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1. #1
   On March 5th, 2009 at 10:41 pm, JDinTX said:

   I just hope they don’t back down.

2. #2
   On March 5th, 2009 at 10:41 pm, Terry_Jim said:

   Kudos.

3. #3
   On March 5th, 2009 at 10:43 pm, WarEagle82 said:

   How many billions will it take to buy the votes of Specter, Collins and Snow? We should start a pool. The closest without going over would win a copy of Turbo Tax Tim Geithner’s 2008 income tax return.

4. #4
   On March 5th, 2009 at 10:49 pm, 24Klady said:

   The more light shined on this massive fiasco the better. Tomorrow is Friday, it’s a perfect time to hit the phones, send e-mails to your friends and family and ask they do the same. Everyone is worried about this, but feel helpless.

   You are not helpless as long as you know that who you elected is going to be up for re-election and has to answer somewhere down the road to those that elected them! That be YOU. Recharge batteries now.

5. #5
   On March 5th, 2009 at 10:49 pm, hitcharide said:

   Crap. Look for one of the RINOs (Snowe, Specter, Collins, Voinovich) or more to break quickly after getting special consideration; maybe a nice million dollar study on how to cut down on the smell of port-a-potties, that way Harvard can do a study between between the hog study and this, producing many pages of nothing, and missing the general conclusion that they are linked only in Republican inability to tow the line. Is it even possible anymore to find some backbone and common sense in the Senate? They continue this wild spending spree, and every buck they spend helps devalue what is left. Wall Street numbers don’t lie and are a great benchmark for how quickly the obummer team is tanking consumer confidence…who wants to bet the stock market loses another couple hundred tomorrow based on this stupid and remarkably nearsighted move? Maybe the downer-in-chief will give another inspiring speech on how we’re supposed to ignore the “ups and downs” of the market as just another perplexing irony of life, but it’s obvious democrats just don’t understand how capitalism works. Then again, if socialism is their goal, maybe this is their game plan to kill capitalism, in which case they’ll wind up with neither, but the American people will pay dearly for another late night stab in the back by a faithless senator.

6. #6
   On March 5th, 2009 at 11:06 pm, zorro said:

   Tea Party people, activate!

   I’ll be on the phone tomorrow AM. Count on it.

7. #7
   On March 5th, 2009 at 11:07 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

   OOOOOOOO…. good job guys! Way to go out on a limb there. You forced a delay on a bill.

   Isnt that like dropping your MetroCard in the street while jaywalking in Manhatten?

8. #8
   On March 5th, 2009 at 11:14 pm, katablog said:

   Tea Party is Kansas again this weekend. They now have their own web site.

   And yes, I read Sens. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Bob Bennett of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Arkansas and Kit Bond of Missouri comments to mean “there’s not enough pork in there for me yet”! So I do expect they to be bought off with some small helpings.

9. #9
   On March 5th, 2009 at 11:16 pm, MNUSMCDavid said:

   My Kabar is ready…. keep the fight going….. If I can call and rail against liberals here in MN… you all can do better…. get off your butts and fight!

10. #10
    On March 5th, 2009 at 11:28 pm, robert537 said:

    Next up: $500 billion “loan” to shore up the FDIC.

    Mr. Dodd’s bill could also give the FDIC more firepower to help address “systemic risks” in the economy, potentially creating another source of bailout funds in addition to the $700 billion already appropriated by Congress.

    Any bets on how low the Dow-Jones will go? My bet is 3500 by June.

11. #11
    On March 5th, 2009 at 11:32 pm, paulsur said:

    Cajones? Cajones?
    Might I remind everyone here (including Michelle,most respectfully), that 40% of the 9000+ earmarks have been authored by republicans.That fact seems lost in this circus routine.

12. #12
    On March 5th, 2009 at 11:36 pm, Truesoldier said:

    None of the GOP’s amendments is expected to pass, but votes on perhaps a dozen are now slated for Monday night, Reid said.

    So Reid is sending the message to his comrades not to vote to cut out the pork. I agree with other posters that Reid and company wil lbe on the phone, conference calling all the RINO’s to see how he can buy there vote over the weekend.

13. #13
    On March 5th, 2009 at 11:50 pm, robert537 said:

    #11: Not all earmarks are bad. The problem here, as Tom Coburn railed about on the Senate floor today, is that none of these earmarks are open to debate. Reid insists that senators vote up or down on the entire package: no debate, no amendments.

    I will grant that there are probably earmarks inserted by Republicans who would just as soon keep them under the radar. A pox on both their houses.

14. #14
    On March 6th, 2009 at 12:07 am, MarcoPolo said:

    Tea Party people, activate!

    Somebody watching a little Power Rangers here and there?

15. #15
    On March 6th, 2009 at 12:07 am, pinkpolkadot said:

    Don’t back down now!

16. #16
    On March 6th, 2009 at 12:09 am, MarcoPolo said:

    On March 5th, 2009 at 11:50 pm, robert537 said:

    #11: Not all earmarks are bad.

    No, and I understand how they work…. but at this point it might be prudent to just kick back and let the Democrats spend themselves into oblivion, especially since Obama was openly anti-earmark during the campaign.

17. #17
    On March 6th, 2009 at 12:33 am, Cicero said:

    Maybe Arlen Specter has started to worry about his evaporating poll numbers.

18. #18
    On March 6th, 2009 at 1:03 am, Joy said:

    Well, clearly they already have some Republicans, and probably the usual suspects, as Reid is only 1 vote shy and 6 Dems are balking. By my addition that makes 7 Rs already going for it?

    These politicians are making me sick. Both sides.

19. #19
    On March 6th, 2009 at 1:10 am, simcoe said:

    Like the sacking and pillaging hoards spilling down from the steppes of Asia, they who call themselves Democrats ravage the banks, loot US industry and steal everything of any value from the government of the American Republic and it’s people, giving it to themselves and caring nothing about the damage they’re doing now, and to future generations or who they hurt or how.

    They choose from among themselves those who have shown that they are the worst of liars, cheaters, thieves, perverted worthless hooligans, and show no conscience or shame that their actions and way of life prove this to be true.

    They strike coins with their own images to honor themselves like the Caesars of old and create new placards and flags with their images to superimpose over the distinguished and honored ones that have gone before the brave men and women and meant so much to the citizens of our nation for the past two and a quarter centuries. They are twice dead and will pay the penalty for their arrogance.

    History will revile them, and rightly so.

20. #20
    On March 6th, 2009 at 1:11 am, WisCon said:

    1 freaking vote.

    We really need Coleman to pull that out somehow.

21. #21
    On March 6th, 2009 at 1:34 am, Truesoldier said:

    No, and I understand how they work…. but at this point it might be prudent to just kick back and let the Democrats spend themselves into oblivion, especially since Obama was openly anti-earmark during the campaign.

    The only problem is once a government program, entitlement, etc. has been passed it very seldomly ends.

22. #22
    On March 6th, 2009 at 3:02 am, JConrad999 said:

    FINALLY, some people are paying attention. … or rather, they’re forced to pay attention.

    It seems the people aren’t finished yet.

23. #23
    On March 6th, 2009 at 5:39 am, Fuller said:

    Same-O Same-O. Delay, make a deal, ADD more, vote and pass.

    One vote? Dirty Harry won’t lose any sleep over that,

    Sorry to be so negative this morning, but our congress-critters are on a spending spree. The few faithful will vote NO but…..

    I will continue with my calls and faxes
    and pray for commonsense to prevail.

    God bless our Military and the upcomming
    generation.

24. #24
    On March 6th, 2009 at 6:37 am, txvet2 said:

    History will revile them, and rightly so.

    Or not, since they control most of the history departments too.

25. #25
    On March 6th, 2009 at 6:40 am, RobM1981 said:

    Since nobody has read the bill, I’m just repeating what I heard John McCain say on yesterday’s Hannity. Per McCain 40% of the pork in this bill is from the GOP.

    If that’s true there’s nothing noble going on here.

26. #26
    On March 6th, 2009 at 6:57 am, ErinF said:

    What about Snowjob and Collins? Are they holding firm in their quest to help “the one” get this trainwreck back on the tracks?

    I’ll be on the phone with their office today, but it always just falls on deaf ears.

27. #27
    On March 6th, 2009 at 7:15 am, Lindsay said:

    Thad Cochran of Mississippi (R) is voting for this omnipork.I don’t have time to post the link, but here is what I read:

    Of the top 10 earmarkers tallied by Taxpayers for Common Sense, six were Republican senators, led by the senior GOP member on the Appropriations Committee, Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, who snuck in 204 earmarks worth about $471 million. Of that largess, 65 earmarks totaling $77 million were directly requested by Cochran.

    Call him:
    202-224-5054
    601-965-4459
    662-236-1018
    228-867-9710

28. #28
    On March 6th, 2009 at 7:37 am, ErinF said:

    I’m listening to my local talk station, and Sen. Collins is calling in and taking calls. I predict she’s going to get an earful by the callers.

29. #29
    On March 6th, 2009 at 7:41 am, mchristian said:

    Cojones? Whose were they and how did they get him to serve them up?

30. #30
    On March 6th, 2009 at 8:10 am, tarpon said:

    Who brung ‘em? First pair sited in the Senate in years. We should congratulate them.

31. #31
    On March 6th, 2009 at 8:10 am, ctmom said:

    Don’t worry, Obama will go through it line by line and scratch the pork. Really, he said so.

32. #32
    On March 6th, 2009 at 8:30 am, swede said:

    24Klady said:
    The more light shined on this massive fiasco the better.

    Yup. It’s hard at first glance to distinguish between real budget items and pork in a 1200 page, $450 billion document.

    Thing is, if all is left in the sunlight for a while, the pork will start to reek. Which also explains the importance of the swine odor ammendment.

33. #33
    On March 6th, 2009 at 8:43 am, NJ-Aviator said:

    Promising, but I’m not getting my hopes up. For the last eight years, any time I suspected the GOP would grow a spine and go on the attack, they whimpered their way right back into their cage and accepted their beat down. So I’m not getting my hopes up.

    Some real spine would be brutalizing their own pork mongers so they can at least stand on solid ground when attacking the dems on pork and waste. But that would make sense and is therefore not possible for any politician, repub or dem.

34. #34
    On March 6th, 2009 at 8:46 am, jangar said:

    A bit OT – today is the first day in more than 6 months that Obama’s name isn’t somewhere on the MSN.com home page. His stock must be falling too.

35. #35
    On March 6th, 2009 at 8:54 am, MNUSMCDavid said:

    Remember, obstruction and delay is what the Founding Fathers wanted….. the only reason the Liberals got away with so much is because they moved fast. I can only give them credit for that….. slow em down and bog them down

36. #36
    On March 6th, 2009 at 8:59 am, Boomer said:

    Took the day off today and will do what I can to nudge my Idaho Senators to hold the line. Now I need to go outside and clear a couple of inches of Gorebul Warming off of our walk and driveway.

    ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!

37. #37
    On March 6th, 2009 at 9:12 am, zyzzyg said:

    It is a start, but the real political Ju Jitsu is when each Republican withdraws their pork request from the bill and allows the democrats to pass it on their own.

    Doing so, will demonstrate that the Republicans have learned their lesson.

38. #38
    On March 6th, 2009 at 9:21 am, Paul Revere said:

    On March 6th, 2009 at 7:37 am, ErinF said:
    I’m listening to my local talk station, and Sen. Collins is calling in and taking calls. I predict she’s going to get an earful by the callers.

    Ewww! Keep us updated!

39. #39
    On March 6th, 2009 at 9:29 am, rplatt said:

    If the Republicans don’t show some guts and stop this insanity they’ll be eating their cojones . . . because that’s all they’ll have left to chew on.

40. #40
    On March 6th, 2009 at 9:33 am, Andy said:

    On March 5th, 2009 at 11:28 pm, robert537 said:

    Any bets on how low the Dow-Jones will go? My bet is 3500 by June.

    I bet it’ll break below 6000 next week and drop at least another 500 by April 1st.

    How’s that for a fool’s day? Winning the election BAMN, but losing 1/2 the DJ in 120 days. And kudos to Dubya for getting the bailout ball rolling.

41. #41
    On March 6th, 2009 at 9:35 am, sonofdy said:

    And kudos to Dubya for getting the bailout ball rolling.

    Worked real well didn’t it?

    And obamas going to do it again…

42. #42
    On March 6th, 2009 at 9:36 am, cheapseat said:

    time for harry to pull ready teddy off his deathbed for one last vote for the commie team. yes 40% of the earmarks are from gop rinos. 60% are from dems. it still hasn’t sunk in to these a-holes that they are spending their grandchildren’s future. may their families go into the poorhouse, and may they rot in hell for sending them there.

43. #43
    On March 6th, 2009 at 9:41 am, Andy said:

    On March 5th, 2009 at 11:32 pm, paulsur said:

    Might I remind everyone here (including Michelle,most respectfully), that 40% of the 9000+ earmarks have been authored by republicans.

    Michelle, I heard something yesterday that bears looking into. IIRC, Cavuto (maybe someone else) said that most of the earmarks were pet projects that languished over the past few years. Furthermore, some were even originally proposed by dead and/or former congress-critters who have since been replaced in 06 & 08.

    This begs the question: What is the breakdown on those undead earmarks?

    Of the thousands of earmarks, just how many were written by those no longer in office and who were these authors? Is it just a couple, 10 or even 1,000 earmarks?

44. #44
    On March 6th, 2009 at 9:52 am, Flyoverman said:

    Andy,

    This pause has provided the authors of the earmarks an opporunity to “Come to Jesus.”

45. #45
    On March 6th, 2009 at 9:53 am, Truesoldier said:

    OT, but did any of you see this story about Obama giving Gordon Brown a 25 DVD box set as a gift? Here is part of the story:

    “One reason for the secrecy might be that the gift seems markedly less generous and thoughtful than the presents taken to Washington by the Prime Minister,” London’s Evening Standard newspaper reported.

    The Daily Mail, however, reported the movie set included ET, Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz and was produced by the American Film Institute on “special request” from the White House.

    Brown, who is not known to be a movie buff, gave the president and his children several uniquely historical gifts.

    The first of which is a pen holder fashioned from the oak timber of HMS Gannet, a Navy vessel that served on anti-slavery missions off Africa.

    Another treasure given to Obama is a framed commissioning paper for HMS Resolute, a Royal Navy ship that came to symbolize British-American goodwill when it was rescued by the U.S. from icebergs and given to Queen Victoria. It is the sister ship of the HMS Gannet.

    Finally, Brown gave Obama a first edition of Martin Gilbert’s seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill, whose World War II partnership with President Franklin Roosevelt symbolized the U.S.-Anglo alliance.

46. #46
    On March 6th, 2009 at 9:57 am, rplatt said:

    On March 5th, 2009 at 11:32 pm, paulsur said:
    Might I remind everyone here (including Michelle,most respectfully), that 40% of the 9000+ earmarks have been authored by republicans.

    How the hell does that relate to anything living or dead? I don’t care of “JC” himself has an earmark, it is still blatantly wrong. Stop trying to justify a wrong by another wrong.

47. #47
    On March 6th, 2009 at 10:03 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    The huge, 1,132-page spending bill…is stuffed with pet projects sought by lawmakers in both parties.

    There is less to this than meets the eye. For the Republican windbags, this is not so much a fight over run-away spending as it is a tantrum over being dissed.

    You know how Republicans like to posture as conservatives and then deliver exactly the number of votes to deliver victory to the Democrats. Pork is pork.

48. #48
    On March 6th, 2009 at 10:12 am, RedDog said:

    Tea Party people, activate! Time to melt the phones — not just of Republicans, but of those liberal and moderate Democrats on the fence.
    There is a faint, but promising, scent of blood in the water.

    The conundrum is that if the crybaby thieves don’t get all they want when they want it, continued economic malaise will be blamed on “obstructionist Republicans”. I’d like to force feed the Dems their whole enchilada and make them choke on it when their failure is made evident for all to see.

    The average Democrat needs to face the uncomfortable truth that you can’t spend your way out of financial problems. Some have already learned the hard way but they still want the honest taxpayer to cover their markers. Not gonna happen.

49. #49
    On March 6th, 2009 at 10:13 am, pueblo1032 said:

    With 40% of the PORK attributed to the GOP, I would not go so far as saying they finally got COJONES… Maybe GUINEA PIG TESTES, HUH???

50. #50
    On March 6th, 2009 at 10:15 am, Weary Citizen said:

    Whooppppeee. Like others I am skeptical. Probably delaying so they can get more pork in for their own districts. Where was this disdain for pork when the Repubs controlled the Senate? I am glad they slowed it down, but I just don’t trust any pol these days. Their sole goal is to get re-elected by any means necessray (oh and avoid being called names by the lefties). We have no statesmen any longer.

51. #51
    On March 6th, 2009 at 10:17 am, DagneyT said:

    Now if we can lock Snowe, Collins and Specter in a closet, maybe they’ll hold out!

52. #52
    On March 6th, 2009 at 10:24 am, DagneyT said:

    24Klady said,
    

    You are not helpless as long as you know that who you elected is going to be up for re-election and has to answer somewhere down the road to those that elected them!

    Amen to that! Before long, my senators and representative will know me by my first name! I called my Rep. Lamar Smith (R), and asked them to reassure me that he didn’t have any pork in the bill. I was told, “Yes, but he voted against it.”, like that made it all better. I responded, “Stop with the pork nonsense!! It’s my money!” He responded by saying, “But it would benefit your district!” I told him, “I don’t care! If we needed some project, we can raise the money here at home! Stop with the pork!” grrrrrrrrrr

53. #53
    On March 6th, 2009 at 10:33 am, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Even if Coleman somehow pulls off the miracle, ie, justice, in Minnesota there are at least three traitors who will vote Democrat if needed.

    We already know that.

    In almost unaltered form, this new pork bill will pass.

54. #54
    On March 6th, 2009 at 10:46 am, John Deaux said:

    On March 6th, 2009 at 9:53 am, Truesoldier said:
    OT, but did any of you see this story about Obama giving Gordon Brown a 25 DVD box set as a gift?

    The part I thought was funny was the Brtiain uses PAL (25 frames per second), whereas we use NTSC (30 frames per second). Assuming he would even want to play them, he’d need a special DVD player.

55. #55
    On March 6th, 2009 at 10:48 am, DanME said:

    I wonder if Collins and Snowe will pay any attention to this poll on TV 13 WGME
    in Portland Maine.

    http://www.wgme.com/newsroom/poll/news_results.shtml

56. #56
    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:08 am, sonofdy said:

    Oh crap, the market is dropping again. Damn it!!!

    Who in the administration is making a speach now???

    STFU!!!

57. #57
    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:13 am, Flyoverman said:

    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:08 am, sonofdy said:
    Oh crap, the market is dropping again. Damn it!!!

    Who in the administration is making a speech now???

    I wonder if it would be possible to construct a jammer that would disable the President’s teleprompter. Such a device might save the world’s economy from total destruction.

58. #58
    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:16 am, sonofdy said:

    I wonder if it would be possible to construct a jammer that would disable the President’s teleprompter. Such a device might save the world’s economy from total destruction.

    Are you kidding? Some of the world thinks we have a functional person running the government. Can you imagine the chaos if the delouded masses understood what a danger this guy is??
    The market would drop even faster.

59. #59
    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:26 am, Wade said:

    This demonstrates why during President Bush’s years it was so very important the republicans did not use the nuclear option.

60. #60
    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:36 am, Savage24 said:

    I do not believe that the GOP senators unity is due to not having the opportunity to offer amendments.I believe that they didn’t get the opportunity to stuff it with more PORK.
    Old Harry will offer a few some tidbits on that bill will sail through.

61. #61
    On March 6th, 2009 at 11:58 am, Andy said:

    On March 6th, 2009 at 9:52 am, Flyoverman said:

    Yeah. Now the question is whether they’ll shave it down a mite or pork out so more. Either way, woe is us…

62. #62
    On March 6th, 2009 at 12:01 pm, lgm said:

    This is a pointless exercise in obstructionism (the point being to put Republicans in the newspaper at the expense of the people’s business). Here’s an analysis

    Breaking through some of the Beltway static, however, you can see that the bill’s passage next week is a fairly sure thing. The measure includes money to pay GOP congressional staffers’ salaries for this year, as well as home-state earmarks that help sweeten the pot for several GOP senators, including Richard Shelby (AL) — who ranks No. 2 among the bill’s earmark recipients — Susan Collins (ME) — who loves her lighthouse money — and Bob Bennett, who takes his Mormon cricket infestations very seriously.

63. #63
    On March 6th, 2009 at 12:13 pm, DanVanSmak said:

    There is a faint, but promising, scent of blood in the water.

    True, but, unfortunately, there is a faint but scary scent of a turd in the punchbowl ERRRRR Al Franken looming on the horizon, too.

    *out*

64. #64
    On March 6th, 2009 at 12:23 pm, YTZGal said:

    Flyover#57-
    Thanks for the chuckle.

65. #65
    On March 6th, 2009 at 1:09 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., canceled the vote, saying he was one vote short of the 60 needed to close debate and free the bill for President Barack Obama’s signature.

    (Munching popcorn) Dobby the house elve must have his knickers in a wad over this one, eh?

66. #66
    On March 6th, 2009 at 1:39 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    lgm said:

    This is a pointless exercise in obstructionism (the point being to put Republicans in the newspaper at the expense of the people’s business). Here’s an analysis

    Really LGM.. any analysis that cites RINO’s isn’t going to fly.

    And this whole thing about giving up when faced with insurmountable odds…… is that some sort of liberal tactic? It sounds very French-like.

67. #67
    On March 7th, 2009 at 2:26 pm, yonjuro said:

    The repubs aren’t really interested in stopping the spending program. They just need to look like they tried.