The 11 Senate Republicans who voted for the $17 billion Porkulus II jobs bill
The tax breaks and projected jobs in the Senate jobs bill are illusory. The $17 billion package circumvents pay-go rules. But no matter. The Senate passed the Porkulus II today by 68-29 — with support from 11 Republicans.
Here’s the roll call vote:
The Republicans who sided with the endless spending-spree Democrats:
Alexander
Bond
Scott Brown
Burr
Cochran
Collins
Inhofe
LeMieux
Murkowski
Snowe
Voinovich
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GOP Sen. Gregg wondered on the Senate floor before the vote:
Much of the bill is financed over the coming decade by cracking down on offshore tax havens, though it would add $13 billion to the debt in the coming three years.
“When are we going to stop spending money around here as if there’s no tomorrow?” said Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H. “Because pretty soon there’s going to be no tomorrow for our children as we add this debt to their backs.”
Tell it to your 11 GOP colleagues who supported more generational theft…
Obama is giddy:
President Barack Obama is thanking lawmakers — and Republicans especially — for their help sending him a jobs bill…He said he looked forward to bipartisan support on other measures in Congress.
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It just keeps getting better.
Lugar voted against it? Whew. Maybe he’s going to start voting for the interests of the people of Indiana. I’m not holding my breath though.
I watched Cavuto last night and he said this bill had already gone up to $18B from the original amount. I don’t know if this is correct or not, but the higher number would not surprise me one bit.
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Remember that in November. There is a reason why we voted THIS Republican party out in 2006 and 2008. Yet they are still led by the very people we voted out.
VOTE OUT ALL INCUMBENTS IN NOVEMBER!
Inhofe voted for it??!!
I’ve held him in high regard because of his skepticism about man caused global warming, and he seems to have fairly good conservative credentials, but this is truly disappointing.
So I don’t have to pay my student loans now?
Sweet! The 29Victors are going to Disneyland!
Time for Rubio to start using the LeMieux appointment against Crist!!!
Amen to that!!!!
When someone turns over the correct rock and finds Michael Steele, would you please let us know.
Inhofe, that is a surprise.
Murkowski is a nepotism appointment, her corrupt father appointed her to fill his seat when he was elected governor of Alaska.
She is also flamingly pro-abortion.
I know why she had to do it, but I wish Palin could have stayed on in Juneau and challenged Murkowski this year.
She could then have beaten two different corrupt Murkowskis in Republican primaries.
Brown, I’m disappointed. But he is from Massachuseets, and will vote correctly half the time, as compared to never if it had been Moakely.
Snowe and Collins, I’d expect nothing less.
Pasadena Phil-
You’d vote out Coburn and DeMint?
Lets not get carried away. Purge the RINOs, keep the good ones, accept someone from New England will have RINO tendencies, but know that Snowe is the female Lincoln Chaffee. Chaffee of Rhode Island admitted after his 2006 loss, when he officially joined the Democrat Party, that he had caucused Republican because he could better advance the Democrat agenda from inside the Republican caucus.
Chaffee inherited his seat from his father. Snowe inherited her state senate seat and Republican label from her late husband. I suspect Duncan Hunter Jr., USMC Iraq War vet will be the exception that proves the rule, but usually politicians who inherit their seats from their fathers or late husbands, are a disaster for this country.
I let our RINO TN Senator Alexander know that he is a vast dissapointment. He doesn’t care, he has another 5 years for his constituents to “get over it”.
All nice and tidy and in alphabetic order so as to keep up with just who the wimps are-thank you. I see Reach McCain is still still playing the Conservative for the primary in August.
But this bill WILL create jobs for the unemployable children and in-laws of the Important people. Perhaps Blue Lips’ Dear Auntie can get a job as Welfare Queen Czar?
Next week (when I can get through) I will call Inhofe & let him know that he just lost my vote.
I see I’m not the only one that’s disappointed in Inhofe. Good grief Almighty – what does it take to get through to these fools? My mom always said “a fool and his money are soon parted” but sadly, it’s our money not theirs and the bank account is empty.
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RINO season is officially open! Get your trophies in the 2010, 2012, and 2104 Senatorial elections. Get ‘em while they’re still hot.
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John Bibb
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Watch for a similar count on Amnesty.
That’s next after healthcare.
The GOP is just as culpable for the illegal alien invasion as the Democrats.
Really puzzling as it will spell the end of the GOP.
Collins and Snowe are Republicans? Are ya sure?
Inhofe is a BIG disappointment.
The one Dem NO vote was Nelson of Cornhusker kickback fame?
We are truly living in Bazarro World.
Are we ever going to wake up from this nightmare?
Bond was a given in Missouri. Scott Brown is just another RINO.
Can we call him jug ears? Please?
“Blue Lips” is way too close a reference to Obama being part Black, and can be used to smear this forum, and Mrs. Malkin, as some kind of crypto-racist blog.
That is if there are any elections by then. Good God, what is happening to our nation? Every day it’s something new to make us sick at heart.
Perhaps Inhofe is infected with ‘incumbentitis’. It is time to replace him with another conservative. some of his votes have been disappointing lately.
RE: Scott Brown. If all one expects is a Massachusetts politician, then that’s what you’ll get everytime. Personally, I think he was a McCain-endorsed waste of time.
Demand better.
We need to cross reference the R’s who voted against the no ear marks legislation too.
I’m certain the lefties call us worse things….
“Purge the RINOs, keep the good ones…”
That is the strategy.
Easy to tell this time too.
Voted for ear marks….
Voted for jobs bill….
etc.
Politicians are really making it easy to distinguish one from another for our votes in 2010 and 2012.
It is all good!
Inhofe is big on infrastructure spending. This bill was mostly about infrastructure. $20 billion was transfered to the highway trust fund.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy2Y67Q4wyk
I think he’s wrong on this, but that is his reasoning.
I figured that Charlie Crist lackey, LeMieux, would vote for it.
People, this money is chump change in D.C., a rounding error. DeathCare is the killer this week.
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Where’s the logic in this ?
Brown, I think, faces election in two years. The Dems will almost certainly nominate a better candidate, and even as the incumbent Republican in what will probably be an anti-Obama year, Brown probably loses.
He is trying to capture that Romney as Governor Republicrat thing, try to be lefty enough in a lefty state, to win election again, but it probably won’t work.
I’ve never looked so forward to casting my vote as I am this year.
If I can help Rubio and Col. Allen West replace our present batch of crapweasels, I will be a happy camper.
I am disappointed in Inhofe.
Nelson voted against it. No doubt that was a CYA vote because he’s in trouble come November. No way was it a vote on his principles.
Addendum to Pas.Phil-Vote them all out-TWICE.
TWO CYCLES,NO INCUMBENTS
Once is not enough.
I have no problems with the people of South Carolina sending DeMint back to the Senate.
Now, their other senator, I don’t know. Where they drunk or something? Did they lose a bet on SEC football?
Didn’t Scott Brown run as a spending hawk?
To those whose proffered solution to what is happening today is “vote out all incumbents,” my question is: and replace them with whom?
For example, assuming that those incumbent Republicans who voted for this particular bill and who are up for re-election win their primaries, who will you vote for then?
I don’t suppose that it’d be a donk. But if not the incumbent, then who? And what would be the probable result? Would it help things, or only make things worse?
Ed Morissey over on Hot Air breaks it down neatly:
[emphasis added]
- The donks aren’t counting on your vote, so they’re not afraid of losing it.
- The donks will never vote with you for any third candidate.
- So how can any “anti-incumbent” conservative movement adversely affect a donk incumbent, when donks will vote in a unified block? The poll data above provides the answer. Such a movement in the general election can only adversely affect Republican incumbents.
By all means, vote against the RINOs in the primaries, and seek to replace them with more conservative candidates. But if that doesn’t work, ponder carefully the ramifications of the “Kill-them-all-and-let-God-sort-them-out” approach in the general: who would really benefit from it? And are they the ones you want to see benefit?
A lot of those are no big surprise.
Snow & Collins? No shock at all. Left-wing Republicans, clearly.
Voinovich? No surprise, he’s old, clueless, weepy, and dumb as a rock. I remember him on Hannity (who is no genius himself), where he made a fool of himself when he proved he had no clue what the “Fairness Doctrine” was.
Scott Brown is basically a one-issue candidate for the Republicans. Otherwise, he’s slanted by being from MA. I guess he’s what’s considered right-wing up there.
Lamar Alexander is one of the old guard. Seriously, few if any of the old guard believe in fiscal responsibility, meaning LESS GOVERNMENT. They believe in lower taxes (good), but still support big government, with the cost gap being handled by magic fairies or something. It’s like they don’t realize, lower taxes has to be paired with less government spending.
No…not ALL of them. That sentiment gets rid of the good ones, too (and there are a few). Clearly, vote out the crap-weasels, and the ones who don’t follow the conservative principles, but keep the ones that you KNOW do a good job.
Yes.
PS: He also said the first stimulus package did not create ONE job.
Apparently, this one will…..
Inhofe, his votes as of late are disheartening and disappointing. I thought he was one of the few keepers.
I am so disappointed in my wonderful Senator Inhofe. He is always such a staunch Conservative. Yet he voted for the “jobs bill”.
I was furious, and made a phone call immediately to let him know of my disappointment.
Another Okie agrees with you TanyaB. Seems Rush has the switchboards jammed up. I sent an email. Just in case they didn’t get it or I can’t reach him by phone I will send a message for his staff since they read this site and Hot Air.
Sen. Inhofe, your AGW stand is admirable but not enough to fool me or thousands of other conservative Okies. You voted for Cloture on this Jobs Bill and now this vote. Enough back stabbing. I will start working as of today to replace you with one of the many true conservative Okies. You have drawn the line in the RED DIRT and I will accept that challenge and work hard to replace you with.
As you know, Sen. Inhofe, most Okies outside of OkC and Tulsa don’t make the big buck paychecks and we are getting damn sick and tired of you politicians taking more of it on a daily basis. I work hard for what I earn and I will spend my money NOT YOU.
Well comrade,after they cram the health bill home your vote won’t matter since they don’t count after a coup.
They have spent enough. If they want to cut smething to pay for this fine. Otherwise, it should have never passed.
$17 billion is chump change.
The 11 Repubs who voted for this are slime and that includes Inhoffe. I don’t know why he did it and I don’t care but I have not compassion for socialism and the pretentious masks these 11 wear to convince people that hard choices can be avoided by being “nice” instead of realistic. It’s disheartening and infuriating but it’s something I’ve come to expect from the likes of Snow and Collins. I am so disappointed in Scott Brown but I was warned by fellow, concerned conservatives that this guy was a RINO stooge. He really played his “fiscal responsibility” card for the campaign but when it comes to acts of conscience, the guy’s out to lunch.
I’ve got some news for Scott Brown: you can be as Dem lite as you want but there are “real” Dems who will vote for such things and not pretend to be fiscally conservative. And the voters can see that and vote for the real Dem instead, unless, you do an Arlen Specter.
How are we supposed to trust these people when they vote for craptastic bills like this? Do they really feel that this jobs bill will help? Really? How much longer, as Gregg remarked, can we keep spending money with no results? No jobs, no recovery.
I think I know why. A lot of these squishes don’t want to be the “mean” adults who say “no” and stop being compassionate for all the wrong reasons. The fact is, we gotta start saying no or we’ll economically collapse. We can’t keep on spending money for things that may look/feel good now but, in the end, only makes things worse.
It’s time to get off the carnival ride because after a while you just get dizzy. It’s time to stop giving people false hope like “inexpensive health care” or the promise of new jobs that won’t last. It’s pathetic to keep stringing people along with unemployment when what they need is the incentive to go back to work. How does unemployment ensure that?
I just want our country to get off the crazy train it’s on. Stop the nonsense and grow the hell up. This administration is playing games with our lives, jobs, health care, and economy so that they can remake something that they don’t appreciate, understand, and have no understanding of.
This is a dream and I’m gonna wake up and somebody is gonna stand up and say no. And mean it.