No House Republicans Vote For Stimulus Bill

Well, well.
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I guess we will get to see just who did what when the chips fall won't we?
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Like I said, when dealing with the GOP, talk softly and carry a big brain...

I always felt that the average GOPer either loves pain or can't feel it...

It truly is amazing just how consistently Republicans are as far as voting lockstep with each other on just about any bill of major consequence. Or minor, for that matter.

Good thing the democrats put things in the bill for the repubs and got zero votes for their effort.

Too expensive, the GOPers said?
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Let's see now, Bernanke and Paulson, (GOP appointees in a GOP administration) handed out, without oversight, 7,200,000,000,000 dollars* without any oversight whatsoever.
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That made the GOP end of things, like, 8 and 1/2 times as expensive, doesn't it?
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*includes thier half of the TARP money

Ain't bipartisanship grand?

How will Lieberman vote? Can Swampland do online polls?

Lets see, Mike. You're a GOPer, right?
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Now forgive me my math, but if the Earth is 4.586 billion years old, and the GOP just spent 7.2 trillion, then that means...
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Yup. $131 / month for for every month the Earth existed throughout the Hadean, Archean, Proterazooic, and Phanerizoic ages!
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Expensive?
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Yup. That is one hell of a lot of money those spendthrift GOPers handed out in the last six months of their time in office, ain't it?
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Over to you, Mike...

Oh, and btw:
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That $131 / month?
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That's at zero percent interest.
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Maybe God would have saved money by getting Geico insurance...

"It truly is amazing just how consistently Republicans are as far as voting lockstep with each other on just about any bill of major consequence"
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This is probably going to be worse going FWD as most of the moderates have been chased out of office. That's good for dems going FWD.
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It's ultimately all the GOP has got--unity in the face of their collapsed brand, and hoping that things get worse. But when things almost inevitably do improve in the next 4 yrs. who will get the credit. Meanwhile, the predictions of a shift to the moderate center on the part of the GOP has gone exactly where thus far? I just read that that cretin in GA was forced to apologize to Limbaugh for questioning his party leadership!? They are so far in the 20th century bubble it's laughable.
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Again, yes, O has given up certain items on his wishlist, but I hope that strategically this enhances his position. He talks, he listens, he invites you over for beers and nuts, but if his agenda can get pushed through largely intact, you look like nothing more than obstacles to "change people can and desperately want to believe in." As opposed to P-luk's predictions of risk in 2010, if Obama plays things right, I think his majorities could grow in two short years. But I could certainly be wrong (reasons to doubt--two words, Pelosi and Reid).

"Ain't bipartisanship grand?"
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I wonder, since the pre-election GOP dabbled so inartfully in the arena of tokenism when it came to race, maybe the Dems should have "token" Republicans!
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That way, at least, things will still appear bipartisan!

Why does every single House Republican hate all the presently or soon-to-be unemployed Americans?
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– hey, this reductio ad absurdum stuff is easier than it looks!

"This is probably going to be worse going FWD as most of the moderates have been chased out of office."
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Most moderates on the GOP side have been defeated, leaving the moderate constituancy within the GOP disenfranchised, to say the least.
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If we see improvements and signs of revival during the Obama admin, look for these guys to look like the muttering denziens of smoke filled basements.
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Still muttering about Waco and Clinton and "Trickle Down" while the rest of the country rolled up their sleeves and helped fix this place up...

This is a shock. Dope addict Rush had suggested this. Can you believe these fools got on his wagon? Curse the Republican Party. May they all burn in hell.

FlownOver:
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Because we won the election. They're pouting 'cause they couldn't steal it like the last two times.

A flippin' cancer. That's all they are. More concerned about their own party than the country. It ain't exactly treason, but they should still be shot for it. I hate Republicans...

Anybody catch Dick Army making a complete and utter a@@ out of himself on hardball? Telling Joan Walsh that he is glad she is not his wife since he doesn't have to listen to her babble all day. Tweety let it go without comment.

TPM has the video.
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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

trifecta said:
"Good thing the democrats put things in the bill for the repubs and got zero votes for their effort."
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well yeah, too bad. but you gotta realize that we have conservative democrats too. they're called blue dogs. Without those provisions, you betcha the bill would have been less efficient.
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personally, i'd prefer if the spending part was done on infrastructure projects like funding for energy legislation and healthcare legislation and that all the minor (important) stuff was just cut out. just a clean bill with major legislations only.

I've seen this story about the vote total confirmed by 2 MSM sources...anyone have confirmation from a reputable news source?
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Our liberal media folks:
"A story in Politico Wednesday explores those who advocate doing nothing in the face of the economic crisis. But the story doesn't reveal that one of its main sources, Andrew Schiff (pictured), is a hardline libertarian who comes from a school of economics that opposes the very existence of the Fed."
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/politicos-weirdo-source.php

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Your $131/month calculation impresses me, but I don't think its going to impress the fringe GOPers. They're all convinced that the earth is only 6000 years old. You're going to need another calculation for them.

Is this a failure by Obama or is it just the beginning of a destructive shift towards complete obstructionism on the part of Congressional Republicans?

http://www.political-buzz.com/

Matt-If I were on teh Obama team I would be saying right now that the entire house republican party just bet on our country to fail and have shown that they would rather stand with Rush than have faith in the American people to get this done.

Three thoughts:
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(1) I'd love to see the names of the 11 Democrats who voted "no." They will be getting e-mail, some of it from me.
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(2) Having proffered the olive branch and had it handed back to him, smoldering, Obama now has some actual data about how the Republicans are going to play this thing. He'll get another helping from the Senate. I'm fairly confident that he will draw the relevant conclusions.
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(3) The House Republicans have just blown a gilt-edged opportunity to look like anything other than a bunch of snotty little teenagers, and they will deeply regret it very soon.

yes gunny what an azz