Posted on 02/06/2009 1:30:49 PM PST by MaestroLC
Edited on 02/06/2009 1:40:54 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
bttt
Tnx for the #s—bump for the children
I hope this bill fails on Sunday night, so I can short the Dow minis.
These are the 10 Leading Economic Indicators from The Conference Board:
1. Average number of initial applications for unemployment insurance 2. Number of manufacturers’ new orders for consumer goods and materials 3. Speed of delivery of new merchandise to vendors from suppliers 4. Amount of new orders for capital goods unrelated to defense 5. Amount of new building permits for residential buildings 6. The S&P 500 stock index 7. Inflation-adjusted money supply (M2) 8. Spread between long and short interest rates (the yield curve) 9. Consumer sentiment 10. Average weekly hours worked by manufacturing workers
Any stimulus package and/or Government practices that don’t drive these items in 2009 won’t lead us out of the recession in 2009.
Josh Stull, Josh_stull@specter.senate.gov, 202-224-6598
Alex J. Halper, Alex_Halper@specter.senate.gov.
Washington DC Arlen Specter 202-224-4254, 202-228-1229
711 Hart Senate Office Building SH-711
Hold their feet to the fire. These RINOs need to know how their constituents feel about Porkulus Maximus and should be afraid of the voter’s wrath when they come up for re-election.
Current make-up of the Senate is 56 D, 2 Ind (Lieberman and Sanders), 41 R plus one disputed (MN).
Both Lieberman and Sanders caucus with the Democrats and will slavishly vote with them -- giving the D's 58 votes (including Teddy K).
But, to gain cloture, the Dems need 60 votes. Meaning, as you posed, they need at least two R's...plus Kennedy.
Lieberman might not vote for it.
As a respectful tribute to Dear Leader, that is exactly what the Repubs should do from now on. Let the Dems own every bit of their destruction of America.
Come on Reps. Do the right thing. Make the Democrats own this whole. Whether the vote passes or fails, make them own it. And take as much flesh out of of them and Obama as you can in the process. Make the cost of this to their political careers more then the cost of this package.
Imagine if McCain had chosen Lieberman as his running mate and Sarah had remained in Alaska completely unknown and probably never to be a national figure.
As I mentioned before wouldn’t it be ironic that McCain could eventually be responsible for the resurrection of Reagan conservatism and the Republican party? God does have an interesting sense of humor.
And put the heat on red state dems like montana, dakota, arkansas, louisina, nebraska, alaska
Judd Gregg has said he won’t be voting while his aappointment is pending. Of course on cloture no vote is as good as a ‘no’ vote, so that is ok.
I emailed all 3, every little bit helps
Bribing a couple of RINO’s to vote yes on Porkulus does not make a “bipartisan” effort.
If this bill goes through, we all ought to call up every senator and tell them our dependent status will be maxed out so that OUR TAXES won’t GO FOR THIS PORK CRAPOLA!
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