Republicans in Congress were elected to do some honest days' work not just whine. Already they're fighting healthcare instead of trying to help come up with answers. The REpublicans have absolutely no intentions of doing any work until 2010.
The Republicans are wasting so much money on degrading our government instead of doing the work they were voted in to do! I am furious about this...they act like a bunch of morons. No wonder our country's economy bit the dust under 8 years of Bush!!!! No real brains or care for fellow Americans.
All the statements Republicans have been making the past few months have been undignified and downright unpatriotic.
The Repubs were SO outspoken and angry at the stimulus, but now...guess what? Bragging about their own "earmarks" that were put into the bill.
Missourians...get ready. Let's not slip on the high voter turnout iin 2010.
Robin Carnahan has a good reputation in Missouri and she would make a great Senator to replace Kit Bond who SAYS he's retiriing (but we all know he can change his mind). We'd hate to lose her expertise at the state level, but excited at the Senate prospects. Thank goodness, Claire McCaskill isn't up for re-election in 2010...not until 2012. And McCaskill is FANTASTIC!
Here is a link I found for Robin Carnahan for a Senate bid.
http://www.robincarnahan.com/
Here is also a link about how polls now, if Bond tried to run again, Carnahan is already in a dead heat before they would even get started...so she probably would beat Bond. I was apalled at Kit Bond's Senate remarks about the stimulus bill! Typical Republican script.
http://www.senateguru.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=464
For those of you in other states, keep an eye on who will be running for Senate or House of Reps. in you own states. I have been so disgusted at the games Republicans played during this Economic Recovery Bill...well, I for one want people in Washington who WORK FOR US and not cave in to the "sheep follow the leader" style the Republicans have been using.
It's very obvious that the Republicans (except for 3) are obstructionists and are NOT voting for the very people who put them if office. Instead they are voting as some kind of "elite club" instead of offering INTELLIGENT solutions. Reports are numerous about the threats against them if they vote for the stimulus package. And it's obvious when the vote as a "block" that they don't think for themselves or the citizens of each state.
And what did McCain have to offer? Start over! Good God, no wonder he lost the election! After all the work Congress and the administration put into this bill ever since November...start over is his answer? McCain still doesn't use his God-given brain to come up with anything new.
The Repubs want big tax cuts for big business to create jobs? Get real...if the consumer doesn't have the money to buy the products and services, it is certainly bad business practice to expand when there's no one to buy. So the only ones who would benefit would be CEO pay...certainly not the average consumer or worker.
Watch Eric Cantor of Virginia. He thinks he's leading some kind of "gang" instead of acting like a Congressman who cares about the citizens. Are all Republicans just in Washington to play a game or will they EVER actually work for the voters who put them there? I doubt it.
Link to Cantor story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/us/politics/15cantor.html?_r=1
Link to article on McConnell's deceit and the obstructionist Republican tactics
http://democrats.senate.gov/journal/entry.cfm?id=281649
Congress's own pay hikes that is automatic every year unless they vote to deny it
http://www.rollcallvotes.com/cgi-bin/rollcallPayRaiseVotes.pl?+VA+
Work hard in 2010 to vote out obstructionist Republicans. Voting record on HR 1 Stimulus bill is here
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00061
Scroll down this link to find who is running for re-election in your state in 2010. If your Republican Senator or Representative isn't going to work for you but rather just for the Party and threats of the GOP PAC monies, then you need to check out other parties and candidates.Congress members are supposed to be working for US not play stupid James Bond games...a waste of our tax dollars for sure.
http://www.uselections.com/uselections/
I have to wonder at the patience factor in this country. With the new administration working so hard but only in office for 3 weeks, why is the media and so many people so insistent that we have immediate END results? It took YEARS to get us in this mess (partly because of the stupid methods Republicans have used) and it's NOT going away overnight.
I am thrilled that Obama and his administration have worked so hard and so fast in just 3 weeks.
I want to see the new policies and solutions work and I know it will take some time. In addition to that, we have to have confidence! We are just as much a part of the problems at hand. I think the "fear factor" has gotten to us a little too much. Let congress know we have confidence this will all turn around.
One important thing for us to do is keep our faith, hope, patience, determination and make this all work! We hated the Repubs fear tactics during the elections...don't let them get to us now. At least Obama is doing something which is much much more than Republicans in Congress or Bushy did in 8 years!
As I watched C-Span2 during the Senate debates, I laughed at the absolutely ridiculous arguments the Repubs were making and their comparisons...while I was too young to remember Eisenhower, I DO remember from JFK to today. Be very careful about what you read and hear from the Repubs...they're twisting a lot of information to suit their need to get the Republican PAC money for their next elections...many of them are NOT voting according to the people who elected them. Wasn't that obvious to you when TOO MANY Republicans voted against it as one big "block"???? I'm not one for polls, but CNN even wondered about the voting since the polls showed 32% of Republicans (citizens) approved the stimulus package as well as some governors who're Repubs, yet why did less than 1% of Congress vote for it. The numbers don't add up at all.
Patience and careful research is in order right now before we become too critical. I am thrilled with Obama's first 3 weeks.
The Republican Party is still falling apart...let's not let the Democratic Party be like "those guys".
CNN had a post about the Republican Trust PAC the other day stating how the National Republican Trust PAC threatened any Republican Congressmen/women who voted for the stimulus plan. That means those Repubs in Congress were NOT VOTING FOR THEIR CITIZENS like they were elected to do but rather to have their strings pulled by some PAC special group!
Here's part of the article quoted on CNN site (GOP group gets tough against Republicans who support stimulus). I only include it here because we all know how fast information gets deleted on the Web.
“Republican senators are on notice," Wheeler said. "If they support the stimulus package, we will make sure every voter in their state knows how they tried to further bankrupt voters in an already bad economy.” (Wheeler is with that PAC)
I call this BLACKMAIL! I thought it was very strange that the Repubs were voting in some kind of "block" against the bill...it was VERY obvious there was something going on with them. As I listened to their arguments on C-Span2, none of their arguments made sense and they manipulated the past to suit their argument. Case in point...Japan...where we all know the lesson was learned that they didn't have a big enough stimulus so Japan had to use more of them...but the Repubs didn't bring that up. They brought upJFK years...but the economy wasn't is bad shape then (I do remember those years and they weren't like now)
Here's the link to the full CNN article. (at least it's available yet this morning)
They just still don't get it. As I listened to the Senate debating and saw the vote in the House that had no Repubs it was obvious they have absolutely no intention on doing anything but their goofy ideology.
Nixon had the wage/price freeze...I had to quit a job that I liked just to get a "raise" by getting a new job
Reagan had trickle down economics and deregulation and I saw the greed get out of hand back then and the economy fall for everyone except the rich.
We all know the Bushes did nothing to improve the economy and #43 absolutely failed us.
Now we have those die hard Reagan wannabes with the same ideas that got us in this mess to start with.
A BUNCH OF TAX BREAKS ARE USELESS!!!!! Repubs think big breaks to business will create jobs. Excuse me? What smart business person would start a business if there's no one to buy the product or service! That's bad business! And why did the Repubs insist on cutting infrastructure spending? That creates good jobs and good transportation systems that would last for YEARS. Or are the Repubs waiting for all the bridges to fall down and kill people?
Those foreign auto plants in this country are subsidized by US! So why is it so hard for our own companies to get a LOAN?
I don't go flaunt my sexual tendencies. But I've got news for the gay community. In most states when a man and a woman live together without a marriage certificate, there is NO rights to property, no medical rights, no insurance rights. So????
Any pastor or priest will oppose gay marriage based on literal Biblical readings. So, if an invocation is given by a pastor and an invocation is a prayer. Do any of you know how other pastors talk? No. Warren just happens to be more in the limelight. So don't pray at the inauguration. Don't you think atheists are angered that ANY prayer be said??? THEY haven't been whining.
And Obama wouldn't be the one making any laws about gays. Good grief learn your government! CONGRESS MAKES LAWS AND THE COURT SYSTEM UPHOLDS IT OR NOT.
Good grief...all the fuss over an invocation! Barack said we must ALL pull together for the good of this country and here many of you are fussing about a prayer! Who cares who gives the invocation?!?!?!?
I am REALLY happy with Obama's picks for his advisors and I think it's a good thing to include others who didn't agree with him or were strongly Republican. Isn't that what we worked so hard for? To get things done in this country?
Don't you have more pressing issues on the economy or war than bicker about Warren? Warren could've refused. It's not just far left groups or ideology who voted for Obama, you know.
We all need to pull together! And Obama hasn't even been in office yet...you either want to move this country forward or keep acting like whiners!
We must help the automakers in the U.S. Listen up people...other countries subsidize their own industries and impose high import taxes on any cars we want to sell in their country. The cars here are same price as ours, same gas mileages...only the hype from the media makes you THINK foreign is better. Hogwash! They all use the same technology and design and tooling.
Also, the very important tax base for schools are the car manufacturers. Schools in those areas would be either drastically reduced in competence or lost altogether.
Many many other industries sell to our automakers and they too would be out of business...tooling, seat upholsterers, electronic sleeves, tires, local restaurants, etc. MUCH more other industries would be impacted. Our biggest losses are in manufacturing and that's crap. Remember when our own steel industries were put out of business because other countries subsidized their own making cheaper steel? You are seeing what happens when we lose manufacturing.
Don't blame automakers who made SUVs and large vans when YOU demanded them in sales. I remember when Ford in St Louis was making Explorers and wanted to drop the Econoline van and the demand from dealer sales was such they had to continue for another year to meet sales.
Don't tell me how good your Honda is when a Mystique or Contour was just as good. Don't fuss about Escape small SUV when the foreign companies are producing THE SAME THING and imorting them here...same mileage, same price (because we don't tax them as much as they tax ours)
I'd rather see bailout to automakers to maintain jobs than to greedy Wall Street CEOs!!!
Have you seen the President-Elect website?
http://www.change.gov/
A strong man with a great deal of heart. As I watched him carry on after his grandmother's passing, at the North Carolina rally...I realized just how very strong a person he really is. You can see he is hurting, yet still very strong in his address to the crowds. America needs Obama so much right now.
Today especially, as I watched TV, the trashy McCain ads are just irritating and in poor taste.
God bless your brave grandmother, Mrs. Dunham! Our hearts are all with you right now. I was praying Mrs. Dunham would be able to see you, Barack, win the election...but I know now she will be watching over you tomorrow and "holding your hand".
You may want to check out the Downing Street Memos about Iraq and why we are REALLY there. It's very scary that McCain's deceit is so much like Bush's (evidenced during the campaigns) that McCain would go to war with just about anyone he wants.
http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/index.html
Kosovo Liberation Army - let's see just what kind of foreign policy McCain REALLY bakcs
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/31/mccain-was-strong-support_n_139732.html
Figures...McCain is so sleezy!That Savings and Loan crisis cost us taxpayers and McCain was so much more involved than what is told
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/02/mccain-did-not-disclose-k_n_140069.html
