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President Barack Obama, during remarks yesterday at the Department of Energy, was clearly uncomfortable in having to come out of the closet as a socialist.
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The latest Rasmussen poll Wednesday had support for Obama's stimulus spending bill at a mere 37%. Theyre melting the phone lines at the Capitol with their discontent.
Further, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) did not release the full bill for scrutiny by Congressional Republicans or the American people a month ago, as Obama indicated, but barely two weeks ago.
Until that time, House Republicans were only allowed to read parts of the bill and consequently werent given the time to discover and even begin to reveal to the public the full scope of what was in this spending orgy until it was actually on the House floor for debate.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) summed it up nicely when he told me Wednesday, The atmosphere of arrogance here from Democrats is that they think the American people are just too stupid to spend their own money to stimulate the economy.
....that one trillion dollars is in addition to the over one trillion dollar deficit already projected for this year and to the omnibus spending bill that will add another half-trillion in spending this fiscal year.
I will not agree to any unanimous consent until the next 15 amendments that Ive got have a scheduled time to be brought up so the American people can hear of all of the stinky stuff thats in this bill, Coburn said at one point when fighting to get his amendments scheduled. We have had votes both voices votes and recorded votes on less than 20 amendments, and were told by the Majority Leader that we have to finish up so we can get to conference. This bill ought to have 1,000 amendments on it if were truly going to do the work of the American people. We ought to debate this bill line by line. The idea that we can borrow more money that we dont have to spend on more things we dont need, and ignore the wisdom of the average American citizen on how best to spend their money, is insane.
And yet weve spent two-and-a-half days -- thats all weve spent so far on a $1 trillion bill, two-and-a-half days and 20 votes -- and now we are told by the Majority Leader we need to hurry up. Hurry up is whats got us in this trouble.
A $1 trillion bill was cobbled together in four weeks with earmarks like crazy throughout it for every special interest group thats out there so we can look good to certain of our buddies, and especially the ones that give us campaign contributions. Thats what describes this bill
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The latest Rasmussen poll Wednesday had support for Obama's stimulus spending bill at a mere 37%. Theyre melting the phone lines at the Capitol with their discontent.
Further, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) did not release the full bill for scrutiny by Congressional Republicans or the American people a month ago, as Obama indicated, but barely two weeks ago.
Until that time, House Republicans were only allowed to read parts of the bill and consequently werent given the time to discover and even begin to reveal to the public the full scope of what was in this spending orgy until it was actually on the House floor for debate.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) summed it up nicely when he told me Wednesday, The atmosphere of arrogance here from Democrats is that they think the American people are just too stupid to spend their own money to stimulate the economy.
....that one trillion dollars is in addition to the over one trillion dollar deficit already projected for this year and to the omnibus spending bill that will add another half-trillion in spending this fiscal year.
I will not agree to any unanimous consent until the next 15 amendments that Ive got have a scheduled time to be brought up so the American people can hear of all of the stinky stuff thats in this bill, Coburn said at one point when fighting to get his amendments scheduled. We have had votes both voices votes and recorded votes on less than 20 amendments, and were told by the Majority Leader that we have to finish up so we can get to conference. This bill ought to have 1,000 amendments on it if were truly going to do the work of the American people. We ought to debate this bill line by line. The idea that we can borrow more money that we dont have to spend on more things we dont need, and ignore the wisdom of the average American citizen on how best to spend their money, is insane.
And yet weve spent two-and-a-half days -- thats all weve spent so far on a $1 trillion bill, two-and-a-half days and 20 votes -- and now we are told by the Majority Leader we need to hurry up. Hurry up is whats got us in this trouble.
A $1 trillion bill was cobbled together in four weeks with earmarks like crazy throughout it for every special interest group thats out there so we can look good to certain of our buddies, and especially the ones that give us campaign contributions. Thats what describes this bill
