I live in AR but I called Boehner’s office to voice my support for his opposition to this pork fest. I urge everyone to do the same as well as calling your own Rep. We need to expose more of the pork and special interest payoffs like the money Nan tried to secure for Planned Parenthood. Get busy!

Obama is sprinting to Capitol Hill today to twist some GOP arms.

How hard is it for them to understand that they work only for their constituents. Even the supine Harry Reid had the courage to say he doesn’t work for Obama. If I were in Congress I’d say the same thing.

They forgot that concept long ago. The Dems will not support the Rep. on anything. The Rep. want to play nice — they still don’t understand the Dems “street-fighting “mentality.
Inside the beltway the constituents are frogotten — with few exceptions—– it is mostly about being accepted, having a chair on a comm., being on the “A” list and the next election.
With the pressure of the corrupt media on Congress by elevating Obama to cult status —- good luck constituents!!!!

Its ok to tell a liberal to take a long walk off a short bridge and feel good about it!!!!! and the crowd said Amen Amen Amen. God Bless America

Going into 2010 elections, maybe Repubs can use it as a club to attack Democrats if the stimulus package turns out to be a massive waste of money and an epic failure. It’s more likely it will fail anyway. I know it won’t mean Repubs will retake the House, but it could mean a major dent for Democrats and especially for President Obama as well.

There is absolutely no reason to compromise on this bill. I’d rather forgo any tax cuts if it meant that there was zero additional spending by these clowns. The Dems can always repeal the tax cuts later but the spent money is gone forever. Now is the time to press for tax cuts only even if it means a tax holiday for everyone equivalent ot the dollar amount of the stimulus. It would be immediate and actually stimulative.

And one year from now, we won’t have the luxury of increasing spending again. Obama is presenting a stimulus focused on government agencies – giving them money with the hope that a bit will dribble over the top to the taxpayers. The stimulus should be focused on the taxpayers and businesses – and providing them tax incentives, tax reductions, reduced regulations, business development loans etc.

I’m glad they aren’t being sucked in by Obama on this. He really wants to trap Republicans in this tar pit, so when it turns out to be nothing but an enormous waste of taxpayer money that stimulates nothing but the national debt, it was all “bipartisan” anyway.

Feed Obama cold steel… and hold fast!

This outrageous waste of money will do little or nothing for the economy. Congratulations to Boehner. This almost certain failure needs a Democratic face and now has one.

…to a better bill is for the Republicans to simply step out of the way and let the Democrats all get on the bus. Don’t offer any amendments to this abortion. Why should they get their fingerprints on this mess when it will only mean they will share the blame when the manure hits the fan. The Dems have the power to pass it over the objections of the Republicans, without a single Republican vote. So, in recognition of this fact, and the trust that the American people have placed in them, simply tell the other side that you’re voting against it en masse. That won’t sway the extreme left wing, but it’ll scare the bejeebers out of the moderate blue dogs, because they know that if it fails – and it most certainly will fail – they and they alone will be the ones holding the smoking gun. That alone will cause them to start backing away from their own leaders and their own legislation as they seek to find a way either to (1) get Republican buy-in, or (2) come up with a bill that has at least some modicum of success.

Who knows, this may scare them enough to slow the process down long enough for the economy to begin recovering on its own. Wouldn’t that be a hoot.

Tell them to vote No, No, No, Hell No, No Way, and in case that isn’t clear, A Big Negatory on the Obama Spend-and-Borrow Bill. The only thing it will stimulate is our ire!

Just Say No To Liberals!

Do not cooperate; do not condone; do not enable. Make the Dems OWN this travesty for all time.

That’s the title of a great rant against Nancy Pelosi by Andrea Tantaros on foxnews.com.

Obama won’t compromise on tax cuts.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18033.html

It’s on – Stimgrudge 2009

10 Reasons to Whack Obama’s Stimulus Plan

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2009/1/27/10-reasons-to-nix-the-stimulus-plan.html

Needs to be a Democrat disaster….led them defend it, support it and live with it. This thing will fail. If any Republicans support it the Democrats will point out it was bipartisan.

Let the Democrats live with their insanity. Boehner seems to have found the golf club where he left his cahones.

Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas)
Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.)
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.)

Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) said that Obama was sincere and “impressive” during his meeting with Republicans Tuesday afternoon.

“There’s real desire in this room to figure a way back to prosperity,” Inglis wrote on Twitter. “[The president] and Republicans here [are] expressing deep concern about unemployment.”

“If [the] President carries this on it does open door for a new tone!” Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) exclaimed.

“Sharp differences are muted,” Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) Twittered.

Inglis said that a comment by Obama that he would rather be a one-term president who addressed the economy than a two-term president who did not went particularly well.

and put the Blue Dogs feet to the fire. We’ll see how fiscal conservative these democrats really are. Those BD who vote for it need to be on the top of Pete Sessions’ hit list for 2010.

and put the Blue Dogs feet to the fire. We’ll see how fiscal conservative these democrats really are. Those BD who vote for it need to be on the top of Pete Sessions’ hit list for 2010.

It’s my understanding that Obama has the votes to make this happen without Republican support, but because it is his first major act as Prez, that he wants to do it with bipartisan support, as it will certainly set the tone for down the road.

I think it would be wiser for R’s to aggressively weed out the pork in the program and THEN express reluctant support for “Obama’s plan”, always keeping that label attached to it.

That way, they can take credit for cleaning the program up and letting the “New Guy” take a stab at fixing the economy HIS way ( without the obvious pork) – if it fails, it’s still “his baby”, and if it succeeds, they were on board.

The absolute worst thing that could happen, is for Republicans to adamantly and loudly oppose the program (which will then most likely get the needed votes without them), and then for the program to succeed. That would not be pretty.

Just my 2 cents.

That is, I like the order of names. The Obama should always be listed last, because he is the least experienced person in any list, and we need to remember it.

Also, Boehner’s approach should be applied to all things legislative, unless the Dems come over and agree with US. We need members who vote against the Debt Plan, against Eric Holder, against Tim Geithner and against everything else that violates our principles.

If they don’t vote “NO” on activity we oppose, what’s the point of being there at all? Our Congressmen of both types must realize that they need to establish a base form which they can credibly claim to be “different” from their eventual opponents, and from which to credibly assert the claim for superiority of Republican positions over the Democrats’ positions.

Vote against the Stimulus is a Win-Win-Win-Win Idea

Win, you have sent of message that you do not believe this type of spending and Government intervention in the private sector will work, and you are not prepared to sub-prime mortgage our future.

Win, when it all fails in the end you can now show why the whole scheme of Government make-work programs and Government buyout of the private sector is a awful idea and that supply-side economics is still the panacea.

Win, Democrats and the MSM will not be able to find a way to blame you when this house of cards collapses.

Win, if the Democrats are right and it does work or the economy turns around by itself then the American people will be alright. Do you see Democrats how this works, you root America to win and you can never lose.