Feb 3, 2009 8:37am
Obama Pushes Harder on the Stimulus
EmailReleases a letter from 19 governors urging the bill’s passage; and tells Democratic leaders to adopt more GOP measures in the stimulus package.
And names Sen. Judd Gregg, R-NH, to be his Commerce Secretary.
Our GMA report can be seen here:
- jpt
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“C’mon, people, let’s ram this through before MORE goodies get ‘stripped’!”
Posted by: LaughingCynic | February 3, 2009, 9:01 am 9:01 am
Now the Senate Republicans want to give Huge Tax breaks And Giveaways to First time Home Buyers,Thats great but what about the People who already Own their Homes and are struggling to pay their Mortgage what do they get? Senate Republicans answer to Stim bill Tax cuts and a Tax cut and oh wait more Tax cuts Republicans same sorry Party no new Ideas!
Posted by: Angie | February 3, 2009, 9:50 am 9:50 am
The republicans are playing hard to get because they know that President Obama is seeking bipartisanship. I have a feeling that they’re just saying no just for the sake of saying no, just to oppose the President. They keep blaming the Democrats and the Speaker. If they don’t want to participate for the recovery of the economy, let them be, I hope President Obama would just stop reaching out to them, it’s making them arrogant…but then again, President Obama doesn’t work that way. He’s not ordinary and he’s stubborn. Well having those qualities made him president, I hope those qualities would lift the country’s economy.
Posted by: carmela | February 3, 2009, 10:11 am 10:11 am
What ya gonna do when porkulus fails …
Posted by: bill-tb | February 3, 2009, 10:17 am 10:17 am
bill-t : “What ya gonna do when porkulus fails …”
It will be an awfully tough couple of years if it comes to that, but that would certainly guarentee the removal of the Republican Roadblock in the Senate come 2010. All the polls – for example the current Gallup poll at 52-37 (it was 53-36 a month ago) – show Americans want this thing passed.
Posted by: jhw539 | February 3, 2009, 10:24 am 10:24 am
Pelosi is the real president–Obama just the puppet.
Posted by: sammy | February 3, 2009, 10:31 am 10:31 am
PORKULUS
Seems the Limbaugh cult is out in full swing today!
Posted by: Angie | February 3, 2009, 10:35 am 10:35 am
“All the polls – for example the current Gallup poll at 52-37 (it was 53-36 a month ago) – show Americans want this thing passed.”
Not according to Gallup.
Posted by: KR | February 3, 2009, 12:16 pm 12:16 pm
” no just for the sake of saying no,”
Or they actually don’t want this much spending. But hey, that would mean they have principles and that just can’t be true.
Granted, it is hard to believe any politicians have principles, but I’ve seen stranger things.
Posted by: KR | February 3, 2009, 12:18 pm 12:18 pm
“… struggling to pay their Mortgage what do they get?”
A swift boot in the ###? My first home was 71,000. I could maybe have pulled of a 100k house, but I would have been strapped badly. My next home was 85k, again, well within my means. I made money on both of them to put a good down payment on my first new house at 170k and basically financed 100k. I spent 5 years in that house before my wife finished school and got a good job and we just recently got a new house.
I lived within my means my whole life, played by the rules, saved, and didn’t get squat. What makes you think someone who is struggling to pay a mortgage deserves help? Maybe they should get a home they can afford.
Posted by: KR | February 3, 2009, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm
KR,
You obviously did not go to the Barney Frank school of economics!
Good For You!!!
Posted by: Mike_C | February 3, 2009, 12:47 pm 12:47 pm
so go search Gallup for
“Americans Support Stimulus, but Many Want Major Changes”
This is the latest poll on the stimulus.
Posted by: KR | February 3, 2009, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm
“Americans Support Stimulus, but Many Want Major Changes”
This is the latest poll on the stimulus. ”
Interesting in that it would seem the GOP has lost the ideological war on this.
Government interference in the economy on a very direct level is supported by 3/4 of Americans.
Posted by: Ryan C | February 3, 2009, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm
In that poll, 38% support the plan as is, 54% want major changes or reject the plan.
Doesn’t sound like the Republicans are losing the ideological war on that one to me. Are we looking at the same poll?
Posted by: KR | February 3, 2009, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm