The”tiny” trillion-dollar Turbaconducken you don’t care about
I filed today’s syndicated column on Turbaconducken before the final conference report was FINALLY posted on the House Rules Committee website late last night. Guess what’s back in the bill? Money for stadiums and museums. You’ll recall that GOP Sen. Tom Coburn’s amendment striking stimulus spending on things like Harry Reid’s Mob Museum passed. It said: “None of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used for any casino or other gambling establishment, aquarium, zoo, golf course, swimming pool, stadium, community park, museum, theater, art center, and highway beautification project.”
Well, the final Conference Report adopted by the conferees (led by, well, well, Sen. Reid) deletes much of the Senate-passed language. It now reads: “None of the funds appropriated or other-wise made available in this Act may be used by any State or local government, or any private entity for any casino or other gambling establishment, aquarium, zoo, golf course, or swimming pool.”
House GOP staff points out that the final bill still also “includes $150 million for the Economic Development Administration (EDA), some which now presumably can go to the ‘mob’ museum.”
CNS reports that Democrat Sen. Frank Lautenberg has admitted the obvious: “No, I don’t think anyone will have the chance to [read the entire bill].”
GOP Rep. Tom Price is trying.
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The”tiny” trillion-dollar Turbaconducken you don’t care about
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
N.Y. Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer took to the floor on Tuesday to sneer at public outrage over the trillion-dollar porkulus. “The American people really don’t care,” he said, about those “little tiny, yes, porky amendments.” He punctuated his derision by pinching his pointer finger and thumb together. Only the “chattering classes” worry about such trivial matters, Schumer scoffed.
Well, we are all “chattering classes” now. Congressional phones and fax lines have been ringing off the hooks with complaints from angry constituents across the country all week. And just two days after Sen. Schumer declared that no one cares, the taxpayer group Americans for Prosperity delivered 400,000 petitions to the Senate protesting the behemoth bill. Those petitions were signed before the latest details of the House-Senate conference report negotiations had been disclosed — and before any final legislative text had been made available to the general public.
If the stimulus plan were a Thanksgiving dinner entree, it would be a Turbaconducken — the heart attack-inducing dish of roasted chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey, all wrapped in endless slabs of bacon. According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s fantasy-land “fact sheet” released early Thursday afternoon, “There are no earmarks or pet projects” in the final package. Trust her no further than you could throw a pot-bellied pig. Despite the self-delusional declarations of Pelosi and President Obama that no pet projects exist, Hill staffers spilled the beans on several new set-asides tacked onto the bill.
Thanks to Michigan Democrat Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin, General Motors will receive a special tax break worth an estimated $7 billion to cover liabilities incurred when it accepted its $13.4 billion bailout from the Bush administration. The failing automaker has lined up for an addition $4 billion in bailout funds — at which time, they’ll no doubt ask for another mega-tax liability waiver. The moochers’ cycle never ends.
Then there’s Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Railway to Sin City. Appointing yourself a Senate conferee has its perks. Roughly $8 billion in perks. Reid, you see, needs to stimulate his re-election bid, so he haggled with President Obama to tuck in a teeny, tiny, yes, porky amendment for high-speed rail lines. Reid has his eyes — and paws — on a proposed Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas magnetic levitation train. He has already sunk $45 million in previous earmarks into his, yes, pet project. Wasn’t it earlier this week that President Obama was lecturing companies not to travel to Las Vegas on the taxpayers’ dime?
But I digress. Along with these not-earmarks, not-pet projects, there’s $2 billion for impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s pet FutureGen near-zero emissions power plant project, $300 million for souped-up “green” golf carts for government workers, $30 million for “smart appliances,” and the $65 million for digital TV coupons. According to Hill Republicans, money for basic highways and bridges was cut by $1 billion from the House-passed level, but:
· $9 billion for school construction was added back in (originally cut by the Nelson-Collins “compromise”);
· $5 billion was added to the state fiscal stabilization fund (originally cut by Nelson-Collins), making it a grand total of $53.6 billion;
· $1 billion was added back for Prevention & Wellness Programs, including STD education; and
· $2 billion for neighborhood stabilization program.
As I’ve reported previously, that “neighborhood stabilization” slush fund money will end up in the pockets of left-wing shakedown artists such as ACORN and the Massachusetts-based Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA), led by self-proclaimed “bank terrorist” Bruce Marks. There’s an additional $3.25 billion in HUD grants and Community Development Block Grants in the bill that will also inevitably find its way into the coffers of these housing entitlement lobbying groups.
Another egregious not-earmark earmark that survived untouched: $2 billion for the National Parks Service championed by House Democrat conferee and Appropriations Chairman Rep. David Obey. A report by the GOP minority on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee revealed that Obey’s son, Craig, lobbied the panel and advocated for the stimulus plan on behalf of the National Parks Conservations Association.
All told — and safely assuming that the major spending provisions become permanently enshrined — the final price tag of this government hogzilla of all hogzilla over the next 10 years will be a whopping $3.27 trillion with a “T.”
Not, ahem, that you care.
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I rather doubt that we can stop this steamroller of Turbaconducken but we can make a lot of noise and hopefully cause public resentment–chip, chip at the Democratic majority in Congress. We would need a BIG reaction to overcome the Census shenanigans. As far as Shumer of New York I guess he is safe but Dingy Harry may be vulnerable.
But that high speed train from LA might be needed to import voters in 2010. LA has a bunch of illegals they could spare.
Do it while we can! When this passes regardless of popular opinion, the next move will be “passing” the freedom of information act. Stop all dissenters. I think putting a bill before congress for it’s “passage” is nothing but a joke! Soon they will do away with that exercise.
Can a private citizen bring a law suit against a Congressman or Senator? Can a class action suit be filed against them?
Quite the Democrat shopping spree…on our dime of course. And from what I gather, most of it has strings that are designed to further render the US Constitution meaningless. But I think that’s the bottom line here…kill the constitution and render it just another old fashioned and non-progressive document.
Schumer is probably talking about his own voters, just like when Jack Murtha called his constituents racists and rednecks – and was still re-elected.
Is there enough backbone in the Republican Party to stop this?
If yes then 2010 may be ours.
If not then it may take until 2060.
you can fly from lax to vegas for 138$$
I just looked booking 10 days ahead returning 4 days later. how much is the cost on “Tommy boys” choo choo?
By the time you get to the station in L.A. you could be half way there and arrive close to the same time as Weiners magnetic whistle wonder.
Sadly, the answers are no and no. All we have are our votes. 2010 is the key.
They’re going to pass it because spending vast amounts of money is more fun than doing the right thing.
It’s hard to believe that the Democrats could be even more profligate and stupid than the Republicans but the evidence is in and they are.
I foresee millions of citizens making many angry marches on Washington in the next 4 years.
Don’t worry about that. At $13 extra a week, no one will be able to afford to get there.
My thoughts exactly AN. Reid needs a high speed train to get the illegal aliens into his state to vote. That’s after they have voted in California first of course.
E-mailed Schumer over his outrageous comments and received the obligatory form e-mail from a staffer thanking me for my contact. Well if you saw what I wrote, I don’t think I would have been thanking me. It’s obvious that Schumer could care less about what his own constituents think.
A bit off topic here. I was browsing the lefty MSM sites this AM for my morning blood pressure testing and came across ABC’s top story about the plane crash in Buffalo. They used the term ‘Direct Hit’ as part of the headline… Are you kidding me? Direct Hit? Callus Bastards…. do they have any class at all any more?
What happens when government ignores the people and conducts its business in secret?
New Jersey’s Menendez says Republicans should fear 2010…
I hope he is speaking out his sphincter, but since the Demonrats already have a filibuster proof majority (58, soon to be 59 Dems and 3 reliably unreliable RINOs) I don’t know how it could get worse.
They pass stimulus packages.
It’s TurDbaconduckencrap: A crap sandwich inside a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey, all wrapped in bacon and garnished with more turds.
Obama’s “hidden agenda” is more transparent than his “open agenda”. We now have the United Socialist States of America.
We have nobody but the voters to blame. They elected these idiots and they are the only one people that can un-elect them.
They build a prison in Siberia.
Republicans must filibuster this.
Wait in the soup line, wait on the 7th tee. What’s the difference? We’re all going to have lots of time on our hands. We can say “wow, thats a pretty park..” on our way to the Community Organizers Office to pick up our food coupons and skittles.
I don’t think I’d want to dine on that thing without a defibrilator nearby.
If this theftbill passes, I might look into the golf cart company and buy some stock. $300 mil of freshly printed cash could do a lot for a small cap company.
So Obama increases the debt by 33% in less than a month. Not bad. He exceded my expectations of 20% in less than a month.
You want “CHANGE We Can Believe In“?
Here it is:
The People’s Stimulus
just wait until the bill for this mess comes due, and the golden goose, otherwise known as those greedy bastard businesses, can’t afford to pay the tab for this party. i wonder when the doctors/hospitals have been nationalized and can’t be sued, and the businesses have collapsed so they can’t be sued, will our zillion lawyers start suing teachers and homosexuals as the only groups with money. pepsi, coke, mcdonalds, home depot, best buy, walgreens and wal mart are all under stress. it won’t be long before their business model won’t stand for 50% corporate taxes. they already are at 35%, and the beast must be fed.
“No, I don’t think anyone will have the chance to [read the entire bill].”
There is no excuse for one of our representatives in Congress to vote on something they haven’t read. I don’t see how that doesn’t bend their oath of office to the breaking point.
Despite the torture ban, anyone that votes for THIS bill without reading the entire thing should quite literally be publicly drawn and quartered. I expect that if this were the case, the reflecting pool on the national mall would run red with congressional blood.
All of this is causing me major stress…
I have blood squirting out my eyes.
Honestly… my BP is sky high.
I’d be happy to see Reid, Obama and Pelosi on a pole tar and feathered! If they want to act like the middle ages English royalty – we can treat them like it!
I hope they can filibuster this by actually READING the damn bill aloud. And reading it one time for each person that is going to vote on it.
Misscheryl, the guillotine sounds better to me.
They have to pass this bill just to show good will to the first black president. If not, the MSM will create mayhem in the streets such has not been seen since the 60′s.
Unfortunately, this bill will pass and in the end only make things worse. It may provide a brief jolt to economy but it will be small and short. The Dems are only hoping it will be enough to prevent a revolt at the polls in 2010. In any case things will continue to worsen until our government stops believing in fairy tales and starts budgeting based on reality. As the USSR found out, facts can be ignored for only so long.
I suspect in the next few years there are countless liberals that are going to finally grow up and see the world the way it is, not the way it should be. For those of us on the right watching the liberals get smacked by reality will provide great entertainment as we try to survive the chaos that is coming.
At least you got a tax cut.
http://www.winknews.com/news/local/39518252.html
Welll welll well…
Henrietta says she isn’t milking the system…
*shakes head*
aj – I don’t think these people have a full understanding of how angry we truly are!
southcoast what will i do with that 7.50 a week???
Thats a whole number 1 from mcdonalds i guess.
You didn’t figure in inflation…might not cover a small fry.
OT: Time is doing a feature on The 25 People to Blame for the Economic Crisis.
Conspicuously absent: Barney Frank and his boyfriend the Fannie Mae Exec, Chis Dodd and Maxine Waters.
On the list: Pres Clinton for allowing those mean old Republicans bully him into signing deregulation.
I wouldn’t recommend McDonalds nut that’s your choice. It may not seem like much but a 282 billion dollar tax cut is what Reagan would call…..the biggest tax cut in history.
This sucker has several purposes:
1. Grow Government and invade freedom
2. Destroy Capitalism and individual incentive to produce
3. Increase welfare voters
Oh, and in the end –
4. Create such catastrophic poverty on all scales that nobody has a choice but to wait in line for a government handout.
You do know the difference between a tax cut and a tax credit right?
Didn’t think so.
HURRY, FELLAS, LET’S VOTE, I AM OFF TO ROME!
via Drudge
I hope the Bishop of Rome has a discussion with her on her theological concepts, such as St Augustine was pro-abortion…
If Dems followed the example of their dear leader,
They would vote “Present” for this bill!
Please explain.
I hope she doesn’t find her way back home.
Schumer’s site seems to be having difficulty. Tried to email him a couple of times and all failed claiming server problems. We the people are speaking and I don’t think he likes what he hears.
So I called Harry Reid just now, and his voice mail is full. I called back to talk to one of his staff and I am currently on hold. Evidently the American people don’t care. Oh wait. I’ll repost once I get through…
southcoast:
Most of the tax items here are tax credits which only really apply next april 15th. It also mostly goes to people who don’t pay taxes anyway so it becomes a handout. History has shown that tax credits or stimulus checks create a one time splash in the economy but very little else. Tax cuts create more spending because they are on going. In other words, based on history, most of these “tax cuts” will create a quick splash then disappear. The effective benefit for the middle class in this country is about enough to fill a quarter of a tank of gas each week.
I just left a message with a staffer “I can pass that message along for you sir”
I just let them know that I’m one more voter that’s against it.
as it flutters down into the round file.
Glenn Beck: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,491965,00.html
Beck is absolutely right. This is criminal malfeasance at it’s zenith. They should all be fired or at least adjourned for three to five years so they could do little harm. Send Curious George along with them.
The government could not do worse if they were all high on Quaaludes and LSD, and lying around in an opium den concocting Mary Shelly-style horror stories for their mutual amusement.
Since they negotiated away pretty much everything Reid and Nelson supposedly offered to The Treason Trio to support Porkulus when it was in conference, will the Treason Trio now support a filibuster?
/as if I didn’t know
Got that right!
Obama and the Democrats in Congress (and three turncoat RINO’s) are putting a gun to the head of the U.S. economy and squeezing the trigger. By forcing a collapse, they will realize the massive socialist power grab of their dreams. We may never recover.
And BHO has only been in office 1 month. Imagine the damage he will do in FOUR YEARS.
Arlrn Specter sounded absolutely crazy when he defended his traitorous act.
Osama Bin Laden and all Muslim terrorists worldwide rejoice! The USA President, Congress, and Senate have paved the way for your conquering of America. I wouldn’t be surprised if something was slipped into this bill for OBL himself!
BUT BEWARE OBL. The government of our country may try to hand it to you on a golden platter….but the American people will never let you convert us to the religion of total wackos!
Just found this comment on the abcnews article about Caterpillar’s CEO contradicting Obama.
Hopefully 20 or 30 million voters come to their senses and vote these failures out of office. MiamiJoe, we tried to tell you the KoolAid was toxic. Now go tell your friends.
Why is http://www.senate.gov not available? I get
The senate hasn’t worked for a long time, why should thier web site?
http://www.house.gov is working
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Why would Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, or President Obama care about phone calls, E-mails, or letters? They have the majority in all branches of government when the RINO’s are factored in.
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Only voting out the RINO’s will help. This may not happen–53 percent of our voters went for the Messiah and his TEAM OF CROOKS.
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Blaming the previous republican administration worked well for President Franklin Roosevelt for over 12 years. And this was in the midst of the great depression!
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Remember their names and vote them out if you can.
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John Bibb
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ArizonaNeanderthal said: nothing.
If only our Congressmen, heck, just one Congressman, would point out the unconstitutionality of this bill, all aspects of this bill that aren’t covered by the enumerated powers, we’d be in a much better position. It’d force the
DemocratsMarxists to admit that they don’t care what the Constitution states, which should prod the courts into action upon passage of this bill.We, as Americans, shouldn’t even be talking about the economics aspect of this bill until we know if it’s constitutional or not. If we claim to be a Constitutional Republic, then we need to start with the Constitution, not economics or pragmatism. The Marxists have won the cultural hegemony. They’ve convinced people that the Constitution is a “living, breathing, open” document (much the same as they’ve convinced most Christians the same goes for the Bible). That’s why, even on sites as “conservative” as this one and Hotair, the only political arguments we see are pragmatist arguments vs. arguments based upon our bedrock document: the Constitution.
The Senate website was down until a few seconds ago and now it appears to be up again.
Ilovemycountry said: nothing.
Who writes the blurbs on the Senate web site? Did you see this?
What kind of illiterate clod would use the phrase “the two leading vote-getters?”
sonofdy said:
You missed a word.
I don’t know the rules of the congress, but all I can say in response to this administration and congress is, do exactly like the dems do when not in power…OBSTRUCT, OBSTRUCT, OBSTRUCT. Pay backs are a bitch.
Does anyone remember why the Second Amendment was included in the Constitution?
I think we’re seeing the reason now…
All circuits are busy. That is the answer that you get when you call your Senator. Pray often and fast that the pressure is on to kill this obamanation. I spelled that on purpose.
This is a dark dark day in the history of this country. We will never be the same. I am weeping. And praying.
I love your attitude. I was thinking a bullet is way too quick for the damage these cretins will place on us and our children’s futures.
In reality, I’m confident if the dems aren’t thrown out in 2010 there will be the 2nd American Revolution taking place, if it hasn’t started by then. When people start scrounging for fuel for transportation, heating their homes for their family’s, and food for their family’s, it won’t take much to get it started and it won’t end pretty. History reminds of us the French Revolution and outcome that faced the wealthy upper crust of France at the time. Drawn and quartered would be interesting.
She’s staying home to take care of her child.
Is there any hope that Snowe and Collins will turn back, because part of the Collins deal was reneged on?
I fear the answer is probably not as long as their pork is still in the oven, but I’m grasping for straws.
Put the PIGS of politics in charge of the pen, and this is what you get. Welcome to the United Socialist States of America!! Don’t blame me, I’m just a member of the chattering class; not to be confused with the royalty serving (themselves) in the House and Senate.
RIP the America I once knew.
I regret to say that Congressman Matheson (D) of Utah is going to vote FOR the bill. This according to his phone rep. The phone rep claimed that they’ve received calls for and against the bill, as if the issue is balanced.
This is decidedly different than what the phone reps told me for Senator’s Hatch & Bennett (R). They have received an enormous amount of calls against the bills and both Senators are planning on voting “No” later tonight (around 7pm EST)
I should mention that Matheson is the Salt Lake district congressman. Salt Lake County was the only county in Utah that voted for Obama.
Sorry Gang, but our glorious ex-President Dubya has given us no moral high ground to fight from. He led the charge in almost $5T in new debt – what’s another trillion?
I know you know. And I know that most of us here opposed him since about 2005, when he got into the cooking sherry and became “Deficit Man!”
But we were the only ones. All of the clowns on O’Reilly and Hannity bemoaning the “debt” were the same people defending Deficit Man 2 years ago while he poured gas on the fisal fire.
Karl Rove? Karl Rove should be on Elba. He should be *humiliated* for what he allowed, but there he is on my TV screen, sanctimoniously pretending to be a fiscal conservative. What a crock of – well, what came out of that “bird” before they covered it in bacon.
About 80% of the congressmen and senators who are suddenly “fiscally responsible” should be run out of town on a rail. If Michael Steele wants to impress me, he should oppose every Republican senator and congressman who supported Pork under the Bush and/or Bush/Pelosi/Reid era.
We are reaping as the RNC sowed. Democrats are pigs, but there’s no news there. The news is that the people we hired to keep them at bay betrayed us (mostly – there are a few good ones).
There is no stopping this. There are no Moral Grounds to stop it. We look like hypocrites for even trying, because we are lumped in with the RINO’s that everybody KNOWS are no better.
Wow. I’m thumbing through the stimulus bill. There’s actually more than a few provisions that require state matching funds. I wonder how states like CA, MA, and RI will be able to afford them?
Oh I forgot, the money’s free!
Ilovemycountry said: Even less
Would you please add something or leave. Tiresome. Even lgm is bored with you.
I agree. Conservative’s failure to act like conservatives allowed POS piggish liberals to take it all over.
National suicide before our very eyes.
Sorry, Mr. Franklin, some of us fought to keep the Republic.
I just tried calling my Sens and rep. Lieberman and Joe Courtney(REP_CT 2nd) had someone actually answer their phone and take a message and answer questions. Chris Dodd (who has his phone number on his website) is either busy or is not begin answered.
This $13.00/week tax cut is such an insult to working Americans! The democrats can shove my $13.00 up their a**! It would be money well spent!
Unless the 22nd Amendment gets Obama-nized.
Hey, if whats-his-name in New York got the rules changed while still in office to go for a 3rd term so can P-Obama.
Why aren’t there daily news conferences with Republicans yelling and screaming about the direction the Democrates are taking the country. The time has come to take the gloves off.
Is it also time to purge the Repubican Party? Time to clean house. Remove those undesirables that are an embarrassment to the principles the party. Those that are corrupt and lack moral character show them the door.
Pretty quiet here.
What…is….going….on? Voting?
We need a modern-day Senator Joe McCarthy.
Bring Back HUAC!
#300M for green golf carts for “government workers?”
Why don’t they buy greener bikes for about $3,000…I’d pay my own stimulus money to see Jack “Redneck” Murtha, Harry “Mob Museum” Reid and Chuck “You Don’t Care” Schumer biking to Capitol Hill.
Fools.
Democratic staffers released the final version of the stimulus bill at about 11 p.m. last night after delaying the release for hours to put it into a format which people cannot “search” on their home computers.
It just passed the House. I am so proud that not one Republican voted for this boondoggle.
Make them use public transportation.
On February 13th, 2009 at 2:28 pm, JDinTX said:
Let’s hope and pray for Republican unity in a Senate filibuster.
Specter needs to keep his word to us, not the DemoNrats. Specter said the Health Care text would be removed in conference. It wasn’t. Specter should vote against this conference report.
No surprise. Nancy wouldn’t have let it come to the floor for a vote without getting “loyalty oaths” from the DemoNrats and knowing the outcome of the vote in advance.
If they are wasting billions, yea, even trillions of dollars, how about interest free loans to utilities to build zero CO2 emission nuclear power plants.
(I would not want the Demonratic led bureaucracy designing or building the plants themselves, the half lives on Cobalt 60 and the such is just too long).
Added benefit for me. I used to operate a 550 Mw nuclear reactor when I worked for President Reagan.
If the Democraps close down the oil companies, I might be able to find another job…
what was the vote count?
Never mind
Okay, Senate GOP. Here’s what you have to do:
1. Put shock collars on the 3 Stooges – Arlen Sphincter, Susan Kollins and OhLimpMia Snowe and give them a jolt if they make any sign of voting for the Bill.
2. Use every parliamentary trick in the book to block, obstruct, delay, derail or otherwise stop the Bill.
3. Michael Steele needs to withold any RNC funds from any RINO that votes for the bill, and support Conservative primary challengers at the next election.
Come on kthomas lighten up a little. This is all figured out “according to each his needs”. The $198,000,000 in there for Filipino WWII veterans will provide them with either $288 per week for those living in the US of A or $173 per week for those living in the Philippines. The need for them must be more demanding than the need for you or it just wouldn’t happen this way. Besides, Sen. Inouye says this will erase a black mark in America’s history. So, whatever black mark in America’s history that will be erased against you is just a little, bitty, tiny one ’cause it only costs $13 per week. That’s why these guys make the big bucks, they understand this division and allocation of resources. This injection of money into WWII Filipino veterans will create goodness knows how many good paying American jobs down the road. Furthermore, $13 per week can be a lot of money over time. If you save all those $13 for 255 years you could pay for a senator or congress person.
We held the line in the House.
Now on to the Senate…