The Dittohead Caucus in the U.S. House — which includes every GOP representative — followed their dictates of their leader, Republican Party boss Rush Limbaugh, and voted overwhelmingly against a bill that would impose a heavy tax on bonuses received by executives at financial institutions that are on the dole from U.S. taxpayers.

Earlier this week, the GOP boss asserted his support for the $400 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars that AIG — in which taxpayers now have an 80 percent ownership — planned to give as “retention” bonuses to the same traders whose risky schemes contributed to the collapse of the world economy:

LIMBAUGH: “Let me tell you something, folks. I am all for the AIG bailouts, and I am all for the AIG bonuses. Well, I’m not for the bailouts, well, in a way I’m for the bailout because I’m for the bonuses.”

In lockstep with Limbaugh, 113 out of the 198 Republicans in the House voted against taxing the bonuses of the financial industry fatcats. Six out of 235 Democrats also voted against the tax.

The measure passed 328-93, and is now moving to the Senate.