[AmericanSphinx71]

It's about time! Why wasn't Boehner talking like this when Paulson bailout came to a vote????

[giotto]

Obama first sold us the idea of the Stimulus on the premise that it would be used for repairing and rebuilding America's infrastructure. We immediately thought of the broken bridges and fractured freeways in our cities. Surprise! Only 4% of the 800 billion would be used for those things. The rest? Pork!

So I say we contact our congressmen and demand that, after setting aside the 32 billion for bridges and freeways, the rest should be divided among the 139 million people who filed tax returns in 2007. That comes to about $5525 that each taxpayer would be reimbursed. I know there are many filers who pay no actual tax, or very little. It doesn't matter. Those are the ones who will spend their refunds with the greatest abandon. Even if they merely used it to pay down their credit cards, no matter. The point is that 139 million people would do much less harm with all that money than 535 congressmen padding their pockets and those of their cronies.

[Allegra]

He promised to make tough spending choices in his first budget blueprint — “everyone will have to take a haircut,” he said.

I've never heard this phrase. Is it regional or some Kenyan thing?

Anyway, I'm doubtful that the Republicans have the spine to stand up against this idiotic "stimulation" package.

[Leep]

Maybe the Republicans need to mix things up a little. As in Boehmer stepping aside and allowing someone else a crack at it?

[Arrowhead1952]

KLBJ had Senator Kay B. Hutchison and Rep. John R. Carter on this morning. Both are voting against the respective bills. I haven’t heard what Representative Lamar S. Smith will do, but I expect him to do the same.