End Of The Year Votes

Tim Johnson and John Thune, not surprisingly, are on opposite sides.  As one would expect, Tim Johnson is being a good soldier for the Democratic Party and John Thune for the Republicans.  The Democrats continue to turn the Artic National Wildlife Refuge into a fetish and also can't come up with any way to control government deficits other than raising taxes.  Does the Democratic Party support any spending adjustment that would yield significant savings?  I also wonder what the Democrat's tax increases would do to an economy that, despite high gas prices and hurricane Katrina, grew at a healthy 4.1% annual rate this summer.