Today is, again, "Kill the Bill" day. The compromise that was partially negotiated by a few moderate Republicans comes up for the important cloture vote at about 5:30 today. Keep calling Snowe, Specter, and Collins (links are to contact pages for the three Senators). Hopefully we can get two of the three to stay strong and oppose this thing, even though Specter writes in the Washington Post today his reasons for supporting the ODAB.
The National Education Association doesn't like the compromise bill either, due to cuts that were made from education from the House version. They're still getting billions of dollars, though. No sympathy from me, but I do hope that they can pull a moderate Democrat or two to oppose it "for the children."
Some of the amendments to the ODAB that were considered would have made sure that none of the bill would result in new permanent spending programs (it failed) and banned the use of money in the bill for ACORN (it also failed). One amendment that Harry Reid won't even allow on the floor of the Senate would require citizenship verification for any business that would receive money under the ODAB.
Republican Senator Richard Shelby got it right when he said that this bill will put the United States on "a road to financial disaster." His Republican colleagues are seeing some political hope of their own in their opposition to this monstrosity, even though Democrats are (rightly) turning the "it spends too much" argument back at them, except Claire McCaskill (D-MO), who says that the federal government was on a "starvation diet" under President Bush. Even Joe Biden knows that this thing could backfire on the Democrats, and there is a 30% chance that they could fail. By the way, here are some examples of what is a trillion dollars.
Sixty-two percent of voters polled say that they would prefer more tax cuts and less government spending as an economic stimulus.
President Obama's rhetoric of hope and change has become doom and gloom, and the press isn't willing to call him on it. Maybe that's why his approval ratings are dropping so quickly. Even the far left is starting to turn because he wants to fight Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan.
The Congressional Budget Office sees the recession ending around the middle of the year without the ODAB.
The New York Times is calling those Republicans who want to vote for the ODAB "patriotic." If that is the standard now, then I'm proud to be unpatriotic. Does anybody else remember when dissent was patriotic?
We won't get the plan on the revamp of TARP until tomorrow, but there are a few things we can expect. While Geithner is working on revamping it, Goldman Sachs wants out of the TARP plan, and Wells Fargo is cancelling a corporate junket (which will require paying huge cancellation fees), despite being forced into TARP. The taxpayers are now on the hook for $9.7 trillion thanks to bailout programs, which would include $50 billion for mortgage modifications. That's enough money to pay off 90% of all mortgages in the country.
The Republican Party is suing the federal government in an attempt to get McCain-Feingold overturned.
President Obama has taken control of the 2010 census away from the Commerce Department because he doesn't trust his Republican nominee to the office.
Obama signed an Executive Order last week that would require union labor on federally funded construction projects. That'll just cost us more money.
Yemen released 170 members of Al-Qaida after they signed a pledge not to return. It's a look into the future without Guantanamo Bay.
Fifty-four percent of voters say that the media hype the dangers of global warming.
Now women are dreaming of having sex with President Obama, including New York Times blogger Judith Warner. This is just getting ridiculous.
There are a bunch of columns that are must-reads today. Here's how government caused the financial crisis, and Bush had nothing to do with it at all. Then you get some important lessons from Canada (for those of you looking forward to nationalized health care). Finally, here is why greed is good, despite the fact that wealth envy is a great American tradition.
Obama hit his head getting into Marine One. Moron! Idiot! Fool! (I'm just applying the Bush standard here)
Macon is the #1 market in the country for daytime television. This is not something to be proud of.
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Since Obama’s earnest drive to convince the nation to weaken its economic strength through redistribution as well as weaken its national defense, COUPLED WITH HIS UNPRECEDENTED WHITE HOUSE TAKEOVER OF DECENNIAL CENSUS TAKING FROM THE COMMERCE DEPARTMENT, has confirmed the very threats to our Republic’s survival that the Constitution was designed to avert, it no longer is sustainable for the United States Supreme Court and Military Joint Chiefs to refrain from exercising WHAT IS THEIR ABSOLUTE CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY TO DEFEND THE NATION FROM UNLAWFUL USURPATION. The questions of Obama’s Kenyan birth and his father’s Kenyan/British citizenship (admitted on his own website) have been conflated by his sustained unwillingnes to supply his long form birth certificate now under seal, and compounded by his internet posting of a discredited ‘after-the-fact’ short form ‘certificate’. In the absence of these issues being acknowledged and addressed, IT IS MANIFEST THAT OBAMA REMAINS INELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT UNDER ARTICLE 2 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. Being a 14th Amendment ‘citizen’ is not sufficient. A ‘President’ MUST BE an Article 2 ‘natural born citizen’ AS DEFINED BY THE FRAMERS’ INTENT.
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