Hat tip to Amanda Carpenter for the slogan. Let’s hear it for the Democratic Congress and President Obama, who have managed to spend nearly $1,200,000,000,000.00 before we even hit the Ides of March.
Robert Gibbs, Obama’s clean, articulate, incredibly skilled press secretary (/snark) said to day that this will help begin the process of getting America back onto a fiscally-responsible track. We haven’t yet heard from President Obama whether the 9,000+ earmarks in this bill qualify it as “a spending bill free of earmarks,” as he called the almost-entirely-pork “stimulus” bill on multiple occasions.
By the way, the bill passed the Senate by voice vote after 62-35 vote to defeat a GOP filibuster.
Steve Maley
KnightsofMalta
Dan Spencer
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Face it folks, Obama doesn't care what you think
NickDeringer (Diary) Tuesday, March 10th at 6:37PM EST (link)Will Obama pay a price for this? In your dreams.
NickDeringer
Obama will pay no price at all,
Flagstaff (Diary) Tuesday, March 10th at 7:08PM EST (link)even if he drives the economy into the ground, unless the SCUM decides to report his failures straight.
He (with the help of addled Republicans) is already able to call this “Bush’s Depression” and hide behind the purchase of Citibank stock by the Bush Treasury. If we recover, he gets credit. If not, he deflects the blame.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
Jim DeMint confirmed this today
NickDeringer (Diary) Tuesday, March 10th at 7:41PM EST (link)He said that the Dems in the Senate are true believers. They are going to spend money while blaming it all on Bush.
It’s the perfect storm.
NickDeringer
It's not the Dems
red4ever (Diary) Tuesday, March 10th at 6:40PM EST (link)They have never seen a taxpayer dollar they didn’t want to spend. It’s the Republicans who voted for this monstrousity that must be held accountable. Which part of “stop spending” is confusing them?
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Dante
why republicans lose
paulincolo (Diary) Tuesday, March 10th at 8:24PM EST (link)I so tire of these guys. I know not all repubs are conservatives but do they have any limited government principles at all? It seems at this point, they are just taking turns getting their 20 pieces of silver, and the left marches forward.
Conservatives generally win, but republicans don’t. I believe we are a center right country, but it is no wonder that many conservatives just sit out elections. Indeed, why vote for somebody just to get sold out.
And yet, we still see these columnists and others mentioned this week as well as people on this site, saying its better to have a RINO than a dem because you get them some of the time. I say BULL, IT IS WORSE. What is the point of getting a conservative vote about some silly mammal of the day protection, but losing that vote for things that really matter like the de-Stimulas 1, Son of de-Stimulas passed today, and coming soon de-Stimulas 2. In addition, it allows the other side to drive wedges.
So which ones will take the silver on card check?
Who are the RINO Senators who voted for this?
tankertodd (Diary) Tuesday, March 10th at 6:54PM EST (link)Who are the turdburger Republicans (alleged) who voted for this megaton of lard? I want to start my vendettas now before Obama taxes them.
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The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race – Chief Justice Roberts
here's the list
bk (Diary) Tuesday, March 10th at 7:23PM EST (link)Bayh, Feingold, and McCaskill voted nay. Nebraska Senator sat out to offset Kennedy. Here are the Rs who voted aye (Susan Collins voted against it BTW):
Alexander (TN)
Bond (MO)
Cochran (MS)
Murkowski (AK)
Shelby (AL)
Snowe (ME)
Specter (PA)
Wicker (MS)
all of the Rs in your list are on the appropriation committee except
pilgrim (Diary) Tuesday, March 10th at 7:39PM EST (link)Snowe and Wicker. None of the 3 D who voted aye are on the appropriations committee.
Yep, and I just fired off a irrate
Praying (Diary) Tuesday, March 10th at 7:50PM EST (link)email to each and every one of them. Apparently Snowe didn’t even have any earmarks for ME in the bill – she’s just obstinate and ornery and beyond hope. The real killer is that many of the projects in this bill were already funded by the “Porkulus” bill, so some programs have received, in essence, a 80 – 100% INCREASE in funding from last year. Gee, I wish I’d gotten an increase in my salary of 80 – 100%. (I made that point in my email), I’m not sure my email blitz will ever convince any of these idiots to change their mind, but I feel better for expressing my first amendment right of free speech (at least while I still can…)
No!!!11!1!!1!1! The Bilderbergers are coming
A Few Surprises
zarathustra57 Tuesday, March 10th at 8:57PM EST (link)Shelby and Wicker surprise me, appropriations committee or no. No shock as to the others, really.
We Have To Face Facts - Nearly *All* Senate Republicans Can Be Considered RINOs
IJB Tuesday, March 10th at 8:13PM EST (link)If we’re going to rebuild this party, it will be despite the efforts of Senate Republicans, not because of them. (House Republicans may be a different matter – but Senate Republicans are virtually a complete write-off).
The truth is, nearly every Senate Republican is worthless (there may, *may*, be about half-a-dozen to a dozen of them that are decent – but the rest are glorified pond scum), and we’re going to have to target nearly each and every one of them for a ‘takedown’ over the next 6 years.
This is why fiddling with the RNC and the RSCC is useless, and a totally wasted effort – conservatives are going to have to create parallel organizations to circumvent them, to recruit and raise funds for challengers to nearly all of these guys. (It worked for the online Left!)
Senate Republicans aren’t really members of the Republican Party – they’re members of the “Washington DC Party”.
And the Washington DC party has got to go.
I don't see that.
AKSteveB (Diary) Tuesday, March 10th at 8:20PM EST (link)What is proves is that these guys represents their states and themselves, not a national constituency, especially on domestic issues. This was more explicit before the 16th(?) Amendment (where they want from appointment by State legislatures to direct vote) but structurally is still the case.
Hell is other people – Sartre
Then You Haven't Been Paying Attention
IJB Tuesday, March 10th at 8:26PM EST (link)The Senate GOP votes for Obama’s radical Cabinet nominees was a real eye-opener.
People around here claim Sessions of AL is some great thing – he *voted* for Eric Holder. That pretty much shreds his credibility as an “originalist” legal eagle, and as a “conservative”.
What about all the votes for Geithner. For *Solis* for God’s sake?!
These guys aren’t Republicans, and they don’t represent their states either – their pure “Washington DC Party” and they’ve got to go.
Voting for confirmation is a bit more 'nuanced'
johnCV (Diary) Tuesday, March 10th at 8:37PM EST (link)As much as I agreee that holder, geithner, and solis et.al. are awful choices, unless they are guilty of a crime, the President should be allowed some latitude in his choices.
That said, geithner, holder and solis should have been denied BECAUSE they ARE guilty of crimes.
Hmmmm, I think I just agreed with you – to a point. However, Sessions is a good man and we would sorely miss him. No one’s perfect.
I said their states and themselves.
AKSteveB (Diary) Tuesday, March 10th at 8:40PM EST (link)It seems that even the most well intentioned politicians eventually end up mostly being about themselves. Part of it is probably inherent in the ego of anyone who has the drive for high office, the other is …I don’t know ..in the air that is breathed in the public sector. I’m seeing that while doing my first gig in the public sector after 20 plus years in private. Oddly enough, the only other place I’ve seen it is in the oil patch. I may do a diary about this sometime.
Hell is other people – Sartre
The "accepted wisdom" this afternoon
Flagstaff (Diary) Tuesday, March 10th at 6:58PM EST (link)is the the stock market has hit bottom and will continue an upward course tomorrow.
I’ll go on record here and assert that the bump up today resulted from severely oversold financials and the hope (I always have the desire to put “hope” into quotes these days) that the budget monstrosity would be rejected and thus reduced. As the Omnibusting Bill has just been passed, my guess is the market will be back down soon, if not tomorrow. Nothing fundamental changed today. In fact, the fundamentals just got worse.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
Oh, I Think We're Going to 5,000
IJB Tuesday, March 10th at 8:07PM EST (link)I had to laugh – there were yahoos on CNBC today basically claiming that we’ve already hit bottom, and the economy will rebound in the second half of this year.
It’s amazing how many people *don’t* get it.
Oh well, they’ll learn.
If it does that,
Flagstaff (Diary) Tuesday, March 10th at 11:22PM EST (link)will it go to 3,000?
I’m already looking for work.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
A little lunacy sprinkled on thier corruption
johnCV (Diary) Tuesday, March 10th at 8:16PM EST (link)From the Hill:
We will now further encumber the power generation industry of this country while ‘protecting’ the ever increasing polar bear population living on an expanding ice sheet.
Comrade obama was deadly serious when he said he will destroy the coal industry. Kruschev has been vindicated.
Republicans are so blind...
Darvin_Dowdy (Diary) Wednesday, March 11th at 7:56AM EST (link)…why did this bill pass? One reason, attached to the bill was a provision to stop low paid Mexican truckers from driving into the US stealing US trucking jobs. Now the democrat party is the hero of the 1.5 million member Teamsters union and the 160K member OOIDA. We can thank George W. Bush and his “fatal attraction” relationship with Mexico. This is an issue that heavily contributed to our loss of the last 2 elections cycles. Ronald Reagan aggressively sought and acquired the Teamsters endorsement in both ’80 and ’84. He would not have allowed that provision of Nafta that allowed Mexican or Canadian trucks free access to US taxpayer funded highways. Reagan respected the working class in this nation. Modern Repub’s and Conservatives have contempt for them. Which is why they lose and will continue to lose. DD
"Well, there you go again."
barry915barry (Diary) Wednesday, March 11th at 9:10AM EST (link)“Reagan respected the working class in this nation. Modern Repub’s and Conservatives have contempt for them.”
There YOU go again ripping on conservatives (and moderates too) again.
I AM conservative, and I AM the working class.
Enough of your BS on this already. Oops, broke my own rule about feeding you.
Sorry, this post is SPECIFICALLY for DD. nt
barry915barry (Diary) Wednesday, March 11th at 9:11AM EST (link)