Posted on 02/11/2009 8:49:10 AM PST by IMissPresidentReagan
Posted on the fly from my phone.
Happy Birthday Governor Palin.
ozero’s fear tactics are telling.
“Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.” —John Adams
Democrat Leaders Hold Midnight Meeting, Freeze GOP out of “Stimulus” Negotiations
In a post here on RedState, Congressman Tom Price (R-GA), chairman of the Republican Study Committee, confirmed reports of the Democrats’ midnight meeting. “Negotiations have already begun under the dark of night,” wrote Price this morning. “In closed room somewhere in the Capitol Building last night, Congressional Democrats and Obama administration officials met with no Republicans present.” (...snip...)
House Democrats haven’t been shy about voicing their intent to use the conference to re-insert a large portion of the spending taken out of the Senate’s compromise bill, which was passed due to support from three Republicans who, apparently and inexplicably, thought Reps. Pelosi and Hoyer (D-MD) would be content to allow pet pork programs to remain on the cutting room floor when presented with the opportunity to reinsert them in conference.
The “stimulus” package passed the House with zero GOP votes (and 11 Democrats voting against), and the Senate with three GOP votes, as Sens. Specter (R-PA), Collins (R-ME), and Snowe (R-ME) gave the nearly $1T package the votes it needed to reach the conference in the first place.
Now that the cuts made in their compromise package are being put back into the bill during midnight meetings that the minority is being entirely excluded from, the best thing the GOP as a whole can do is to vote unanimously against this bill in both houses — and the best thing beyond that for Specter, Snowe, and Collins to do would be to apologize to their fellow Republicans and to the American people for being so naive as to negotiate the resuscitation of this bill when it was on life support in their chamber, only to have every cut they negotiated out of it put right back in by a Democrat majority that never had any more intention of living up to its “compromise” agreements than it did of living up to its own rhetoric about “bipartisanship.”
I hope Pelosi & Co jacks the bill up so much Columns, Snowjob and Sphincter have to punt. It's our only hope.
We should all start calling Kevin Kelley and make sure he knows we do not support Collins
Contact List of ‘Vulnerable’ House Democrats on Porkulus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183247/posts
Republicans Shut Out of Stimulus Conference Negotiations (Defeat Porkulus!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183252/posts
Obama advisers’ Citigroup ties raise questions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183232/posts
U-T Editorial: Policy trickery
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183209/posts
Boortz on Geithner:
SO WHERE WAS THE PART WHERE WE GET A PLAN?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183219/posts
STEALH CARE provisions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183263/posts
F the Constitution alert
D.C. Voting Rights Passed by Senate Committee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183259/posts
Obama White House coordinating 527 attacks on GOP?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183245/posts
The New Washington Press Corps: As Mainstream Media Decline, Niche and Foreign Outlets Grow
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183222/posts
Anyone have video on this?
Maxine Waters goes nuts on TV, cut-off by chairman
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183249/posts
How dare those schitz break into Mrs.S’s car!!
Rush just mentioned the Republicans were frozen out of negotiations. He’s the best! :)
You Go Mike PENCE.
ITS ABOUT DAMN TIME.
THIS IS THE ONLY THING THEY UNDERSTAND.
“The Law Defends Plunder”
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law — which may be an isolated case — is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.
Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
Rush, I hate to say it but the Pubbies don’t have the stones to play politics like the Dems.
I’m sorry, Rush, but if you think the republicans are going to turn the law on the Rats, you’re going to be in for a disappointment. The Republicans will no more do what you threaten than they’ve done in the past.
You are making threats on which you cannot make good.
Go Rush Go!
Collins has disconnected her phones in DC. Best thing to do is call her districts offices.
I doubt it, Rush. The criminal has the upper hand.
Greetings Thrill Seekers...running late today - Tks IMPR for ping...
Has Rush mentioned the headline on Drudge - Caterpillar will rehire if stimulus is passed...
He knows Republicans won’t.....he is making a point.
If I believe anyone does have the stones, Pence does.
Yes, this sounds wonderful....but who is actually going to follow thru with this plan, except YOU Rush!?!?!? Why do you put your money ambitions aside (ie: "pay cut" & SAVE THIS COUNTRY! Run for President, already, would ya'!
GO RUSH GO!!
I wish he would run for President...and it might actually work!
I’m sorry, Rush, but if you think the republicans are going to turn the law on the Rats, you’re going to be in for a disappointment. The Republicans will no more do what you threaten than they’ve done in the past.
You are making threats on which you cannot make good.
I fear that you are right.
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