WH: House Republicans ‘Were Seeking His Autograph. Every (One of Them) Eventually Voted Against the Bill’

How quickly the bloom comes off the rose.

Why was passing the bill so urgent that there was no time to debate the thousand pages that came out of conference before Congress voted, but signing it into law can wait until after a long weekend?
Wasn’t there some kind of campaign promise to give the public five days to read and comment on all legislation, or did that get thrown on the same pile as the promises to hire no lobbyists, avoid Clinton admin retreads, and treat political opponents with respect?

This guy seems to have picked up on all the stuff that Hitler used to arouse the masses.

the republicans destroyed this country for 8 years mindlessly and the one man who has offered real solutions is hard at work fixing bushes mess, the Republicans care nothing for America and the next elections in 2 yrs will rid washington of these do nothing war moongers….its easy for them to say obama needs to do nothing when bushs tax cuts have fattened their pockets hypocrites! Americans are hurting bad and the Republican party will never get thats why their demise as a party is near!

Obama probably said “I know you want my autograph–everyone loves me”.
He just assumes that.

How much can one get for Obama’s autograph on eBay? Hey, times are tight.

I’m sick and tired of the same old song about “8 years of the Bush administration that got us into all this trouble” I’d like to remind you there were lots of dems with guilt as well. The blame was shared by all. The root causes go way back before Bush ever showed up.Give it a break. Sounds like the same old talking points to me.

When you elect a Socialist, you get Socialist “solutions”.

Lindsay Graham was talking about government take over of the banks. Hey, he is a REPUBLICAN. You guys can throw around terms like socialist – but you don’t even know what you are talking about. If bank reorganization comes from a Democrat – holy cow it’s socialism. If it comes from Lindsay Graham, well, it’s just good sense. Get a life. Read a book that isn’t written by Ann Coulter. Go for a walk in the woods.

What’s the harm in pointing out a little bit of hypocrisy in your “loyal opposition”?

Wasn’t there some kind of campaign promise to give the public five days to read and comment on all legislation, or did that get thrown on the same pile as the promises to hire no lobbyists, avoid Clinton admin retreads, and treat political opponents with respect?
Posted by: bgates
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Exactly!!

Roscoe2400 and bgates:
The bill was posted to the White House website Thursday. You can go and read it and post comments right now if you want.

Why was passing the bill so urgent that there was no time to debate the thousand pages that came out of conference before Congress voted, but signing it into law can wait until after a long weekend?
Posted by: bgates
Debate—-what do you mean? There wasn’t even enough time for them to clean up the scribbles in the margins and the hand written additions and deletions.
How could they possibly debate on something that one actually read???
That would just stupidand waste of Congress’ time!

I’d keep those pictures. History will want to record the day that fascism replaced democracy in America. Congrats liberals. You won.

“The bill was posted to the White House website Thursday. You can go and read it and post comments right now if you want.”
I’d rather comment here, because the “Obama” organization is scary:
“DON’T sign it: scrap Porkulus. The so-called “stimulus” bill was arrived at dishonestly, wrongly contains tax cuts for those who can well afford to PAY taxes, is too expensive AND too divisive, and rewards corporate misdeeds and corrupt state governments, particularly in California, while ignoring the poor.”

Roscoe2400 “Why was passing the bill so urgent that there was no time to debate the thousand pages that came out of conference”
Can you cite ANY BILL THAT WAS EVER DEBATED AFTER CONFERENCE? Ever? Do you understand the point of the conference committee – to produce a bill that is identical between the two houses for passage. Any debate or editing is done in conference, all that is done on the floor is an up or down vote. The Republican parties eager embrace of ignorance is really embarrassing them now when the country is a little leery of a party that does not seem to know our governmental system to even a 5th grade level.

Why was passing the bill so urgent that there was no time to debate the thousand pages that came out of conference before Congress voted, but signing it into law can wait until after a long weekend?
Posted by: bgates
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Funny, Former Treasurer Paulus tried to sneak the $85 Billion through Congress saying that the AIG would go bankrupt within a week! 3 weeks
later they were still around having private parties
and giving out bonuses like it was going out
of style! Who is kidding who?

Wow. You’re scared of the Whitehouse now. After 8 years of Bush-Cheney, you don’t know how to NOT live in fear do you?
Posted by: jhw539
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After 8 years with those characters, you build up resistance

Sure, Obama. Whatever you say.
He spent weeks telling us the bill was needed so urgently it constituted a national crisis.
The bill passed Congress Friday night and Obama promptly went on a 3 day vacation and will sign the bill on the 4th day.
Yep. We can sure see — it was a national emergency alright. /sarcasm

Where’s the photo’s of the closed, smoke filled rooms full of senior democrats and lobbyists writing the bill?
Posted by: Concerned in OH
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Sorry, Halliburton and Former Blackwater lobbyists
were not invited.

Who believes anything this guy says? I mean, you’d have to be an idiot.
He said no lobbyists. He’s hired 17.
He said no earmarks or pork. The porkulous bill is loaded.
He said we couldn’t heat our homes at 72 degrees and the NYT reports that he keeps the White House so hot you could grow orchids in it.
He said we have to be energy efficient but watches his own party send a private plane to pick up a Senator to vote on the Porkulous Bill when voting on Monday would have been just as good and would have permitted Congress to do something novel like actually READ the danged bill before passing it.
The largest spending bill in our nation’s history at a time of economic crisis and Congress didn’t even read it. How immature of Obama to pressure them to pass it so quickly and then take off and not do anything with the bill.
Oh, and Obama is also lying when he says nearly all economists approve the bill. Hardly any of the economists who write for Kiplingers, Money Magazine, Forbes, work for CNBC, etc., like the bill. Apparently Obama understands fully that his constituency is so stupid they don’t read or watch financial news.

Lisa,
Thanks, dear, for proving my point.
So in other words, there really was NO reason for Obama’s hysteria and insistence that the bill get signed before the weekend. See, I knew we could agree about something.
So Obama should have just done the responsible thing and given Congress the weekend to read the danged thing. But of course he knew, the more people read the actual bill the more they hated it and realized it’s a spending bill to give money to his union buddies and ACORN.

jpt writes:
“As Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel talks on his cell phone … ”
… maybe calling in his brother, Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, ANOTHER Clinton “health care” retread now advising the “Obama” organization.

Just one more thing that we can blame on Obama:
The deepening recession spells trouble for a little-known government corporation that insures the pensions of 44 million workers and retirees.
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. already has an $11 billion deficit that seems sure to grow larger as Corporate America suffers through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

Good for the Republicans for NOT being a cheap date unlike the rediculous media who keeps swooning as soon as you hear his name–except you Jake! How unbelievable that he’s still up to his disgusting old tricks and woe is me-i’m such a nice guy, I even passed out cookies. Apparently Harvard didn’t teach him what compromise is (I won the election, Mr. Bi-Partisan-NOT!) or what really reaching across means! It’s NOT passing out cookies with thugs standing at your back w/ an agre w/ me or watch what I tell the nedia, my homies! I have less and less respect for this guy everyday and I was a democrat! God, help this country when the media FINALLY decides to tell the truth and people wake up and smell the crap that is our gocernment! Vote OUT Pelosi, Reed and O…and while you’re at it, all the rest of the idiots up there (yes, some republicans, too!) Wake up people! Don’t care about the darned Party afiliation! It SHOULD be about who does best forYou, your xhildren and your world and if you think this one will, good luck when you wake up!

If you really think other readers are impressed by your shifting “points”, you must have interesting conversations in your own head, peach.
How’s that Bush recession goin’? Heckuva mess he left in Obama’s lap, huh? At least we can be glad Obama’s doing his best to tackle the problems, unlike Congressional Republicans who continue to sit on their hands and bleat “tax cuts!”

I see Lisa is another post who doesn’t understand that Congress is a co-equal branch of government.
Apparently you don’t listen to Pelosi either because it’s her favorite saying.
Obama was a Senator, Lisa, dear. That means he voted for the very spending bills and banking regulations that brought us to this place.
But carry on pretending you didn’t understand how that little co-equal branch of government thing worked. Well, maybe you don’t know and then it will be very easy to put your future posts on ignore. LOL

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? DOES ANYONE SERIOUSLY BELIEVE THEY WANT HIS AUTOGRAPH??? I don’t even want his autograph and I am a nobody. Wow, Obama is a seriously disturbed individual. He really is believing the hype.!! This is dangerous frankly. He believes he is bigger than all! Hmmm, wonder if anyone else in history ever worked that way…
You guys voted for him…

Lisa, I don’t think that any one person can create a recession SO that would also mean Bush didn’t create it. We can visit Greenspan and his days, moving on to Clinton in the 90′s where the Freddie and Fannie relaxing it’s standards started to Bush who came in and WARNED Congress to do somet ing about it BUT there were these lovely guys there sitting on their throne called Frank (Freddie and Fannie Mac’s head was this bonehead’s ‘partner’-u think there were NO kickbacks?, Dodd (who got a sweet deal from Countrywide to look the other way), Waters (just a joke of a politician! There will never be an investigation into these crooks and the joke and the bill is on us! This is the problem with our education system! How did any of you graduate?! Do any of you even understand economics or did you all listen to your savior say that stimulus means spending? Let’s start w/ a simple question kids…if you have $5 in your hands and you go to the candystore, can you buy $100 worth of candy? ok, move on to college kids, you’ve got ur first credit card with a limit of $1000. Can you purchase a $10,000 item? NO! How can you afford it? CUT SOMETHING ELSE-OTHER EXPENDITURES! That’s why we all say tax cuts do work! Republicans did not say only for wealthy-they were saying cut the taxes so you would have MORE in your check so that YOU could spend more! NOT this REDICULOUS $13 dollars a check that’s going to happen months down the line! I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t put half a tank of gas in my car! It’s a shame that conservative is such a ‘bad’ word!

Seriously, plumber? You who wrote of the stimulus bill “History will want to record the day that fascism replaced democracy in America” want to educate me?
Hyperbolic much? You must be a kick to be around.

Stimulus…Chicago Style
Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago, another is from Tennessee, and the third is from Minnesota.
All three go with a White House official to examine the fence. The Minnesota contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil. “Well,” he says, “I figure the job will run about $900: $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100 profit for me.”
The Tennessee contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, “I can do this job for $800: $350 for materials, $350 for my crew and $100 profit for me.”
The Chicago contractor doesn’t measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, “$2,800.”
The official asks, “You didn’t even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?”
The Chicago contractor whispers back, “$1000 for me, $1000 for you, and we hire the guy from Tennessee to fix the fence.”
“Done!” replies the White House official.
And that is how the new stimulus plan will work.

Obama is a good salesman with a bad product. Even the Obama cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

Is this BHO guy for real? This sounds ingratiatingly like a badly written novel or PR written by one of those “spin journalists”. ~ “As Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel talks on his cell phone, the President closes his eyes just as Congress reaches a compromise between the Senate and House versions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.” …and the second White House aide quietly stepped out the Oval Office doors, closing it without a sound to allow the President time to cogitate over his tremendous milestone…while his Secret Service men hauled an earnest young woman outside the doors of the White House away as she thrust the subpoena at them demanding paper proof the President was an American citizen who had not studied at Occidental College as a foreign student named Barry Soetoro.
I’m sorry, I just had to put that in there. He lies about the Caterpillar re-employment situation, lies about giving the public 5 days to review the entire Stimulus Package (4 sections completely missing), lies about the package having no earmarks when evidently it has numerous ones such that related to rats in Nancy Pelosi’s district, and lies about health care being a right when Daschle’s book makes it clear seniors do not have that right – it makes one truly wonder if he is what he says he is…starting with his book. I found out from a colleague that no one ever vetted him, and the only US birth proof any one has is not stamped and vetted by Nancy Pelosi as the DNC Chair but sits on an internet website. Even my son can’t get into his little league without showing his birth certicate and the coach is not about to accept a low quality version posted on the internet, notwithstanding who owns the internet domain! I for one, following the shadow footsteps of Obama’s dumb Keynesian Stimulus Plan (vs. a smart Keynesian Stimulus Plan which does exist under the correct circumstances), am happy to hear that state legislators doubting Obama’s marxist style big government plan is asking to see a hard copy genuine birth certificate which will actually state his place of birth and named witnesses. Apparently a birth certificate in Hawaii has been forged before for a Sun Yat Moon and sat in the Hawaii records, which stated he was born in Hawaii. Evidently, he was not. But I digress – but do I?
On the boomerang, the Stimulus Plan is like spending on your credit card when you don’t have money and are overdrawn. No financial specialist would advise you to go out, spend more to renovate your house and don’t worry how you to pay it back. Hence, it is a dumb Keynesian plan numbered to an excessively over-blown 1100 pages of hodge podge spending.
I hope the legislators will be successful in checking what’s behind this silly affair we have to call President Obama and his senior tax evading administration.

I don’t know whether to call that hypocrisy or treason. It’s probably the former.

President Obama told us several times during the last couple of weeks that without passage of the economic stimulus bill, the US would lose over 50,000 jobs per day.
Well, seeing how the bill was passed last Friday night, had he signed it into law with the urgency previously espoused, he could have saved almost a quarter of a million jobs by today.

All these comments are doing exactly what the politicians in DC want. That is, keep all of US fighting amongst ourselves, when we should ALL be fighting against THEM. It’s our two party system that’s a failure. When did we start becoming a Democracy and stop being a Republic?

Credits for purchasing autos were removed from the bill at last momment, replaced with the addition of $8 Billion for the hi speed train from Disneyland to Sin City..So much for helping the working stiffs in Detroit.

I see that the stock market is down 10% for this year alone. Apparently they have zero confidence in Obama.

“What do you suggest as an alternative … ” [to flying to Denver for a Porkulus-signing rally-op]
Staying “home” at the White House, instead of turning every political development into an occasion for an over-produced road show?

Kee-rist: apparently in pursuit of His own Executive Privilege to govern in secret, The Puppet and His Justice Department are now on the side of … Karl Rove?
How about a story on THAT, abc?

“The Washinton Post reports that the stimulus bill has a provision for a Recovery Accountability and Trancparency (RAT) Board that can tell Inspectors General NOT to investigate fraud.”
The RAT Board is chaired by the now-non-existent Performance Officer, the woman thrown under the bus (as Geithner, for MAJOR tax troubles, was not) for minor tax troubles.
For a good time deciding WHERE to emigrate, search “Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board” and read around.
One good thing about the compulsive road trips: sooner or later He’ll land in the wrooong state, some Governor will have him detained by the National Guard, and the fight will be on.

According to the American Small Business League, 97 percent of all new jobs come from small businesses, i.e., those with fewer than 20 employees, so small businesses are the primary source of real job creation.
So what did Obama do?
Ignored small businesses but rewarded unions and government employees. So much for HIS much vaunted intelligence.

Although Obama told us for weeks that the spending bill would increase consumer confidence, we can see from the sell off on Wall Street that it has had the opposite effect. Just as I predicted.
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Madame Peach-Why don’t you try to learn some economic fundamentals instead of gazing at tea leaves? Hello. Critical recessions don’t happen or recover overnight. Apparently, you’re in denial of the long term damage enacted by eight years of fiscal irresponsibility.

Just to be clear, journalists, even certain ones from ABC, clamored for and got Obama’s autograph as well. Doesn’t explain why the press blew the stimulus story though. Why all the GOP chicken littles when the GOP economists are in favor of the bill?

90% of the stocks are NOT owned by 10% of the wealthiest Americans. For crying out loud…why can’t people deal in facts instead of what the DNC says?

Obamacrat for Palin,
If Republicans wanted to participate in putting the bill together they could have. Instead they wanted to dictate. Losers in elections do not dictate winners do. Republicans saw this early on and decided on a strategy of sniping. And they will continue to snipe throughout this economic recovery…..
P.S – Good luck with Palin. I am sure the mental midget has the all the answers…