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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • How many more $billions to “sell” this POS bill?

    I’ve just got one more question for the new Obama Administration; how many more billions of dollars is the new president spending flying around the country to cram this POS bill down our throats?

    You can’t convince the half of the nation that didn’t vote for Obama that he’s acting in our best interests, so just cut the crap and sign the damn thing and let’s get to the part where we start drowning in this morass instead of wasting more of our money on this victory lap.

    From the same article;

    “The president has said it’s likely to get worse before it gets better,” Axelrod said. “But I do expect the rise in unemployment to be retarded.”

    Unemployment isn’t the only thing that’s going to be retarded, Dave.

  • Collins easily impressed by Dems

    The Washington Post is lovin’ them some Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe (the two Maine Senators who saved last week the Obama stimulus bill) this morning. They recount a phone call between VP Biden and Collins last year;

    Just before Christmas, Susan Collins, a moderate Republican senator, was driving alone on that road, headed to her parents’ home near the Canadian border in the tiny town of Caribou, when her cellphone rang. It was Joseph R. Biden Jr., the soon-to-be vice president, calling to talk up the Obama administration’s economic stimulus plan.

    The call kept getting cut off. Once. Twice. Three times. But Biden kept calling back.

    “I was very impressed with his persistence,” Collins recalled in an interview.

    So she voted for the stimulus bill because Biden impressed her with his ability to continually hit the redial button on his phone. Knowing Biden like I do, I’ll bet he had a staffer to punch the button for him. He’s a friggin’ genius, you know.

    I guess Biden’s ability to redial the same number repeatedly was so impressive that Collins forgets that just a month before, she was reportedly angry at the Democrats for sending their Senators to Maine to campaign against her, after all she had done for them in the last eight years (From The Hill);

    The tactics used by Democrats to secure at least 58 Senate seats may have damaged their chances of winning vital support from Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) in key votes in the 111th Congress.

    Collins told colleagues at a small Senate prayer breakfast meeting last week that she still felt lingering resentment toward Democratic senators who campaigned against her in Maine.

    She confessed that she had “trouble forgiving colleagues” who traveled to Maine and told voters she was “a Bush clone and called into question her ethics,” said a senator who attended the meeting.

    Collins’s lingering resentment could emerge as a snag for Democratic leaders who expect her to side with them on many important votes.

    I guess the Democrats knew what they were doing – they knew that the spineless weasel Collins could never bring herself to vote against them no matter what they said about her.

    Collins and her home-state colleague, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R), have voted with GOP Senate leaders less often than any other Republicans. They are the two Republicans whom Democrats are expected to court most often.

    Before Congress adjourned, Collins voted with Democrats and against her own leaders to advance an emergency stimulus bill. She also recently voted with Democrats to quash a Republican filibuster of the defense authorization bill.

    Yet her willingness to cross the aisle from time to time didn’t stop Democrats from lobbing attacks during her recent campaign for reelection. Collins received her hardest shots from Democratic Sens. Frank Lautenberg (N.J.) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio).

    She’s so freaking spineless, she’d rather stand up to her own party (who’ve supported her and keep returning her gutless ass to office) than the people who bend her over and stick it to her in her own state. Maybe we should call her repeatedly and see if she’s impressed with us.

    * Washington, D.C. Office (202) 224-2523
    * Augusta Office (207) 622-8414
    * Bangor Office (207) 945-0417
    * Biddeford Office (207) 283-1101
    * Caribou Office (207) 493-7873
    * Lewiston Office (207) 784-6969
    * Portland Office (207) 780-3575

    Fax:

    * Washington, D.C. Office (202) 224-2693
    * Augusta Office (207) 622-5884
    * Bangor Office (207) 990-4604
    * Biddeford Office (207) 283-4054
    * Caribou Office (207) 493-7810
    * Lewiston Office (207) 782-6475
    * Portland Office (207) 828-0380

  • Bi-partisan my foot

    Apparently Gibbs and Axelrod see that their boss’ stimulus plan is doomed because the went out to tell the world that it was a bi-partisan effort. Bi-partisan because three linguini-spined Republicans voted for it?

    If they thought that it was going to work, they’d be hogging the credit instead of trying to spread the blame. How stupid do they think we are?

  • Socialist, Thief, Liar, Dumb-ass or Traitor? Or all of the above?

    Give it a rest Democrats. You won and shoved this steaming pile of shit down our throats. Good job ass hats, your children and grandchildren and the general security of this nation are now in peril but good job anyway.

    But stop getting on television and trying to defend something that you DID NOT READ!

    No human being with a spoonful of integrity would even attempt to defend the largest government spending expansion in history without having read it.

    For you socialist trolls, feel free to rant in the comments. This of course only allows you to be-clown yourself as the pathetically retarded dumbass that you clearly are.

  • The Washington Kneepad

    This doesn’t need commentary from me – it speaks for itself;


  • Feel hustled yet?

    John Kerry says you don’t know how to spend your money;

    Chuckie Schumer says you don’t care about the pork in the stimulus bill;

    Nancy Pelosi beats feet out of town for Europe;

    That promise that Democrats made that you’d get 48 hours to read the stimulus bill? Forget about it.
    But that’s OK, because your Congressman who voted for it didn’t read it either;

    You and your congressman haven’t read it, but the lobbyists have;

    So does anyone else get the feeling that someone is not being completely honest with us?

  • This sums it all up well

    From The Washington Times;

  • Your tax break? Couples=$13/week

    So now that we’ve had this “stimulus” package crammed down our throats, the media has started dissecting it. A bit too late. The Associated Press looks at the tax break;

    Q: What are some of the tax breaks in the bill?

    A: It includes Obama’s signature “Making Work Pay” tax credit for 95 percent of workers, though negotiators agreed to trim the credit to $400 a year instead of $500 — or $800 for married couples, cut from Obama’s original proposal of $1,000. It would begin showing up in most workers’ paychecks in June as an extra $13 a week in take-home pay, falling to about $8 a week next January.

    So the Democrats couldn’t even leave Obama’s $1000 credit alone, just like they had to give some of my money away last year to someone who doesn’t pay taxes.

    AP says your tax break, if you’re married and file jointly, is a whopping $13/week. But the way I read it, a “tax credit” just knocks $800 off of your taxable income. So if you’re in the 10% tax bracket, your weekly “benefit” is a buck-and-a-half.

    Remember when Tom Daschle criticized the Bush tax cuts because it’d only allow us to buy a car muffler? What will the Obama tax cut pay for in your household? Feeling like you’ve been taken for a ride yet?

    Purple Avenger at Ace of Spades says 77% of you think you can do a better job than Congress on the economy. And 44% think we’d be better off picking random names out of the phone book. As long as it’s not the DC phone book, I might agree.