Senate Nixes Quick Healthcare Vote; Falling PC Sales Hurt Microsoft’s Bottom Lines; Jobless Claims Rise; Deutsche Raises Apple Outlook on iPhone Sales; Economist: Housing Market Has Hit Bottom; AT&T Profit Falls 15%; McDonald’s Profit Down; 3M Beats Expectations

Senate rejects auto bailout…  ECB pushes back from the rate cut table…  Goldman and Citigroup predict a dollar fall…  China to continue to appreciate… And Now… Today’s Pfennig!

A week that saw the war on taxpayers expand onto to several new fronts also saw US Senate Republicans win a pitched procedural battle to keep gas at the pump grossly inflated.

Rotten, no-good Members-of-Congress. In America, the Senators haul oil executives in front of Congress to insult and belittle them.