Senate passes stim 61-37

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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan has passed the Senate and is on its way to difficult House-Senate negotiations.

Just three Republicans helped pass the plan on a 61-37 vote and they're already signaling they'll play hardball to preserve more than $108 billion in spending cuts made last week in Senate dealmaking. Obama wants to restore cuts in funds for school construction jobs and help for cash-starved states.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090210/ap_on_...ngress_stimulus

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[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

And, it goes to conference, where the House and Senate leaders will rewrite the bill again, in the dark of night, and present the "consensus bill" to the conferees, "Take it, or leave it." The House will pass it, no doubt, and when it goes back to the Senate, we start all over again, re-debating the bill with all the extra set-asides, and earmarks, that no one is expected to notice, hoping again to find 60 gullible senators.

Edited February 10, 2009 by Mister_Bill

[one...two...tree 2,762]

And, it goes to conference, where the House and Senate leaders will rewrite the bill again, in the dark of night, and present the "consensus bill" to the conferees, "Take it, or leave it." The House will pass it, no doubt, and when it goes back to the Senate, we start all over again, re-debating the bill with all the extra set-asides, and earmarks, that no one is expected to notice, hoping again to find 60 gullible senators.

Gullible? pfffft.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

And, it goes to conference, where the House and Senate leaders will rewrite the bill again, in the dark of night, and present the "consensus bill" to the conferees, "Take it, or leave it." The House will pass it, no doubt, and when it goes back to the Senate, we start all over again, re-debating the bill with all the extra set-asides, and earmarks, that no one is expected to notice, hoping again to find 60 gullible senators.

Gullible? pfffft.

I am a pessimist. Either I will be right, or I will be pleasantly surprised.

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And, it goes to conference, where the House and Senate leaders will rewrite the bill again, in the dark of night, and present the "consensus bill" to the conferees, "Take it, or leave it." The House will pass it, no doubt, and when it goes back to the Senate, we start all over again, re-debating the bill with all the extra set-asides, and earmarks, that no one is expected to notice, hoping again to find 60 gullible senators.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

And, it goes to conference, where the House and Senate leaders will rewrite the bill again, in the dark of night, and present the "consensus bill" to the conferees, "Take it, or leave it." The House will pass it, no doubt, and when it goes back to the Senate, we start all over again, re-debating the bill with all the extra set-asides, and earmarks, that no one is expected to notice, hoping again to find 60 gullible senators.

Gullible? pfffft.

I am a pessimist. Either I will be right, or I will be pleasantly surprised.

My only concern is that it may not be enough spending to prevent a another Depression.

[Ban Hammer 14,573]

you're still not gonna get any of it.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan has passed the Senate and is on its way to difficult House-Senate negotiations.

Just three Republicans helped pass the plan on a 61-37 vote and they're already signaling they'll play hardball to preserve more than $108 billion in spending cuts made last week in Senate dealmaking. Obama wants to restore cuts in funds for school construction jobs and help for cash-starved states.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090210/ap_on_...ngress_stimulus

You forgot this piece:

Those cuts are among the major differences between the $819 billion House version of Obama's plan and a Senate bill costing $838 billion.

So, you cut $108bn from a $819bn measure and arrive at $838bn. Some math that is...

[one...two...tree 2,762]

you're still not gonna get any of it.

If there's anything that is more glaringly obvious from this deep Recession we are in, is how interdependent we are to one another.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

you're still not gonna get any of it.

If there's anything that is more glaringly obvious from this deep Recession we are in, is how interdependent we are to one another.

So, the economy is like one big circle jerk?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

you're still not gonna get any of it.

If there's anything that is more glaringly obvious from this deep Recession we are in, is how interdependent we are to one another.

So, the economy is like one big circle jerk?

More like a ship, my blue dog Democrat friend.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

you're still not gonna get any of it.

If there's anything that is more glaringly obvious from this deep Recession we are in, is how interdependent we are to one another.

So, the economy is like one big circle jerk?

More like ####### sex with sand mixed in with the KY Jelly.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

you're still not gonna get any of it.

If there's anything that is more glaringly obvious from this deep Recession we are in, is how interdependent we are to one another.

So, the economy is like one big circle jerk?

More like a ship, my blue dog Democrat friend.

Hey, I did not leave the Republicans, they left me! We had a pretty good team, back in '95. J.C. Watts, Sonny Bono, Steve Largent, John Kasich,...what happened?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

you're still not gonna get any of it.

If there's anything that is more glaringly obvious from this deep Recession we are in, is how interdependent we are to one another.

So, the economy is like one big circle jerk?

More like a ship, my blue dog Democrat friend.

Hey, I did not leave the Republicans, they left me! We had a pretty good team, back in '95. J.C. Watts, Sonny Bono, Steve Largent, John Kasich,...what happened?

The neocons ransacked the party.