Posted on 01/28/2009 8:19:12 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
I just contacted my Congresscritter’s office to ask how he planned on voting. At this time, “he is leaning” on voting no. I told her that he needs to absolutely vote NO—she said lots of calls and most are against.
I asked when the vote was to be taken and she said TONIGHT (Jan 28) at 6-7
[Byron York, NRO, 01/28 12:39 PM]
Just talked to a very clued-in Republican on the Hill. This person wouldn't predict a unanimous Republican vote against the Democratic stimulus package, but said there would be "minimal" GOP support of the bill. "I don't know if it will be unanimous, but Democrats are not going to have the kind of bipartisan support the president was trying to get," he told me. An "overwhelming" number of Republicans will vote no, he predicted.
House Republicans are very happy with recent coverage of the bill, not just Drudge's "$335,000,000 for STD Prevention" headline, but also articles (like this and this) in the New York Times pointing out the enormous amount of social, non-stimulative spending in the proposal, and in the Washington Post, highlighting some Democratic qualms about the bill. "This is finally penetrating all those headlines that said this is necessary for the economy and that it's all infrastructure and tax relief," my source told me. "It finally gets the idea out that this is just a really, really big omnibus spending bill."
It's also clear that Republicans, battered after big losses in 2006 and even bigger losses in 2008, are finding their feet on this issue. The House leadership is running hard on this, trying to make sure every Republican knows what is in the 647-page bill, and handing out individual analyses to each GOP member of what the bill, if passed, would cost his or her particular congressional district. At the same time, Republicans are looking for any signs of Democratic nervousness about the proposal. They see a few, but there's no doubt that Democrats, with 256 members (to 178 Republicans) are going to push the bill through. They have to; anything other than the passage of the bill as currently written would be an enormous defeat for the new president, and Democrats simply will not allow that to happen. They won the election, they've got the numbers, and they're going to get their bill. And Republicans, finally, have something to be united about.
Digital TV transfer fails, still set for Feb 17...
Thank you both!
Obey - D - Wisconsin...up first...” families are terrified the world is ending, the sky is falling and we must pass this bill to save us.”
Wait, seriously? They did the right thing on that?
unless I heard wrong, CSPAN said motion failed.
leave it to Jimmy Bikeshorts (Ubertard)...
Nice.
I never thought the Minnesotan in me would say this, but we need more mosquitoes.
Received an email this morning from Tulsa from a friend who received it from Cong John Sullivan of Tulsa. She had sent him the Petition to sign for Congress to say NO and he wrote back that he had signed the petition to Congress to say NO. We now have a Tulsa Republican Congressman that took the action of signing the petition which I thought was AWESOME.
Also the one long RAT member of our delegation, Dan Boren, said the bill contains a lot of unnecessary items but he is going to follow his conscience and vote NO! What a lie, he is following the Pelosi line. Being from Oklahoma if he voted his conscience, he would vote NO. We need to find someone from NE Oklahoma that can take out Boren in the next election.
Any Republican voting yes on this pork Obama/Pelosi stimulus package needs defeated in the next election.
We need to find someone from NE Oklahoma that can take out Boren in the next election.
Amen.
Obey saying Republicans had a chance to get in on this bill from beginning, says he has done all he can to include R’s.
Clyburn up now “I rise in strong support of this package that will put America back to work. What good is a tax cut when you don’t have a job.”
I just moved back to Tulsa from Nevada. Called all my ex Nevada reps and all my Okla reps yesterday.
I sure hope Republicans can show backbone and stop this fiasco!
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