Collins: I might vote against the final stimulus bill if it’s too porky
posted at 5:29 pm on February 7, 2009 by Allahpundit
The Freepers are buzzing about this so I figured you’d want to see the clip. Note: She doesn’t mean she might vote against the final Senate bill. That’s a done deal. She’s talking about the real final bill, the one that’ll come back from conference committee after the House and Senate huddle next week. If they start dumping money back into it that was cut from this one — which is possible — then, in theory, she’ll pull the plug. Anyone see that happening realistically, though, considering (a) she’s already shown she’s willing to tolerate a more expensive bill than Nancy Pelosi, and (b) she’s had her patriotism sanctified by the blessed hand of The One? Worth every penny of that trillion.
If you want to make your feelings known, here’s her contact information. Please be polite. She’ll ignore you either way, but at least your conscience will be clear.
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I live in NC. I sent very polite e-mails to Collins, Snowe, and Specter begging them to reconsider their support for this POS bill. Also e-mailed my 2 senators, Burr (R) and Hagan(D) – asking Burr to put the thumbscrews to the three RINOS, and telling Hagan that the bill sucks for all Americans, esp. in this state. I’ve also called both NC senators’ offices, local and in DC and talked with staffers at both places. I don’t know what good it will do, but my conscience is clear.
I got e-mail this morning from the RNC asking me to click on Michael Steele’s podcast. I replied, “If Mr. Steele cant rein in Collins, Snowe, and Specter on the Porkulus bill, then you can forget any kind of support from me.” Again, at least my conscience is clear.
I found some toll-free #s to the Capitol switchboard on Michelle Malkin’s site – tried them last night and they still work:
866-220-0044
877-851-6437
877-762-8762
and 800-833-6354 is paid for by the AMA – you have to go through some voice prompts and it will connect you to your senator’s office.
Another idea is to call or go your public library and ask if they have a copy of the Congressional Staff Directory, which lists key members of the staffs of all congress critters and senators. You can call them directly, and if the office mailbox is full, you may be able to leave a message on the staff member’s voicemail.
Lurking Vet on February 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Isn’t Maine a “sanctuary” state?
Just sayin’…the incentives for both Senators from Maine to be the lone Republicans (so-called) (forgetting Spector for a moment here), just HAS to be that they’re from a state that’s got bills to pay that they assume the rest of the nation is going to cover, and, they’re not considering solving their own problems themselves (the state, that is, the two Senators from there).
I’m betting there’s a problem with Medicaid in Maine as also they now have a lot more unemployed or unemployable “low wage workers” and the reasons why are almost certainly because just a few years ago, Maine was waiving them all in.
S on February 8, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Collins, Snowe, and Specter are one reason that we do not need liberals in the Republican party. What good does it do?
Johan Klaus on February 8, 2009 at 11:05 AM
hope she got her 30 pieces of silver for stabbing the american people in the back .
Mojack420 on February 8, 2009 at 11:14 AM
Yes! Yes! This is the sort of moderate that gets things done! When will the GOP base ever learn!
/sarcasm
el gordo on February 8, 2009 at 11:34 AM
The thing that really disgusts me isn’t a couple of turncoats on the Republican side — it’s that there isn’t a single Democrat in the senate with a soul and a clue. I’d have hoped that Lieberman at least would have borrowed one for the occasion.
suzy.denim@gmail.com on February 8, 2009 at 11:35 AM
WHEN this is passed we need to make sure it constantly hangs around the necks of Obama/Pelosi AND the necks of the back stabbing “republicans” who vote for it. It should be an albatross seen daily by the people. It’s time for Steele to show us what type of leader he will be. If he lets these “republicans” get away with this vote then we’ll know it’s just more of the same when it comes to GOP leadership. It’s time for him to shine or shame.
Ampersand on February 8, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Long comment elsewhere
I wanted to comment on the stimulus mess – but it ran to 1,400 words… so I put it on redstate:
http://www.redstate.com/paul_murphy/
Comments would be appreciated.
In brief:
1 – you can’t borrow and spend your way out of a depression. You have to create wealth, and you do that by reducing impediments to investment, the investment then creates jobs, and the work done in those jobs creates the wealth.
2 – the cheapest taxes to cut are regulations – starting with CAFE
3 – the real problem is democrat missrule. You fix that by reducing their access to power and convincing the market that they’ll be gone after 2010.
Paul Murphy on February 8, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Maine is Maine. It’s a quirky state and always has been, they have an independent streak and their senators can only win if they say “I may be a [Democrat/Republican] but you know my first duty is to be an independent advocate for Maine.” You won’t see anyone win in Maine who doesn’t say something along those lines. So what people are expecting from Collins and Snowe? To break their campaign promises to their constituents in favor of the party’s will? Wouldn’t that make them “sheep.” Isn’t that just the kind of partisan hackery you folks don’t like? Or…more likely are you total partisan hacks yourselves.
And for those who can think beyond their anger, if you really threaten to cut Specter off from RNC funds and then he wins the primary, you’re fucked. The Democratic candidate will be able to run to the left and win because Specter will have a fundraising disadvantage. That’s what happens when you deinvest in a candidate, you give the other side more of an opportunity to direct the discourse to the left. Abandon Specter at your own peril and my delight muahahaha.
DeathToMediaHacks on February 8, 2009 at 12:13 PM
I hope Michael Steele can hears the sound of ripping up my check I made out to the RNC when he became Chairman. It is crap or get off the pot time for Steele, let’s see what he has to say about the 3 RINO Senators.
Wade on February 8, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Socialist seldom change.
Johan Klaus on February 8, 2009 at 12:18 PM
That woman has a vacant look in her eyes. She is so enthralled by the Messiah that she lives in a perpetual fantasy world where everything that despicable scumbag says sounds logical.
csdeven on February 8, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Isn’t her State Bird the Loon?
If not it should be
entagor on February 8, 2009 at 12:33 PM
This woman is such an astounding prevaricator. About 5 or 6 years ago I stood in front of her and asked her about an upcoming gun vote, don’t recall which, and she told me one thing. The very next day she voted the opposite….The only thing that influences her is the media and donors…she would sell her sainted granny for more media love.
JIMV on February 8, 2009 at 12:35 PM
I have called Hagan’s office numerous times. I sent her an email today. I didn’t call her a whore in the email, but I did refer to Chuck Schumer as her pimp since he bought and paid for her Senate seat. She’s going to vote for any liberal thing she can because she’s a liberal. Frankly, I hope all the blacks and white-guilt liberals who voted straight democrat ticket get EVERYTHING that’s coming to them from Shcumer’s whore.
SouthernGent on February 8, 2009 at 12:48 PM
She is a maverick.
getalife on February 8, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Olympia Snowe contact info: Phone: (202) 224-5344
Toll Free: (800) 432-1599
Fax: (202) 224-1946
Susan Collins contact info: DC Office Information
413 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2523
Fax: (202) 224-2693
Arlen Specter contact information: DC Address: The Honorable Arlen Specter
United States Senate
711 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-3802
DC Phone: 202-224-4254
DC Fax: 202-228-1229
Remember be respectful. Be polite. Be firm. VOTE NO ON THIS STIMULUS!
Mr. Joe on February 8, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Changing one reliable pro-Obama vote for another. No difference, except in party ID.
Not really. It would be “mavericky” of her to do something other than what might get her re-elected. But maybe most of the voters in Maine want this monstrosity, so if she’s reflecting her constituents she’s doing her job as well.
ddrintn on February 8, 2009 at 12:58 PM
These people aren’t “beg worthy.” They need to be held accountable for their votes. I sent a letter to Collins telling her why she should vote against this bill but I also sent a letter to the Senate Relection Campaign Committee informing them that they wouldn’t be getting one cent from me if they financially support any Senator who votes to mortgage my great grandkids future.
highhopes on February 8, 2009 at 1:05 PM
I’ve got no problem getting rid of the rat bastard traitors who destroyed the GOP. Specter has to leave the Senate at some point, better to flush the filthy bastard now rather than later.
highhopes on February 8, 2009 at 1:08 PM
So you replace a liberal Rep with a liberal Dem. You gain nothing, I lose nothing.
PS: no such word as deinvest. Maybe you meant to say divest. But that wouldn’t right either as you’d be using the word incorrectly in that context.
I thought all you liberals were like all smart and stuff, what’s going on here?
angryed on February 8, 2009 at 1:24 PM
Abandoning Specter has no additional peril than that which he presently represents. He thinks as a liberal, acts as a liberal, and votes as a liberal.
If a Democrat should beat him in the next election nothing has truly been lost to the Republican party, since he represents the true definition of a RINO. But if a true Republican were to win and replace him that would be a gain for the Conservatives
Again, at the least, losing Specter’s seat to the left is status quo.
You certainly lack in the areas of reality and logic, but that is to be expected to be obvious in any observation you make.
Yoop on February 8, 2009 at 1:27 PM
You know, this is getting old. Obama has repeatedly said over the last week that he won and America decided overwhelmingly in November for his ideas. And now Barney Frank says the same thing.
OK, we get it. You guys won. America wants what you are offering, right? Then why do you care what Republicans want. If you have overwhelming support from the American people then pass the bill and tell the American people you are giving them what they want.
Oh right, because it takes political courage to take full responsibility for this plan. They need the Republicans for one reason: to serve as human shields to share the blame when this thing sucks as bad as they know it will. What a bunch of cowards.
JohnInCA on February 8, 2009 at 1:50 PM
Gateway Pundit has this up now:
CBO Predicts Recession Will End in 2009 Without Stimulus
He also has the reminder in the post that the CBO said the stimulus would actually hurt and not help the economy.
Send the info to your friends and tell Congress as well!
INC on February 8, 2009 at 1:55 PM
Abandon conservatives at your own peril. We are the ones who pay the most taxes into the system, and we are the ones who own the most guns.
I am looking forward to the country collapsing so we can rebuild. Hell I am currently welding large spikes on my 84 CJ7 and my hockey mask is on its way. Now I just need my assless chaps and IT’S ON!
ClassicCon on February 8, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Oh My God!
I just clicked my browsers ‘stumbleupon’ button and hit a winner.
I feel like I just hit the nickle slot machine at a Las Vegas casino.
One Trillion Pennies. . . . .
Skandia Recluse on February 8, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Wondrous post, AP.
I politely disagree with the politeness recommendation. I suggest that it would be more productive to make it nearly impossible for anyone associated with, or working for Collins to even show their faces in public, answer the phone, or read an email.
She should be ostracized with the most outraged, outrageous, vehement criticism imaginable for her idiotic support of this piece of garbage bill.
Our President is a lying scumbag, and the support of 3 schmuck Republicans in the entire congress has given this lying pig the nerve to go on national television and declare “support from Republicans” for his socialist spending orgy, despite the ridiculous lie that it is.
Thanks, Collins, you fool.
Jaibones on February 8, 2009 at 3:23 PM
Thank goodness both my Tennessee senators voted against this…although Corker did vote for Geitner, and I’m still steamed about that….
ladyingray on February 8, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Now is the time to ready real Republicans to run against each these 3 RINO’s in the the next respective election cycle primaries. When people in the party do not believe a party principle belief, such as free enterprise against socialism, it is time to stop any further party funding for these people.
Wade on February 8, 2009 at 4:00 PM
and Snow…and Spector… and traitors 3
Wade on February 8, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Pardonme but I have not been able to read all the comments concerning the “stimulus” package. One item that stands out in my mind is the billions that are going to go to ACORN. Does anyone else think, as I do, that that money will only come back to the democratic party in the form of “contributions”? When ACORN can establish as many false names and identities as they have in the past, they can now attach tax payer dollars to those names and control elections down to whatever level they desire. It is a shame that people like Sen. Collins don’t fight something like this with all their might instead of just going along to get along.
Pardonme on February 8, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Too early for open preparation. They may be traitors but Collins, Snowe, and Specter have the power of the incumbency. It really comes down to refusing to support GOP umbrella organizations if they spend one cent on keeping these people in Congress.
highhopes on February 8, 2009 at 4:20 PM
She may be surpirsed to learn that we do not care what traitorous dogs have to say.
jsanderssr on February 8, 2009 at 4:46 PM
O/T, but funny and it does relate to the fear “hype” around the Stimulus:
Mark Steyn from The Corner:
Earlier related post by Steyn.
INC on February 8, 2009 at 4:46 PM
I posted this earlier and believe it applies here:
FEAR, False Evidence Appearing Real, never has worked in any situation other than to get out of a burning house or jump over a fence to avoid a pit-bull. However, FEAR has been used by every president during the last 80 years to ram through every piece of seriously flawed rules and legislation that either promotes a self seeking agenda or line the pockets of their friends. This is no different than the emergency bailout last fall except the President now has a “D” after his name instead of an “R”…. As FDR said, “There is nothing to fear, but, fear itself!” Let us instead have some real leadership on the part of our President and Congress that gives us hope, which will be much more effective than the FEAR based, empty rhetoric that we have been getting. Any legislation that comes out of a team effort, where all are aligned on a positive outcome, will be much more effective than a pork laden bill that will drive our economy further into the tank.
DL13 on February 8, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Thank you for posting that. Made my afternoon!
highhopes on February 8, 2009 at 5:09 PM
highhopes,
You’re welcome. It was too good to keep to myself.
My favorite sections were the freezing/scalding shower dial scenario–most us probably know exactly what he meant! What a comparison–so simple and yet so apt.
and this: By contrast, Obama is skilled mainly at evading clarity, at wrapping hard questions in a generalized gaseous uplift of abstract nouns.
It’s why Steyn is so good. He can’t paint word pictures that capture the exact essence of what he’s driving home.
INC on February 8, 2009 at 5:19 PM
can’t a/b can
Obviously!
INC on February 8, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Email sent last night to Michael Steele demanding the RNC not give any support to the 3 Quislings in the Senate.
quikstrike98 on February 8, 2009 at 5:20 PM
I finally listened to this fucking nitwit’s interview with the breathtaking Miss Banderas. Besides being as ugly as a stick, can you believe how stupid she sounds?
How does this twit convince anyone that she’s capable of thinking clearly?
On content, the $110 billion in cuts that she keeps babbling about is just fiction. Is she a liar or an idiot? I can’t imagine what her motivation for deceiving the voters would be, so I’m going with idiot on this.
Jaibones on February 8, 2009 at 5:23 PM
I like the stories now…The stimulus MAY help college students…the stimulus MAY, MAY, MAY
There is no the stimulus MAY ruin our economy for years to come.
tomas on February 8, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Interesting prediction from Gwynnie at Maggies:
Norman Mattoon Thomas (Nov. 20, 1884-Dec. 19, 1968) – some of us are old enough to remember him running for President – was a leading American socialist, pacifist and six time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
Norman Thomas said this in a 1944 speech:
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “Liberalism”, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” He went on to say: “I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.”
Itchee Dryback on February 8, 2009 at 5:30 PM
I know Maine’s a frozen backwater, but wow – she makes my new retarded Senator Burris look eloquent. You wouldn’t vote for her for school board.
Jaibones on February 8, 2009 at 5:32 PM
It’s better to have Democrats than the usual suspects of Republicans that the media highlights to show bipartisanship and ‘balance.’ Look at somebody like Chuck Hagel, his entire importance came from the fact that he was a Republican that continually slammed Bush on Iraq. If he was a Dem, do you think he’d have been on all those talk shows?
blue13326 on February 8, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Chills and hot flashes. Sounds like he has PMS. I didn’t know men could get that. Must be a new model.
Cheshire Cat on February 8, 2009 at 5:53 PM
True, except for the “liberalism” part. That began to have bad connotations, so now it’s all “progressism.”
Wethal on February 8, 2009 at 5:56 PM
“You were right mom. That big bulge that Barry had in his pants was just a rolled up newspaper.”
Cheshire Cat on February 8, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Obama is already stimulating the economy
MB4 on February 8, 2009 at 6:18 PM
I agree.
Someone else also said this..don’t know who:
In a struggle for power, first seize the language. …then steal the perceptions.
Itchee Dryback on February 8, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Bambi’s Bay of Pork – Stick a fork in him?
MB4 on February 8, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Her maverick speeches are irritating.
getalife on February 8, 2009 at 7:13 PM
You mean Obama’s?
Itchee Dryback on February 8, 2009 at 7:16 PM
For some reason she reminds me of the woman who played George Castanzas mother on Seinfeld.
Itchee Dryback on February 8, 2009 at 7:21 PM
I received this a few days ago and thought I would pass it along to all of you.I am not sure what good it is meant to do,but it cant hurt.
canditaylor68 on February 8, 2009 at 8:16 PM
McCain could have won had he been that coherent and meant it. Fact of the matter is that McCain’s record doesn’t back up some of the claims he’s making. Yes, in some ways he’s not been the “fiscally responsible” Senator he claims to be. Better than some but hardly the guy I would pick to lead the way.
The one thing I’d like to ask him is why exactly he “appreciates” Obama talking to GOP politicians. The filthy bastard should be talking to everybody and taking ideas from everybody. The filthy bastard has repeatedly told the GOP they have no voice in these decisions because he won. Then he endorses a plan that is essentially the DNC wish list. Why on earth is McCain cutting the filthy bastard any slack here???
highhopes on February 8, 2009 at 8:25 PM
If this hideous bill is signed into law, it just might send this country spiraling down the financial crapper.
-Dave
Dave R. on February 8, 2009 at 8:41 PM
The “real” cost of capital is rising as the slump deepens. This is textbook debt deflation. It was not supposed to happen. The Bernanke doctrine assumes that the Fed can bring down the whole structure of interest costs, first by slashing the Fed Funds rate to zero, and then by making a “credible threat” to buy Treasuries outright with printed money.
Mr Bernanke has been repeating this threat since early December. But talk is cheap. As the Fed hesitates, real yields climb ever higher. Plainly, the markets do not regard Fed rhetoric as “credible” at all.
Who can blame bond vigilantes for going on strike? Nobody wants to be left holding the bag if and when the global monetary blitz succeeds in stoking inflation. Governments are borrowing frantically to fund their bail-outs and cover a collapse in tax revenue. The US Treasury alone needs to raise $2 trillion in 2009.
Where is the money to come from? China, the Pacific tigers and the commodity powers are no longer amassing foreign reserves ($7.6 trillion). Their exports have collapsed. Instead of buying a trillion dollars of extra bonds each year, they have become net sellers. In aggregate, they dumped $190bn over the last fifteen weeks.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
MB4 on February 8, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Senators, like Collins, without a brain for business and economics make the decisions for the people. Just do it even though it is not right. Thus any fool can be a senator or president.
Birdseye on February 8, 2009 at 9:09 PM
I wonder if he regrets telling people in the winddown to the election that “Obama would make a good President and there’s nothing to worry about if he gets elected.”?
I do. After his “Fight with me!” rally he just went all pussy with being soo Honorable-ish while O and the MSM kicked him in the nuts every day. Can’t really blame them as far as him not fighting back goes.
Itchee Dryback on February 8, 2009 at 9:23 PM
I too have many questions just like yours. I posted the letter in its entirety. I am still on the PAC list since the election so I tend to get these things as I am sure many of you still are. I just figured I would post for you all in case anyone thought it would do any good. I am not sure that it will,but I am not sure that it wont either. I will say this though-I will not give up on this country while the idiots now in power lay waste to it. I dont really give a flying elephant how screwed up the GOP has been while they were in power,only because thats over now and I know we will all be feeling the effects of their screw up for years and years. But I will not stand idly by and go gently into the night. 2010 is coming and we are voting these halfasses and rinos out! We need to rev up our ranks and get our message out. We need unity of that message and a clear concise way to present it to the people and a clearinghouse so that constituents can have contact with our representatives on a more personal level-such as twitter. Good ideas? IDK.
canditaylor68 on February 8, 2009 at 9:38 PM
All true. McCain was a pansy in the election.
Jaibones on February 8, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Hey, Dave, I don’t know if you noticed, but after you comment, it says “Dave R.” right down at the bottom, there.
That’s how we know it’s you – Dave – and not some other Tom, Dick or Harry.
Jaibones on February 8, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Sen McCaskill just admitted that the bill is just a reward to Democrat special interests. They’ve eliminated corruption by renaming it “stimulus”.
JohnJ on February 8, 2009 at 10:47 PM
It’s people like Collins that should encourage more of us to run for office.
I can’t get over this woman’s smile. She seems so proud of herself for finding a little waste in the most massive abuse of congressional spending and expansion of government power in our nation’s history.
JellyToast on February 8, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Collins: I might vote against the final stimulus bill if it’s too porky. . . and if you ignorant fools believe that one, I have a bridge for sale that you might be interested in.
King of the Britons on February 8, 2009 at 11:33 PM
$20.00 for the first person to slap that smug grin off her stupid mug!
sabbott on February 9, 2009 at 5:49 AM
I just don’t understand why Republicans can’t call out the pork, line by line to the American taxpayers. Get on the shows and go line by line, the STD crap, the Gangster Museum, call it all out and then watch the reaction of Americans. Do NOT negoitiate, do not pass ANY bil with one single drop of pork fat dripping from it’s pages. Call out the fleacing of America. Hang this around Obama’s neck like his ugly wife and make him choke on this crap sandwich. The more details the American taxpayers get, the more this bill dies. Refuse to sign ANY bill with pork for ACORN.
This was my message to all my Senators and Congressmen and I sent 3 letters to the RNC, both localy, state and nationaly. They will not get one penny from me until they ALL refuse this bill.
Mark Garnett on February 9, 2009 at 7:55 AM
Yes-she is a meathead.
NRA Lifer on February 9, 2009 at 8:15 AM
Notice that Snowe is keeping her head down. She’s afraid of this one, but not so afraid that she’ll show some gumption. Her perfect lady image might tarnish.
jeanie on February 9, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Can the bill out of conference committee be filibustered?
MarkTheGreat on February 9, 2009 at 8:52 AM
What a disingenuous fool. She’ll vote to allow cloture, then, when a simple majority can pass the final bill, she’ll vote no? Her only position of power is the cloture vote, and she has already sold out on that.
Vashta.Nerada on February 9, 2009 at 9:30 AM
OMG, are they getting screwed to death. They need some new Senators up there.
By state = $900 billion / 50 states = $18 billion
By population = 1.3 million / 305 million x $900 billion = $3.96 billion.
$258 million?!
Jaibones on February 9, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Bwaaaahahahahaha!
Jaibones on February 9, 2009 at 9:34 AM
I’m all talk, as you all know. Called Snowe’s office in Augusta (I think) because her D.C. office is just always busy. Sweet girl answered and braced for the vitriol. Couldn’t do it. It’s not her fault.
Snowe’s web site has her support right on the front page, loud and proud. She’s too stupid to lie about it. She thinks this is good government apparently. Idiot.
I asked if she’s getting a lot of calls – “yes”.
I asked if she wanted all my talking points – “whatever you wish, sir”. Couldn’t do it. Tell the Senator that nothing would be way better than this something.
Jaibones on February 9, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Smoking Gun: Democrat Insider Says “Obama Has Secret Plan to Fund a Patronage System”
Not so secret but it appears to hold some validity.
BrianA on February 9, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Do you actually think that Spector has such a sterling record and treasure chest that he can withstand a full frontal assault by the RNC and all the rest of the conservatives that want to see this RINO retired? If the RNC decides to support another candidate in the primary, they will publically and nationally publish his dismal record and the republicans/conservatives from the rest of the country will help end this RINO’s pathetic political career.
belad on February 9, 2009 at 10:35 AM
I just came across this article, please read and contact your congressmen and senators!!! The Democrats are trying to take Daschle’s plan to socialize medicine and slip it in in the stimulus bill without anybody noticing or any debate. This will ruin healthcare in this country and kill it as an engine of growth. The only private sector increasing jobs right now is healthcare.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs
txmomof6 on February 9, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Gee,
Just think what could be accomplished, if we spent less time regurgitating the same puke about RINO’s, and spent more time castigating the real culprits.
Isn’t this the very same narrative that got us into this mess?
File Under: Be careful what you wish for.
franksalterego on February 9, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Got an error. It doesn’t matter anyway.
administrator@collins.senate.gov
roux on February 9, 2009 at 1:15 PM
Collins VM box is full. Fast busy signals, which mean the lines are overloaded at both of Snowe’s numbers, as well as at Specters.
Heh.
Blue-eyed Infidel on February 9, 2009 at 3:44 PM
We have to have at least three Republicans to get it to Cloture, then they should vote against it. If we block it from coming to the floor already, it will be a PR win for the Democrats, that we caused the continued crash. If we let it get to a vote, then vote against it 100%, it is hung around the Democrats’ necks, the cloture vote is forgotten or becomes “I was for it before I was against it” escapability.
I want them to vote for cloture, then vote against it when their votes don’t matter. Dems, with cloture, can pass it without Republicans.
PastorJon on February 9, 2009 at 4:41 PM
I’m in agreement with the sentiment here. What good are liberal republicans if they just vote with the Dems on the most critical of issues. This is just blatant back stabbery and I hope someone throws these three idiots out of office, for legitimizing this crap sammich called a stimulus bill
If republicans were truly smart, and I know they aren’t. They would say to hell with this spending bill why dont we give EVERY working American a one year Tax holiday so they can ignite this economy! Thats basically a trillion dollars that I would say is well spent, I say. This BS about bailing our the morons that gambled away our savings is a load of crap and so is the socialist agenda. Republicans need to stand strong and not get their name tied to this boat anchor.
Kyah on February 10, 2009 at 3:09 AM
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