Is use dilatory tactics, such as moving that the House adjourn as often as the rules allow, which should be at least once every half hour, then forcing a roll call vote on this. In the end they will lose, but they can drag it out, make it painful, and force them to vote on this at 3 a.m. Sunday morning.

However, don’t look for this to happen. Just as Pelosi is firing up the jet to do a ‘fact finding’ mission to Rome, you can bet that quite a few of our guys are going on CODELS that leave tonight as well, so they dont want to drag this out any longer than needed either.

I must have gotten through just in time. I’ve got one Republican senator and one Democrat. Vitter is voting no but Landreu is supposed to vote yes. I got one of her aides and told them how I felt about the person representing me voting for a bill that she hasn’t even read yet (yes I was polite). On her website it says she voting for the stimulus because it COULD bring Louisiana 2.2 billion dollars. Funny thing is that I have sent several e-mails along with the calls and the only replies I have gotten are from Vitter (R).

Granted, with all the hurry, hurry, rush, rush, the Democrats are insisting of shoving this through makes it darn near impossible but some of our Republican Reps need to get back to Districts (or Hold a Public meeting/hearing of your own IN DC) in order to get the word out and get around the MSM as much as possible…. Holding a big shindig (Publicity stunt is not a term I have a problem with) that would bring all those that oppose the Stimulus together would be hard for the MSM to just ignore and the more they have to SPIN everything the better the odds that a few folks will finally recognize that and wake up…. Never happens if we don’t bother to try and keep at it!!!

perhaps that is ONE THING that should be in the Stimulus…. add additional lines to ALL Representative Offices and hire more people to answer the phones so we can finally get OUR VOICES HEARD THERE IN WASHINGTON DC!

A 1% chance of victory is not 0% .

Oops, I didn’t realize this Diary was started by Congressman Shadegg.

Firstly, I want to thank you for your work in Washington, and for communicating so regularly with the grassroots. We appreciate your hard work, even if it is a matter of limiting losses and fighting defensively.

The “defeatism” comment wasn’t aimed at you, it was aimed at the nattering nabobs of negativity who throw up their hands on the realization that we’ve lost this round. Keep fighting.

“Never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” - Winston Churchill

Ask your delegation to post their tally of constituent yea/nay call-ins on their webpages. Sen. Webb of Virginia clearly was taking a poll on this….so we should be able to see the numbers what with “transparency” being rampant.

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It feels like change brought at the end of some bloody medieval weapon. It’s so apropos that this could come down on
Friday the 13th.

Nice work!

Intro to Federalist Papers; section 5;
paragraph 4.
“…dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the zeal for a firm and efficient government.”

I’m an embarrassment to Barack!

I only scored 17 on the Obama Test

once these clowns (read: more Liberal lackeys permanently entrenched regardless of future elections and control of the WH or Congress) are put in place they will NEVER LEAVE…. they’ll just sit around collecting their Welfare … er… Govt Paycheck …. to provide cover for the Socialist … er… sorry.. “Progressives” agenda