[null and void]

I’m shocked. not

[Badeye]

‘How many Senate RINOs will go along with this?’

Three for sure, probably four when Voinovich changes his weak mind as he usually does on such things.

[Man50D]

And yet Collins, Snowe and Specter continue to support them.

[reagandemocrat]

Time for the Republicans to “cut and run” from Porkulus.

[b4its2late]

Of course. But I am kind of shocked they didn’t let a token RINO in at the very least.

[null and void]

"How many Senate RINOs will go along with this? Probably, just enough for the Dems to get away with it."

I have a theory. Three republicans will go along with every single democrat power grab.

It will be a different three on each bill, so no single RINO can be singled out.

The fist, uh, fix is in...

[FortWorthPatriot]

Why doesn’t somebody just kick in the f’ng door?!? I am so sick and tired of this weakling crap. Somebody up there needs to get their head and ass wired together and start making noise!

[joe fonebone]

I think the next thing to do is for all republican members in the house and senate ( if Chairman Steele removes the rino traitors in the senate )just stay home on that day, and not even show up.......

[anniegetyourgun]

When are we going to stop ruminating on the obvious and get on to talking about what we’re going to do when this passes?

[Tarpon]

The time is near ... Who heard Glen Beck this AM? Then you know.

[autumnraine]

They have gotten ridiculously bold.

I feel so helpless. I think I know what the people in the lifeboats felt like watching the Titanic sink.

[Mangia E Statti Zitto]

This looks like a completely boneheaded move. Why not let those three in? They’ll be so impressed with being “in the room” that they’ll go along with anything.

I know it sounds so conspiratorial, but are the Dems HOPING this mess will fail?

[Cboldt]

The Speaker appointed conferees: Obey, Rangel, Waxman, Lewis (CA), and Camp.

The Acting President pro tempore appointed Mr. Inouye, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Reid of Nevada, Mr. Cochran, and Mr. Grassley conferees on the part of the Senate.

[an amused spectator]

Hey, only 45% of the American people supported the Republican party in the last election, so why should they be represented at all?

[Drango]

change

[kcvl]

Let's target Susan Collins...

Washington, D.C. Office (202) 224-2523

"When MSNBC asked Collins how she would react to the restoration of the House spending plan, she replied, “The Democrats will lose my vote.”

Similar remarks by Specter prompted House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), not known for his bellicosity, to fire back at his weekly pen-and-pad session with reporters: “I’m shocked that any senator of any party would say this is the bill we passed, take it or leave it.”

[Zeddicus]

Does this not qualify as “tyranny of the majority”?

Didn’t our founders have an opinion on this?

[TomGuy]

Republicans have caught the Democrats in a midnight “stimulus” power play that seeks to cut Republican conferees out of the House-Senate negotiations

Sort of what the House Republican did when they were drafting the medicare prescription bill -- they invited insurance and drug company reps in but refused admittance to the House Dems.

It's called payback. That's what happens when you squander your leadership and become the minority party.

[patriotspride]

Tell Pence we appreciate his straightforward manner, and keeping his eye on the ball.

He did a great job on MTP the other day.

My take, the Dems are working out their own internal problems and don’t want any Reps in the room to see how this “united party” is really a bunch of egocentric fools.

[Don Corleone]

Can you say,”Coup d’etat?”