Names Please!!
This is insane...does anyone in Washington know what is about to happen.
Have they never heard of Weimar?
They just keep the printing presses rolling.
Just nuts.
We have 41 warm bodies in the Senate. And they better remain warm to Conservatism on this one. This is a big deal.
Conservatives will figure out sooner or later that the cowards we have in congress needs to be voted out. WE NEED FRESH FACES AND IDEAS IN CONGRESS!
Was this a “conservative” alternative plan?
The conclusion was forgone, but the effort had to be made and I applaud them for doing it.
The best and only thing they can do now is flat-out refuse to accept Obama’s porkulus bill, not sellout for crumbs of concession, and shout from the rooftops that Obama and the democrats fully own the coming shipment of fail.
I want to know the 2 Dems too.
Maybe they’re going to vote no on both plans.
Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs&NR=1
Nan’s rules to stay in power forever:
http://www.rules.house.gov/111/LegText/111_hres_ruleschnge_smmry.pdf
>>Names Please!! <<
Yeah I want to that list - also curious about the 2 Dems.
Bump for names when they are available.
Final vote on bill - NO YEA VOTES FOR THE GOP! 174 NO votes. a few NV.
Democrats are nearly lockstep as well, 9 no votes, rest are yea votes.
Comments via NRO The Corner from the House floor debate:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/
A few samples from the debate on the Republican stimulus substitute:
Rep. Mike Pence (R., Ind.): “More big government spending on liberal government programs won’t put Americans back to work.”
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D., Ore.): “These are the same people who told us the Bush tax cuts were going to lead to nirvana . . . I am glad they have come to the floor to present their alternative, because it shows us their priorities: take money away from 95 percent of the American public, and give it to the wealthiest Americans who need it least.”
Rep. John Boehner (R., Ohio): “The bill we have on the floor is rooted in the idea that fast-acting tax relief will do a lot more than slow-moving government programs . . . Today, in this debate, we think that we have a better idea. President Obama has made clear that he believes the goal here should be to preserve jobs in America and create new jobs in America . . . This bill, in fact, better meets the goal that the President himself has outlined . . . At the end of the day, the bill we’re going to pass is not being paid by taxpayers today. It’s being paid by our kids and their kids.”
Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D., ND): “I’m fairly astounded that we’d see a sub that goes back to the old tired republican formula of letting hte top have everything and letting the others be shortchanged . . . “
Rep. Brian Higgins (D., N.Y.): “The Republican substitute would eliminate $500 million for road and bridge construction in economically depressed areas like Buffalo and Lackawana, N.Y.”
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R., Tex.): “We did too much deficit spending during the last six years when we were in the majority. And now the Democrats are doing the same thing . . . When we elected a president who promised change, I really hoped we were going to have change and get away from the deficit spending of the last eight years. But instead of getting change, with the original [Democratic] bill here we are getting much, much, much, much more of the same.”
“9 Turncoat Republicans. “
NO TURNCOATS ON THE FINAL VOTE!!!
WAY TO GO, HOUSE GOP!!
177 NO VOTES!
We can put the pitchforks away, and/or use them as needed to go after the Democrats, especially the Pelosi Poodle Faux “blue-dogs” who pretend they are non-liberals to voters, while voting for this garbage. Only 11 Democrats voted no, so this was a very partyline vote.
See:
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_wm.aspx
your vote totals are wrong. It was ALL Republicans and eleven Democrats voting :”NAY.”
Am I the only one curious about those totals? There are 435 voting members of congress - 255 Democrats, 178 Republicans, and 2 vacant seats. Yet according to this 439 members voted or abstained.