Posted on 03/05/2009 10:14:11 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Pelosi on spending bill: Take it or leave it By Mike Soraghan Posted: 03/05/09 12:57 PM [ET] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed that if any changes are made to the omnibus spending bill in the Senate, she thinks Congress should scrap the effort and pass a continuing resolution to cover spending for the rest of the year.
“That is the plan,” Pelosi said at her weekly news conference today. “If we started to open up that package, the changes would be endless.”
Pelosi said the $410 billion omnibus spending bill was negotiated on a bipartisan basis before it was introduced this year, so it shouldn’t be changed.
The Senate is set to vote Friday morning on cloture for the bill, which has been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats for the 9,000 earmarks it contains.
ewww Nancy has her panties all knotted up
Newsmax just published a list of the top 20 earmarkers in the omnibus bill. Read em and weep.
1. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. — $122.80 million.
2. Richard Shelby, R-Ala. — $114.48 million.
3. Kit Bond, R-Mo. — $85.69 million.
4. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. — $77.90 million.
5. Thad Cochran, R-Miss. — $75.91 million.
6. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska — $74 million.
7. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa — $66.86 million.
8. James Inhofe, R-Okla. — $53.13 million.
9. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. — $51.19 million.
10. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii — $46.38 million.
11. Patty Murray, D-Wash. — $39.22 million.
12. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. — $36.55 million.
13. Pat Leahy, D-Vt. — $36.16 million.
14. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. — $35.58 million.
15. Robert Casey, D-Pa. — $27.17 million.
16. Harry Reid, D-Nev. — $26.63 million.
17. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. — $25.32 million.
18. Herb Kohl, D-Wis. — $23.83 million.
19. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. — $21.96 million.
20. Pete Domenici, R-N.M. (Retired) — $19.56 million.
Hillary looks sane in comparison to the totalitarian hystrionic psychopath Pelosi.
If we started to open up that package, the changes would be endless.”.....
NO! you damn GAS BAG!....the changes would cut YOUR pork!!
Well, Ms. Emperess — We don’t want it, and we don’t want YOU. Why don’t you take your ‘Let them eat cake’ attitude back to the sordid hills of San Fran and glory in the muck there.
Who elected YOU Queen?
if the wusspublicans had any brains at all (a stretch to be sure) they would continue to unanimously oppose everything the demholes do. Do non give them the perceived cover of “bipartisanship”. Unfortunatelt, the msmwhores will portray them as the party of no, and it will hurt their feelings, and they’ll cave.
I wouldn't have a problem with a four year continuing resolution - at least things wouldn't get worse except for the emergency bills.
The sad part of this statement is that it's probably true - A rarity for Pelosi.
The Reps probably have their usual 40% quota of earmarks in it, about the same % as their numbers. Further indication to me of the absence of any real differences between the Dems and some RINOs.
This is why Kit Bond supports it...glad to see him leave
Six of the top ten are Republicans. Sickening. That’s at least 6 GOP votes to pass it as is.
“Pelosi on spending bill: Take it or leave it”
Leave it, witch.
“Our children and grandchildren can’t afford this level of spending. And they will be the ones left to pay off the federal government credit card that Democrats in Congress are busy maxing out.”
What a laugh.
Pelousy is such a nitwit; she nearly defies description.
These humongous spending bills have gotten the attention of the public, and the public is getting pi$$ed. The conservatives need to keep beating this drum...let people know that the DhimmiRats own the whole shebang (along with a few liberal RINO’s who should switch parties).
It’s time to take back the country.
That would be “Number 9 on the Porkbarrel top 25” Mitch McConnell?
LEAVE IT! Like the stinking pile of THEIVING that it is!
Ditto on both Accounts: Leave It, Witch!
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