Posted on 02/07/2009 12:09:44 PM PST by Steelfish
Barely Bipartisan But a Senate Stimulus Deal is Done
Sat Feb 7
The U.S. Senate looks to be on track to pass a bill that sounds almost exactly like what President Barack Obama asked for last month.
The measure - now heralded as $780 billion, down from $890 billion - will include about 40% in tax cuts and more than 80% of the spending will flood the faltering economy within the next 18 months.
But with just three Republican votes, the bill falls well short of the bipartisan goal Obama worked hard to achieve.
The final cost of the bill remained fuzzy late Friday as senators scrambled to figure out how three amendments the Senate has already passed, estimated to add at least another $30 billion more in spending, would affect the total.
Ten additional pending amendments could also alter the overall number. Democrats estimate the total in the end could range from $780 billion to $820 billion; Republican leaders said they believe the bill would cost more than $827 billion even before other amendments are added.
Nevertheless, the deal has three G.O.P. votes in the Senate in its support - three more than the President got in the House.
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Expel the TRAITORS. Out With Em!! MAKE THEM PAY!
It is not done. Call, Fax, email. Monday morning too. Every conservative talk show host needs to get everyone to call. This will sell out America for good. Obama dares and no one stands up to him just like an Austrian painter did.
Just curious how many donors to the RNC will be happy that Snow, Collins, and Specter get part of your money?
Ever since Senator Sphincter voted to save Clinton’s skin, he has been lower than whale dung in my opinion. He votes “Liberal” every time.
Good Point!
You Betcha!
We get rid of RINOs. L
AND TO THINK SOME OF THIS WILL GO TO BRING HAMAS TERRORIST ONTO OUR LAND.
The vote hasn’t been taken. All claims of this being a done deal are intended to silence opposition.
Please tell the GOP caucus that if these three whores continue to caucus with the GOP you will be having a VERY difficult time raising money from your base.
This is exactly why I refuse to give one red cent to the RNC - I quit giving to them a long time ago - instead I give directly to the candidate of my choice.
Right. They are useless idiots. Are there any conservatives in Maine or Pa.? Toss em.
He’s an Ossified Offal!
The vote hasn’t been taken. All claims of this being a done deal are intended to silence opposition.
I think your onto something, continue pressure
Excellent point.
And, I might add, to disguise the fact that there are a number of Democrats looking to vote, "Nay."
No one has seen the bill on either side these traitors did the compromise. I don’t think it is a done deal but whoever votes for this travesty needs to be expelled from the Republican caucus. Snowe has not been seen or heard from and noted the Republican Senators last night kept saying two — Collins and Specter who spoke with the RATs — and MAYBE three.
Specter is bought and paid for by the unions. He always has been and owes his whole career to union support. He has never really been a Republican.
RNC quite obviously doesn’t give a damn.
They keep pushing these RINO turds like Martinez and Graham and these three on us.
I sent Mr. Specter a little note telling him what I thought of his position and that I will not be supporting him in the future. What a traitor.
Hear, hear....dem Psy Op's 101-a
We need to really pour on the pressure.
Rush is going to have a bit of a rallying affect with this on Monday too, just in time
We’ve seen this tactic used again and again. The last amnesty bill was a done deal the day before we killed it.
Three foolish selfish (or in the case of Specter, senile) people compromised the core values of our entire political party and also by helping this bill get passed, damaged perhaps irrevocably the financial stability of the United States
All of them took money not from their constituents, but from the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PARTY and its grass roots organzations and members - to get re electred
Specter won’t even acknowledge my email because I am not from Pennsylvania. But he will take my money to get elected and he will spend my money on a democrat pork bill.
Wham Bam , no thank you, ma’am
Shame on Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter-
Shame
Any GOP Senator who votes for this nonsense is going to be targeted for removal in the next GOP primary. These RINOs do not know the wrath they are going to incur.
I have Mel Martinez and he’s leaving but my current Governor Crist is just as bad and he’ll probably get the seat.
Martinez is as bad as Spector just hasn’t been hanging around steeling as long.
Why Harley45 and is this your 1st day here?
KILL THE PORKULUS BILL!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Good. Toss the RINO TRAITOR!
Pulled the following out of the comments:
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
Harry Reid Admits Stimulus Bill “Approaching A Trillion Dollars”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGx—ZmP-0c
I’m harley 45 but that is not my post. I don’t know what happened. I posted against Arlen Specter, my sorry excuse for a Senator.
This bill isn't done yet, Monday is the day when they vote on it. Also FReepers if your Senators are DemoRats, call their asses anyway.
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