This is the PROBLEM – Updated!
How do you justify calling on the Senate to oppose an Economic Recovery Bill that hasn’t even been debated/amended yet?
House Republicans are pushing their Senate colleagues to stand unanimously against President Obama’s stimulus package, as they themselves did in the lower chamber last week.
“We are urging our Senate colleagues to join every House Republican in opposing this bill,” Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), the third-ranking Republican in the House, said Tuesday.
Junior High behavior at best.
Update: McCain weighs in, passing a note in Algebra class, urging Republicans to vote against the bill.
Notice how much mileage that the RNC is getting out of Castle’s betray of Delaware?
They’re headed for another bad headline. A headline Castle helped write.
Didn’t Castle say he wasn’t ordered to vote against the Recovery Plan? The bitch can’t even lie well.
Breaking : Daschle’s out….
Buh-bye then, Tommy. Safe travels back to the old lobbyist whore drawing board…
Does anyone care what McCain thinks anymore? Republicans are paying more attention to Joe the Plumber than McCain.
Haven’t you heard? McCain is all mavericky again, and since he’s falling in line (like a good little maverick) his word will now be gospel.
Geez, can they wait to vote until they know what they’re voting against!
How do you justify calling on the Senate to oppose an Economic Recovery Bill that hasn’t even been debated/amended yet?
Because you’ve already seen the bill the House wanted and know there’s no “recovery” in it?
Wrong, as usual, Sharon. But keep playing politics… how’d that work for you in November?
Oh, so you think giving money to the NEA will create jobs. Oh, no, wait. It was putting down sod on The Mall. Or contraceptives. Or new cars for government employees. Or digital TV coupons. Or.. or.. well, you get the idea. See you in 2010!
Look, the question was asked why one would call for voting against a stimulus bill that contained little or no stimulus. I answered that. When Democrats are serious about economic recovery then they might get more votes.
McNuts just sent an email across America through the right wing group Newsmax….calling on all Republicans to block ANY democratic bill on the Stimulus Package.Hows that for looking out America. Word is the repukes are going to use the logo “Country First” in 2010….are they putting Country First by refusing to work for the benefit of the country.
When will Democrats get it? Why are they so naive or ignorant of facts. The GOP is NEVER going to support anything the dems do….GRASP the fact, embrace it, and MOVE ON.
I hope the dems in the Senate realize that the american public arent buying the House version filled with Pet Projects Stim. Package.
Obama told them yesterday to stop loading up this Job recovery Plan, and put together separate legislation to address ALL the issues George WAR Bush neglected.
This country is so screwed. I see that MSNC is now informing the american people how europenas are handing their depression. They actually showed thousands in the streets all over the place…course americans still have too many toys, and football games and other phony distractions….fiddling while Rome burns.
Shelby the dimwit neo con from Ala., says we have 41 votes and we need to “HOLD them together”, and NOT support the stimiulus package….why do republicans hate their own country? hate american workers, hate their own families, hate democracy?
Republicans don’t hate their country. They think this bill will do little to create jobs and nothing to get consumers to spend their money.
If brainless rightwing talking points were feed corn, Sharon would be Kansas.
Could we please stop listening to the party that didn’t create jobs?
Someone needs to start asking republicans exactly how many Americans would it take to be out of work before they get serious about fixing what they so cavalierly broke.
OT… apparently a bloodbath is underway at BoA:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/3/16248/61132/1002/692602
The comments have some hating on Delaware.
What gets me is that the GOP’s fantasy world thinking that gave us “WMD’s” and “Nigerian Yellow Cake” is now giving us “The NEA, & Sod on the Mall.”
The crazy disconnect is similar but inverted. While there was no real threat from Iraq, but a PR campaign put on to make sure we acted – there is a real economic threat now, and a similar PR campaign going on to make sure we don’t act.
Can I support American workers but not their union?
Why not nationalize the industrial unions, or at least forbid them from striking or making campaign contributions in return for bailing them out with taxpayer money. I call it the “Restore America’s Manufacturing Act.”
There will also be provisions for firing workers who clock in, spend half the day at the bar, then go back to work for a few hours (shitfaced, natch) before clocking out again. Oh, and no more pensions. Defined contributions plans, like the rest of us. When the only two groups of people in the country still getting pensions are politicians and union labor, you know there’s a problem.
G Rex, unions have been emasculated by the federal government. What we need is more power in the worker’s hands. The threat of strikes and actual strikes help keep business owners honest.
Nemski, tell that to Boeing. They just had to lay off a bunch of machinists because their union’s strike screwed up the rollout program for the 787 – which they were cynically using as leverage to bump up their wages and bennies. Here in Delaware, WL Gore (they make high grade cables & connectors for aerospace) is losing a ton of orders for that program.