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Sen. Corker puts Hold on Porklus vote
CNN | 2/13/09

Posted on 02/13/2009 4:18:09 AM PST by pabianice

Per the crawl this morning on CNN, Sen. Corker has put a Hold on Porkuls, stating that he wants a chance to read it before voting. Bill has reportedly swollen from 800 to 1,500 pages as Dems keep putting-back everything the Senate removed.

Saw crawl as I was watching news about the ColganAir crash at 5:00AM.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cutit; itsamonster; porkulus; porky; stopit
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To: TnGOP
Come on, Senator Corker!

I would like to think he actually wants to read it, but given his antics on the bank bailout last fall, this is more likely Builder Bob grandstanding (again) for a little spotlight time...

21 posted on 02/13/2009 4:48:09 AM PST by Thermalseeker (Government is not the solution to the problem. Government IS the problem - Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: spectre

Which is exactly why they’ll push it through today.


22 posted on 02/13/2009 4:48:15 AM PST by grobdriver (Let the embeds check the bodies!)
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To: Raycpa

...I love the smell of sarcasm in the morning...


23 posted on 02/13/2009 4:49:12 AM PST by gargoyle (...Don't bring shotguns to UFO sightings, let the aliens land, they might be here to pick me up...)
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To: pabianice

As I recall, the three Prostitutes said they’d not sign along unless it was made smaller and certain parts of the bill were dropped. They were. Now it’s all being put back; so will our 3 Hookers announce they will not sign after all???


24 posted on 02/13/2009 4:51:28 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
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To: chpmass

I made a joke the other day about everybody having to carry around a little book like Chairman Mao used to required and darned if the next day or two I didn’t read about some little book of obamaisms.


25 posted on 02/13/2009 4:53:09 AM PST by gthog61
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To: pabianice

I think we should start a petition that they allow the public to read the whole bill and not vote until they have disclosed the package we are paying for!!!

They had the Obama network during the elections.....lets open it up with this outrageous bill and reveal all its projects!!!!


26 posted on 02/13/2009 4:55:24 AM PST by Texas4ever (God is Good!)
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To: Thermalseeker

...Yea, they’re all suspect, but, I always like to here those words, “WAIT A MINUTE!”...


27 posted on 02/13/2009 4:56:32 AM PST by gargoyle (...Don't bring shotguns to UFO sightings, let the aliens land, they might be here to pick me up...)
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To: chpmass

Even Greta was telling Newt last night that she thought it was very arrogant of Barry to compare himself to Abe Lincoln after three weeks in the White House.


28 posted on 02/13/2009 4:56:43 AM PST by Miss Didi ( "After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: savedbygrace
I look forward to seeing “It’s dead, Jim,” being posted...

I do too, but with a different pronoun.

29 posted on 02/13/2009 4:58:14 AM PST by Salvey
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To: Miss Didi

I thought Clinton was a narcissist, but I think Barry has him beat.


30 posted on 02/13/2009 5:00:12 AM PST by chpmass
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To: newfreep

The opportunity for the filibuster evaporated with the Snow-Collins-Specter defection. There is no such opportunity for the vote on the final bill.


31 posted on 02/13/2009 5:01:35 AM PST by Inkie (Attn Dems: Loose Lips Sink Ships -- but hey, I guess that's your goal))
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To: pabianice

What are We The People going to do if it passes?

Its already been shown for the most part it will not make any improvement in the job market anytime soon and I personally do not want my children and their children paying for this.

All the more reason to remove Obama, its time to put up or shut up about him even being legally eligible to sign this bill.

Or have we forgotten?

And we need to protect those that are fighting to expose the fraud in the Whitehouse, like Orly Taitz.

Overall our efforts are too soft, we are not pushing the boundary of free speech. We must acknowledge the fact that we must cross the line.


32 posted on 02/13/2009 5:02:03 AM PST by Eye of Unk (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! SA)
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To: pabianice

Could this possibly be the same guy people around here were calling a RINO POS TRAITOR for voting, “Aye” on the cloture vote?


33 posted on 02/13/2009 5:02:59 AM PST by Cedric
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To: Eye of Unk

Don’t you realize how important that $4.5 Billion (With a Capital ‘B’!) dollars for ACOORN’s Capital Infrastructure is???

I mean, the Democratic Party NEEDS that money, and they need it NOW! Just think how many generations of patronage they can buy with that!!

Limos and gold-plated bathrooms for community organizers cost a LOT of money, doncha know!


34 posted on 02/13/2009 5:09:44 AM PST by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Specter's doing what he's always done (and gotten reelected for it).

Prospects are much better for “turning” some Dems from Red states.

{Pryor, Lincoln, Tester, Baucus, Dorgan, Nelson, Nelson, and others}

35 posted on 02/13/2009 5:10:11 AM PST by Cedric
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To: chpmass
I thought Clinton was a narcissist, but I think Barry has him beat.

By leaps and bounds. It's all about being able to stand in front of the presidential podium - nothing more. Because there is nothing to more to the man

36 posted on 02/13/2009 5:11:05 AM PST by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: pabianice
just prolonging the inevitable...
the bill will be passed with our without the GOP.

And we'll be paying for this “Pig” for decades!

37 posted on 02/13/2009 5:11:21 AM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: Thermalseeker

He may just be jealous that Snowe and Specter are getting more pork. Tennessee didn’t get a lot of junk from the stimulus - Maybe Reid and Pelosi will offer him a few billion for the state to NOT read it!


38 posted on 02/13/2009 5:12:22 AM PST by TnGOP (Petey the dog is my foriegn policy advisor. He's really quite good!)
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To: gargoyle
..Yea, they’re all suspect, but, I always like to here those words, “WAIT A MINUTE!”...

True and I'll be the first to stand up an applaud my Senator if those are indeed his motivations. However, after thirty some odd years of following politics I've become very cynical, particularly with Senators. I watch what they do, not what they say....and that goes double for Builder Bob....

39 posted on 02/13/2009 5:13:16 AM PST by Thermalseeker (Government is not the solution to the problem. Government IS the problem - Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: Eye of Unk
What are We The People going to do if it passes?

You're gonna get effed, just like the people of Chicago were effed by Mayor Daley selling the parking meter franchise to some foreign company for the next 6 or more decades. He needed quick cash to pump for the Olympics. So, gee, now we've been informed that that foreign company is raising parking meter rates ALL OVER THE CITY (where in many places it was 25 cents/hour, 8AM to 9PM or earlier) to between $2 and $3.50 per hour TWENTY FOUR HOURS A DAY.
40 posted on 02/13/2009 5:13:39 AM PST by aruanan
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