Posted on 01/29/2009 8:59:56 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative
Pushing back against the unanimous House Republican vote against President Obama’s stimulus plan, the White House plans to release state-by-state job figures “so we can put a number on what folks voted for an against,” an administration aide said.
“It’s clear the Republicans who voted against the stimulus represent constituents who will be stunned to learn their member of Congress voted against [saving or] creating 4 million jobs,” the aide said.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the lawmakers will have to answer to their constituents.
“I do believe that there will be people in districts all over the country that will wonder why, when there’s a good bill to get the economy moving again, why we still seem to be playing political gotcha," Gibbs said.
And later today, MoveOn, Americans United for Change, AFSCME and SEIU will be announcing a new ad campaign targeting moderate Republican senators who might support the stimulus — Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Charles Grassley of Iowa.
The ad, which will run in the Washington market and in those states, consists of clips of the president talking about the stimulus, followed by the male voiceover, “Tell Congress to support the Obama plan for jobs, not the failed policies of the past.”
Letters on the screen say: “Tell Congress to support the Obama Plan.” In addition to the liberal-labor coalition’s ad campaign, the Laborers union, which represents construction workers, is airing ads aimed at Grassley, Sen Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), and Sen. Jim Bunning (KY). The spots call on Congress to support the stimulus package.
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2 Reasons:
1) nobama's ego can not let this go. I guarantee that he feels that this is a direct insult to him personally, nd a threat to his leadership postion.
2) socialists do not brook dissension. For the next 4 years, watch as the administration tries to tear down anyone, and everyone who crosses it. You think the 'toons were bad about it, you haven't seen anything, yet. The fun really starts when the Dems balk at his plans, once they realize what a zero he is.
2 Reasons:
1) nobama's ego can not let this go. I guarantee that he feels that this is a direct insult to him personally, nd a threat to his leadership postion.
2) socialists do not brook dissension. For the next 4 years, watch as the administration tries to tear down anyone, and everyone who crosses it. You think the 'toons were bad about it, you haven't seen anything, yet. The fun really starts when the Dems balk at his plans, once they realize what a zero he is.
Obama send his goons and thugs to put Republicans in the bullseye. Bloody battle results at Ten o’clock news.
Someone look in the Politico/MSM archives and see how many times they used the phrase “Dems defy Bush overtures”.
I’m stuned at the amount of waste in this porker,fire back with a line by line cost. I’ll chip in for the ad.
But they did not peel off a single Republican.
I'm guessing that this was for a personal description of "Chicago Style Politics" by the experts. "Convert or your district will be left without any stimulus and you will never get another earmark. Your constituents will vote Democrat or die of starvation and unemployment,"
Rush is actually answering my question.
Basically they wanted at least 1 republican so they could claim Obama is the great uniter and got bipartisan support. But instead just the opposite happened...the vote AGAINST the bill was bipartisan with Rats and Republicans voting against it.
$800B to create 4M jobs that will vanish as soon as the money is spent. Quite the bargain..
Your math qualifies you for a position in the Pelosi budgeting committee.
(hint - you’re off by a factor of ten.)
I just called both of my Dem Senators, Kohl & Feingold. I know they’re Rats, but I think calling Dem Senators is a good idea too.
I’m sure Chrissy Matthews wishes Obama would play “Hardball”.
EXACTLY!!!
bump
This math mistake is getting made EVERY SINGLE F’IN DAY and it is driving me nuts that it is not being corrected/caught before I have to read it.
The 800 billion isn’t even all spent on job creation. If it was they would spend two hundred thousand dollars per job.
800 billion divided by 4 million = two hundred thousand
Ah, I guess Obama’s Narcissism is one fact I hadn’t factored in. He truly believes his way is the only way and will not “brook dissension”. But I’m not so sure the rest of the Dem’s have quite the level of narcissism that Obama has. If they push the Republican Senators very hard, maybe they’ll even find their backbone.
Math mistakes = Public Schools. I went to one, so I now know to check my math carefully, and use spell checker!
Math is hard.
None. There were 255 Democrats in Congress - 244 voted yes and 11 voted no. There are 178 Republicans and 177 voted no. Two seats are vacant. Only holdout appears to be Republican.
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