Posted on 01/28/2009 5:24:50 PM PST by holy joe
We the undersigned demand that you, our duly elected representative in the U.S. Senate vote 'NO' on the so called stimulus bill that recently passed the house on a party line vote.
The legislation includes the following wasteful spending:
Hundreds of millions for global-warming research; Billions for carbon-capture demonstration projects; Billions for renewable energy funding Hundreds of millions for the federal government to buy new cars. already Billions for child-care subsidies; Tens of millions for the National Endowment for the Arts; Billions for modernizing federal buildings,
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too late.
Done.
It is not too late for the Senate!
The only time anything is too late is when they stuff you in a box and drop you in a hole.
Zero has spoken, there will be no dissention. They will move ahead and “do the right thing” with or without republocant support.
Way too late.
It hopeless for me.
My “senators”?? Levin and Stabenow.
Never hopeless. We intimidated Stabenow into a few good votes on immigration.
The bill would also bar impeached Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich from having any say in how to spend money his state receives from the plan. The Illinois state legislature would be required to approve the expenditures. The bill is H.R. 1.
Imagine have a provision in a gigantic stimulus bill that target you by name.
imagine havING....that targetS you...
Done.
Too late for me too - chuckie and the new lady...
I just pray that John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison vote against and grab a few others.
Is this a majority or two/thirds vote?
Someone needs to do some editing work to this petition:
“Hundreds of millions for the federal government to buy new cars. already “
Why is that word “already” just hanging out there?
The best vote for any Republican is a “NO” vote on the stimulus. Here is why:
1. If the stimulus is unsuccessful and the economy spirals down into Depression, the Republicans will be blamed (along with the Dims) for wasting money and implementing an ineffective program.
2. If the stimulus is effective, the Dims will take credit for it; the stimulus dollars will buy millions of votes for the Dims. So, it will mean 20 or 30 years of one-party Democrat rule bought with government money, just like happened with that Commie president, FDR.
We need the GOP Senators to put together a FILIBUSTER and shut down the stimulus bill down, so they go back and rewrite it. We can do that with 41 unified Senate Republicans, its a long shot, but doable if every GOP Senator gets on board.
Without a principled conservative opposition to the already excessive liberalism of Obama and the Democrats, the Republicans will have no credibility in 2010. Now is the time to take a stand and filibuster this bad bill.
There are specific demands that must be made:
#1 - filibuster against any spending that occurs after this fiscal year, and insist spending be done later in appropriations for next year; 100% of spending should be focussed SOLELY on this year and out-year spending should be in followup appropriations as conditions warrant. Why tie the USA to trillion dollar debt now for spending that will occur well after the recession is over?
#2 - no spending unless all tax laws are extended until 2013; in short, by raising taxes in 2010, the Democrats are cutting the economy off at the knees; they are killing, not stimulating, the economy; filibuster any bill that does not include delaying the increase in taxes.
#3 - No money for ACORN, for Planned Parenthood, for general pet projects that simply add to Government spending; filibuster any bill that has offensive, wasteful, non-stimulus spending; filibuster any bill that has pork and earmarks.
#4 - Filibuster any bill that is not at least 50% tax rate reductions, ie, real tax cuts; only tax rate reductions and/or direct tax cuts, such as allowing 100% expensing in 2009 of depreciable expenses, would incentivize the private sector.
THERE SHOULD BE 100% REPUBLICAN SUPPORT FOR THIS POSITION.
Post 16 & 17 = Your Senate filibuster idea...
Tell them anyway... let the politicians know that they’ve awoken the sleeping giant of the American taxpayer.
Thanks for spreading the word.
The filibuster is the only effective line of defense we have.
Everything else is just grandstanding.
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