Posted on 02/13/2009 4:18:09 AM PST by pabianice
Per the crawl this morning on CNN, Sen. Corker has put a Hold on Porkuls, stating that he wants a chance to read it before voting. Bill has reportedly swollen from 800 to 1,500 pages as Dems keep putting-back everything the Senate removed.
Saw crawl as I was watching news about the ColganAir crash at 5:00AM.
I thought Holds were annonymous
LLS
Come on, Senator Corker! This is the first time I can remember this “moderate” senator of mine showing any sense or spine. He gave a pretty good speech against Porculus a few days ago. Maybe there is still a plan to kill this in the works............We’ll know soon.
1500 pages is probably just the summary version.
I look forward to seeing “It’s dead, Jim,” being posted about this bill.
Translation: The train is leaving the station and not every senator has all his bags of pork on yet.
We can’t spoil the Messiah’s President’s Day signing, now can we? Oh yes we can.
I heard somewhere yesterday that he wanted to do the signing on prime time television. When are we going to be required to have his photo hanging in our home?
Shhh, don't give them any ideas. Heck, I'm half expencting they're require us to bow and pray toward it 3 times a day.
You mean somebody decided to actually read this thing! How novel.
The heat’s obviously on, and Corker is buying time, both for the public and Specter, who may be having serious qualms about his vote in light of his rapidly diminishing prospects for re-election in 2010. Maybe if Specter is forced to mull the consequences of his treachery for a few more days, he may decide that backstabbing the Rats would be a better legacy choice right now than backstabbing his own party.
Does the Senate still do a cloture vote that requires 60 to move to final vote? If so, that’s our only chnace.
“You mean somebody decided to actually read this thing! How novel.”
As you so correctly put it HOW NOVEL. Only I think this piece of pork is a Novel meaning, “a book”. I don’t think “War and Peace” was this long? I pray that more reps and senators get some sense and actually take the time to read this Novel, this piece of rotten fiction, and VOTE NO!
G-D save the USA!
Me, too. We can't take any more Jim, we'll blow up.
Regardless, Specter just found out yesterday exactly how much trouble he is in with the Pennsylvania State GOP, and Corker may be buying enough time for him to stew about his future prospects in the 2010 primary.
I saw some cheaply framed Obama photos in Walmart just the other day. They have a small tray at the bottom of the pic for placing several votive candles.
< /sarc>
The vote should definitely be postponed today.
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I would like to think he actually wants to read it, but given his antics on the bank bailout last fall, this is more likely Builder Bob grandstanding (again) for a little spotlight time...
Which is exactly why they’ll push it through today.
...I love the smell of sarcasm in the morning...
As I recall, the three Prostitutes said they’d not sign along unless it was made smaller and certain parts of the bill were dropped. They were. Now it’s all being put back; so will our 3 Hookers announce they will not sign after all???
I made a joke the other day about everybody having to carry around a little book like Chairman Mao used to required and darned if the next day or two I didn’t read about some little book of obamaisms.
I think we should start a petition that they allow the public to read the whole bill and not vote until they have disclosed the package we are paying for!!!
They had the Obama network during the elections.....lets open it up with this outrageous bill and reveal all its projects!!!!
...Yea, they’re all suspect, but, I always like to here those words, “WAIT A MINUTE!”...
Even Greta was telling Newt last night that she thought it was very arrogant of Barry to compare himself to Abe Lincoln after three weeks in the White House.
I do too, but with a different pronoun.
I thought Clinton was a narcissist, but I think Barry has him beat.
The opportunity for the filibuster evaporated with the Snow-Collins-Specter defection. There is no such opportunity for the vote on the final bill.
What are We The People going to do if it passes?
Its already been shown for the most part it will not make any improvement in the job market anytime soon and I personally do not want my children and their children paying for this.
All the more reason to remove Obama, its time to put up or shut up about him even being legally eligible to sign this bill.
Or have we forgotten?
And we need to protect those that are fighting to expose the fraud in the Whitehouse, like Orly Taitz.
Overall our efforts are too soft, we are not pushing the boundary of free speech. We must acknowledge the fact that we must cross the line.
Could this possibly be the same guy people around here were calling a RINO POS TRAITOR for voting, “Aye” on the cloture vote?
Don’t you realize how important that $4.5 Billion (With a Capital ‘B’!) dollars for ACOORN’s Capital Infrastructure is???
I mean, the Democratic Party NEEDS that money, and they need it NOW! Just think how many generations of patronage they can buy with that!!
Limos and gold-plated bathrooms for community organizers cost a LOT of money, doncha know!
Prospects are much better for “turning” some Dems from Red states.
{Pryor, Lincoln, Tester, Baucus, Dorgan, Nelson, Nelson, and others}
By leaps and bounds. It's all about being able to stand in front of the presidential podium - nothing more. Because there is nothing to more to the man
And we'll be paying for this “Pig” for decades!
He may just be jealous that Snowe and Specter are getting more pork. Tennessee didn’t get a lot of junk from the stimulus - Maybe Reid and Pelosi will offer him a few billion for the state to NOT read it!
True and I'll be the first to stand up an applaud my Senator if those are indeed his motivations. However, after thirty some odd years of following politics I've become very cynical, particularly with Senators. I watch what they do, not what they say....and that goes double for Builder Bob....
I tried that first, and then changed my mind just before hitting ‘Post’. Maybe I was wrong to change it from the familiar and correct ‘he’s’.
“When are we going to be required to have his photo hanging in our home?”
Well, if it ever comes to that, hopefully we’ll get to pick the photo. My vote is for the one with the cigarette hanging out of his mouth. LOL!
My current faith lies that our sweet little hot governor is going to politely say NO to the federal handout of this porkulous bill for the most part, she may accept some only if its not a crackwhore bill that forces the state of Alaska to keep pumping money into.
My big wish is to see Alaska announce its 10th Amendment rights of sovereignty.
Every Republican in congress should do the same thing. Lets see whats in this Hogzilla.
I know you're in a big hurry, but I would prefer if you'd take a little extra time to mention 57 DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED WITH THE 3 RINOs.
Make it an easy read. Cut it down to no pages.
The cloiture vote was already taken...
Nothing to see here. They’re just fighting over the booty.
HA!
Well, we found out Spector and Snowe’s pork this morning. That fancy new bullet train they couldn’t get passed last year. Just happened to fall into the stimulus plan they broke ranks and voted for.
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