Another “FINALLY!” bill makes it through. The Democratic Senate seems to be fighting with the House for who’s passing the cooler bill, countering the Reps’ minimum wage hike with a bill that strips pensions from convicted lawmakers.

The Senate on Friday voted 87-0 to strip away the pensions of members of Congress convicted of white-collar crimes such as bribery, perjury and fraud. That could result in benefit losses of more than $100,000 a year.

“With this vote, we are preventing members of Congress who steal or cheat from receiving a lifelong pension that is paid for by the taxpayers,” said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., sponsor of the measure with Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo.

Yet again, a bill passes with OVERWHELMING support from both sides, further supporting my theory that the majority of the country and its leaders really are liberal, but browbeating and bullying from the far-right neocons managed to suppress it until now.