Posted on 02/07/2009 7:17:42 PM PST by tobyhill
Until Friday, President Obama's plea for bipartisanship support of his costly plan for stimulating the economy mostly had fallen on deaf GOP ears, but that changed when three Republican moderates pledged their support.
In doing so, Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Pennsylvania's Sen. Arlen Specter risked drawing the wrath of their fellow Republicans and of some constituents
The trio's support is expected to give Democrats the 60 votes needed in the Senate to advance to a final vote on the $827 billion stimulus bill next week -- and ultimately push the controversial mix of massive spending and tax cuts over the finish line.
Collins said she broke ranks with her party because of the progress congressional negotiators had made on the bill.
"Well, I know that some of my Republican colleagues are unhappy with the position that I've taken," Collins told FOX News on Saturday. "I hope they will look at the fact that we were able to cut $110 billion of unnecessary spending from this bill. I think that's a good accomplishment. I also think that it's important that we do pass a stimulus bill to help turn the economy around."
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Those three should have been backlashed a long time ago.
Throw the traitors out of the GOP. They are not worthy of their offices.
You Bet-Ya they will have a Backlash. Possibly whiplash too.
Rush has promised to call them out at the next primary, and support the Repub running against them in the primaries. This could be a long couple of years to get to the 2010 elections!
That’s exactly what I stated in an email to all three.
That was Sean Hannity, no? Rush has been on vacation.
I'm already lashing back. Emails today, phone calls and hand writen letters to follow.
It was pretty scary hearing Senators today saying they couldn’t believe they were being expected to pass the largest spending bill in US history when they haven’t even been given a copy to read yet.
Even if someone were a Democrat this should be pretty disturbing.
“Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Pennsylvania’s Sen. Arlen Specter risked drawing the wrath of their fellow Republicans and of some constituents”
And they have it. Get them the heck out of the party!
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Collins didn’t rule out the possibility of changing her mind after Senate and House negotiators work out the differences between the bills approved by the two bodies.
“It’s important we get this bill to the president’s desk as soon as possible,” she told FOX News. “But if the bill that comes back to the Senate from the conference committee is once again bloated with wasteful spending and it’s too expensive, then I’ll vote against it.”
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A window? Keep up the pressure!
Maybe Sean . . .I’ve been listening to so much talk radio lately I get them mixed up!
Bwaahahahaahaha ... good to see you haven’t lost your sense of humor in the midst of this Marxist debacle.
I heard Sean say that. I don’t think that Rush would go to that extent. He generally wouldn’t commit himself to campaigning for or against anyone.
The wrath of SOME constituents? I’ve been trying to call Snarlin Arlen for 2 days now; yesterday I couldn’t get through (busy signal ALL DAY), and today, his “voice mailbox is full”. I would say he was deluged with phone calls; I call that wrath from a lot more than “some.
With traitors like this, they may as well be ‘Rats. Let’s hope the GOP refuses to let them run as Republicans when their terms expire.
There’s alot more than a little ‘backlash’ at stake. More like the economic destruction of our Republic.
Cutting 100 Billion dollars sounds like a lot of money until you look and see that it leaves 800 billion on thee table.
Is Collins stupid enough to believe cutting ten percent off this bill is a great success for her and her idiot triumphirate of Republican RINO traitors? The Dems will just add it in later.
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