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DeMint, Sanford leading opposition to Obama stimulus plan
McClatchy via The Beaufort Gazette, Beaufort, SC ^ | 2009-02-04 | James Rosen

Posted on 02/04/2009 9:40:24 PM PST by rabscuttle385

WASHINGTON - Sen. Jim DeMint and Gov. Mark Sanford urged members of the Senate on Wednesday to reject President Barack Obama's economic-stimulus bill, as DeMint introduced a rival measure he said required only tax cuts.

Sanford, in Washington for a Republican Governors Association meeting, asked Republican senators at a Capitol Hill lunch convened by DeMint to follow the lead of House Republicans who voted against the $819 billion stimulus measure last week.

The bill passed the House by a 244-188 margin without a single Republican vote. It would bring South Carolina $3.2 billion, including a $905 million to eliminate a state budget deficit and $830 million to build and repair roads, bridges, schools, colleges, universities, water-treatment plants and other infrastructure.

Sanford and DeMint said they are joining forces in a bid to try to spark the kind of national outcry among conservatives that led to the defeat of a major Senate immigration-reform bill in 2007.

(Excerpt) Read more at beaufortgazette.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhostimulus; demint; demint2010; demint2012; economy; marksanford; sanford2012; senate; stimulus; taxes; theamericanoption; ussenate
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To: rabscuttle385
I almost left upon witnessing the vulgar way in which you so callously defaced a famous, patriotic image.

But, I'm okay now.

61 posted on 02/05/2009 7:34:37 AM PST by Cedric
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To: Cedric

Cedric, let me remind you that this is only the latest PR stunt by McCain. Remember what we talked about?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2176636/posts?page=159#159

McCain has done over 13 TV appearances in the last 48 hours and many in prime time. He’s grabbed HUGE eyeballs for an alternative stimulus plan that doesn’t yet exist. But his position keeps the only Republican alternative (DeMint/Sanford) from getting coverage in MSM nightly news broadcasts because they’re only going to present ONE Republican alternative to Obama’s plan.

Watch this and you’ll see exactly what we were talking about where McCain’s ego leads him into lot so talking, no action, and PR undercutting.


62 posted on 02/05/2009 7:48:03 AM PST by AmericanGirlRising (Buying carbon credits will not get me into Heaven. I am second - http://iamsecond.com/#/home/)
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To: rabscuttle385

Heck, just giving every American the 7 grand the bill is costing everybody would make a big difference....:)

We would feel a lot more secure!


63 posted on 02/05/2009 7:52:54 AM PST by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: AmericanGirlRising
I don't see any GOP stampede toward McCain's dopey alternative.

McCain is, literally, a loser. He has the taint of recent defeat upon him.

He may get support from a few other RINOs but who cares?

P.S.

Welcome back to my Free Republic.

64 posted on 02/05/2009 7:58:23 AM PST by Cedric
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To: Cedric; cripplecreek; TADSLOS; dcwusmc
I almost left upon witnessing the vulgar way in which you so callously defaced a famous, patriotic image.

Oh, I defaced the image?

LOL.

The "defaced" image is all over Google images. And I didn't even make it! Hell, other Freepers use it (or similar images) every so often.

Perhaps you're just sad because your boy McQueeg lost...and keeps losing.

66 posted on 02/05/2009 8:07:01 AM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: rabscuttle385
The states are required by constitution to operate under balanced budgets. This was the deal when they were admitted as states. These provisions were required by a Federal Congress that was not interested in bailing out poorly run states and using the money of other states to bail out the broke states.

Why is nobody complaining about paying Federal "stimulus" money to states to balance their budgets? Isn't this an overthrow of the rule of law? This is not legal but nobody cares because "it just has to be done>' How do the states balance their budgets next time? Go back to the Federal treasury? The states are losing their sovereignty and the Federal government is becoming the end all and be all.

Just like Russia, state governors will soon be appointed by the president because the sovereign states will have dissolved into "administrative districts."

We have been conquered, folks. Our government is being re-drafted and re-constructed by those in Washington DC under the guise of being good for the public interest.

Who would of thought that our constitution was advisory!

67 posted on 02/05/2009 8:11:43 AM PST by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: AmericanGirlRising

John McCain.... give me my donations back. You lied and you are an incompetent fool. Shut up and retire!


68 posted on 02/05/2009 8:14:08 AM PST by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: rabscuttle385

The fact that you lack the requisite creativity and skill to deface the image does not absolve you of guilt for using it.


69 posted on 02/05/2009 8:15:03 AM PST by Cedric
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To: Cedric; sickoflibs; cripplecreek; TADSLOS; dcwusmc
The fact that you lack the requisite creativity and skill to deface the image does not absolve you of guilt for using it.

Lack the "creativity and skill"? No, or maybe I'm smart enough to realize that reinventing the wheel every single time I need to use it is just plain stupid.

In the meantime, here's another image for you:


70 posted on 02/05/2009 8:17:24 AM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: rabscuttle385
Since we're defacing images I want to get in on the action. Here are a few of mine.

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71 posted on 02/05/2009 8:18:06 AM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Hey rabs, how’s that guilt complex thingy workin’ out for you? LOL!


72 posted on 02/05/2009 8:19:51 AM PST by TADSLOS (McCain always has a job as Obama's Butt Boy when he loses his seat in 2010)
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To: cripplecreek

LOL!


73 posted on 02/05/2009 8:20:14 AM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: 1010RD
Sanford sounds more solid than Sarah

I love Sarah but I agree, on principle, Sanford is more solid.

74 posted on 02/05/2009 8:24:13 AM PST by Theophilus (The people who were going to buy your home got aborted 30 years ago.)
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To: NVDave
A very sensible and logical plan. So sensible and logical it has about as much chance of being adopted as this one.
75 posted on 02/05/2009 8:35:53 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: rabscuttle385

SC people prefer BOTH!


76 posted on 02/05/2009 8:42:12 AM PST by Theodore R. (GWB is gone: Now the American sheeple can sleep at night!)
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To: April Lexington

People in AZ believe in McPain as much as the Kansans did in Bob Dole. Alas, NC didn’t feel the same about “Liddy”.


77 posted on 02/05/2009 8:43:42 AM PST by Theodore R. (GWB is gone: Now the American sheeple can sleep at night!)
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To: rabscuttle385
So far, on this thread, you've demonstrated that you're unpatriotic and admitted you're a plagiarist. The truth always comes out under the deft control of Cedric.
78 posted on 02/05/2009 8:48:20 AM PST by Cedric
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To: TADSLOS
Congratulations.

At least you're (minimally) smart enough to refrain from posting any of your many infantile graphics so soon after (falsely) accusing me of be childish.

Laughably and predictably, however, some members of your anti-McCain-fetish posse took the bait, hook, line and sinker.

79 posted on 02/05/2009 9:03:01 AM PST by Cedric
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To: Cedric

be = being


80 posted on 02/05/2009 9:07:29 AM PST by Cedric
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