Posted on 10/03/2008 4:49:50 PM PDT by Darren McCarty
The revised bailout bill is a done deal after the House voted to pass it by a 263-171 vote, and the President signed it.
Two of those nay votes came from local congressmen. Basically, Republicans Tim Walberg and Mike Rogers felt this plan was worse than the last one.
Representative Mike Rogers tells wilx.com, this new plan had much more pork in it and the price tag is now more like $850 billion dollars rather than $700 billion dollars. He also says there was a viable alternative presented but Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi went another way.
"This was a rush job, not that there was something that needed to be done today-- we needed to do something soon-- but because the Speaker of the House (Pelosi) wanted to go home to campaign for the month of October," said Rogers. "That's the wrong reason to go into debt another $1.3 trillion dollars to give it to the very people who got us into this mess in the first place."
Tim Walberg tells us he has been besieged by his constituents to vote this bill down. His decision came down to three things.
"One, does the bill hold the ones accountable who brought on the problem? The answer is no. Does the bill punish the ones who did not bring on the problem-- i.e. the taxpayers-- and the answer is yes. Does the bill do anything to keep this from happening again? The answer is no."
(Excerpt) Read more at wilx.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Congressman McCotter gave one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard after the vote today. The Bush/GOPbots wouldn’t like it much but it was a great if depressing speech.
And yes I’ll proudly be voting for Walberg again.
Walberg was on the radio live this morning here in Jackson. He said his staff found buried in that bill a provision that would incorporate carbon use, aka “cap and trade” into our federal tax code!!
Tim held strong. We need more like him!
We’ll need a bailout to pay for the bailout.
Rep. Tim Johnson of Illinois ,15th District, also voted no.He will get my vote and I called his office to thank him.
Where can we find a listing of who voted and how? A link please!
The Michigander voted right. I wish Alabama's Rogers did the same
There is? Really?
'Scuze me. I have a bag of dog shit to finish packing.
“Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time, and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.”
source: upon evicting from the Oval Office a delegation of international bankers discussing the Bank Renewal Bill, 1832
President Andrew Jackson
These are the only two bright spots in all of mid-Michigan
Thank you for the link....my congressman, Chris Smith, R-NJ, voted against this bill....yayyyyy....good going Chris!!
I made several calls to my fine Representative, Mike Rogers, over the course of the last few weeks. His phone was always answered by staff within 5 rings, even on the Sunday vote.
So many others I called ended in messages saying the voicemail box was full, please try later.
This guy is great!
I called and emailed both. Rogers email was down when my wife tried so they were getting hammered.
Good job holding true guys.
Thank you, Mr. Walberg! We’re from your area.
Pork or not, what do they have to do with this economic emergency Plan?
If this bill is so important and these “tax credits” are so important why can they not be brought up for a vote on their own?
Why should we trust the very organization that got us into this mess with 800 billion more our money?
Why in the world should we deliver such unprecedented power to the hands of a single unelected official?
Why should we embrace governmental ownership of private property mortgages?
How about answering those questions, Rep. Camp, instead of splitting hairs and lecturing us on semantics?
As far as I'm concerned, all Congress has accomplished this week is making it very clear that they don't listen and they can't be trusted.
I sent at least 4 emails to Mr. Camp and never got a reply. I told him to go talk to Walberg.
Do you remember when Camp first ran for office? One of this things was that he didn’t even own a tie and had to go buy one. He wanted us to think he was such an outsider. It seems like he’s really grown roots and is part of Washington now. Time for him to go. I told him he’s lost my vote if he voted yes on this travesty.
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