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McConnell on the $410 Billion Omnibus Spending Bill
http://mcconnell.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=308937&start=1 ^ | Monday, March 2, 2009

Posted on 03/02/2009 1:28:55 PM PST by cc2k

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“There is no reason for us to rush through this massive bill when the White House has already promised that it won’t sign it without the requisite five-day review.
I wasn't aware of this promise. Seems like if the government will shut down after March 6, that would be an "emergency" and the White House wouldn't wait 5 days. Heck, someone might read it in those 5 days and find something objectionable. They couldn't have that.


“So I would suggest as we begin this debate that the House prepare a short-term Continuing Resolution. There is no reason for either the Senate or the American people to feel artificially rushed, particularly on a bill of this magnitude.
I have a better suggestion. Let's move on to the 2010 Budget. Pass a continuing resolution/spending freeze through September 30, 2009. That way you can move forward to the 2010 Appropriations bills which are going to be difficult enough to get done by September 30.
1 posted on 03/02/2009 1:28:55 PM PST by cc2k
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To: cc2k
And that means slowing down before we spend another $410 billion

Might I suggest you take your lead from our president. Apply some good old Chicago "persuasion" to Sens. Snowe, Collins and Specter. Otherwise, you have no chance of slowing it down.

2 posted on 03/02/2009 1:33:17 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: cc2k

Sounds like more wishy-washy crap from McConnell. Sick of that guy. How about saying you’re going to fight to kill this bill and will do everything you can stop it?


3 posted on 03/02/2009 1:33:42 PM PST by exist
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McConnell “I recommended several times to the President and to Democrat leaders in Congress that we move the Omnibus before the Stimulus”

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Sorry buddy, but for Democrats that might mean funding the Police Department before funding frivolous pork barrel spending


4 posted on 03/02/2009 1:33:49 PM PST by Son House (National Disasters Will Be Devastating Since Mr. Øbama's Spending Will Erode First Response Funding)
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To: cc2k

Do you I see a shadow of a spine in the cat scan of McConnell? Or is it just a smudge on the viewing screen?


5 posted on 03/02/2009 1:34:35 PM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: cc2k

Democrats want to run over the child in the road.
Republicans only want the car to slow down.
Rush wants the dems to fail (in trying to kill the kid)
Steele looks at it all and attacks.....Rush.

Sigh........


6 posted on 03/02/2009 1:35:27 PM PST by icwhatudo
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To: icwhatudo

Great post! That is a keeper!


7 posted on 03/02/2009 1:42:02 PM PST by eleni121 (EN TOUTO NIKA!! + In this sign Conquer! +)
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To: cc2k

I really don’t see what all the fuss is about. They had no problem voting on Porkulus that was twice this amount. Hell they voted on it and never read it. I have no respect for any of them. They are all idiots. If I had been in the Senate when they asked me to vote when I hadn’t read it, I would have walked out and started hitting the media outlets.


8 posted on 03/02/2009 1:43:39 PM PST by mojitojoe (None are more hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free.)
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To: exist

I am sick of the entire repubic leadership and FReepers that take up for their sorry a$$e$!!!

LLS


9 posted on 03/02/2009 1:45:59 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!)
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To: icwhatudo

Ditto!


10 posted on 03/02/2009 1:48:25 PM PST by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: icwhatudo

Steele has targeted a friend and now made him an adversary.
Michael Steele, set your own course and re-establish our party ON REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES and don’t pick fights with friends.


11 posted on 03/02/2009 1:52:55 PM PST by Rapscallion (Put the bankers, financers, lenders, appraisers, and politicians in jail. Impoverish them.)
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To: Rapscallion

Have you emailed Steele at chairman@gop.org and told him?


12 posted on 03/02/2009 1:55:50 PM PST by Ikemeister
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To: Ikemeister

Telling him right now. Thanks.


13 posted on 03/02/2009 2:00:54 PM PST by Rapscallion (Put the bankers, financers, lenders, appraisers, and politicians in jail. Impoverish them.)
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To: Ikemeister
My email to the RNC (Steele):

Are you crazy?!!!!! With your attacks on Rush, you can count on me sending money to the RNC. immediately after hell freezes over!

14 posted on 03/02/2009 2:38:48 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012!)
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To: Ikemeister
Here's what I got from the email I sent:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
chairman@gop.org

Maybe they've gotten so many emails, the system crashed.

15 posted on 03/02/2009 3:11:09 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012!)
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To: Bushbacker1

Got the same email.


16 posted on 03/02/2009 3:14:07 PM PST by Shady Ray
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To: All

ON THE INTERNET:

ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/SCHIP_Public_Review/

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR00002:@@@R


17 posted on 03/02/2009 3:26:32 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

SHUT THE FREAKIN GOVERNMENT DOWN!!!

As for McConnells spine...just a shadow or a smudge...there is nothing there in any of them...move on, nothing to see here.


18 posted on 03/02/2009 4:26:12 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Get the bats and light the hay)
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Thanks Mitch, but you don’t really care about spending. If you did, you would have been against it when it was Republicans spending. Now you are good and truly screwed, as is the country, because you and your fellow Republicans chose party over principles.


19 posted on 03/02/2009 4:31:48 PM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Cindy
Maybe I'm confused, but I'll ask anyway.

What do those links have to do with the topic of this thread?

20 posted on 03/02/2009 4:39:52 PM PST by cc2k (When less than half the voters pay taxes, it's called "taxation without representation.")
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