Posted on 01/31/2009 3:38:32 PM PST by Stars&StripesNE
NEW YORK -- Most Republican governors have broken with their GOP colleagues in Congress and are pushing for passage of President Barack Obama's economic aid plan that would send billions to states for education, public works and health care.
Their state treasuries drained by the financial crisis, governors would welcome the money from Capitol Hill, where GOP lawmakers are more skeptical of Obama's spending priorities.
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How do we stop this catastrophe from happening?
VOTE THEM OUT!!!
If Palin has her hand out I’m done with her. Period.
We are doomed. These idiots are playing right into Barry’s hand.
My Governor is Jenny (the depressionator) Granholm and I’ve written to demand that she oppose it. She won’t but it doesn’t hurt to make our wishes heard.
“The 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, planned to meet in Washington this weekend with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and other senators to press for her state’s share of the package.”
Try Ted Kulongoski on for size, THEN you know what an absolute FAILURE of a Governor is. That’s in Oregon.
There are huge deficits and they cannot run the states. Regardless this is nothing more than a pork fest. The governors are not voting. And their constituents are not in favor of it. It needs to be challenged and everything deemed “unstimulating” removed.
States receive federal money every year so I guess you could say every governor has had his/her hand out every year. I guess there is no one to vote for.
The best we can do is pound the GOP Senators with emails, faxes and phone calls. This has to be STOPPED!!
They don’t need a “stimulus.” They need to stop “spreading the wealth” to illegal aliens. So it costs them a few votes, IT’S RIGHT FOR AMERICA!
One important thing to do...
If you live in a state with a Democrat governor, make sure you contact them too. One thing that will turn the tide our way is to achieve bipartisinism among the states governors. We’ve robbed 0bama of an early success...one he wanted badly. If we can achieve it this early, we will be getting closer to the catbird seat.
What the GOP should do is tell Obama they will support it IF Obama changes the plan to make all of the spending contained in the bill into a grant to the states. Then the states can do what they want with it, and every state will get its share. They might even decide to use it to give a tax cut. And the GOP governors would be on board.
Not only that, but if the Dems said NO, then they would be the bad guys. How do you defend the pork laden bill they wrote? Impossible. But turn it into a grant to the states and you don’t need to defend it. Only the state governments would need to defend it.
A complete and utter collapse of the American government.
If any of you Neo-Confederates were looking for the right time to bail, I doubt these clowns could do much to stop you now.
335 Million STD education
420 Flu Pandemic Prep
50 Million National Edowment for the Arts
650 Transtion analag to digital TV
200 Million Geological Study_Volcano monitor
600 Million Climate Watching
800 Million Transportation
7.7 Billion to Modernize Federal Buildings
100 Million to Rid homes of lead paint
AGAIN, THE AP GETS IT WRONG AGAIN..
Posted on RedState
Alaska’s Sarah Palin supports the transportation component of the package. I can find no recorded position for Arizona’s new Republican Governor Jan Brewer, but the state assumes enactment of the stimulus package to help close a budget shortfall. Hawaii’s Linda Lingle is anticipating passage as well. Jim Gibbons is characterized in several places as a supporter, though I don’t see a formal statement. Rhode Island’s Don Carcieri ‘has great ways to spend it.’ Mike Rounds (SD) and Jon Huntsman (UT) sound like backers. Tim Pawlenty (MN) says he wouldn’t refuse the money, and John Hoeven (SD) sounds like has plans for the cash, too.
She supports the Infrastructure part of the stimulus package, already on record last week saying that. She wants no part of the rest of it
I’m gonna play doors music non stop until a real conservative is in the whitehouse.
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