Posted on 02/07/2009 9:00:50 AM PST by RatsDawg
Live debate senate floor on now...
(Excerpt) Read more at c-span.org ...
Somebody on our side better set the record straight on the CBO!
Correct....the Anti-American President calls the only patriots left in this country....traitors.
May he burn in hell, after he is hanged by the neck.....
Kerry kept trying to interrupt Kyl
Yup, and now he is praising tax cuts!
Oh great not HER!
NM! Sessions up now!
NM! Sessions up now!
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003027327
Specter’s Stance on Stimulus Carries Risks
By Bart Jansen, CQ Staff
As Democratic Senate leaders hailed the stimulus compromise reached with three Republicans, the political peril for at least one of them — Arlen Specter — was obvious.
“There are material risks in the position I’m taking, which may well impact a primary. Those thoughts have not escaped my attention,” Specter said following a breakthrough Friday evening. “My duty is to follow my conscience and vote what I think is in the best interests of the county. The political risks will have to abide.”
The Pennsylvania Republican is running for re-election in 2010 and represents a swing state, where he faced primary challengers in each of his four previous elections. The closest call came in 2004, when then-Rep. Patrick J. Toomey came within two percentage points.
Specter, who typically takes more conservative stances for primaries before steering toward the center for the general election, joined Maine Republicans Susan Collins and Olympia J. Snowe on Friday to give Democrats at least 61 votes needed to approve the stimulus (HR 1).
Bracing for a challenge, Specter’s campaign has $5.8 million on hand as of Dec. 31, according to the Federal Election Commission.
As former Judiciary Committee chairman, Specter proved his value to conservative Republicans by shepherding the confirmations of John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court.
But Joseph I. Lieberman , a Connecticut independent who also is backing the compromise stimulus package, said Specter and Collins deserved the Medal of Honor for helping broker the compromise.
“They had the guts to come forward to reach across party lines,” said Lieberman, who frustrated Democratic leaders by campaigning for Republican presidential nominee John McCain . “They have chosen to separate themselves from the Republican caucus because they believe it is in the national interest to do so . . . It’s not easy. It’s often lonely. But the American people will benefit from what they have helped us accomplish here in the Senate tonight.”
Boxer, the wicked witch from the West is up now.
She is incredibly dumb. Shut up, Babs.
Spewing lies!
The same crap we have heard from her the last 8 years.
SHE JUST SAID THE HOUSING CRISIS GOT US IN THIS JAM!
but I thought it was Bush?
CCF, are you her mother?
Is that why you are so compassionate with that brainless, dizzy, moronic boxer of rocks?? ; )
If they’re so worried about the budget they shouldn’t even bring this monstrosity forward.
U. S. House of Representatives
Toll free capital switchboard numbers are:
800-965-4701
800-828-0498
Congress critter ping!
Boxer told she only had 4 minutes. She will take 15 minutes like she said she wanted.
Boxer an economics major????????BAAHAHAHAHAAH..and she thinks this is going to work.
She says Republicans are filibustering ...I thought they had the votes.
Nah...just trying to control my blood pressure. She is my Senator, unfortunately, along with the other wicked witch Feinstein.
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