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February 13, 2009
Dems Muscle Stimulus Through House; Senate Votes Next
Thank you God for showing the Republicans to stick together for America.
Dems muscle stimulus through House; Senate next
Democrats pushed a huge, $787 billion stimulus bill through the House and toward final approval on Friday, launching a costly attack on the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and handing President Barack Obama a major victory early in his term.
The House vote was 246-183, with Republicans unanimous in opposition to the bill, which includes tax cuts and an estimated $500 billion in federal spending. Senate leaders set a confirming vote for several hours later, and in a show of urgency, the White House dispatched a government plane to Ohio to fly back a senator who was home for his mother's Saturday morning funeral.
Vigorously disagreeing, House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio dumped a copy of the 1,071-page bill to the floor in a gesture of contempt. "The bill that was about jobs, jobs, jobs has turned into a bill that's about spending, spending, spending," he said.
In the House, all 246 votes in favor were cast by Democrats. Seven Democrats joined 176 Republicans in opposition.
ROLL Call vote
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll070.xml
7 Dems that Voted No:
Bright, Griffith, Peterson, Defazio, Minnick, Shuler, And Taylor
Wild Thing's comment.....
Thank God House Republicans held the line.
" the White House dispatched a government plane to Ohio to fly back a senator who was home for his mother's Saturday morning funeral.""
Get this we tax payers are paying for the plane to bring this guy back to vote. sheesh! I think his name is Brown and his mother died and so they will fly him back after her funeral today so he can vote.
Posted by Wild Thing at February 13, 2009 05:55 PM
Comments
Sharod Brown, D(umbass) Ohio. He is a typical democrat and of course they will hold it open for him. He's a walking, talking leftist, and big Union supporter.
Posted by: Mark at February 13, 2009 07:36 PM
Mark, thank you so much for the name, I was not sure and was rushing to get this posted. Thank you too for the information about him.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 13, 2009 08:14 PM
God bless them all, I am so proud of them. There is some true leadership going on somewhere behind closed doors and I'm glad someones doing it. Now i hope the senators find a spine.
Posted by: James M at February 13, 2009 10:02 PM
James M., me too, I know they have been getting our emails and phone calls to please say no. But sometimes that doeos not matter to them.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 14, 2009 12:27 AM
You will probably hear about Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Obama's pork pie slice here in downstate Illinois in the coming days. It's called FutureGen and is a supposed clean coal facility.
A few years back they took the citizens of the Mattoon area on quite a ride. The Govment accepted bids for this "facility" from several communities, and Mattoon "won," only to find out the project really didn't have the funding. Oops! Sorry 'bout that.
I see common sense and foresight concerning this horrible spending bill will be ignored by the people of this area who need the jobs, need the influxtion of commerce to their area.
Multiply this times ? many shovel read piles of pork poop being doled out to temporarily satisfy the masses that The Fraud really cares about them, and add the length of time they plan to take to dole out this money. I am still waiting for FOX News to start bringing up the point that this pork is purposely being spread over time to time it to the next elections. After all, our Prez is a perpetual campaigner.
Posted by: Eden at February 14, 2009 02:28 AM
There's a theory floating around out there (Martin Wolf, Financial Times) that the central economic problem we face is not bank illiquidity or toxic assets, (and therefore a low rate of lending and commerce, which would respond to a "stimulus package") but vast insolvency of a lot of our financial institutions.
Their assets are dwarfed by their liabilities, and trillions of dollars of their liabilities are held by foreign financial institutions and private investors. As foreign economies react to it, their economies will implode too, dragging everyone into a worldwide recession/depression.
The Pork Bill passed by the idiots is a fiddle already on fire, and thesleaze liberals are funding all their pals and ignoring the real problem. If so, the worst is yet to come, and the administration is doomed.
Posted by: Rhod at February 14, 2009 07:06 AM
Our Minority Whip said the $TIMULU$ BILL (not referring to Stimulus Bill Clinton) was numbered wrong (the pages) and was 12 hours late! And nobody READ IT? Are you kidding me?
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at February 14, 2009 04:57 PM
