ALERT: "They've Cut A Deal With Three Of Our Guys" [Byron York]

National Review ^

[gogeo]

If the bill is unstoppable, the Republican should add an amendment/provision stating that the bill is not effective unless and until Obama releases his actual birth certificate...

Denial is one of the steps of grieving. It's not a pretty process, best done in private.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Odd, because Republican amendments are being passed.

It doesn't matter. The final amendment will be in the form of a substitute for the entire bill on the floor, wiping out the original bill and all amendmenmts passed up to that point.

[EDINVA]

for what it’s worth I wrote my 2 Dem Senators

[PhiKapMom]

Of the two women from Maine, Collins is the least likely to vote for the stimulus package and thus needs calls like yesterday.

Don’t forget Voinivich who can NEVER be counted on to vote with Republicans.

[acoulterfan]

Specter for sure!

[St. Louis Conservative]

Pick up the phone, FRiend!!

[BobS]

“Tin soldiers & Obama coming....”

That will happen soon enough. If you know what you said. And the timeframe Crosby, Stills and Nash came out with that song.

So far, Obama has pissed off about 10 countries and got about twice that scared as hell.

[acoulterfan]

But is 3 or 4 enough to give Obama the cover he needs??

[CedarDave]

Voinivich I am hearing is the 4th one.

Agree. I got an email from McCain saying he does NOT support the bill. But, of course, he may cave.

[PhiKapMom]

Not even close to being enough cover. The ones voting are the liberal Republicans so IMHO there is no cover for ZERO.

When you get Lindsey Graham and John McCain saying this bill is full of pork and a bad bill, then we have all the Fiscal Conservatives on board which is the vast majority of what is left of Republicans in the Senate.

Should be interesting. I have the Senate telecast on mute as Dodd speaks with his forked tongue.

[Blue Turtle]

Its worth everything...thank you.

[Jenny217]

I called Spector’s Harrisburg office this AM. Been trying the DC office since 9AM. Just got through. Asked how he was voting and got a speech about amendments. Told them that I didn’t care how many strings of pearls they put on this pig, if Specter votes for this bill I will personally campaign against him and I haven’t campaigned for anyone in 30 years.

[mrsmel]

I have got to find and bookmark that study posted here at FR that showed that social conservatives mostly showed up and voted for McCain, it was fiscal conservatives who stayed home (I suppose his support for the first Great American Taxpayers Heist did him in with them).

[PhiKapMom]

My two Senate offices are saying that McCain is fully on board with NO and has petitions going from his PAC that say NO to the current package with all the pork. McCain has never liked pork in bills so this would be one he would easily vote against. The key to me is Lindsey Graham with his take on the bill on the floor of the Senate — spoke volumes and was why I used to really like him.

[dirtymac]

Uh, good point!

[mrsmel]

To the radical partisans bringing America the news it is.

You're correct, with only one R Senate vote they would've spun it as "bipartisan"

[penelopesire]

Me too!

[penelopesire]

Thanks for the great links!

[Thumper1960]

A Haitian necklace?

[skeeter]

Well, this deal Obama’s got the better hand: there’s just no way that it makes political sense for Republican Senators from any but the most conservative states to be standing there for any length of time while Obama’s on national television every night saying “This week we lost another hundred thousand American jobs while we waited for the Senate to act.”

It makes fine political sense to stand against a bill thats as plainly unpopular as this one is.

There's no excuse for any republican to support it.