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Looks like Bernanke was too big to fail. :B (I didn't make that joke up, I wish I had). After all the storm und drang, the confirmation was 70-30, easily breaking a filibuster (the cloture vote was 77-23). Here's a graphical interface showing how the senators voted:
http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/111/senate/2/16
TBH, I don't think there was a reasonable alternative here. Obama would never have appointed a true inflation hawk (which is what we need), so it's just as well that we get continuity out of it.
http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/111/senate/2/16
TBH, I don't think there was a reasonable alternative here. Obama would never have appointed a true inflation hawk (which is what we need), so it's just as well that we get continuity out of it.