What we could pray for is that Obama throws the whole democrat party under the bus and vetos it saying that he made promises to the American people that this process would be both transparent and bipartisian so he can not support this bill because the Majority party didn’t live up to this standard.
No I haven’t been smoking anything funny nor am I on any really heavy prescription drugs. Just wishing for the moon I guess.

Stop being mean to them!

It’s not easy being spineless!

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 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™”

All the characteristics of a dog except loyalty.

Apologies to my canine friends…..

that they voted for this bill. I would hope that primary challengers are being groomed for the next election as we speak.

All the Blue Dogs who voted for it should be held accountable as well; after all, their own website touts fiscal responsibility. It’s the equivalence of promoting abstinence while giving away condoms.

no leadership as Senate Minority Leader and applies exactly no discipline to these three, please add his name to the list.

If McConnell let these three get away with this vote he’s WORSE than they are.

He gave political cover for the other 2. He has voted with us on some votes, but on the big ones he has failed us badly.

until they pledge to not provide support to the Fulsome Three. Not the GOP, NRSC, nobody.

Until the people and businesses of these states reject these three, I reject anything they produce or provide. I will vacation elsewhere and buy other products.

I am done with betrayal.

I remember when they were deficit hawks and helped defeat some of the tax cuts proposed by President George W. Bush.

They could’ve taken a stand on SOME principle. ANY principle but Tax and Spend.
“My vote will be ‘No’ until we follow our own rules, and agree to post online in searchable form for 48 hours.”
What are they afraid of? Truth? Light? The horror!

Note to lefties;
“Don’t be afraid to see what you see.”
Ronald Reagan

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Chip in to get rid of “Babs” (Yes ma’am) Boxer.

but what needs to happen to the other three should never be discussed inpublic. As for Maine. When we get back in power we should toss it out of the union and declare war against it. After all, the votes of its two senators are nothing less than an act of war against the rest of us, indeed against all the citizens of the United States, even those much too dumb to know it.

I sincerely hope Specter, Collins and Snow enjoy their place in it. They deserve everything they get from future generations from whom they have taken so much.

Who knew? that prior to being shut down for repairs, the Large Hadron Collider would create its first black hole in the vicinity of the Capitol Rotunda, and that it would create a spacetime singularity that starts by destroying the wealth of the United States?

Boehner didn’t throw that bill on the floor: it was sucked.

Excellently written and every word true. I’ll try to inject a bit of pollyanna into the conversation (because I am DONE with the Three).

Rasmussenreports.com Republicans’ approval for The Novelty President:

“Additionally, the number who Strongly Disapprove of the President’s performance reached a new high today. Forty-eight percent (48%) of Republican voters nationwide now voice such a negative opinion, up from 29% in the first polling after inauguration day.”

Where have all the moderates gone, for wouldn’t the moderates be the ones who initially wanted to give Obama “time” to succeed?

I gave him the “time” to succeed that he gave the American people to see what is in his porkulus. Maybe even more time.

Time’s been up for quite a while for both Obama and for Olympia, Arlen and Snowe (sorry, Mr. Holler).

Keep the $787 Billion but scrap all the spending.

Then cut a check for each person in the USA

That roughly comes out to $2623 a person, $10,493 for a family of four.

Now THAT would be change you could believe in.

to the cost of the bill, a taxpayer funded private airplane ride for Sen. Brown of Ohio. Hmmm…wonder if the President will send me a plane to visit my ailing friend in Washington.

marfan

McConnell’s voicemail doesn’t give the option to leave a message. However I called Sen. Burr’s office, and left him a message. I encouraged him to push McConnell to
do something about those three miscreants.

Keep in mind, they’re not back to the office until Tuesday
due to President’s day on Monday.

Every news story I have heard or seen say the Senate in bipartisan fashion passed the stimulus bill. However, in the House every Republican voted against it. Not ONE WORD about the 8 dims that voted against it.

Sen. McConnell…

All committee assignments for Senators Collins, Snowe and Specter should be terminated immediately, and appointments to fill those vacancies for the remainder of the 111th Congress should be announced before the Senate reconvenes on Feb. 23rd.

McConnell should kick the Three Traitors out of the Senate Republican Caucus, strip them of ANY Committee Seats, and publicly, VERY PUBLICLY, disown them. (Assuming that he not only CAN do this, but has the stones too.)
It is simply beyond tolerable to accept continued Republican “leaders” who can not, will not and DO not exercise leadership.
In fact, if I were in McConnell’s place, I would resign in disgrace from any and all leadership positions.
I would be embarrassed beyond even my own well known ability to deflect (just ask my wives, current and ex).
But all we have seen, and will continue to see, is more of Beltway Business as Usual.
The only ‘change’ will be the scope, breadth and speed with which ‘business’ gets done.

all of them.

I know this is an unpopular stance, but it’s the hard truth we need to face. It’s easier to act like a cyber-tough guy and drop bombs. But here are the hard facts.

We were going to get a crap sandwich no matter what. Obama wanted it. The Dem Senate wanted it. The Dem House wanted it. The general population wanted something. Maybe we could have made it smaller or changed some things. But some conservatives are deluding themselves if they ever thought there was a chance no bill or a conservative bill was going to be passed. We are a super minority party. We don’t have the weight to dictate anything. Snowe, Collins and Specter helped this particular bill get passed at this particular time, but nothing was going stop the inevitability of some crap sandwich.

This is one bill. We still cant get to 41 without them and we need every single vote to prevent Check Card, FOCA, restrictions on radio, socialized health care, amnesty … There is no guarantee they will side with us on all the above, but they will on some and we need them especially on Check Card..

Judicial appointments are coming. I’ll take a handful of moderates over a bunch of America hating Marxists on the benches any day. Again, we will need every vote to stop 60 and we will need Specter on the judiciary committee.

Maybe we can primary Specter. But there are ways to do it and treat him like an adult in the meantime. There is nothing we can do about Collins. If we treat them like the Dems treated Lieberman, they will have no reason to listen to our criticism or concerns. If they are completely marginilize them now, we cant go back and ask fo favors later.

We don’t have the numbers to act with suck spolied bravado. We have to be adults about this and protect ourselves for the rest of this Congress.

Scott Wheeler is laying the groundwork already… visit NationalRepublicanTrust for more info or to DONATE!!!

You may or may not recall that these folks brought us some of the 2008 Election cycle campaign Ads that the RNC and/or McCain campaign refused to tackle….

Which one of Specter, Snowe, and Collins is going to pull a Chaffee and become an independent? I got Specter

OTOH is it possible one of them will resign from the GOP and become a Dem

Regardless, we are better off without them.

I’ve been watching the folks at the Daily Kos complete melt down as they realize that the unsung hero in the Senate was none other than Joe Lieberman. Lieberman didn’t weigh in on this bill early on but he seems to have worked quite hard and effectively at getting the so-called moderates to work together and pass the bill.

Why do I mention this? Because I’m seeing you folks go after Collins, Snowe, and Specter with about as much anger and energy as I saw them use on Lieberman. Why does that matter? Then President-Elect Obama enraged the netroots when he made it clear he wanted Joe Lieberman to remain in the caucus. He just got his payback.

An unreliable vote can still be very useful, and only a fool turns down an opportunity to further their agenda solely based on past transgressions. Either you want to move the ball forward or you don’t.

Going after these three in their respective primaries makes sense, based on what matters to you folks. Making them feel completely and utterly unwelcome prior to those primaries will probably only push them further away while they are still sitting Senators. I’m not sure that’s the most pragmatic approach you could take.

If Obama had listened to people like myself, well, Joe Lieberman would probably not have greased the treads here and gotten this bill passed. Sure, you’d be much happier were that the case, but if that’s all you take away from this post then you’re simply missing the lesson.

is what the republicans in congress will have happen for the next few years. We have only 41 votes in the senate and 19 senate seats to defend in 2010. All the democrats need to do is pick up one seat and goodbye republican party. The only reason we are in the debate now is Obama needs some republican support. If the republicans had filibustered the bill, then republicans would be blamed for the economy as it faltered. By letting the bill go the floor and the dems passing it, the bill falls on them.

Secondly, Sen Menendez of New Jersey has targeted nine GOP seats for 2010. In fact, he even named the seats. No one challenged him. Followiing his lead activists in our party have targeted three GOP seats. (Specter, Snowe and Collins). You get where I am going with this. The stategy of the Republican party should be to defeat democrats not other republicans.

Thirdly, I can almost hear the next idea. Email or phone the republican governors and tell them not to take stimulus money. Any governor that does not take stimulus money I was going to say would lose or their party would lose the next election. However I don’t think voters will wait that long.
We have got to be smart, patient and calm. I won’t say more than this, but some emails sent to Sen Collins and Sen Snowe have been downright disgusting.

Only by standing on principle can we move the outcome to the right. Your correct, Republicans are playing an “away game” in 2010, as seen in the linked United States Senate 2010 election predictions. These predictions list 8 Republican seats strongly in play versus only 2 Democratic seats. However, IMO, the predictions are not reflective of the growing sense of disgust w/ the Democratic mafia.

The United States Senate elections, 2012, conversely, will be a Republican “home game”, and we should clean up then if we govern by principle.

And no, it makes no sense for individual governors to refuse the stimulus money. It’s like going to a dinner of 50 where it has been predetermined that the check will be split equally. Your friends are all ordering lobster, and you’re on the hook for an equal share of their indulgence. Your own personal savings for ordering the hamburger would be trivial, while your decline in consumption, huge.

The best course of action is to opt out of the agreement. Barring that, you might as well order the lobster.

as should every other person who voted for this bill along with their staffs.

The first being trapped in a belfry during an all-night, nine-hour bell ringing

Here is a link to the positions Specter has taken in the past-

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arlen_Specter

From reading Specter’s past positions, it’s amazing that anyone would have expected Specter to not support the Stimulus. I believe someone above said that we need Specter (and Collins and Snowe) because they do vote with the Republicans sometimes.

Will those that believe that please provide information on the votes from Specter that were with the Republicans. I am beginning to think that Specter is more of a “maverick” that even McCain. The only difference is that Specter never ran for the Presidency, and therefore his record was never so widely investigated and reported on. Even now, most don’t know he supports Card Check.

As a whole the Republicans demonstrated a rare but welcome dedication to their pirinciples last week. Unfortunately, there were three jelly spined whiners that were afraid of thaking a stand for what was right.

I hope the Republican party is strong enough to remove them from any committees they are on.