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Gateway Pundit: Republican Collins Defends Her Decision To Support Stimulus Bill (Video)
Pat Dollard | Young Americans: Sure Enough, The Three Wanna-be Republican Senators Face Harsh Criticism For Pushing Dem’s Stimulus Bill
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed: GOP Senators Draw Party's Wrath For Supporting Stimulus Bill
Republican Collins Defends Her Decision To Support Stimulus Bill (Video)
Gateway Pundit —
... Collins says people will immediately see more money in their paychecks due to the Spendulus Bill because of the reduced taxes. (Does anyone know if this is an accurate statement?) Collins also said if the bill came back from conference and is once again bloated with wasteful spending she will vote against it. We'll see. Here is a breakdown of the Collins/Nelson Stimulus Bill changes. FOX News reported that Collins and Specter are facing backlash for siding once again with liberal democrats: Until ...
Sure Enough, The Three Wanna-be Republican Senators Face Harsh Criticism For Pushing Dem’s Stimulus Bill
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... Fox News: Until Friday, President Obama’s plea for bipartisanship support of his costly plan for stimulating the economy mostly had fallen on deaf GOP ears, but that changed when three Republican moderates pledged their support. ...
GOP Senators Draw Party's Wrath For Supporting Stimulus Bill
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... These three Republican senators have broken ranks with their party to provide the final votes needed to pass the bill in the Senate, and they risk the wrath of their colleagues and constituents. Fox News reports: ...
GOP Senators Draw Party's Wrath For Supporting Stimulus Bill
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... These three Republican senators have broken ranks with their party to provide the final votes needed to pass the bill in the Senate, and they risk the wrath of their colleagues and constituents. Fox News reports: ...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... put the cost of the measure at $780 billion…Republican critics said that the price tag was actually higher…Official cost figures were not yet available.
AFP: The bill's supporters noted that its price tag would be far smaller than the 937 billion dollars… Details were elusive… Republicans said their calculations put the new bill at roughly 830 billion dollars
LAT: a price tag of about $780 billion under the compromise deal, though the final figure was unclear.
GOP Senators Risk Political Backlash Over Support of Stimulus Bill - Collins, Snowe and Specter ...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... GOP Senators Risk Political Backlash Over Support of Stimulus Bill - Collins, Snowe and Specter
Until Friday, President Obama's plea for bipartisanship support of his costly plan for stimulating the economy mostly had fallen on deaf GOP ears, but that changed when ...
Democrat Honor Roll
Moonbattery —
... gain by bucking Nazi Pelousy, Chairman Zero, et al. and voting against Porkzilla:
Allen Boyd [D, FL]
Bobby Bright [D, AL]
Jim Cooper [D, TN]
Brad Ellsworth [D, IN]
Parker Griffith [D, AL]
Paul Kanjorski [D, PA]
Frank Kratovil [D, MD]
Walter Minnick [D, ID]
Collin Peterson [D, MN]
Heath Shuler [D, NC]
Gene Taylor [D, MS]
More than half are Blue Dogs. They might want to switch parties with certain Senate turncoats. ...
Dems Fighting to Restore School-Building Aid to Stimulus
TPM Election Central —
The overall dynamic of stimulus negotiations between the two chambers of Congress, which Democrats are aiming to finish by the end of the week, involves senators pressing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to accept the $100 billion or so in cuts that were insisted upon by three GOP centrists.
But Pelosi's side of the Capitol isn't going totally unheard by the Senate. Democrats are growing confident that the final stimulus package will include some, if not all, of the $16 billion in school construction aid that was sliced by centrist senators last week. ...
Gregg Ditches Commerce Post, RNC Offers Specter
ScrappleFace —
... “Sen. Specter is a career lawyer and politician, but he’s a fast learner and could be quickly trained to run the Commerce Department,” said RNC Chairman Michael Steele. “Of course, Republicans would miss his stalwart, reliable voting in the Senate. Conservatives never have to wonder how Arlen Specter will vote.” ...
Racism and Hate Rear Ugly Heads in Britain
Pajamas Media —
From Thatcher's daughter using racial slurs to a Foreign Office bigwig cursing Jews, it's been another bad month. [image] Over the past week there has been a string of controversies dominating the airwaves of Britain; indeed, if you live in the United Kingdom you will be blissfully unaware of the “ stimulus bill ” turmoil on Capitol Hill. In recent weeks our news cycle has revolved around the national crisis over a ...
Stimulus II: The Sequel
Wizbang —
... the oxymoron) is going to stand by and watch the place burn down. Schadenfreude can be deceptively appealing, particularly on the heels of a landslide defeat in 2008, but everyone must live with the consequences of the Democrat's fiscal craziness. Somewhere, sometime soon an opposition Party must emerge. The damage created by a second stimulus plan may be irreversible for generations. In a search for accountability the first place to look may be among the Republican Senators that sold out on Stimulus I. Perhaps a quick litmus test of Michael Steele and Mitch McConnell's ...
