Credit where it's due: Dems defeat Enzi Bill

As Atrios points out, there's been very little coverage of this on the blogs-- but it's very good news, and the Dems should be congratulated.

Health Care Week' ended on Thursday when a bill sponsored by Senator Michael Enzi (R-WY), that would have allegedly lowered the cost of small businesses providing health care to employees -- but at the expense of watering down care so much that the insurance would have been practically worthless -- was also defeated by Democrats in a failed cloture vote. Democrats said the proposal would have harmed as many people as it would have helped and the bill was opposed by over 200 health care advocacy groups such as the American Cancer Society.

Of course, there's also the bad news:

The Senate also voted last week to provide $70 billion in tax cuts over the next five years, thus extending still further the first time in the history of the United States that tax cuts have been given so extensively in a time of war. The cuts, which focus on large cuts to tax rates on dividends and capital gains, are tilted heavily in favor of the wealthy and provide little tax relief to middle and lower-income Americans.

The measure passed 54-44, in what was an almost exclusively party-line vote.

I've seen estimates of how many hundreds of billions (if not trillions) in revenue that the tax cuts will cost us over the next decade, but I don't think the public will be against repealing them when they see a side-by-side comparison of how much has been given to the richest Americans and how much money we've borrowed for Iraq. All we have to do is win back Congress. No problem, right?