Alert: Who are the Senate GOP wobblers?; Update: Reid says he has two Republicans; Collins is sold; Voino no?; 6:15pm Eastern Reid: “I don’t have 60 votes yet…We should outlaw polls;” No vote tonight

By Michelle Malkin  •  February 5, 2009 01:01 PM

Scroll for updates…Collins falls; Voino a no?…6:15pm Eastern…Reid on floor…will work into night…”I don’t have 60 votes yet…we should outlaw polls..;” 9:00pm Eastern update…No vote tonight…

Buzz on the Hill is that the Senate may vote today on the Generational Theft Act of 2009. Harry Reid and the Dems are desperate to end public debate.

And then there’s this oh-so-important consideration (hat tip: Rob Neppell):

“An analyst on Bloomberg just said the talk in Washington is that the Stimulus bill must pass today because many Senators are booked to a security “junket” to Munich tomorrow. Your govt. at work.”

Crikey.

The Senate GOP wobblers may be conspiring on a disastrous compromise as we speak. Who are they?

I’m told that the Squishy Four are (no surprises here):

Collins (202) 224-2523
Snowe (202) 224-5344
Voinovich (202) 224-3353
Specter (202) 224-4254

Staunch conservative Sen. Coburn is on the floor right now defiantly rebutting Harry Reid’s hurry-up alarmism. Coburn: “Hurry up is what got us into trouble in the first place.”

Call the GOP wobblers. Tell ‘em to slam the brakes. Kill the bill. Stab it. Stick a fork in it. Then start from scratch.

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Update: The Hill reports that Reid says he has two Republicans…

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Thursday that he has enough votes to pass a more than $900 billion stimulus bill out of the Senate.

Reid said he believes at least two Republicans of “good will” would support the Democratic-crafted package.

“Do we have the votes? I believe we do,” said Reid, who expects a final vote on the package will be held on Thursday.

Update: Collins is sold…

Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine said Obama, in a meeting with her on Wednesday, had persuaded her that the ultimate bill should be “in the neighborhood of $800 billion.”

“The president did convince me,” she said, adding that she believed the two sides would reach a compromise on the Senate stimulus package on Thursday.

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Update: Hill source says latest word from Voinovich is that he’ll vote against it. Managing my expectations of Crybaby George, but it’s a glimmer of Hope…

A reader e-mails that she just got through to Voino’s office and his statement is a bit more squeamy (I know, it’s not a word, but it fits): “He doesn’t support the bill in its present form.”

Update: 6:15pm Eastern…Reid on floor…will work into night…”I don’t have 60 votes yet…we should outlaw polls…” Yeah, damn those polls when they don’t go your way.

Update: 9:00pm Eastern. Reid calls it quits for the night!

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  1. #613404
    On February 5th, 2009 at 11:24 pm, bjc said:

    Republicanvet: Could be smoking withdrawal symptoms; And with his signing of that wonderful Schip bill to fund health care for illegal aliens through a cigarette tax, you would think he, Michelle, and their daughters would all be lighting up to help in the cause; Typical liberal logic.
    *Later.

  2. #613411
    On February 5th, 2009 at 11:34 pm, frontierguy said:

    I see you all saw the grandstanding BHO did on tv. What a douchebag, I can’t believe he actually said to quit crying over earmarks because what bill does not come out of washington without earmarks. He should have just put on a clown costume and danced around the stage with a horn. He, Pelosi and Reid are the clown masters of ceremony in the three ringed circus that is our House, Senate and White House.

  3. #613416
    On February 5th, 2009 at 11:43 pm, rfjjulie said:

    Sendme- Excellent video. It should be played in every classroom in the Nation. Thank you.

  4. #613450
    On February 6th, 2009 at 1:22 am, tbear44 said:

    Yes, Sendme–thanks for that link. A tyranny of the elite. Hmmm, sounds familiar.

  5. #613471
    On February 6th, 2009 at 3:54 am, ITookTheRedPill said:
  6. #613486
    On February 6th, 2009 at 6:34 am, graysonret said:

    Thanks, Send_me. A good video.

  7. #613503
    On February 6th, 2009 at 8:00 am, jangar said:

    …we should outlaw polls…

    I thought Democrats operated exclusively by polls…

    Oh, just depends on the poll I guess.

  8. #613515
    On February 6th, 2009 at 8:39 am, MrOlympia said:

    I am really beginning to think that liberal politicians WANT A DEPESSION!

    After all they can blame it on Bush and Republicans with full support of the liberal biased media and at the same time cement their hold on power while their socialist policies take full effect.

    Muslims around the world are licking their chops. With O in office their sick cult can accelerate their plans to convert the infidels in the USA!

  9. #613518
    On February 6th, 2009 at 8:47 am, 30 pcs of silver said:

    Here’s Governor Corzine’s take on it:

    Gov. Jon Corzine today said it would be “catastrophic” for New Jersey as well as the country if a major federal stimulus package does not pass, saying it could mean more than a billion-dollar difference in the amount he will have to cut from the state budget to be unveiled next month.

    If we don’t see that program in the state of New Jersey, we will see cuts that are dramatically more serious than the ones I am now working on,” Corzine said. “We’re going to have cuts regardless of what is included in that package, but they’re going to be even more severe — billion dollars or more severe — for the upcoming fiscal year.”

    I’m starting to sense a trend. Boohoo.

  10. #613519
    On February 6th, 2009 at 8:49 am, faraway said:

    Socialism Alert:

    Comrades, are you aware that Obama wants an ACORN-like census in 2010?

    Census now reports directly to him.

    Now, the ’stimulus’ package includes $1 Billion for that census.

  11. #613520
    On February 6th, 2009 at 8:50 am, MarkD said:

    Just say no to taxpayer funded graft and corruption. This bill smells like last week’s tuna fish sandwich.

    Cutting a few things here and there don’t change the fact it’s still a rotten sandwich.

  12. #613523
    On February 6th, 2009 at 8:56 am, cicerokid said:

    On February 5th, 2009 at 7:26 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:
    How is Botox Fright Mask Woman anyone’s idea of a “trophy wife”.

    Think ‘water buffalo mount on the wall’.

  13. #613525
    On February 6th, 2009 at 9:01 am, Send_Me said:

    On February 6th, 2009 at 8:39 am, MrOlympia said:
    I am really beginning to think that liberal politicians WANT A DEPESSION!

    You’re more right than you know. Read the writings of the early Marxists (Marx, Lenin, Gramsci, Lukács and others) and you’ll see how.
    First, promote chaos; chaos causes uncertainty; uncertainty, fear; fear, desire for hope; desire for hope, a savior. While promoting chaos, one needs only to prop up their version of a savior. If you’re of the Marxist persuasion, then government is that savior, promoted via a cult of personality.

  14. #613528
    On February 6th, 2009 at 9:10 am, right4life said:

    If you’re of the Marxist persuasion, then government is that savior, promoted via a cult of personality.

    BINGO!! you and Mr. Olympia (Arnold, Franco, Samir..Haney, Yates…which one?? ) are absolutely correct!!!

    the government as savior…and all the obamabots will stand in line for their mark..

  15. #613545
    On February 6th, 2009 at 9:22 am, WaterBoyz said:

    President Obama will go on prime time TV on Monday. Probably to deliver his catastrophic message that if Pelosi’s his stimulus package doesn’t get passed right away, the United States as we are today will be worse than at any time in our Country’s past.

    He will panic the dumb-masses and they will demand the stimulus package get passed.

    OK. Fine. That is what he believes.

    So, is Mr. Steele at the RNC gonna start the media campaign about the porkulus BEFORE PBO has a chance to continue the enabling of the msm in favor of PBO?

    This is a test of the new leadership at the RNC.

  16. #613569
    On February 6th, 2009 at 9:37 am, jsmiddleton4 said:

    “saying it could mean more than a billion-dollar difference in the amount he will have to cut from the state budget to be unveiled next month.”

    I just don’t understand either how insanely stupid these guys are or how stupid they think we are. There is NO money. The stimulus package is not MONEY. It is pretend, borrowed, make believe DEBT money. Either these guys are out of their minds and don’t understand the difference between REAL money and BORROWED money OR they do and they think we are all idiots.

    If we don’t have the money now to cover government, state and federal, budgets borrowing it does not then mean we suddenly HAVE the money. We don’t have the money. Get on with the pain.

    Borrowing it doesn’t fix the pain. It does however magnify the pain when the funds need to be paid back.

  17. #613586
    On February 6th, 2009 at 9:45 am, jsmiddleton4 said:

    I learned about this thing in the military that I am afraid is happening now. I was in the Navy. Periodically we had inspections. Of course the guys doing the inspections and the folks being inspected all knew each other. While it was serious business, it was also sorta a game.

    When I was early in the Navy we were having an inspection and I was a cleaning, organizing, checking every detail fool. About 1/2 through the day an old seasoned chief petty officer came over to me and said, “Slow down son. Here’s how this works. The inspectors will look until they find something. Our job is to give them something to find. Not too easy to find as then we’ll make them look bad. Not too hard to fix cause that will make us look bad and make our work harder. They’ll find something. We’ll fix something. Everyone looks good. Then we get back to being normal and get on with our day.”

    So that’s what we did. And it worked perfectly. It worked every year that we had inspections.

    So now our “leaders” are all busy trying to find things to cut out so that in the end, the total amount of this bill isn’t so high. That is still not a good thing. It is a rope-a-dope you see. We’ll feel all good and pat ourselves on the backs because our good Republican leaders cut this, cut that, so that its not as big as the Democrats wanted. They’ll pat themselves on their proverbial backs for being all partisan like, Obama all unifier like, and we still get SCREWED.

    How much stuff do you think is in this bill that was put in their to get cut? Goofy stupid spending stuff that is in their for one purpose; to get cut to serve a political ends to impact people’s perceptions of this bill?

    We don’t want this bill trimmed down. We want this bill stopped.

    The rope-a-dope is in place folks.

  18. #613610
    On February 6th, 2009 at 10:01 am, jsmiddleton4 said:

    “As I have explained to people in that group, they cannot hold the president of the United States hostage,” said Reid, D-Nev.

    Now THAT’S funny!

  19. #613650
    On February 6th, 2009 at 10:22 am, MrOlympia said:

    right4life said: Mr. Olympia (Arnold, Franco, Samir..Haney, Yates…which one??

    All I can tell you is that I am NOT THE RINO Ahnold! LOL

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