Want to do something about this crap?  Write, call, or e-mail your two senators. Tell them to vote NO on this porkulus bill!

Here is the link:  http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm.

Even if you know that your senators are voting no, still write, e-mail or call to voice your encouragement of their efforts to stop this bill.

We can stop this.

Forget this guy and his bogus "rescue" thing (which, by the way, Juan Wms said was his idea, not Pelosi's). Let's just use our self-interest and help our fellow Americans by doing ncessary things--like get the roof fixed, get a new heat pump, build a block wall--whatever--at bargain rates and start spending a little while helping ourselves. These big giant brains over there aren't coming up with anything that will jumpstart things, so we need our own little programs.

The scope of the federal government does NOT include charity. Cut the give-aways that benefit special interests, kick out the illegals, stop the export of abortion money, and I hope to heaven we're not paying for Pelosi's cosmetic surgery.

Must we always fight Washington policy wars using preferred Democrat
terms? Today’s example is the "stimulus package," or as ABC touts on
screen during its newscasts, the Obama "Rescue Plan,

After all, who could be against a "rescue" plan??????

Remember when Al Gore called Bush's tax cut plan a "risky tax scheme"????

He who controls the language, controls the argument.

Following the disaster of the CA enegy crisis of Clinton's last year in office, the pain of the 2003 Northeast blackouts, combined with the pinch of ever rising energy prices and the depressive effect all was having on the US economy and on consumers a lot was going on in Washington. One thing that seemed never to be going on was a national media pushing the Democrats to get on board with the president and to be bi-partisan in getting such things accomplished.

There was some news out there - but never a plea to the Democrats to stop blocking - to work with the other side.

Bush Urges Congress to Act Quickly on Energy Bill 

The bill, of course, was a job creator, an energy creator, a green energy enabler, and an effort for better national infrastructure and for keeping American's energy bill lower. "It" was a stimulus bill.

Imagine a Charlie Gibson or any other MSM TV news anchor, being "miffed that the Democrats would 'turn the cold shoulder'" to Bush's outreach." 

(:~> gary

Of course it's not stimulus, it's just Obama paying back his campaign contributors.

On going thru the long list of earmarks in President Obama's stimulus plan which the GOP and others  have classified as mostly wasteful expenditures, I discovered a glaring and very  important omission.  I do hope that the architects of the $800 (now grown to $900) billion stimulus plan have not overlooked the need for setting aside at least a  couple of billion dollars (which is a paltry 0.1-0.2 % of the total stimulus budget) for construction of a very large federal penitentiary (or even several, albeit on a more modest  scale, located strategically in various parts of the country) as the integral part of the plan. With such a huge budget to be deployed and spent over a relatively short span of time (which will naturally  render any effective supervision next to impossible), there is enormous scope and opportunity for swindle, graft,  outright stealing (and even plain, "unintentional" ex-senator-type tax evasion) in the execution of various projects.  Therefore, a substantial number of grand jury indictments cropping up, as the stimulus plan gets under way, should be anticipated as a distinct possibility.  We don't want to have another post-Katrina type situation in which the authorities may  be caught napping in finding adequate shelter for a flood of convicted felons who will be suddenly thronging our already overcrowded prisons, do we? And, we have not forgotten what happened  with the infamous oil-for-food to Iraq program which operated on  a far smaller budget and which was supervised jointly by the  bureaucrats in the US and the British governments, have we?   No one can deny that a vast majority of business men and women are honest and hard-working people but even a small  rogue minority is large enough and capable enough for wreaking havoc with ordinary people's lives thru their their shenanigans if they are in the mold of The Wall Street fraudsters. These crooks will, sooner or later, end up spending a major part of their retirement, dressed in orange-colored jumpsuit, in a federal penitentiary. And the $900 billion stimulus plan will be the  bait that will lure them to their ultimate destination. Moreover, the construction and staffing of these penitentiaries themselves  together with ancillary facilities will create a large number of jobs and will give quite a sharp stimulus to the local economies in the manner similar to the benefits that will accrue from  building and upgrading of schools and roads! And the added bonus will be that the  economic stimulus generated by these penitentiary projects is  likely to become self-perpetuating since any hanky-panky during their construction and subsequent operation will result in  increase  of the inmate population which will, in turn, create a need for additional penitentiaries!