No public hearings or testimony from experts yet the congress passes the greatest swindle in the history of world. They bailed and continue to bail out the Bungling and Swindling Banksters.

Yet here are numerous items that have been begging for years because we have been enriching the war profiteers. Now what do we get.

The 'Stimulus' package is a pittance compared to what the war profiteers and the Banksters have made off with.

ps should have let them fucking filibuster the thing, noting is more tool like than a senator forcing himself to pontificate

to people who aren't already wealthy!

Change we can give up on!

Unfortunately, Obama seems to have forgotten that Republicans are masters at turning strengths into liabilities. Remember John Kerry - War Hero? If nothing is done to stop them by the end of 6 months Obama wil be neutralized and paralyzed. They are already throwing his "I want bipartisanship" right back at him saying "If you don't pass the Stimulus bill without all the crap we want in it, it won't be bipartisan and you will have lied about your intent."

And many people buy it.

I'll just bet all those firefighters in New York post 9/11 wouldn't mind having their budgets cut, after all, what do we need them for now that it's all over, right?

Oh boy.

Many of us feared that bipartisanship was not possible. Now ,we see that the Gut Our People Party along with some Blue Dogs want to wipe out parts of the bill that people who have lost or will soon lose their jobs will need. You know, those unnecessary items like food and daycare. No one needs to learn how to read or write. It just makes for an unhappy rabble who will have the sense to turn off Glenn Beck's rant of the week or Joe the Loser's dissertation defense. Susan Collins wants them all to eat cake. John McCain calls it socialist. Well I call them all thieves who are paid by us, the taxpayers, and are standing by as the country sinks. Where is compassion? How patriotic are you if you hate and revile the majority of people who make up this country? President Obama get mad. There is no smoking the peace pipe with these guys. If they aren't part of the solution, they are obstacles which need to be plowed over. Many of us are just waiting for the word to start plows' engines.

If Obama doesn't just dig his heels in and tell the Repugs to fuck off and forget this bipartisian BS... he will fail.

Here's something that should DEFINITELY be ADDED!!!!:

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/553.html

What? Are we living in the freakin' STONE AGE????

Somebody should clue the Prez in to the fact that Chevron is nothing more than a criminal cabal that should have this battery patent taken from them and a major investigation should be done!

Is anybody else over all this criminal shit yet???

Have you guys reached the breaking point yet????

What's it gonna take to REALLY piss everybody off?

Just askin'.

this should be a straight "jobs" bill

every part of the bill should be able to stand on its own in regards to job creation

yes health care is important....create another bill for it

head start is important....if it doesnt save or create new job...should be in an education bill

etc

the reason the repugs and blue dogs are gaining traction is that no one can defend certain aspects of the bill as job creation....and its just too big

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Why does the Senate hate women, children, first responders, and infrastructure?

Maybe Susan Collins can explain why she hates women's issues...

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The Senate reached a compromise on the stimulus bill. Price tag: $780 billion.

My question: Where did the other 157,000,000,000 go? What got cut and how many of us did the Democratic Party sell up the Potomac River in order to suck 2 votes out of the GOP?

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it is amazing how the republicans can hold so much power seeing as both houses are controlled by the dems and a dem is in the white house. It seems the republicans are still calling the shots. How come the dems could not do this when they were the minority. The republicans are terrific politicians, if only they could actually govern.

I voted for the "other guy" when Bush was in charge and I got no representation at all when they went to war without My personal consent. The republicans have had their chance and they screwed up the country. I want the ENTIRE stimulus bill. Hell, they've wasted more money on that stupid war that could have entirely rebuilt our infrastructure for the next 100 years. But clearly we couldn't do that because that would have been a good idea. "Good Ideas" are always off the table.

I fully understand the need to compromise on certain aspects of the stimulus -- it's a HUGE bill and, as much as we hate to admit it, 46% of the country voted for the other guy. But this attempt at bipartisanship just plain stinks. The media has done a hell of a job distorting the debate, claiming that things like food stamps and unemployment benefits have nothing to do with stimulating the economy, but the facts show they're wrong.

what kind of limbaugh crap have you been smoking? 46% voted for the other guy? Is that logical? are you that ignorant of the facts of this meltdown? that capitulative reasoning is why Ben Nelson and Lindsay graham are winning - because you and your verbose ilk are willing to convolute your own reasoning to accomodate them.

This was a victory for Obama and for the country. It is 780 billion. Everything doesn't have to be in this bill. The only way it could be passed was to get those 3 Republicans on board. As Spector read out, many things were reduced but they were not cut out. Given the recalcitrance of the Republicans there is realistically no other way, than appealing to the few moderate Repubs., to get anything through the Senate.

Nothing new here . . . in the cover of so-called "BIPARTSANSHIP" the Dems roll over again and the Repubs smuggly rant on we won!

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO SEE THIS CO-CALLED CHANGE OBAMA?