators who didn't vote of which Kerry is one.

he agrees because if he voted YES, he'd give Bush more ammunition in elections
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Actually, I missed the semi-colon. Do you think this thread will make it to 10 posts after that gaff?