GOP Wields More Influence Over the Stimulus Bill - The Wall Street Journal
February 5, 2009[...]
After meeting with Mr. Obama, Sen. Collins expressed concern about a number of spending provisions, including $780 million for pandemic-flu preparedness. "I have no doubt that the president is willing to negotiate in good faith, that he wants to have a bipartisan bill," Sen. Collins said.
The move to scale back the package came as Mr. Obama made a pitch for quick action. "No plan is perfect, and we should work to make it stronger," said Mr. Obama, who separately met Wednesday with two other centrist senators. "But let's not make the perfect the enemy of the essential."
It is unclear how far Sen. Collins's plan will advance, or how much appetite the Senate will ultimately have for sizable cuts in the package. But the effort dramatizes the fluid nature of debate this week. Other Republicans have successfully pulled the legislation in the opposite direction: Amendments they pushed would add billions of dollars to the budget of the National Institutes of Health, while creating tax breaks to encourage auto purchases.
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I am not an Otaku but, I really get Moe now.
Hey kids stay in school. You may get far but eventually people will see how dumb you are.
Okay so I have made comments about crack. I am gonna say now. Somebody should go to her house and make sure she ain't sitting the garage warming up her car with the doors closed.
Rod Blagojevich 'flying' in front of a green screen
During filming Thursday of a promotional spot for the NBC reality series "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!" Blagojevich was strapped into a harness and hoisted in front of a blank "green screen" to simulate a parachute jump.
Wind machines mussed his famous mop of hair for the spot filmed at the Los Angeles County Arboretum, standing in for the Costa Rican jungle.
Enron's crimes get pushed all the way back to Al Gore. Yeah that the one who had the secret meetings not cheney.
Levi Johnston considering child custody fight with Palins
"I can go over there and see him," Johnston said. "But it's, now you know, it's kind of an uncomfortable thing for me to go over there. You know, I want to be able to take him and that kind of thing, go do the father thing with him and I can't."
Johnston said he is not in a "big fight with the Palins." He still likes the family and wants to work out an arrangement over Tripp, whom he said he hasn't seen in a couple of weeks.
"I don't think either one of us want to go and go to lawyers and try to fight for custody and stuff like this," he said.
But if the situation doesn't change, "I think we're going to have to."
Everybody against the probe of who is responsible for torture raise your hand.
Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 12:37:58 AM PDT
By now most of you have seen the video of the lady ranting at the Rules and Bylaws Commitee meeting Saturday screaming the Democratic Party is throwing it all away for an inadequate black man. I cannot begin to tell you how this infuriates me. How I want to respond is beyond the measure of polite society. However, I will try to be somewhat dignified in my rebuttal of these egregious claims even though the protesters at this event went far beyond any attacks launched by RepubliKlans in painting Obama as an adulterous homosexual, drug-addicted, murderous, Nazi sympathizer. No, I will hope my case speaks the truth without resorting to politics of fear, but spare no harshness in the assessment of the situation at hand.
Conservative Arrested at Liberal Journalism School for Committing err... Journalism
Err..., NOT! Just another jackass pretending to be down trodden.
I bet Ron Paul and Paulie-heads got a laugh at the tea bagging jokes.
You all laugh at this man as though he just some buffoon. But I will have you know Joe Scarborough graduated suma kume lade from Burger King University so this is a man who knows of what he speaks.
