Support For Stimulus Waning, GOP Senators Tell Sunday Talk Shows Congressional Radical Anti-American Pork (CRAAP) Act Will Fail

We are hoping that any "bipartisan" support in the Senate for the BS Pork Generational Theft "Stimulus" Act will be support in opposition to the crap sandwich behemoth passed last week by the US House. The latest from the Sunday talk shows.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday the massive stimulus bill backed by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats could go down to defeat if it's not stripped of unnecessary spending and focused more on housing issues and tax cuts.


McConnell and other Republicans suggested that the bill needed an overhaul because it doesn't pump enough into the private sector through tax cuts and allows Democrats to go on a spending spree unlikely to jolt the economy. The Republican leader also complained that Democrats had not been as bipartisan in writing the bill as Obama had said he wanted.

"I think it may be time ... for the president to kind of get a hold of these Democrats in the Senate and the House, who have rather significant majorities, and shake them a little bit and say, 'Look, let's do this the right way,'"

McConnell said. "I can't believe that the president isn't embarrassed about the products that have been produced so far."

Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, said he was seeing an erosion of support for the bill and suggested that lawmakers should consider beginning anew.

"When I say start from scratch, what I mean is that the basic approach of this bill, we believe, is wrong," Kyl said.

Democrats, not surprisingly, continue to use "doom and gloom" scare tactics to ensure "swift passage" of the bill. Their goal is to enact the Congressional Radical Anit-American Pork (CRAAP) Act into law before Americans really find out the truth.

"We cannot delay this," said Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate Democrats' No. 2 leader. "We can't engage in the old political rhetoric of saying, 'Well, maybe it could be a little bit better here and a little bit better there.' We've got to pull together."

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., agreed that more could be done in the area of housing, though he said tapping money in the separate financial bailout fund would be a more likely way to pay for mortgage relief.

"I've talked to some Republicans on the other side of the aisle. We said to them we're open about this. Come to us with your ideas. Let's move forward," Durbin said on Fox.

Durbin added: "This is not another bill. This is not another political debate. "We are facing one of the most serious economic crises in our nation's history."

However, the NY Post and Fox News are reporting that some Democrats may vote against the CRAAP.

President Obama's stimulus plan could be in deep trouble with members of his own party in the Senate, a key Democratic lawmaker said yesterday.


"I don't even know how many Democrats will vote for it as it stands today," Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) told Fox News.


Republicans appear to have the support of some Democrats, including North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad, head of the Budget Committee, and Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson.

"As it stands it would be very hard for me to vote for this package, because I don't think it is fully targeted, timely and temporary," Conrad said. "I think there is widespread dissatisfaction with the package that came over from the House."

Fox News reported Friday that Obama's Army, including moveon.org and the SEIU were running TV ads in some Republican Senator's states to put pressure on the Senators to support the CRAAP.

Net Right Nation has narrowed that list to the following:

Susan Collins (R-ME) $258,864,00
Olympia Snowe (R-ME) $258,864,00
Judd Gregg (R-NH) $267,166,000
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) $152,158,000
Charles Grassley (R-IA) $625,594,000

Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), appearing on Sean Hannity's radio show, indicated that "one, maybe two" GOP Senator's would defect to SUPPORT the "Stimulus". Thanks to Fox News, we can now narrow it down to the above suspects.

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Wait, see, hope and pray that the Senate can delay this CRAAP and write a new one. Let your voice be heard.

Contact Your Representative, Senator and The President and tell them you have had enough of their CRAAP.

President Obama, Your Comments Are "Shameful" Politics As Usual

"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

"Can't Touch This" Obama Shows Biden His MC Hammer Moves

President Obama now famously blasted Wall Street last week.

• “That is the height of irresponsibility. It is shameful, and part of what we’re going to need is for folks on Wall Street who are asking for help to show some restraint and show some discipline and show some sense of responsibility."
  




• “There will be time for them to make profits, and there will be time for them to get bonuses,” Mr. Obama said during an appearance in the Oval Office with Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. “Now’s not that time. And that’s a message that I intend to send directly to them, I expect Secretary Geithner to send to them.”
  

This is simply another calculated move to polarize the country.

The President is an astute, savvy and clever politician. His quick rise through the political ranks and much of his campaign success has less to do with his ideas and more to do with his firm grasp of 21st Century Technology, the 21st Century Media and 21st Century Society.

This does not mean he has the ideas to necessarily improve the society, but he know how to send a message and utilize the "New" Media to his advantage.

By using words like "shameful", the President is attempting to demonize Wall Street in the eyes of the American public. It's a tactic Democrats (and some Republicans) have used for decades.

Democrats want everyone to feel like a victim, that someone else has what I want. But unlike Conservatives who advocate that you work hard, get an education and take responsibility for yourself, Democrats like Obama believe in the entitlement society -- why should you work hard to get what "those rich guys" on Wall Street have when the government is giving handouts.

The hypocrisy is astounding. Realistically, the $18 Billion is bonuses is a far cry from the Generational Theft Stimulus Act currently before Congress.

Obama in his staged outrage for the cameras is implicitly blaming "Greedy" Wall Street CEOs who have been the brunt of the Democrats class warfare for decades. Knowing full well that the media and the blogosphere would rapidly latch onto his staged outrage, he successfully widened the rift between those "greedy" guys in New York and the Democrats army Government Breast Feeders.

While the President's rhetoric sounds great in soundbites, the reality is much of this "shameful" spending is mandated by existing employee contracts. "Regular" people at these companies rely on this money as part of their total compensation. In many instances, the money is all but guaranteed by the employer.

But it's not surprising that Democrats and the President would have a difficult time understanding the concept of keeping one's promise.

NEW YORK (AP) — To President Barack Obama, Wall Street's $18.4 billion in bonuses is "shameful." To thousands of bank employees who don't sit in corner offices, that money helps pay the bills.

Outrage over the bonuses reached as high as the White House this week following news that financial firms were rewarding employees even as they were being bailed out with billions of taxpayer dollars. The feelings are understandable: The average Wall Street bonus of $112,000 was about twice the average American's income.

But the issue is a complicated one.

While Wall Street investment banks and other financial firms make headlines for the millions paid out to certain executives, more modest bonuses go to workers from human resources representatives to secretaries as well as employees who actually made money for their companies last year. Jason Weisberg, vice president of the Wall Street brokerage Seaport Securities, said bank employees count on performance bonuses like salesmen count on commissions.

"What are you supposed to pay them?" Weisberg asked. "Or are you not supposed to pay them? And if you don't pay them, how do you expect that employee to stay employed at that company?"

Obama and the Democrats claim to be the party of labor, but only when by "labor" they mean powerful Union bosses whose votes are funded by Government spending.

Let's also not forget that putting $18 Billion into people's bank accounts is generally pretty beneficial for Obama's "continuing disaster" economy.

But again, another difficult concept for Liberals -- that people know how to spend money better than Government.

Obama is crafty with a tremendous understanding our Internet/video game/mass media society and will continue to cleverly use this as an outlet to misrepresent facts and by support for his radical agenda.

There is no change here, just more of the same old Liberal agenda and the same old Liberal tactics

"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

Abortion and Contraception Will Fight Global Warming? Climate "Expert" Says More Then Two Kids Is "Irresponsible"

Socialism Gone Wild!

Just last week we learned that Nancy Pelosi supports infanticide as an economic "stimulus".

Now we know her radical, environment, European socialist comrades think in similar Malthusian terms.

From London's Times, via Drudge:

Couples who have more than two children are being “irresponsible” by creating an unbearable burden on the environment, the government’s green adviser has warned.


Jonathon Porritt, who chairs the government’s Sustainable Development Commission, says curbing population growth through contraception and abortion must be at the heart of policies to fight global warming. He says political leaders and green campaigners should stop dodging the issue of environmental harm caused by an expanding population.


A report by the commission, to be published next month, will say that governments must reduce population growth through better family planning.


“I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate,” Porritt said.


“I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible. It is the ghost at the table. We have all these big issues that everybody is looking at and then you don’t really hear anyone say the “p” word.”

Good Grief! The government already has its hands fully inside our pockets. Can't they at least stay out of the bedroom?

Green GP refuses to help women have large families

Go easy on the guilt trip, Jonathon

American Thinker

Reagan Dismisses Socialist's National Health Care in 1961!

Reagan was not afraid to call it socialism. Why should we? I wish Reagan was still around to help fight this fight. We are headed that way if you want to call it socialism or not. Beware, be warned, be careful!

Obama Hypocrisy 2.0: Kentucky Reeling...Governor Calls In The Entire National Guard...Where Is Obama? Remember Katrina?

President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

And remember, Change is Coming to FEMA.

Garbage. Hypocrisy. Be Careful What You Wish For America.

MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) - Gov. Steve Beshear called up his entire Army National Guard on Saturday, tripling his troops with his state still reeling from a deadly ice storm that knocked out power from the Midwest to the East Coast.

More than half a million homes and businesses, most of them in Kentucky, remained with out electricity from the Ozarks through Appalachia, though temperatures creeping into the 40s helped a swarm of utility workers make headway. Finding fuel - heating oil along with gas for cars and generators - was another struggle for those trying to tough it out at home, with hospitals and
other essential services getting priority over members of the public.

The addition of 3,000 soldiers and airmen makes 4,600 Guardsmen pressed into service. It's the largest call-up in Kentucky history, which Beshear called an appropriate response to a storm that cut power to more than 600,000 people, the state's largest outage on record. Many people in rural areas cannot get out of their driveways due to debris and have no phone service, the governor said.

"With the length of this disaster and what we're expecting to be a multi-day process here, we're concerned about the lives and the safety of our people in their own homes," Beshear said, "and we need the manpower in some of the rural areas to go door-to-door and do a door-to-door canvass ... and make sure they're OK."

From The Anchoress

When a million people in flyover country are suffering, and 42 people have died, we don’t hear much about it. If this was New York, Washington, Boston, (or if the president had an R after his name) you’d see non-stop reports, and the press would be roundly criticizing FEMA’s absence, and the White House’s disregard. Right?

Local officials grew angrier at what they said was a lack of help from the state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In Kentucky’s Grayson County, about 80 miles southwest of Louisville, Emergency Management Director Randell Smith said the 25 National Guardsmen who have responded have no chain saws to clear fallen trees.

“We’ve got people out in some areas we haven’t even visited yet,” Smith said.

“We don’t even know that they’re alive.”

Smith said FEMA was still a no-show days after the storm.

FEMA spokeswoman Mary Hudak said some agency workers had begun working Friday in Kentucky and more help was on the way. Hudak said FEMA also has shipped 50 to 100 generators to the state to supply electricity to such facilities as hospitals, nursing homes and water treatment plants.

“We have plenty of folks ready to go, but there are some limitations with roads closed and icy conditions,” she noted.

What? Is she saying that natural disasters impede reaction time? Who would have thought it? At least the state governments are not holding back help! FEMA began working on Friday? But the storm hit on Tuesday! How can that be?

But still, why isn’t the president down there, hugging people? Why was he schmoozing congress with steak dinners* while people were suffering? Why is this going on for almost a week without the president going in there and fixing everything? It’s been way more than 100 hours! Where is Obama? Why does the government not show us what is really going on? Where are the pictures of stranded people? We want to see the pictures! People have died! Show us the bodies!

Hey, I’ve watched the professionals in the mainstream media - I know these are the questions we’re supposed to be asking. They’ll get to them any day, now…any day.

This proves once again that the mainstream media is selective in its coverage, which is driven by its own agenda. What it wants to cover and hype for good or ill gets covered and hyped ad nauseam. And what it does not want to address, gets lost. This is an inconvenient story, with inconvenient victims, so you won’t see the high drama, the probing questions and harsh criticism we’ve seen before.

The press completely controls the conversation of the country, and the direction of each narrative. At least until the “Fairness Doctrine” puts that control more completely into the government’s hands.

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What a joke. Another joke. Thank you America for electing a hypocritical, radical, anti-American, pro-Terrorist, Socialist, Communist man as President.

Well done. Seriously. Elections have consequences. You'll see.

12 Days and not one good idea.