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Shakesville: What is it With Republicans...
DownWithTyranny!: Outrage Continues To Build As Limbaugh's Hateful Remarks Repulse Most Americans But Seem To Inspire More GOP Members Of Congress
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: Stimulus reportedly has $23 billion in useless GOP pork
What is it With Republicans...
Shakesville —
... Not to mention the fact that financially stable families might, you know, spend and stimulate the economy. Nope, not gonna happen. But, hey, the bill is still full of ineffective corporate tax breaks. ...
Outrage Continues To Build As Limbaugh's Hateful Remarks Repulse Most Americans But Seem To Inspire More GOP Members Of Congress
DownWithTyranny! —
... Carney (PA), Harry Mitchell (AZ), Zack Space (OH), Gabby Giffords (AZ), each of whom has voted more frequently with the GOP than with fellow Dems on the tough substantive issues that have divided the House along partisan lines. I don't doubt that Emanuel will razzle and dazzle them, as he's razzled and dazzled Blue Dogs, with proof of how the Obama team is including ineffective-- even counter-effective-- Republican ideas as part of the Stimulus Package, ideas that Obama economists had already panned. ...
Stimulus reportedly has $23 billion in useless GOP pork
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
$20bn buys a lot of corporate jets. At least $23.8 billion in corporate tax breaks have been included in the $825 billion economic recovery package in order to win backing from key business groups and their Congressional allies, even though the team that put the legislation together believes the breaks have little value in stimulating the economy and creating jobs. Top beneficiaries include banks, telecommunication companies, railroads and oil, hotels, casinos, and both commercial and residential real estate firms. "Everyone knows these provisions ...
Stimulus in flux
Daily Kos —
... stimulus bill — a move likely to set off a firestorm among powerful forces in the Democratic Party. Obama has asked House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) to strip a plan to extend birth control coverage under Medicaid from the stimulus package, the Associated Press reports. The plea comes as Obama courts Republican support for the $825 billion package, for which he wants to see strong bi-partisan backing. Stimulus Includes Tax Cuts That Obama Economists Panned As Ineffective At least ...
The House Vote
Swampland —
... 3. There is an awful lot of crap in this bill. And much of it is Republican-style crap, as Tom Edsall reported: more than $23 billion in old-fashioned tax breaks to corporations, which stimulates nothing except the lobbyists' bank statements. That sort of thing is as disgraceful as it is inevitable--the grease needed to get votes for the final package. I'd prefer a more elegant bill--and especially one that includes more spending programs targeted on an energy-efficient future, including more rail transit (as well as an Infrastructure Bank to vet all new ...
Sunday Show Panelists Claim That Obama Has Never ‘Opposed His Liberals’
Think Progress —
... to lift the sinking economy. Similarly, progressives consistently warned the President not to replace highly-stimulative spending with ineffectual tax cuts. Nevertheless, the President rejected progressive pleas for a more substantial package and brokered a deal with made tax cuts almost ...
