I don’t find it ironic at all that a pretty much brain-dead senator may have to be called upon to be the 60th vote, because certain members of the DOP are too ‘fraid to be that closing vote. Disgusting.
And let me just remind all good Conservatives how especially nauseating it would be for any Republican to help pass this debacle on President Reagan’s birthday.
Tentative stimulus deal reached in Senate
Amid stunning new job losses and the latest bank failure, key senators and the White House reached tentative agreement Friday night on an economic stimulus measure at the heart of President Barack Obama’s recovery plan.
Senate Democrats were now mulling the compromise, which would cap the package at $780 billion. The package had grown to $937 billion after senators added to it, and Obama has said he’d accept a deal around $800 billion…
Reid had met with key Republican moderates Susan Collins of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. Both hoped to pare back nonessential spending items in the measure, while a third moderate, Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, worked with Democrats to trim the bill’s $340 billion in tax cuts by perhaps $25 billion.
Reid suggested to reporters that he had two GOP backers for the bill but needed at least one more because neither wants to be the crucial 60th vote if all 58 members of the Democratic caucus support Obama.
Officials strongly suggested that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s vote would be needed to assure passage. The Massachusetts Democrat, battling a brain tumor, has been in Florida in recent days and has not been in the Capitol since suffering a seizure on Inauguration Day more than two weeks ago. The senator’s office did not comment.
Related Coverage:
Officials say tentative stimulus deal reached
Fox: Senators Reach Tentative Deal on $805B Economic Stimulus Bill
It remains unclear when a vote will take place, and it may be on hold until next week
Well, the usual suspects cross the aisle and bend over yet again. I’m still surprised that McCain and Graham didn’t get in on the fun.
The people in Maine have to get the Bobbsey Twins of Betrayal, Snowe and Collins, out of office. Are there any real conservatives up there?! I know it’s New England but come on! The same goes for that schmuck Specter.
Just heard a report on Fox that the vote will probably be on Sunday. The last time this happened, January 11, was to ram through the wilderness preservation bill that set aside two million acres in nine states as wilderness. This piece of legislation prevents any possibility of development of oil and gas resources in these areas – keeping us dependent on foreign oil. Now they are going to do it again – this time it’s a BOONDOGGLE cloaked as an economic stimulus package.
These RINOS need to be tossed out on their collective arses. What a friggin joke this crap sammich is! Uhhh…mmmm……can I get mine with swiss cheese?
Well, added to my ammo stockpiling, I have doubled the size of my garden from last year AND added a chicken coop with 23 hens and 3 roosters. Turkeys soon to come. I am to be as self sufficient as I can be as the USA is spiraling totally out of control.
I would love a break down of this mess AND what senators, governors, and our loverly representatives will gain from this dung heap. Un. Friggin. Believable.
No surprise when we see who got whined and dined by the demoncrap elite in the senate – in a closed door meeting. When it comes to the floor for final discussion and amendment, it needs strong opposition to show what a pile it really is. And, it needs a few hundred billion of border fence and military spending amendment dollars put in with a year to spend it – that would actually do something and get people working. Should the vast left wing conspiracy present this gift to mr o’baamaa (only elected by a slim margin apparently composed of a racist voting block), will he let it lay over for a week so the people to discover what it is or will he sign it immediately (and violate his campaign promise again) in order to justify his dream of averting national crisis by obligating welfare funds sometime in the future on meaninglees and needless “stuff” to spend in election years for the next decade instead of now.
I sent emails to Collins, Snowe, and Spector.
I don’t want to give up on this yet – maybe if we keep pressuring them we’ll save a few billion! If they would just get rid of all of the pork. Idiots.
… and while this is all happening, the White House is in full operating mode. If you haven’t heard, the Census Director will now report to the White House, more specifically to Rahm Emanuel, instead of the Department of Commerce. At this rate, we will expect Acorn doing the US Census in 2010.
… and while all of this is happening, the White House is in full operating mode. If you haven’t heard, the Census Director will now report directly to the White House, more specifically to Rahm Emanuel, instead of the Secretary of Commerce. This includes all Census operations as well. At this rate, don’t be surprised if we have ACORN knocking on our doors for the 2010 Census.
I was thinking the same thing, PALIN2012 – keep up the pressure!
And to help us do that, here’s the link once again to play Annoy The Senate!
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Hey, why don’t we all listen to the Saturday show & have some friends over to play Annoy the Senate? We’ll pay special attention to the wobbly Republicans & all the Democrats.
Start off with everyone calling Susan Collins first. After each call, everyone takes a jello shot before passing the phone to the next caller. Proceed to Snowe, then Specter, etc. Just imagine all the Senators listening to the messages themselves or having to deal with a frustrated staff worker whose had to listen to our messages 🙂 Oh, how sweet it is!
So, it’s the new updated version of Annoy The Senate: Just add jello shots 🙂
Is anyone surprised by this? I mean, really surprised?
I thought that all of the talk during the last election about whether or not Democrats would get a 60-seat majority to block filibusters was a crap sandwich all by itself. On any major piece of legislation there will always be at least two or three RINOs willing to sell out. In other words, for anything important the filibuster is already long gone.
And if you though 2006 and 2008 were nightmares, just wait until 2010. For one thing, the DOP will be defending more Senate seats than Democrats. For another, ACORN and the Holder Justice Department will turn our already shaky democracy into a Zimbabwe-style thugocracy. Do not be surprised when by November 2010 (a) the Messiah, His Congress, and His media have approval ratings below that of HIV/AIDS, and (b) Democrats will sweep the elections.
If you have ever wondered what it would be like to live in a Third World hellhole complete with a Maximum Leader, rigged elections and a government-run press you are about to find out.
I tried to call Specter, Collins and Snowe. Voicemail boxes full.
I wrote each of them e-mails.
Look at Snowe’s press release off her Senate web page. She was going to pass this no matter what because she is a “consensus builder” and works to develop “bi-partisan compromise”.
http://snowe.senate.gov/public/
She thinks trimming a bill from $900 billion to $780 billion is an accomplishment. I’m speechless. This is how the Left plays its game. it runs so far to the left (in this case proposes a bill that is so monstrous in spending) that any kind of fighting and “compromise” to bring them to the so-called center is still in the end very LEFT.
Let’s just call Snowe, Collins and Specter Democrats and call it a day. Cowards.
Tammy,
I sympathize with your frustration (I don’t even watch the news anymore, I feel like I’m stuck in some Ayn Rand/scifi/twilight zone dystopia…and it’s only been two weeks!!) and I agree that the GOP is indeed the DOP, but I have to give credit where credit is due. ALL of the House Republicans voted against this crap, and all of the Senate Republicans (except for three pansies who aren’t really Republicans to begin with) will probably be voting against it. So I don’t think it’s fair to call the Republicans spineless in THIS specific instance.
Mwalimu Daudi: That just about sums it up… a
“Zimbabwe-style thugocracy”. Two weeks into his first term and already acting like an arrogant dictator.
The left in this country are absolutely giddy with their new-found power. And they wield it like a sword… to their future demise. Unfortunately, we are going down with them.
There is a roofers union in upstate New York who’s members just lost their entire company pension plan. A press mill as well… the lifesupport for retirees just blown away. My wife and I have lost nearly half of our 401K and 403B.
Who is bailing us out?
The Mayor of Chicago says he just want’s his check and doesn’t have to tell us what he’s doing with it. The Senate is incapable of breaking this down into real targeted funds, with no real justification for ANY of the projected expenditures.
I am so outraged. The only thing we can do is vote out this fraudulent House and Senate, and wait two more years after that vote out the worst, most liberal, dictatorial, condescending president in history.
As soon as I posted on here last night, I resumed the phone calls. I don’t know if this is a good sign, but every single one of Collins, Snowe & Specter’s voicemails (DC and their district offices) were full. I realize Odumbass is loading up his robots with orders to call also, but something tells me our side is more active, angry about this crap & more determined. In fact, there were several Senate offices I called that were jammed.
Should this thing go through, we know the other items will follow very quickly without giving us a breather: healthcare, gun control, fairness doctrine. We HAVE to mobilize, prepare to protest and behave as though we outnumber the federal swine – BECAUSE WE DO! It’s only the fact they get tv time and a mic shoved in their, uh, face (…) that makes them more visible than us. We can damn well change that!
Hey, if the Senate & Odumbass are that desperate for more money to waste, then they need to start moonlighting at Denny’s or something. I bet even that would be too much work and decision making for the CandyAss-In-Chief.
Hi CINDERELLAMAN – I totally share in your frustration and anger with this crap. But be assured of this: we do NOT have to wait until 2-4 years to simply vote these idiots out. With ACORN being funded (empowered) & media sell-outs, there’s no indication we will be able to vote as usual – or even vote at all in the near future.
The government is behaving like the whip on our backs right now, and we have the right and responsbility to fight back. It may mean risking everything personally – but that’s how this country was born in the first place. We have to be willing to get out of our comfort zone and shrug this false sense of security – we’re not secure under Odumbass; we’re under siege. We have to come to grips with the harsh reality that Odumbass & his Senate gestapo are using this stimulus package to rip power from US. They know the provisions in the package will break us, and that’s exactly what they want. We have to stop expecting the lawmakers to intervene on our behalf – they’re part of the problem, too. It’s either us or no one.
I have no qualms whatsoever about taking a trip to DC, stopping at a torch store on the way, and pulling every single one of these well-dressed ‘kitties’ out of their ivory towers (that we paid for). How many of them are ever truly face-to-face with REAL people? How about REAL people who are REALLY pissed off??? Let’s show them what that looks like!
Go ARTGAL – to Washington, with torches, and jello shooters. The idiots would not know what to do. I know: They would probably break their necks passing a two billion dollar bill to outlaw people with torches drinking jello shooters! 🙂
From an AP article: Ratcheting up the sarcasm, the president said: “So then you get the argument, ‘well, this is not a stimulus bill, this is a spending bill.’ What do you think a stimulus is? That’s the whole point. No, seriously, that’s the point” Wow, the mask slips off again.
I also want to make fun of his quote: “Here’s the point I’m making. This package is not going to be absolutely perfect, and you can nit and you can pick.†Here the eloquent orator totally mutilates an idiom. [The ‘nit’ in nitpick refers to a noun, not a verb, specifically a ‘nit’ is a lice egg.] I would never be this petty except that the media loves to nitpick the quotes of obvious dummies like Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Sarah Palin, but we must all remember that BHO is the most intelligent, highest IQ President of all time. So how could he possibly make such a linguistic mistake. Oh yeah, I forgot this was an extemporaneous remark, i.e. no teleprompter.
I suspect our man from Zanzibar was confusing nitpick with shuck and jive, much as his contemporary, Brad Pitt, (when asked what he had been doing lately) came up with “duckin’ and jivin”. (Misconscrewed from the boxing term, ducking and weaving.)
Oh my goodness, our President Obama, (fanning my bosom) he’s so… so articulate. (sigh)
Oops, I made a mistake too; I didn’t have my speechwriter proofread my comment. The singular of ‘lice’ is ‘louse.’
So in this story, we have the Louse: Hopey Hussein McTool, the Nits: all the socialism you can pack into one bill, and the NitWits: Pinky Reid and Blinky Pelosi.
And Collins, Specter, and Snowe are the rats that are happy to carry the pestilence to us all. Where is my kerosene?
Yes, the quislings ARE spineless cowards, but according to Soetoro, they’re PATRIOTIC spineless cowards. I’m sure hoping that there are some unpatriotic (by Soetoro’s definition) democrats in the senate, too. There has to be some grown ups in the donkey party, doesn’t there?
2 and 1/2 weeks and ODUMMY is pissy and whiney. The man has thin skin for the leader of the free world. As soon he got off script he took to his mumbling and “uhhh’s”. Not only is he short with the temper he sure looks like he’s one meeting away from trying to censor the voices of conservatives with lots of FAIRNESS.
I called Collins, Snowe, and Spector’s offices and it just says the machines are full. They bought this bull, now let’s make them pay.
2 and 1/2 weeks and ODUMMY is pissy and whiney. The man has thin skin for the leader of the free world. As soon he got off script he took to his mumbling and “uhhh’s”. Not only is he short with the temper he sure looks like he’s one meeting away from trying to censor the voices of conservatives with lots of FAIRNESS.
I called Collins, Snowe, and Spector’s offices and it just says the machines are full. They bought this bull, now let’s make them pay.
2 and 1/2 weeks and ODUMMY is pissy and whiney. The man has thin skin for the leader of the free world. As soon he got off script he took to his mumbling and “uhhh’s”. Not only is he short with the temper he sure looks like he’s one meeting away from trying to censor the voices of conservatives with lots of FAIRNESS.
I called Collins, Snowe, and Spector’s offices and it just says the machines are full. They bought this bull, now let’s make them pay.
2 and 1/2 weeks and ODUMMY is pissy and whiney. The man has thin skin for the leader of the free world. As soon he got off script he took to his mumbling and “uhhh’s”. Not only is he short with the temper he sure looks like he’s one meeting away from trying to censor the voices of conservatives with lots of FAIRNESS.
I called Collins, Snowe, and Spector’s offices and it just says the machines are full. They bought this bull, now let’s make them pay.
Welcome to the tyranny of fear. Think of the scenario when Schickelgruber browbeat the President of Checkoslovakia and Chamberlain in 1938.
And expect no more “profiles in courage” to come from New England again. For all Snow, and her sister-Senator Collins, offer the Republican Party, they might as well cross the aisle and stop their scam. Remember, Zipper-Man’s SECDEF was Bill Cohen of Maine; another RINO.
Spectre? As the name suggests, let him fade. With Gregg going over the side, the nearest GOP voice for New Englanders is Peter King of New York.
Krauthammer’s comments captured the week.
We’ve seen more money thrown into this power-quest than ever could be believed. Just the election. What do you think this stimulus will be used for?
Think of what it will take to end it; money being the arbiter. To quote Daschle: “OUTRAGEOUS!”
And with the campaign money not being enough, they want to spend not just our now worthless paper, but the childrens’ who’ll follow.
But, just so we can all stay involved in this country (even if we’re only allowed spectator status), watch this census maneuver (off the books). I’ll bet we see a very efficient defining of citizens – Hauptregierungsamt – and it will be CLASSIFIED. Watch local elections getting validated based upon a federal registry. (Not that it couldn’t have been done for over a century.) It’s dictatorship en route to tyranny.
“Yon Baraq hath a lean and hungry look…..”.
I hope my Social Security Number doesn’t change, I afraid that’s all I’ll be.
Should I take my leave of us all, while we’re still the country I was born into 67 years ago?
Hell, No, Olympia and Susan, Teddy and Lurch, Baraq and Meanie Michelle, Deval and Arlen, I’m to pissed off to give you one more vote by default.
Hi Tammy,
I emailed all 100 Senators as well as President Obama. Thank’s to you.
Here is a simple idea that will help fix most of the housing crisis and the “toxic†Assets held by some banks without tax cuts, pork or wasting the taxpayers’ money.
“Eliminate capitol gain tax on all real estate properties that will be purchased after a new legislation is passed for a period of two years. The real property that is purchased during this 2-yr period will never be subject to capitol gain tax even if it is sold many years later.”
These tax changes apply ONLY for real estate purchases within two years after the new legislation is passed. This incentive will increase housing demand quickly and generate a lot of sales for homeowners at reasonable prices without resorting to bankruptcies or foreclosures. The banks will be “bailed” out without government interference. This is like the “good guys†rescue the “bad guys†who are holding the so called “toxic†papers. The toxic papers that are currently held by these financial institutions will immediately become worth more after the passage of this legislation due to the expected increase in real estate demand.
Giving just general tax cuts to people in the hope that they will spend it to stimulate the economy is taking a big risky gamble as well as piling up on our debt. People and businesses should only get benefits when they spend their own hard earned money to stimulate the economy. Let the market work without too much interference by our government.
Tammy,
I called Senator Snowe’s office today. I was told she supports the attached amendment. This amendment should be part of the original TARP not the Recovery package. This is why she will vote yes. I was also able to reach Senator Specter’s office. I heard him on Laura Ingraham, and it sounds like he is voting yes, regardless, of Americans calling his office and saying no.
“February 9, 2009
Washington, D.C. –
Financial institutions that used “federal bailout” funds to pay employees bonuses in excess of $100,000 will be required to compensate taxpayers under a provision authored by U.S. Senators Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). The provision – which was accepted Friday night by voice vote as an amendment to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 – will require financial institutions that received funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to either repay the cash portion of any bonus paid in excess of $100,000 early – within 120 days of the amendment’s enactment – or face an excise tax of 35% on what is not immediately repaid to the treasury. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the Snowe-Wyden Amendment will raise as much as $3.2 billion”