Burning the midnight oil: The Sellout Amendment is here

The full, cave-in “compromise” porkulus amendment of GOP Sens. Collins, Specter, and Snowe finally arrived in my inbox tonight at 11:14pm Eastern.
So, your representatives of the “most deliberative body in the world” have barely a day to digest and debate the 778-page legislative text before rushing to vote on cloture Monday evening.
Like Dave Ramsey says: “Desperate always reap stupid.”
I’m uploading the whole thing for you so you can see it, too.
Click here for PDF file.
Get out your hip-waders.
Highlights coming.
In the meantime, make note of this observation from Justin Hart in response to the earlier chart outlining the Sellout Amendment’s bottom-line spending statistics (which I blogged about this afternoon here):
[figures in the thousands]
Agriculture: $5,109,430
Commerce: $21,513,000
Defense: $3,746,000
Energy & Water: $53,843,000
Financial & Gen. Govt: $10,762,000
Homeland Security: $5,076,700
Interior: $11,643,600
Labor, HHS, Education: $169,184,000
Military & VA: $7,428,295
THUD: $60,580,500
Appropriations: $365,629,525 (of course, this one isn’t broken out)
Bottom line: Global Warming, Government Healthcare, Teachers Unions, School Building Contractors, Subsidized Housing, and MASSIVE Pork.
Thanks, Turncoat Caucus.
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Update 2:10am Eastern. Invaluable Rob Nepell has put up an easy-to-use searchable version of the “compromise”/Sellout Amendment text online at Readthestimulus.org.
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JS,
While ACORN is a huge part of voter fraud there are other groups as well, hence all voter rolls need to be verified fully and not just chase the worm hole of ACORN.
excuse me for saying what you already know
In Kate’s defense, I think she was just expressing the frustration we all feel because no one seems to be doing anything about ACORN. Has anyone heard how all the investigations are going? I haven’t heard a thing!
“ACORN is a huge part of voter fraud there are other groups as well…”
Are thoese other groups getting funding?
While I know all of that, just reading it again is chilling!!
Obama grab of Census (no doubt to maximize registered voters, real or imaginary, in fertile ACORN territory like the ghettoes and barrios) a violation of the Constitution?
Of course, if nobody has standing to ask the Supremes if someone should actually see Obama’s original birth certificate who isn’t in the bag already for Obama, not sure anyone has standing to challenge this.
Perhaps Obama’s promised non-military ‘National Defense Force’, funded as well as DoD, aka
SaddamBarack Hussein’s Dreaded Republican Guard, would answer directly to him via his National Security Council.Drug use, teen pregnancy , and gang violence is either up, or unchanged since the 1990’s in urban areas, when Obama was empowering the people to deal with these issues by community organizing.
The truth is they get money- and he gets power, the problems are never fixed but his power grows.
The original reason given for forming ACORN has little resemblance to what they represent now!
Acorn are the core players of his and the DNC political enforcement branch now, and funneling of any public money to them should be criminal!
I heard today that Obama is backing off of that. Apparently, he now says they will share the office of census with the new Secratary of Commerce. Someone must have told him he was being too obvious about his attempt at a coup. I still think that they will get ACORN workers to conduct the census…and we know how accurate those folks are.
If anyone expects Obama and the left to follow the Constitution you are nuts. They will do whatever they think they can get away with. They have no internal motivation to follow the Constitution. They are externally motivated by getting or not getting “caught”.
The mindset that says the President will do his/her best to keep the Constitution and may miss the mark just a tad and if that happens it is an unintentional oversight, something that may happen rarely, that mind set is unrealistic with President Obama.
If we want the Constitution followed we will need be assertive and aggressive.
JS,
are they being funded ofcourse they are.
as directly as ACORN not per se.
Am not sure what your point is, mine is very simple: Michael Steele needs to hire on staff to fully review voter rolls in EVERY State, there is alot of fraud.
As far as ACORN they are much more than just voter fraud and yes GOP from national level needs to lead that investigation.
Happy I don’t know kate so I asked
yes we all have blue days and we also get “others” here as well….
…and very very vocal!! These things need to see the light of day a lot better than Obama’s past did!
“…are they being funded ofcourse they are. as directly as ACORN not per se.”
Who are they? What groups like ACORN but not ACORN are getting funding in this bill?
Yes, it is sometimes hard to tell the difference between someone having a bad day and those nasty “others”. Like Pasadena Phil who was trashing me earlier on this thread. I still can’t figure out what set him off! Believe me, I know about blue days! And I get plenty! I am just glad the Mighty Rushbo is back from vacation on Tuesday so I can get energized.
dinner time enjoy the night gang
Very, very true! The Constitution, to Obama and his minions, is a quaint old document with no bearing on life today.
Please watch this video I put together about this porkulus!!! Share it!!!! ASAP!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1EX5mKCBPk
You know there is just something wrong with those of you who decide to pick on other posters. Of course you are mad. We are mad too. Now go pick on some liberal if you have to kick a dog.
It’s Katablog not kate by the way. Yes, I’ve BEEN GOP all my voting life. I’m not anything now but totally sick. I’m 58 years old and this is not my America. I am stunned and angry that my country has been turned so upside down in so few years. But yes, I’ve been kicking and screaming all the way down.
I’ve written, I’ve called, no one is listen! I’ve watched this process for too long and I know how it’s going to end. In the best case scenario, a token few things will be taken out of the bill and we will all be told to shut up and go back to thumping our Bibles and marrying our sisters – bo won the election and now he’s king.
libertybelle: Chills! That is simply beautiful. Now I’m crying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1EX5mKCBPk
I strongly believe we would take up a collection and get Liberbelle’s YouTube one the airwaves immediately. I’m in.
I’d be happy to contribute too. That is awesome!!
Kata…I feel your frustration! I think all of us who care deeply about our country are getting a bit crabby and discouraged. We are in an uphill battle every day and it is depressing. I hope we will all step back and realize we are in this together and we certainly don’t want to hurt the very people who agree with our values and are trying to find the right answers too!! I can pretty much tell who are the trolls on this blog and who aren’t. I still am not sure about Pasadea Phil because he was so nasty…that usually means he is a troll. Does anyone know if that is so? If he is one of us, he has a strange way of showing it.
*Conservatives need to stay engaged and keep the glass half-full mentality going; There are still some fine conservative GOP members to support and we need to prod others and the RNC to stay committed in that direction for 2010 and 2012; Carter 1 gave us Reagan and Carter 2 will do likewise; P-BO has already overreached and so the recession will likely widen and deepen.
*As I have said before, the pain that will be upon us has ownership in the liberal nutbags that have given us a Carter with a tan when we desperately need a Churchill with a plan(Romney).
“Your government is spending $1 million on one bomb just to wipe your homes off the face of the earth. Show your appreciation.”
~Senator Jack S. Fogbound
From the musical, “Lil Abner”.
On February 8th, 2009 at 5:36 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:
Hear, hear!!!
The COLB “proof” that Obama provided…
1) …Is not the same thing as the original birth certificate, and does not show the name of the hospital where he was born. Obama has never provided proof of the hospital and attending physician at his birth. Obama and his sister have given different hospital names as his location of birth. No hospital in Hawaii has any record of Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, being a patient in their hospital around the time of Obama’s birth.
2) …First appeared on Daily Kos along with “Haye I.B Ahphorgerie” (”Hey! I Be A Forgery!”)
3) …Was rightfully suspected of being a forgery.
4) …The “hardcopy” was produced at the Obama Campaign headquarters, not by the State of Hawaii, and was only shown to a small, controlled, friendly audience.
5) Neither the Daily KOS image nor the hardcopy were ever “verified” by the State of Hawaii.
6) No Hawaiian official ever went on record saying that Obama was born in Hawaii.
7) Both the Associated Press and Annenberg Political Fact Check published LIES that were then distributed far and wide and were believed by many people, including our beloved hostess Michelle and my Republican Senator.
It baffles the mind how Obama was able to pull off this fraud in plain sight. Congress inspected one certificate from Hawaii (the certificate of the Electoral Vote), but never inspected the other certificate from Hawaii (the certificate of live birth for Obama). Pay no attention to Obama’s grandmother who says she was present at his birth…in Kenya! Pay no attention to Obama’s admitted British citizenship at birth (because his father was a British subject, not a U.S. citizen). Pay no attention to Obama’s Indonesian citizenship or his 1981 travel to Pakistan on a non-U.S. passport.
We now have a Marxist usurper as Saboteur-in-Chief.
I Think Obama is killing to goose that laid the golden egg…..
On February 8th, 2009 at 7:11 pm, bjc said:
We have a role to play…
And while I share your optimism, I think Reagan 2 will be a different man…
I Think Obama is killing the goose that laid the golden egg… typo correction
Exactly. What do you think they meant by the lyrics:
Sorry, can’t lie to myself. As a Conservative I believe in truth and the glass ain’t half full anymore folks!
*I am okay with Huckabee as he relates well with the common folk, and strongly supports the Fair Tax, which transfers power back to the people like nothing else ever envisioned.
*No need to lie, just maintain a desire to fight for what you believe in; My motto has always been “Get results, don’t give excuses”, and I have no plans otherwise.
Obama is going to Kill the golden
goose!
Dust yourselves off. Tarp 2 is coming next. Then Card check. Then socialized medicine. Abandoning Iraq. Abandoning Afghanistan. Amnesty. etc…
On February 8th, 2009 at 8:50 pm, Marie said:
That’s what all collectivists do.
Huckabee was the one who was PROUD to be spending taxpayer money on illegals.
Romney had to remind him in the debate, “It’s not your money to spend!”
Huckabee is Statist.
Here are some facts about Huckabee:
Excerpt from THIS article from The Club For Growth.
Immediately upon taking office, Governor Huckabee signed a sales tax hike in 1996 to fund the Games and Fishing Commission and the Department of Parks and Tourism (Cato Policy Analysis No. 315, 09/03/98).
He supported an internet sales tax in 2001 (Americans for Tax Reform 01/07/07).
He publicly opposed the repeal of a sales tax on groceries and medicine in 2002 (Arkansas News Bureau 08/30/02).
He signed bills raising taxes on gasoline (1999), cigarettes (2003) (Americans for Tax Reform 01/07/07), and a $5.25 per day bed-tax on private nursing home patients in 2001 (Arkansas New Bureau 03/01/01).
He proposed another sales take hike in 2002 to fund education improvements (Arkansas News Bureau 12/05/02).
He opposed a congressional measure to ban internet taxes in 2003 (Arkansas News Bureau 11/21/03).
In 2004, he allowed a 17% sales tax increase to become law (The Gurdon Times 03/02/04).
By the end of his ten-year tenure, Governor Huckabee was responsible for a 37% higher sales tax in Arkansas, 16% higher motor fuel taxes, and 103% higher cigarette taxes according to Americans for Tax Reform (01/07/07), garnering a lifetime grade of D from the free-market Cato Institute. While he is on record supporting making the Bush tax cuts permanent, he joined Democrats in criticizing the Republican Party for tilting its tax policies “toward the people at the top end of the economic scale” (Washington Examiner 09/13/06), even though objective evidence demonstrates that the Bush tax cuts have actually shifted the tax burden to higher income taxpayers.”
Huckabee the next Ronald Reagan? Give me a break.
Hey everyone!!
Keep linking to my video – once you’ve viewed it, rate it (5 stars!) and leave comments. The more views, ratings and comments, the more likely other people will see it. Email it to everyone you know! Post it on your blogs!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1EX5mKCBPk
I also have a fledgling blog – it is so so new, and Michelle was my inspiration! Check it out if you feel like it!
http://www.redistributingknowledge.blogspot.com
Thank you!
libertybelle.
Be sure to send it to Rush and Hannity.
libertybelle,
I like it. I like it a lot.
“Spread the Truth Around!”
Libertybelle – Good video, but there is an AD that covers up the message for quite a bit of it. It’s selling a song.
It really interferes with the video. I’ve never seen ads on YouTubes before.
The ad is from Itunes selling a song called “Ashes and Coals” in case you’re wondering.
If that’s the future of YouTube, I’ll stop watching them.
Joy,
I don’t want to derail this thread into a Romney-Huckabee debate,
so I will make one and only one reply to your comment.
Mike Huckabee is a fiscal conservative who cut taxes almost 100 times in the state of Arkansas and returned almost $400 million to Arkansas taxpayers, including the first broad-based tax cut in the history of the state.
And in terms of immigration, Who Was the Only Presidential Candidate to commit to Sessions’ 15 Point Plan?
Gomer is every bit pro illegals as McCain is.
The Fair Tax is the right way to go for many, many reasons.
One of the things the Fair Tax does is turn the tables on illegal alien tax cheats. Instead of them not paying taxes (or worse yet getting $12,000 EICTC checks from the government), all illegals would be paying tax like everyone else, and illegals would not be sent “prebate” checks becuase they aren’t legally in this country.
Which of the 2008 Presidential candidates supported the Fair Tax?
Switching from looking back to looking forward, “We the People” should keep up the push to switch to the Fair Tax. It would give a very real “Stimulus” to our economy.
Instead, the DemonRats want to give us the Communists’ 40 year wish-list all wrapped up into a trillion dollar crap sandwich.
ITTRP – I posted a fair appraisal by a conservative group.
And again, he barely squeaked ahead of Romney in the primaries by staying in the race and getting the anti-McCain votes. That’s how bad of a candidate he was and IS. He is a Statist and not many conservatives will climb on that bus.
Thanks, Governor. Of course, my Savior didn’t preach stimulus bills in Jerusalem, while his disciples paid off politicians with “pork” spending. I wonder what will happen when the stimulus money runs out and these companies still don’t have buyers for their products? Run back to Obama, Reid and Pelosi, and get “nationalized”.
And speaking of the RINO scumbag Arlen Specter…Bill Bennett said this morning on his radio show that sometimes he likes and Arlen Specter and sometimes he doesn’t!
This made me insane…but not about Specter…about Bennett. Bennett has a pleasant style, a great sidekick in Seth, and an intelligent show. But Bennett is somewhat of a RINO and a fraud himself. He is much less of a conservative than his audience but manages to dance the line. ANYBODY who EVER thinks Specter has days that he likes is no political friend of mine. And Bennett was soft on immigration and always a fan of McCain. But Bennett cuts and trims and dodges and acts folksy. But he is a freakin’ RINO.
I should clarify that Bennett’s remark that sometimes Specter is okay and sometimes not was in DEFENSE of Specter to a caller who was hot at him, as most of us are. (In fairness, it was a brief blowoff of the caller going into a break. But it is SPECTER who needs blowing off, not callers who attack him.)
$800 billion- chump change
Actual cost of TARP and Porkulus to taxpayers- $9 Trillion dollars.
aka- The government could have just paid off the mortgages of almost every home in America.
Huckter was very pro-illegal as Arkansas governor, and even spoke at LULAC/La raza events.
He changed his position from pro illegals to anti-illegals when he entered the primary even faster than pro-life Al Gore in 1988 decided he was 100% pro-abortion when he entered the Democrat primaries.
Side note- Al Gore, not George Bush, ran the first “Willie Horton” ads against Michael Dukakis.
I’m letting the national party know today no more money from me if treason to the nation and party don’t draw extreme consequences.
Do the math…
Over the weekend someone sent me the following information. If you started with the “Stimulus” bill before Congress and you started on the day Christopher Columbus set foot in the New World and went about spending $4,000,000 a day you would still have several tens of billions of dollars left to spend.
Of course, this ignores the extra day in leap years, but here is the math:
2009 – 1492 x 365 x 4,000,000 = >$754 Billion!
INCREDIBLE!!!
Now, I just heard that there is a tax credit of $15,000 for home buyers. What about those of us that qualified for our mortgages and have paid on time, every time and paid out taxes as well.
Also, I keep hearing how all of this is George Bush’ and the republicans fault. When are the pubbies going to start telling whose fault it actually is – Barney Frank and the dems! Time for these a$$e$ to grow a pair and go on the attack just lilke the non tax paying dems would do!
Joy – there is a small “x” in the upper right corner of the AD itself allowing you to close it and watch the video unimpeded. I was forced to use one of the songs with an ad as I don’t have rights to use “real” songs.