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David Obey on stimulus waste: “So what?”
Hot Air ^ | 2:10 pm on February 6, 2009 | Allahpundit

Posted on 02/06/2009 1:01:04 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Via Breitbart, the “logic” of panic as articulated by Congress’s cuddliest Democrat. An even more glorious soundbite than Mitch McConnell’s yardstick for measuring a trillion dollars, I think you’ll agree. But is it more glorious than this?

Recounting a conversation he had with Obama in the Oval Office earlier in the week regarding the economic stimulus bill and other matters, Biden said the two came to the realization that: “If we do everything right… there’s still a 30 percent chance we’re going to get it wrong.”


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; democrats; obama; obey; porkfest; porkulus; stimulus; stimuluswatch
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1 posted on 02/06/2009 1:01:04 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“Gentlemen, we’ve got to do something to protect our phoney-baloney jobs!”


2 posted on 02/06/2009 1:01:59 PM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: Jim Robinson; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; BOBTHENAILER; Marine_Uncle; blam; SunkenCiv; ..

Freaking Unreal....Obey in his own words....


3 posted on 02/06/2009 1:02:57 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

What worthless piles of goat dookie. this guy should be put on a plane tp Kenya or Zimbabwe.


4 posted on 02/06/2009 1:03:43 PM PST by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: dfwgator
And help our families....FR Thread:

Craig Obey (Lobbyist-WI Sen.'s Son) Gets Porkulus Grift For National Parks ($2 Billion=Annual Budgt)

5 posted on 02/06/2009 1:05:11 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: shankbear

That’s too kind...I would send him to one of the Polar regions and give him a blanket and tell himm....no problem ...Global warming is coming!!!


6 posted on 02/06/2009 1:07:09 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

It’s no wonder they’re desperate for “bi-partisan” cover -

they know that this thing won’t work,

and they’re ideologically incapable of doing what will work.


7 posted on 02/06/2009 1:07:34 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Keep talking, Obey... I haven’t seen the public this up in arms since skyscrapers were collapsing.

Hope you and your playmates enjoyed that honeymoon.


8 posted on 02/06/2009 1:09:31 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; fieldmarshaldj

Obey is Nixon’s fault.


9 posted on 02/06/2009 1:11:42 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard; MrB; shankbear
Related thread:

The Fierce Urgency of Pork

by Charles Krauthammer

10 posted on 02/06/2009 1:12:07 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

With Obey’s poorly trimmed ‘beard’ he looks rather like a rat-faced DemocRAT, Socialist Scumbag!


11 posted on 02/06/2009 1:13:51 PM PST by IbJensen (The USA has been failing since Wilson, Take this country back now before it's too late.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

This a$$hole nutjob is an embarrasment to WI. He’s nuttier than Kucinich.


12 posted on 02/06/2009 1:16:44 PM PST by Merlinator (January 20. 2009, A National Day of Mourning)
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To: Impy
I am from Superior, WI. Once I retire from the Navy (Annapolis grad, currently an active duty Commander/jet instructor pilot) in a couple of years, I am going to try and end this guy's stranglehold on the North-woods. It will be tough though because of the welfare mentality of the folks up there, my family included.
13 posted on 02/06/2009 1:19:50 PM PST by ThunderStruck94
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

30% chance they are going to get it wrong? Unfortunately Bambi is even less accurate on national defence than he is on the economy. They are destroying my country, I hate them all!


14 posted on 02/06/2009 1:20:17 PM PST by Merlinator (January 20. 2009, A National Day of Mourning)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Comparable to Marie Antoinette’s famous phrase: “Let them eat cake”?/Just Asking - seoul62........


15 posted on 02/06/2009 1:22:00 PM PST by seoul62
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Stimulus waste - so what?

It is a little like the waste at a slaughterhouse. It all has to be cleaned up, certainly no later than the end of the shift, or it shall surely attract all sorts of vermin.

But knowing the slovenly work habits of our Democrat legislators, they will leave the clean-up for the next shift.


16 posted on 02/06/2009 1:26:49 PM PST by alloysteel (The term "Islam" does not mean "peace", it means "gaining serenity through surrender".)
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To: ThunderStruck94

Good luck Commander.

1994 was his only close race since his initial election in 1969.

Wisconsin went huge for Obama but in 2004 and 2000 the district went for Gore and Kerry by only the thinnest of margins. It can certainly elect a Republican.


17 posted on 02/06/2009 1:30:01 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Typical dem. It’s not ‘his’ money because they don’t pay their taxes.

“Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not
bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic
duty to increase one’s taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is
nothing sinister in
so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it,
rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay
more than the law demands.”

(US Appeals Court Justice the Honourable Learned Hand)


18 posted on 02/06/2009 1:31:01 PM PST by griswold3 (a good story is more compelling than the search for truth)
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To: Impy
I cannot believe he has been in the House for forty years. His GOP predecessor who vacated the seat for the special election, Mel Laird, is still alive. Only won the April 1969 special by less than 4%, a swing of just 2,000 votes would've seen the GOP retain the seat. His last election margin was the lowest since 1998 after some close calls in '94 & '96.
19 posted on 02/06/2009 1:35:29 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
....30 percent chance we’re going to get it wrong.”

There is not even a 5% chance that they will get this right.

They are the problem not the solution. We would be better off if they did nothing.

20 posted on 02/06/2009 1:35:56 PM PST by verklaring (Pyrite is not gold))
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