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Commentary: Stimulus bill a sorry spectacle
CNN ^ | Feb 17, 2009 | Jack Cafferty

Posted on 02/17/2009 6:56:43 AM PST by bergmeid

NEW YORK (CNN) -- What a joke. Your Congress has voted to spend almost $790 billion of your money on a stimulus package that not a single member of either chamber has read.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: stimulus

1 posted on 02/17/2009 6:56:43 AM PST by bergmeid
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To: bergmeid

Dow down 250+ now.


2 posted on 02/17/2009 7:01:59 AM PST by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: bergmeid

Now the idiots are waking up to the fact that they just elected a congress and and a niave chicago street thug who knows zero about anything. 2012 can not come soon enough.


3 posted on 02/17/2009 7:02:12 AM PST by 82ndABNOfficer
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To: bergmeid; All

Welcome to reality, Mr. Cafferty. Nice to see you here. Won’t be pleasant.


4 posted on 02/17/2009 7:03:02 AM PST by quesney
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To: bergmeid

One Bad Assed Mistake America

So far, we have an anemic stimulus bill and some sort of vague proposal from the
secretary of the Treasury to deal with the banking crisis -- a proposal that landed
with a thud last week -- as the two first steps toward solving a financial crisis that
is threatening to take down the country.

Obama better step up his game, or it's going to be a short four years in office.

5 posted on 02/17/2009 7:06:19 AM PST by Zakeet (Grow your own dope. Plant a liberal.)
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To: bergmeid

Jack supported nObama many many times on CNN. Jack owns him now and as nObama screws up we need to hold Jack accountable too.


6 posted on 02/17/2009 7:11:02 AM PST by joinedafterattack
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To: bergmeid

Note to Reid and Pelosi: You are about to be thrown under the bus by Obama. Convenient scapegoats when this stimulates nothing but a massive stock selloff.

From Cafferty’s article:

“It’s really too bad President Obama couldn’t figure out a way to jettison these two who are poster children for everything that is wrong in Washington. The Associated Press called the birth of the stimulus bill “sausage making” in the best tradition of Washington politics as usual”


7 posted on 02/17/2009 7:11:07 AM PST by 1curiousmind (Freedom and FreeMarket - R.I.P.)
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To: bergmeid

Democrats will always be Democrats and milk the productive in society.

The ones who are to squarely blame are the three GOP traitors Snowe, Collins and Specter. These are the ones who abandoned party principles and were the only GOP in both houses of congress who went along with Sausage making, Democrat style.


8 posted on 02/17/2009 7:12:03 AM PST by bestintxas (It's great in Texas)
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To: Zakeet

Love the graphic.

Obama better can the doom and gloom language. He needs to hit a positive note. Of course, he is so filled with leftist bile that is not likely.


9 posted on 02/17/2009 7:15:15 AM PST by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: bergmeid
It's really too bad President Obama couldn't figure out a way to jettison these two who are poster children for everything that is wrong in Washington.

I don't buy this effort to paint Obama as the "moderate" who was betrayed by Pelosi and Reid. Obama is very happy that his ACORN buddies are funded for further voter fraud and shakedowns.

Still, I'm glad to see that some in the MSM are starting to bash the Dems in congress and mildly disapprove of Obama.

10 posted on 02/17/2009 7:15:23 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (I want to "Buy American" but the only things for sale made in the USA are politicians)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Great point. Dems are blaming Reid and Pelnazi and making nObama to be a moderate, leaving him out of the blame.


11 posted on 02/17/2009 7:18:42 AM PST by joinedafterattack
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To: bergmeid

Most of the those who commented, on CNN’s site mind you, seemed to agree with the sentiments of this article. One Obamabot poster basically said, if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all, lol. A few others stopped short of blaming Obama, but most think the stimulus is a bad idea. Maybe people are waking up.


12 posted on 02/17/2009 7:21:20 AM PST by chickpundit
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Re: Jack Cafferty

How did this sorry crotchety old bastard become the sage of news at CNN? He doesn’t like the right except when he agrees with them - which appears to be often.


13 posted on 02/17/2009 7:25:58 AM PST by relictele
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To: bergmeid

Cafferty wrote this? Someone wake me up.


14 posted on 02/17/2009 7:29:16 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
LOL! I had to do a double take too.

I can't stand this guy. He is part of the Marxist MSM who jammed this pos Obummer down our throats.

15 posted on 02/17/2009 7:49:17 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (WELCOME TO THE OBAMANATION!!!!! Markets and Marxists Don't Mix!)
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To: bergmeid

16 posted on 02/17/2009 7:51:37 AM PST by BAW (Social Security needs a bailout.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Cafferty wrote this?

Even Cafferty has to sober up once in a while.

17 posted on 02/17/2009 8:03:03 AM PST by surely_you_jest
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To: SoFloFreeper
Cafferty wrote this? Someone wake me up.

Nawww....he's still carrying the Dems water...he's just trying to give obama an out for this travesty...he's still a libtard...

18 posted on 02/17/2009 9:22:31 AM PST by Getsmart64
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