Senate Cloture motion on $1 Trillion pork bill passes, 61-36 [FTR: Senator Corker DOESN'T support it

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[jessduntno]

Just reported...

[ABQHispConservative]

I wouldn’t either, but as a symbolic vote, let Martinez take it. He is not running for reelection and you can bet that this vote will be used against Corker in the future. It just seems like a dumb thing to do. I mean, did he draw the short straw or something.

[Yosemitest]

Pray Psalms 109 with Corker, Collins, Snowe, and Specter in mind.

Maybe God will call them home immediately.

David's Prayer in Psalms 109:
Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me:
they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
They compassed me about also with words of hatred;
and fought against me without a cause.
For my love
they are my adversaries:
but I give myself unto prayer.
And they have rewarded me
evil for good,
and hatred for my love.

Set thou a wicked man over him:

and let Satan stand at his right hand.
When he shall be judged,
let him be condemned:
and let his prayer become sin.
Let his days be few;
and let another take his office.
Let his children be fatherless,
and his wife a widow.
Let his children be continually vagabonds,
and beg:
let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;
and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him:
neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
Let his posterity be cut off;
and in the generation following
let their name be blotted out.
Let the iniquity of his fathers
be remembered with the LORD;
and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Let them be before the LORD continually,
that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy,
but persecuted the poor and needy man,
that he might even slay the broken in heart.
As he loved cursing,
so let it come unto him:
as he delighted not in blessing,
so let it be far from him.
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment,
so let it come into his bowels
like water, and like oil into his bones.
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him,
and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD,
and of them that speak evil against my soul.

But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord,

for thy name's sake:
because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
For I am poor and needy,
and my heart is wounded within me.
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:
I am tossed up and down as the locust.
My knees are weak through fasting;
and my flesh faileth of fatness.
I became also a reproach unto them:
when they looked upon me
they shaked their heads.
Help me, O LORD my God:
O save me according to thy mercy:
That they may know that this is thy hand;
that thou, LORD, hast done it.
Let them curse, but bless thou:
when they arise, let them be ashamed;
but let thy servant rejoice.
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame,
and let them cover themselves
with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth;
yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor,
to save him from those that condemn his soul.

See Matthew Henry Complete Commentary on
"Set thou a wicked man over him:
and let Satan stand at his right hand"
.

[jessduntno]

“There is still the chance to stop this bill, but it will take a lot of angry phone calls from a lot of angry people to a lot of senators who will be up for reelection in 2010.”

that is my hope...

[KansasGirl]

CORKER DOESN NOT SUPPORT THIS BILL

http://corker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsRoom.NewsReleases&ContentRecord_id=4e1de8d0-06a2-aa69-69a5-3bc8ad1e89cd

[utahson]

I am confident Snowe, Collins and Specter are goimng to vote for the bill but not Corker. He is being malingned because one freeper jumped the gun and posted the thread with the wrong title. In fact, even CNN had the correct title, when the freeper did not.

[meyer]

Lotta hair triggers around here.

Yeah, and I've got my AR-15 magazines taped together in pairs as well. I think that we're all ready for a war these days.

[blam]

MARK YOUR TIME

[Norman Bates]

I stand corrected. Thanks.

[PhiKapMom]

It was a vote for cloture to end the debate. They called it a test vote to see if they had the votes to pass tomorrow. Corker will return to NO after this procedural vote but expect the three traitors to vote with the RATs.

Don’t know if Snowe and Collins have ever voted against cloture ever. Both always want to end debate even when they vote against something. Guess they don’t believe in filibusters. As for Specter, he believes in Scottish Law whatever that is.

[Cboldt]

-- The vote on the bill is tomorrow morning. --

Action starts tomorrow noon. Link to Legislatiive calendar and UC agreements (changes daily).

The Senate agreed to SHORTEN the rules-based 30 hour debate time between invoking cloture and voting on passage.

Ordered further, That if cloture is invoked on the amendment, then post-cloture time run during any recess or adjournment of the Senate on Monday, February 9, 2009; provided, that all post-cloture time be considered expired at 12:00 noon on Tuesday, February 10, 2009.

Ordered further, That on Tuesday, February 10, 2009, after the Senate reconvenes, the time until 12:00 noon be equally divided and controlled between the Leaders or their designees; provided, that if a budget point of order is raised against the amendment, a motion to waive the applicable point of order be considered made; provided further, that if the motion to waive is agreed to, the amendment be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table; further, that if there is no point of order against the amendment, the adoption of the amendment be subject to a 60 vote threshold; further, that upon disposition of the amendment, the bill, as amended, be read a third time, and the Senate then proceed to vote on passage of the bill.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

They have to know we are so angry we are willing to go to the mat. What would be the effect of a day without consumer spending? If we could organize and set aside a day (or days) that we spent nothing?

I don’t know if it is practical or of it would be enough to get their attention.

Thoughts anyone?

[utahson]

I have been reading the whole thread. Since the time you posted it.

[Hanna548]

Where in the bill is there money going to Acorn? Man that is a sour grape on a pile of rotten apples:(

[castlebrew]

WE need to hold all funding from the RNC (and every related subsidiary), until these morons are out the door...

[PhiKapMom]

Corker is against the stimulus package. This was a procedural vote repeated over and over again before some of you go off the deepend and bombard his office.

[Hanna548]

Agree!

[kabar]

You have it right. The Reps only chance to stop this bill was to stop cloture. Failing that, the bill just needs 50 votes to pass and it will. No amendments will be allowed before tomorrow’s vote. Elections have consequences. The Dems control Congress and the WH. They will get what they want. They only need Reps to share the blame. Any success will credited to the Dems.

[OafOfOffice]

What the heck is a test vote?

It means they want to see if Ted Kennedy is needed for the final vote. I see they got him in there. For some reason I would think, if a man has a brain tumor and cannot drive, or work, maybe he shouldn't be making important legislative decisions for the country? Just a thought.

But I digress, he is just as aware as any other marxist democrat voting.

[dixiedarlindownsouth]

I think that's what needs to happen. They need to beg for crumbs from the new messiah’s table in the next election. They are traitors..not just to the party but to the United States of America.

[KarlInOhio]

Corker vote was a procedural manuver...

What was the maneuver?

I think that a person on the winning side of a vote can say "Oops. I meant to vote no." and call for another vote.