US Senate approves stimulus plan

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[smallbiz]

The US Senate has passed an economic stimulus plan expected to cost more than $800bn (£541bn).

[cubreporter]

sorry...this deal is over.

[mtdrake]

Today, 10 Feb 09, is the day that the second American Civil War officially started. Tis Time To Part!!!

We are up against the wall, very, very soon all we will have left is to exercise the real reason that there is a second amendment. The stealth socialication of medicine should, but has not, awaken the brainless sheeple. Maybe when their parents and grandparents are left to die in pain because they are too old to receive medical care they will begin to wake up and care. But wait, Amrikan Idol and Survivor are on. Never mind!

[Dead Corpse]

Agreed. However, the Animal House reference is apropos to our current situation.

[WakeUpAndVote]

Now -347.50 That’s %4.2 for the day so far.

Thanks Specter.

[NavyCanDo]

DOW now down -351. Nice stimulating going on, don’t you think?

[rollo tomasi]

Goes to Senate/HOR conference for the final “settlement” of terms. The Senate debates the last and final form of the Bill. In order to end the debate the Senate would need 60 votes again (Specter already said if the Bill grows while in conference he will not vote for cloture the second time around).

[paulycy]

[Antoninus]

Help us!

Help nothing. Enough of our countrymen have fallen for this garbage so that we're getting the kind of government 52% wanted.

This is what happens when conservatives elect Republican leaders who are incapable of articulating and promoting conservatism. If we want our country back, we've got to drive the 5th columnist RINO phonies (Romney, Schwartzenegger, Giuliani, etc.) out of our party and defend those conservatives who can promote our side in a robust and honest way (Palin, Jindal, Sanford).

[ncpatriot]

Can Chairman Steele kick out these RINOs?

[doodad]

No kidding. No one ever went broke overestimating the intelligence of the Amercian people.

[printhead]

I think the Feds have their own health plan, just like they have their own retirement system, which means they’re exempt from the cra* they foist on us.

[smallbiz]

“RINO phonies (Romney, Schwartzenegger, Giuliani, etc.)”

Wrong people. Look and direct your aim at the 3 Senators of doom.

[IrishCatholic]

Steele cannot stop the three from being senators. He can't even strip them of their committee spots. The Republican leadership in the Senate can.
What I have been promoting on other threads I will try and formulate into a post later (My first). However, my elderly father is in the hospital and I won't be on FR much for a couple of days.
Here is the option I would like to see promoted by Freepers.
1. Email and write hard copy letters to the RNC denouncing the actions of Snowe, Specter, and Collins. Ask a response on what will be done for their actions.

2. Copy and send email and snail mail the letter the state Republican Chair of Maine and Pennsylvania and then copy it to each state head. It will only cost a buck or two in stamps.

3. Then, email your letter to each of the state reps all the way down to the county chairman. Copy the letter to their local paper.

You cannot hold the senators accountable by emailing them, they don't care. But when you ask the entire support system for these RINO’s to be accountable, you have created a firestorm that will get their attention as they have to stop their base from throwing them out.

Please, keep your letters free from emotion, invective, and hostility. These can be dismissed by the people receiving them as the work of kooks. Instead be rational.

Here is a good line to take: If massive government spending was good for the economy, if massive centralized planning was good for the economy, if flooding the market with currency was good for the economy, why did the Soviet Union implode? Why isn't East Germany the crown jewel of Western Civilization?
If socialism has failed every single time it has been tried for the past one hundred years, why did these three Republican Senators, who should have known better, think it would work here?

Good luck. I hope you will spread the word on this tactic of getting their attention. I will do this myself on Saturday or Sunday if my father is released from the hospital.

[montesquiue]

Good thoughts. We must not relent on this. I will save your comments for later. Hope your father is better soon!!!

[cubreporter]

Thank you for that explanation. Appreciat it.

[cubreporter]

understood.

[ncpatriot]

We have let down the generations following us.

[spectre]

But..but...didn't Obama tell us we could get the SAME health care that the Senate has?

Did he lie?...