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Rep. Gohmert Says Republicans Will Cancel Spendulus Bill If GOP Takes Back Congress in 2010 (Video) The change we've been looking for. Now here is a great idea...Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) says that Republicans will cancel the Spendulus bill that extends for the next several years if the GOP is voted back into power in 2010. Rep. Gohmert announced the proposal on Hannity tonight:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5zioYUAj1s Only around $107 billion from the trillion dollar stimulus bill will be spent this year.The Washington Post published this graphic earlier in the week:Click to Enlarge Only $107 billion is targeted to be spent on projects...

I cannot even imagine the magnitude of the cacophonous outcry all of us would be hearing right now from every seedy nook and cranny of the main-stream media had Republicans been in control of both the White House and Congress while an unread, unscrutinized, unvetted, who-did-it-and-ran spending bill passed both houses before anyone could as much as inhale.Democrats orchestrated a legislative drive-by shooting for the ages, with the fleetness of a goose suffering from dysentery, sending to the President's desk a hunk of burning pig-meat over a thousand pages long that no one outside of speed readers and time travelers...

According to the news reports, the Congressional Democrats have conferred and have agreed on a stimulus bill which will spend $789,000,000,000.00 to create 3.5 million jobs. That comes to - - um - - better double check that - - nope, it's right: $225,428.57 per job! Hey, I have an idea that will save America $394 billion . . .

Per email from Americans for Prosperity: We’re coming down to the wire on this Pelosi/Reid/Obama trillion dollar spending bill and I'm asking you to join me at a rally in Richmond tomorrow to put pressure on our two Virginia senators -- Mark Warner and Jim Webb. And beyond just putting pressure on these two senators to vote NO, by attending the rally you'll send a message to the media in attendance that there is a strong, energized grassroots movement rallying against the big government, pork barrel politics in Washington, DC. Here are the details on the NoStimulus event: When: Tomorrow,...

This isn’t a economic recover plan or a stimulus bill.  It is a Democrat wish list, a compilation of projects and schemes they have dreamed about but couldn’t get funded.  Under the advice of Obama’s Chief of Staff, they haven’t “let a crisis go to waste.”  They have even stuck a dagger in “very heart of the widely applauded Welfare Reform Act of 1996,” an Act that has proven positive results. With all the doom-speak, with all the speed and will all the spending, economist agree, this will not help the economy.  Even the Congressional Budget Office expects it to...