Every Republican Votes No on Obama Pork Bill

Posted by Bill Dupray on Jan 28 2009 Filed under Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

The pig exploded and the pork went everywhere (Photo credit Ollie Crafoord)

Zip. Zero. Nada. This is not a bipartisan bill by any definition. The Dems own it. They will live by it and die by it. The Republicans stood there like a stone wall and unanimously voted no on the biggest ~~crap~~ pork sandwich ever created by the United States Congress.

From the Washington Post.

With no Republican support, the House approved an $819 billion stimulus plan that will serve as the cornerstone of President Obama’s efforts to resuscitate the economy, an early victory for the new president but still a disappointment because of the lack of Republican votes.

The measure passed 244 to 188, with 11 Democrats and 177 Republicans voting against it.

Who exactly was disappointed? The Republicans weren’t. They were probably excited to vote against this piece of trash. After all, they got back the mantle of fiscal responsibility 8 short days after Obama took office. There has never been a clearer fiscal distinction between the two parties as there is today.

The Democrats are clearly not disappointed. They are empowering all their interest groups with huge giveaways to try to cement their power.

The American people are the ones who will be disappointed when they realize they got the screw job of a lifetime from the Democrat Party.

Just to prove this is just a giant Democrat pork bill in “stimulus” clothing, most of the money will not even be spent this year.

The Democratic plan took a hit when the Congressional Budget Office estimated that only 7 percent of infrastructure money would make its way into the economy by the end of the year, and only 38 percent would be spent by the end of the 2010 fiscal year.

And regardless when it is spent, the money really isn’t for roads and bridges at all. Only $30 billion (about 3 percent) will be used for infrastructure. The rest just goes to line the pockets of groups like ACORN, to fund liberal pet projects like the National Endowment of the Arts, and to spend money on the government, which doesn’t do anything to stimulate the economy.

So Obama got no Republican votes in the House. He needs at least two in the Senate to get cloture. At least one prominent “centrist” Republican is against it.

In the Senate, Democrats are confident they can pick up the one or two Republican votes needed to reach a 60-vote majority.

But Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the GOP presidential nominee last year who has pledged to work with Obama, said Sunday he won’t be among the Republicans supporting the package.

“As it stands now, I would not” vote for the bill, McCain told Fox News on Sunday, explaining that he’d like to see more tax cuts and GOP input into the bill.

Let’s see how mavericky McCain feels this week.

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Clyde

dear bite me, you are clearly unfamiliar with the legislative drag from the clinton years on the economy. we forgive you for that. you guys are often led by emotion rather than intellect, and that's just how you are drawn. it's all good.

gee, i look back at the funny bookkeeping of clinton to create a false surplus, the several attacks worldwide against our interests to which clinton was too busy getting BJs from girls his daughter's age to confront, and i wonder just how anyone can look back fondly. but i get it, bite me, your analysis is like the surface of the ocean - is it smooth? wavy?

come to think of it, how very odd that you would use a moniker such as "bite me" and refer to clinton as the glory years. got an oral fixation, son? there's meds for that, you know.

it's ok. we still like you. thanks for playing along!
bite me

We dems will pull the economy out of mess repubs left for us to clean up, as usual. You keyboard commandos can bitch, whine, moan and piss your pants like you did for the eight great years of Clinton.

...jus' curious, what did you tards think of the $713 billion republican alternative bill?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/...lus/inde...

..and Charlie Crist on TV just now supporting Obama's plan?
arkady

Which bills require the 2/3s majority, I have heard of that, but am not familiar as to what merits a bill to such strict requirements.

But yeah, due to bill death I understand that cloture may be a safety move first. Makes sense.
Clyde

you are assuming that everyone who votes for cloture would also vote for the bill. i don't agree that one follows the other.

i might for cloture reasons other than supporting a bill. when a bill is voted on - and presume it does not pass - it is dead and needs to reintroduced. so i may for to bring the vote to the floor because i think i have the backing to kill it.

i agree that many times cloture is invoked because they want the bill to pass - and the filibuster was to delay the vote - but that is always true.

remember as well, some bills need super majorities to pass - 2/3s - which exceed the cloture 60 vote minimum.
arkady

Clyde,

I understand that much, my point was this. If you have enough votes to break a filibuster, then you have enough votes to get the thing passed by majority. So it seems pointless, no? Just vote.
Clyde

Cloture is to force a vote on an item - to put a time limit to delays like debate. It is not the actual vote on the bill.

Source - http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/b_th...

Cloture. The cloture rule–Rule 22–is the only formal procedure that Senate rules provide for breaking a filibuster. A filibuster is an attempt to block or delay Senate action on a bill or other matter. Under cloture, the Senate may limit consideration of a pending matter to 30 additional hours of debate.

Filibuster. Using the filibuster to delay debate or block legislation has a long history. The term filibuster, from a Dutch word meaning "pirate," became popular in the United States during the 1850s when it was applied to efforts to hold the Senate floor in order to prevent action on a bill.
arkady

Rose,

So cloture is to stop filibuster, which they need 60 votes for, which in other words is a winning majority, no? I am not 100% how it works.
Rose2.0

I would like to know when "ideological" became a psychosis. (It makes me think of John Kerry calling GWB "ideological" in the same tone you'd use to say "syphilitic pedophile".) The shorter version of that word is "principled".
Bravo to the ideological, principled House Minority. This is a new day, guys. This plan is just shockingly bad and if the Dems had been less arrogant they'd have sucked some weak sisters into it. Had it been just a less desirable, badly written stimulus, that would be one thing, but this is very clearly not stimulating AT ALL. So the arrogance of the House Dems and the President, drunk on power, has put us here.
Johnny Lunchpail will not look back in a year when things get better and say, yep, it was that great Obama stimulus. If things aren't better by March 1, the Folks will be pretty darn receptive to hearing what a bad plan this was. I hope there's a real outreach process now.
I believe you need the cloture vote to end debate on the Senate side, whether there's an active filibuster or an "invisible" one.
arkady

Why do they need cloture Bill? Isn't a 60 vote majority all that is required to get this abomination passed?
Bill Dupray

A unanimously steel spine. Very rare.
Scott Martin

Bravo for the House Republicans on this one.

Looks like they might have started listening to Rush Limbaugh.

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