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To: JustaDumbBlonde

If you think the porkulus package is going to be defeated then you are living in fantasyland. The numbers are stacked against the GOP - the best they can do is try to cut some of the pork and add some tax cuts in the Senate version. Otherwise, it’s a done deal.


76 posted on 02/01/2009 8:22:15 AM PST by WillT
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To: WillT
"If you think the porkulus package is going to be defeated then you are living in fantasyland."

Here in fantasyland, where I've listened carefully to what the senators, both republican and democrat, are actually saying, I am seeing substantial resistance building to this pork package. There are fiscally conservative democrats that are not going along.

"The numbers are stacked against the GOP - the best they can do is try to cut some of the pork and add some tax cuts in the Senate version."

This legislation has already been passed out of 2 senate committees and has passed in the House. Unless it is defeated in total, it will pass largely unchanged in the senate. This is not at a stage where the bill is going to be substantially rewritten to get support. Ask Sen. Sessions if you don't believe me. He just said this live on FoxNews.

81 posted on 02/01/2009 9:31:25 AM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (America: Home of the Free Because of the Brave)
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