Senate switchboard: All circuits are busy; Update: Stop the cave-in. Call the GOP’s Queasy Quartet; Voino calls it quits
Scroll for updates…The Friday night cave-in is about to begin…Collins (202) 224-2523 Snowe (202) 224-5344 Voinovich (202) 224-3353 Specter (202) 224-4254…If you make just one call, make it Specter’s office. I’m told that he is the ringleader making this happen…Give him hell…
From both Capitol Hill staff reports and reader e-mails, the phones have been melting down in Washington — and not from Americans who are enthralled with the idea of stealing $1 trillion from future generations for a Crap Sandwich Supreme. If you can’t get through the first time, try, try again.
My friends at TCOT Report have a handy list of contact information — including fax numbers — for several of the Senate GOP wobblers here. And you can get all the House members’ e-mail addresses here or here.
B.O. Republican Sen. Arlen Specter told Fox this morning that a “bipartisan” group is conspiring right now to make token cuts to the bill and push a compromise through. More on the “moderate” effort to make token cuts to the behemoth spending package here.
President Obama has ramped up his fear-mongering rhetoric. Time for you to ramp up your voices.
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Lunchtime update. Speak now or forever hold your piece. Yesterday, I identified the Senate GOP’s Queasy Quartet — the stimulus wobblers — who are now colluding with the Dems to get the bill passed tonight.
Now, read this just in from Roll Call on the latest negotiations:
Bipartisan negotiators are close to an agreement to cut more than $100 billion from the Senate’s economic stimulus bill, but a handful of Republicans are still holding out for assurances that the spending that remains in the package will be temporary.
Just before noon on Friday, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) emerged from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) office and said the key to announcing any deal will be persuading four Senate Republican negotiators to sign onto the amendment. The Republicans who Democrats are trying to strike an accord with include moderate Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Olympia Snowe (Maine), George Voinovich (Ohio), and Arlen Specter (Pa.). Collins has served as the lead GOP negotiator.
Nelson said that the bulk of the work on the amendment has been completed and that the proposal they will offer would trim more than $100 billion from the more than $920 billion measure.
Nelson said the group is trying to craft language ensuring that any increased spending to states or on federal programs would not become permanent.
The amendment calling for massive cuts to the more than $900 billion bill has become crucial to the measure’s ultimate passage, given that many Democrats and several Republicans have said they cannot support the bill without a cut to the price. Democrats need 60 votes to overcome procedural hurdles and pass the bill, meaning they will need the support of all 58 Members of the Democratic Conference and at least two Republicans.
Though Democrats are uneasy with the hefty cuts to education and other programs in the negotiators’ amendment, it appears they are likely to vote for the proposal in order to get the bill into conference with the House, where adjustments can be made.
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) said he expects Democrats will “vote for the amendment with the understanding that it’s moving the process along.”
Earlier Friday, Reid prodded bipartisan negotiators to finish work quickly on the amendment so that the Senate could complete work on the measure later in the day.
“We’re nearing the time when negotiations must be completed and action must begin,” Reid said on the floor Friday morning. “So I urge my colleagues, both Democrats and Republicans, to dedicate this day to responsibly passing this legislation and sending it to the president.”
He added that he hoped to have the bipartisan amendment ready to vote on between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
“We’re going to be able to work something out. I feel very comfortable that we can do that,” he said.
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Voinovich drops out. And then there were three…
Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) has pulled out of negotiations on a bipartisan compromise on the Senate’s economic stimulus bill.
Three Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Olympia Snowe (Maine) and Arlen Specter (Pa.) — continue to negotiate with Democrats, but Voinovich’s departure could make it more difficult for Democrats to reach the 60 votes they need to pass the bill.
Voinovich left a meeting in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) office around 2:30 p.m., saying he did not believe there was a deal he could agree to on an amendment that would cut as much as $100 billion from the more than $920 billion measure.
“I’ve really tried to work on this, but the three things that it should be timely, that it should be temporary and it should be targeted, that was something that I looked at,” Voinovich said. “It just doesn’t meet my criteria, and I feel very sorry because I think the Majority Leader has his responsibility, and he’s got his Members that he has to take care of.”
Voinovich said he could not get past his objections to fund school construction in the bill, and he wanted the measure to include more money for highway construction.
“They can’t seem to get it through there that right now what we need is a program that will create jobs,” Voinovich said.
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To paraphrase the late great Mayor Daley of Chicago;
CALL EARLY, CALL OFTEN !!!
I heard Obama “rejected” the teleprompter and gave a rather angry speech today in light of the fact Americans haven’t just rolled over and embraced socialism.
There is hope – true hope – for the future of this country yet..
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner:
“this is not a stimulus bill, this is a spending bill,’ What do you think a stimulus is? That’s the whole point. No, seriously, that’s the point. Now I got carried away,” he joked. But, “Here’s the point I’m making. This package is not going to be absolutely perfect, and you can nit and you can pick. That’s the game we all play here. What I’m saying is we can’t afford to play that game.”
We’ve found a POTUS who is demonstrably dumber than our last one.
Eloquent? Yes. He didn’t misunderestimate a syllable.
But an imbecile? Demonstrably.
Anyone who can’t see the difference between economic stimulus and pork (in its many forms) is a dope.
Obama, here’s your first of many signs…
Call for FREE. Try one of these:
Call Capitol Hill Switchboard TOLL FREE:
1-877 851-6437
1-800 828-0498
1-866 340-9281
1-866 338-1015
1-866 220-0044
I hope this goes better than the TARP effort.
“All circuits are busy.”
“All circuits are busy.”
Love it. Maybe there is some HOPE that this porkeroo bill dies a timely death.
Called yesterday. Emailed just now.
Hussein is trying to buy America.
It won’t work.
This man doesn’t have a clue! Empty suit…narcassist…idiot!
If you don’t do what he says, he’ll have a temper tantrum! Moron!
We should have a trial for Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy et al for treason and try Obama for being stupid!
Don’t get your hopes up.They are determined to cram this down our throats.It looks like they can hardly wait.They will be patting each other on the back saying how brave and right this is to get us stimulated.I am waiting to get my standard form email from the Texas senators that will tell me they are “on it.”
I was able to fax Kay Hagan (D-NC), but couldn’t get through on the regular phone line. I doubt she’ll change her vote. Her seat was purchased by the democrat senatorial committee.
Talked to a real live person at:
Spector
Snowe
Murkowski
Still trying the others……
Busy or VM full or call does not go thru.
While I was on hold I found this on Spector’s website.
U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA), Arlen Specter (R-PA), Pat Leahy (D-VT), Chris Dodd (D-CT), Charles Schumer (D-NY) and John Kerry (D-MA) introduced a bipartisan amendment to provide state and local governments with more flexibility in using funds allocated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP).
WTH ???
One Repub in a pool of Dems does not make it bipartisan. It makes you look like a
McCainsuck-up.When the staffer got on the like I politely said NO to the porkulus and NO to the NSP because of ACORN.
No, no, no! If any republican signs on to any sort of compromise the dems will use that to proclaim this is a “bi-partisan” bill. Think of the message the republicans would send if they were as united as the House. This is a great opportunity for the republicans.
Although I’m glad he won’t, perhaps Obama would have gotten more of the type of spending bill (and it is) he wanted had he not squandered much of his popularity and credibility by selecting from among the most dishonest tax cheats in the Democrat Party to fill his cabinet.
And liberals always claimed President Bush’s cabinet was suspect – Obama has only himself to blame for this spending bill’s failure, not the previous administration!
Got in touch with Warner’s office and he is still considering it…..I plead my case based on his being an business man and knowing there is nothing friendly to business or job stimulation in this bill. Its all one can do. I spoke to Webbs office yesterday and got the same response. I mentioned I was “afraid” AFRAID this bill will pass!
Infant in the Oval office.
He gives a preachers admonition while he thinks, if I don’t don’t get this crap passed, I won’t look so good.
Saving face is apparently much more important than anything else.
I pray you are right, but I heard him give a talk last night to some dems in Virginia at this “retreat”. He started out quietly, joking, defending the “stimulus”. He mentioned the need to replace a fleet of cars in government with hybrids and said, “Why wouldn’t we want to do that?” It was a very sarcastic remark, delivered in a sarcastic tone of voice, as was a lot of the speech. But he flashed his dazzling smile and disarmed everyone. He is an arrogant SOB. By the end of his talk, he had gone into his lofty, “preaching to the masses” mode, furrowed his brow and emoted with eloquence. The crowd was on their feet clapping. Words, just the same old empty words, delivered like a master. Of course, he was preaching to the choir, but he really scared me. The man is an empty suited socialist who believes passionately in his cause and has a gift of persuasion.
Got through to my two georgia senators just to make sure they stay in line. Also got a fax through to Murkowski. The others are all tied up, a very good sign.
Worse yet, when the stimulus fails and the economy goes down in flames it will be labeled “the Republican crafted bill” and the public will swallow it whole. (The Republican shield.)If this thing must pass, fine. But let the Dems have 100% ownership.
Yesterday Obama admitted this is now a spending bill.
Michelle… this isn’t just about future generations… it is also about the current generations. If after passing this Obamanation, do you honestly think they will stop at robbing future generations?
Social Security for current retirees and people about to retire will be next, just to keep the lights on while paying the interest when we go into hyperinflation after the dollar is devalued to nothing.
Tell me why “our” new president has to read from a teleprompter to express his outrage that the Americans want to keep their money in their pockets and spend it the way they want to? Could it be he doesn’t believe in this stimulus bill himself an he wants to make sure he doesn’t veer off message? I have dubbed this guy PROMPTERBAMA!
From NRO Corner. According to other posts, Kerry, Lieberman and McCain are supposed to attend.
One hopes DeMint and Sessions have been reading the fine print in Senate rules to stall them spending bill, at least for this week.
I called my senators last night, will do so again tonight. I also called the four BO RINOs.
Chuckie Schumer (NY) is always busy, I don’t think he likes taking any calls.
Lets hope that our new Senator Kirsten Gillenbrand is better.
You people are too funny – you got us into this mess with your silly ideology and you are all too insecure to admit you were wrong – now our economy in losing jobs at an alarming rate and all you people can do is look for more of the same.
I have one simple question for all of you: Do any of you love America more than your conservative ideaolgy?
I am afraid you are right. Our reps and senators don’t believe us when we say “no”. I think this is their CYA for the botched mortgage crisis and rewarding the masses for voting them in. It’s crazy.
Loving our country and our conservative ideology are one and the same. We stand on the principles that our Founders set up at the beginning. Liberals are trying to destroy it. Now get lost…permanently.
I guess they will believe us on the next election day.
A simple question from the simple mind of IHateMyCountry.
Of course we love our country, that is why we are trying to keep it from being destroyed by those who would do so merely for self-aggrandizement.
The “stimulus” plan is just an attempt to buy future elections so the incumbents and their party can remain in power.
The One’s statements about the free market failing is because government meddles too much in the free markets thus ensuring they will “stumble.”
I’ll take my chances on “stumbles” rather than wait for the gubbment to make things “right.” The chances of the gubbment getting things “right” are slim and none!
Ilovemycountry said: something asinine.
If we loved our ideology more than our country, we would be howling for the Dems to own this monstrous bill, not trying to stop it altogether.
Yes, we are losing jobs, 500 Million jobs a MONTH in a nation of 350 Million. That’s liberal MATH for you.
I’m sure you love this country because if you were in any other country in the, you’d probably be locked up in some Gulag, or worse!
Give the ManChild credit Rob-he is working hard to be dumber
while at the same time pleasing his moon god.
Saw a bumper sticker on a SUV from Oklahoma that I wish I’d been able to buy during the campaign — Obama-Marx 2008. The One’s logo with a hammer and sickle.
Ron, you’re lucky you didn’t have it. A bumper sticker like that would get your car destroyed…or worse.
If you remember, POTUS-BO asked Bush to release the second part of the Funds just a couple of days before Obama became the POTUS?
And Bush (as a dumb-ass) did.
This was a calculated move on the Dems part. BO has already used the term “he inherited” the problem from the Bush administration. That way, none of the Funds were released during BO’s first 100 days thus he was not to blame.
Happyscrapper: What could be worse than having your car destroyed?
Something like having a Democrap-controlled Legislature, Executive, and soon Judicial branch?
Uh, never mind, guess we are already there…
And what “wrong’ ideology is that specifically? If the gov’t had stayed out of the housing market (the trigger for the crisis) in the first place by not issuing mandates to make loans avaiable to people with marginal credit (in an effort to increase minority ownership), we would not not have reached this point. And republicans are just as culpable because they wanted more deregulation of the lending industry at the saem time. These 2 items combined were a volatile mixture and led to runaway specualtion and price increases. If the gov’t had not tried to social engineer this would have been avoided. The credit markets operated efficiently (making loans and setting rates based on risk) before teh idiots in both parties decided not enough minorities owned their own homes, never considering maybe credit risk was the reason, not racism. 99% of the time the gov’t is the problem, not the solution.
Government condoms just don’t create jobs. Pork Barrel spending can’t save or create a single job. If this is to be a stimulus, make it stimulize. No party gets a blank check to pay back its political favors just because the economy is crumbling.
The ghost of Jimmy Carter is rearing his ugly head in Obama’s crappy leadership.
Or having some moonbat lib force your car off the road and into a swamp. They do have tempers, you know, as evidenced by our messiah.
Odummy whinning about the stimulus or pork bill not being rushed through, I picture him lying in the middle of the Oval Office kicking and screaming…”but I won, I won, you have to give me what I want.” That my friends is what we have for a president of the late great country of The United States of America.
Idiot! It was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac guaranteeing loans for everything that could breath that started this mess. Go back and check your facts.
Are the Republicans blameless? No way. All of government is corrupt to the core. So now that we admit mistakes, we should make more, larger mistakes, to correct them?
What’s the deal with this Cornyn ammendment? Is it the cave in? Schumer just voted aye.
Obama seems to be having a little bit of a hissy fit here. Poor baby.
Do not forget the Democrats, especially if they represent your state. I’ve emailed both of my Senators.
Many of us here in Maine wonder, often, why the people of this state are so stupid.
Not only do they continue to vote for Snowe and Collins, they have voted in liberal dems to run the state for the past 35 yrs. and we now have one of the highest tax burdens in the country, one of the lowest income averages and more nanny laws than you can shake a stick at.
I do apologize.
There are a couple of grassroots conservative groups that have formed so we will be seeing changes in the next couple of yrs. Hopefully.
Just wanted to pass along a site I found to easily drop a line to your elected official(s). Have to sign up but it’s free and it’s much easier to get the word out to a bunch of government types all at once. You can send stuff to any government official not just your own. I’ve sent emails to representatives that aren’t mine regarding the Ramos and Compean commutations.
It isn’t a perfect solution. My U.S. Senators are out of date and none of my state reps and senators are available although the governor is. Nor have I found a way to guarantee my messages have been sent and received.
PRWeb says:
So for those who prefer email or fax communication go sign up now and make your voice heard. Don’t forget to include Pelosi, Reid and Maobama.
If the quibbling quaking queasy quartet caves, we’ll all be bending over shortly.
CALL NOW.
Obama is just trying hard to deflect the obvious conclusion, that the market is responding to his election. He promised the most productive people in this country that he was going to raise their taxes, and if they are like me, they did the calculations and totaled up all the things they would NOT be able to afford, next year.
My mistake, its the Coburn amendment. Any idea what it is about?
No, it was clueless fools like you that have no idea of what they speak or write that got us into trouble. Take your mindless babble to KOS where you may find another dolt living in a partial fugue state.
There is no stopping this bill…it will pass…no matter how many phone calls we make….
The 4 Senator’s mentioned are NOT Republicans and never have been. RHINO’s are really Dem’s….they are consistently voting with the liberals and in fact are liberals themselves…they run as Republicans only to infiltrate the party and destroy it from the inside. Both President Bush’s are to blame here…they are at fault, as much as Americans are at fault for electing this mess of idiots we now see….
Grab your money and hold on….it will be 2yrs of Obama getting what he wants…and then generations to undo what he and the Democrat party will do….
We can only blame ourselves….the Republicans are the reason Obama is now President…what a shame to be backstabbed by our own party…..we may never recover…..
ideaolgy?
Santorum, who is thinking of running for governor (it will be an open seat), will back Toomey. and Specter will not have Bush to support him this time, either.
Unfortunately, the damage will have been done.
To people like ILMC we should have an economy more in line with californias economy.
Busy signal on Spectre’s line.
I have contacted Stabenow & Levin. Levin won’t work, but Stabenow has been known to vote with popular demand on occasion.
#52
Excellent. Why GWB supported Spectre in 2004, well, actually I do know now. One “moderate” washing the back of another.
I love seeing this. Yes, there is a chance we may lose but let it be known that we didn’t just roll over; we went down swinging.
Hopefully it will make it easier the next time, and the next…
ILMC would love the country more if we were Zimbabwe, I suspect.
It was NOT the Conservative ideology that got us into this mess…it was the Democrat/Liberal/Progressive and RINO ideologies that got us into this mess. It’s up to the Conservatives to stand strong and block this mess!
If you call- don’t get thrown off by them asking your name and address to confirm you are a constituent. I told the guy at Spectors’ office and then railed into how wrong this spending bill is and proof positive is the fact that NJ has taxed and spent for so long that everyone is running to PA because of their lower taxes. These Senators are only elected by their constituents, but they are supposed to serve all Americans!
Oh we will probably lose. But his will then be obamas mess. Completely.
Nope, I can’t blame myself. I’m not responsible for Specter or any RINO being in Congress. I’m also not responsible for the Phlegm ‘n Crap Party taking over the country.
Millions of voters are to blame, but I’m not one of them.
I am calling busy busy busy now no answer
If you’re having trouble getting through on the DC numbers, here is a link to all the senators state offices phone & fax numbers.
http://moveovermoveon.posterous.com/senate-phonefax-lists-we-mail
If you don’t have a fax, use http://www.faxzero.com. They’ll let you do two free faxes each day.
Keep on them!
I’d make a wager on Specter not running again. I’m thinking this is his last term anyway.
I’ve been trying Spector, but it rings once and then I get a dial tone.
Let’s lock arms together and jump into socialism now that we are only throwing 800 plus billion down the drain!
1,2,3….GO!
Senators! No amendment! Kill this bill dead!
It makes me sick the way the Dems and b. hussein keep trying to pin this economy on Republicans. While they certainly contributed, this one is completely on the backs of Dodd, Fwank, Waters, and the rest who during three different Republican hearings on Fannie/Freddie kept defending Raines as the genius Guru who could do no wrong.
And the Rs just make me madder that they don’t take the Ds to task on this and make it stick!
Led dem on the pork spending.
To quote him directly.
“SO WHAT?”
Michelle, I love you dearly, but you need to be more careful about your word choice! It’s “Speak now or forever hold your peace.
The other word could raise some “inappropriate” imagery.
Hello… Hello? Is this mic on? Hello? Washington???? Hello?
(Oh my bad…. its a Friday)
Just FYI, Friday the 13th is just one week away!!
Fixed it.
“I’ve been trying Spector, but it rings once and then I get a dial tone.”
Actually I’m pretty sure that means you spoke with him directly.
“The other word could raise some “inappropriate” imagery.”
Yet may be more accurate!
HT: Redstate
If, as BO states, every day is a delay in getting us on the road to recovery and, if it will take years for the recovery to happen, why can’t we take a day or two or three to get it right in the first place so the recovery works for all concerned?
Oh, stupid me, because the longer we get to sniff around this piece of “stuff” called a Stimulus package, the stinkier it gets.
Even McCain isn’t happy with this.
If McConnell had any spine at all he’d call a meeting of the caucus, the kind the Dems did when Lieberman supported McCain, and have a vote to expel Snowe, Collins and Specter from the caucus.
It doesn’t matter if it gives the Demonrats more than 60 votes for cloture, if these clowns won’t filibuster Porkulus they won’t fillibuster anything.
Why am I reminded of this scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
“Please! Please! This is supposed to be a happy occasion! Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who. We are here today to witness the union of two young people in the joyful bond of the holy wedlock. Unfortunately, one of them, my son Herbert, has just fallen to his death.”
Update from PA:
Arlen’s local office 717-782-3951 is taking messages only and the box is full ofcourse. The fax # is 717-782-4920 for anyone so inclined.
note to someone above:
Arlen has already announced he is running in 2010. We need to put pressure on state parties as well as GOP and make it clear that supporting
a rino incumbant won’t cut it.
Dex,
lol good one!
reid’s arrogant nose will be smelling the aroma of porkaka.
I guess the good news is one could not ask for a better real world example of why it is conservatives have left the Republican Party and have accused our leadership of being out of touch with their base.
This one issue will be the dividing line between conservatives and those who want our votes who are “Republican”.
They’ve made it easy for us in the next election.
Can we please amend the Constitution to be like Texas’?! The legislature meets every 2 years, and for only 140 days?
The longer these guys ‘work’, the worse off we are!
“NOW, THEREFORE, I, ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, Governor of the State of California, do hereby proclaim February 6, 2009, as “Ronald Reagan Day” ”
__________________
Happy Birthday, President Reagan !
The all but forgotten Global Poverty Act. Or is this it
What does this “stimulus” do to this coming catastrophe? Notice the names on this….
S.2433
Global Poverty Act of 2007
A bill to require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.
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Official: A bill to require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day. as introduced.
Short: Global Poverty Act of 2007 as reported to senate.
Short: Global Poverty Act of 2007 as introduced.
4/24/2008–Reported to Senate amended. Global Poverty Act of 2007 – Directs the President, through the Secretary of State, to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the U.S. foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day. Requires the strategy to contain specific and measurable goals and to consist of specified components, including:
(1) continued investment or involvement in existing U.S. initiatives related to international poverty reduction and trade preference programs for developing countries;
(2) improving the effectiveness of development assistance and making available additional overall United States assistance levels as appropriate;
(3) enhancing and expanding debt relief as appropriate;
(4) mobilizing and leveraging the participation of businesses and public-private partnerships;
(5) coordinating the goal of poverty reduction with other internationally recognized Millennium Development Goals; and
(6) integrating principles of sustainable development and entrepreneurship into policies and programs. Sets forth specified reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary of State to designate a coordinator who will have primary responsibility for overseeing and drafting the reports, as well as responsibility for helping to implement recommendations contained in the reports. Defines specified terms.
All Bill Actions
Added to calendar on Apr 24, 2008: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 718..
Apr 24, 2008: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Biden with amendments and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-331.
Added to calendar on Feb 13, 2008: Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably..
Feb 13, 2008: Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
Dec 07, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Introduced on Dec 07, 2007.
Sponsor
Barack Obama
and 30 Co-Sponsors
Joseph Biden
Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D, NM]
Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA]
Sen. Sherrod Brown [D, OH]
Sen. Maria Cantwell [D, WA]
Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D, MD]
Sen. Robert Casey [D, PA]
Hillary Clinton
Sen. Susan Collins [R, ME]
Sen. Christopher Dodd [D, CT]
Sen. Richard Durbin [D, IL]
Sen. Russell Feingold [D, WI]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D, CA]
Charles Hagel
Sen. Thomas Harkin [D, IA]
Sen. Tim Johnson [D, SD]
Sen. John Kerry [D, MA]
Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D, MN]
Sen. Herbert Kohl [D, WI]
Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D, NJ]
Sen. Richard Lugar [R, IN]
Sen. Robert Menéndez [D, NJ]
Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D, MD]
Sen. Patty Murray [D, WA]
Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY]
Gordon Smith
Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME]
Sen. Debbie Ann Stabenow [D, MI]
Sen. Jim Webb [D, VA]
Sen. Ron Wyden [D, OR]
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2433/show
“Arlen has already announced he is running in 2010.”
There is a big difference between announced and actually running.
Just remember, you heard it hear first….
do hereby proclaim February 6, 2009, as “Ronald Reagan Day”
You are aware of the irony of the announcement right?
Today is the day they start forced Friday’s off in California because they are broke. They are broke by NOT doing what Reagan would have done.
I can’t get through to any of them…either busy or full voicemails.
The Honorable Senator John Cornyn
517 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
Fax (202) 228-2856
Sir:
If the Republican party can not sustain a filibuster against the seriously flawed House Resolution 1, I will not support the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee in any way unless the Republican senators who voted for cloture or indicated a willingness to vote for cloture to prevent a filibuster are not publically excluded from receiving funds. I will not send my hard earned money to support candidates like Senator Specter in 2010 who does not share my conservative principles.
I would prefer a meeting of the caucus, of the type the Democrats had concerning Senator Lieberman’s patriotic support for Senator McCain last year, to vote whether any senators who regularly vote with Senator Reid should be allowed to remain in the caucus. Clearly, if they won’t support the filibuster in this case, they will never support any filibuster, and it won’t matter if their expulsion results in more than 60 Democratic senators.
Sincerely,
Edward M. Mahmoud
5555 Sugar Candy Mountain
Houston, TX 77014
“I think it’s time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers. If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man.” –Ronald Reagan (1964)
Happy Birthday, President Reagan !!!
A nice interlude. My wife had an ultrasound today, both babies are fine. Though one was busy kicking the other in the head!!! and has bi-ceps already (yay for mum right??)
Now back to the regularly scheduled slide into economic disaster.
“At what point should we expect the approach of danger? By what means are we to fortify against it? Shall we expect some trans-Atlantic military power to step across the ocean and crush us? Never. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it cannot and it will not come from abroad. If danger ever reach us, it must spring up from amongst us. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we will live through all time or die by suicide.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) From an 1838 speech when he was just 29 years old.
We are watching our national suicide play out before our very eyes.
VA Pat.: I wonder if Honest Abe had a teleprompter in front of him when he spoke those words?
I can’t wait to watch BO flop around like a fish out of water when he does his Press Conference Monday.
But, then I recall he will have prescreened all questions and know just which reporters to call on.
Of course, Helen Thomas, the holder of the “Even Max Factor Can’t Help YOU!” contest will be the first to raise her drool cup.
Just heard Voinovich pulled out of the “bipartisan” group – he can’t retire soon enough
Sent a similarly worded version of #88 to McConnell ((202) 224-2499) as well. I want the hard core RINOs expelled from the caucus.
If he’s snippy now, they’ll have to unscrew him from the ceiling if someone actually gets a chance to ask him a substantive question.
Fat chance, though.
I’d contribute to a pot to give someone with the cojones to ask him:
“Why are you spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on lawyers to prevent access to your original long-form birth certificate and university documentation?”
SON,
^10 congrats
JS,
Arlen will run unless he is dead, he gets alot of support from dems who cross party and register for primary.
If it hadn’t been for Dubya supporting him ( sigh ) and dems jumping over in primary we would have Sen Toomey now.
so it goes
Ed,
me too enough is enough. Now is the time to put pressure on state parties as well as Michael Steele.
GOP zero RINO zone.
bansharia, thanks, I though it would be nice to hear something positive here today.
Just called, emailed, and faxed all four of these guys.
I’m worried, that not enough people are doing the same. At most I had to dial just 2X to get through. When we all mobilized for the Amnesty nightmare, it took me hours to get through.
Spread the word! Send emails to everyone you know. Ask them to at least email these guys. Write something up for them to copy and paste to make it easier.
Every word I shower upon you in my great benevolence is a positive blessing, sonofdy.