While visiting Caterpillar headquarters in Peoria, IL, yesterday, President Obama instructed employees of the construction company to tell their representative, Congressman Aaron Schock (R-IL), to support his $800 billion spending package.
On the floor of the House this morning, Schock announced that not one single employee came up to him after Obama’s speech — and that, contrary to the president’s claims, every one of the 1,400 telephone calls to Schock’s office from Caterpillar workers has been in opposition to the “stimulus” bill.
Why? “Because they get it,” said Schock.
Yeah, Obama is going to wish he never talked about Caterpillar. -nt-
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Important principles may and must be inflexible. ~ Abraham Lincoln
I guess Obama thought his Caterpillar would
DaBoogieMan Friday, February 13th at 4:32PM EST (link)turn into to a beautiful butterfly for all to see. Instead it looks like it was eaten and spit out on the ground.
He is young and conservative....great mix...
Attack Mode Friday, February 13th at 4:34PM EST (link)and I am sure the old bags in the Democratic Party are frightened by his youth.
“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.
He's my new congressman. Good job Aaron!
Brian Hibbert Friday, February 13th at 5:31PM EST (link)He’s was a decent state rep and it looks like he’s going to be an excelent US Rep. And yes I did support his campaign.
Good job Congressman Schock!
Socialism doesn’t work. It looks nice on paper, but it’s been tried and it’s failed miserably every time (usually accompanied by widespread death and suffering).
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Good job Rep. Schock.
itrytobenice Saturday, February 14th at 5:25PM EST (link)And good for you IL voters for giving us a good one.
Now if you all could just do something about Chicago.
The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
I became aware of Schock when he won his IL House seat.
Martin Knight Saturday, February 14th at 6:22PM EST (link)Thought he would soon be one of the GOP’s leading lights. Glad to see I was right.
That said, I’m disappointed that the ILGOP apparently made no strong effort to ensure that his successor to his IL-92 seat is a Republican.
This is the sort of thing I expect Mr. Steele to address.
To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it.
- Margaret Thatcher
NOTE: “consensus” = “Bipartisanship™”/”Centrism™”