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Psychoblues
01-26-2009, 04:25 AM
I changed the title only slightly to put it in a more understandable wordage for the jerks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sen. John McCain and House Minority Leader John Boehner object to the economic stimulus plan. McCain also criticizes a Pentagon appointment and the decision to close Guantanamo.

By Peter Wallsten
January 26, 2009

Reporting from Washington -- Republicans signaled Sunday that they would not be daunted by President Obama's soaring approval ratings, criticizing his proposed $825-billion economic stimulus plan, his strategy for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and his decision to exempt a top-ranking Pentagon appointee from new ethics rules.

Some of the sharpest criticism came from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the party's challenger to Obama in the election and the recipient of aggressive outreach as part of the new president's efforts to forge an image of bipartisanship.

Obama honored McCain on the eve of last week's inauguration with a bipartisan candlelight dinner, and he has solicited his former rival's advice on top appointments. McCain has returned the favor by pressing fellow Republicans to speedily confirm Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

But Sunday, McCain had few kind words for Obama's initial moves as president. He called it "disingenuous" for the White House to impose new rules to limit the influence of lobbyists but immediately claim an exemption for William Lynn III, the nominee to be deputy Defense secretary, who has lobbied on behalf of defense contractor Raytheon Co.

McCain said he would not have announced the pending closure of Guantanamo, as Obama did last week by signing an executive order, without having first decided what to do with the 245 detainees being held there.


And the senator said he would not support the stimulus plan in its current form, asserting that it should have more tax cuts and less emphasis on projects, such as repairing the National Mall or extending broadband access to rural areas.

"There's got to be some kind of litmus as to whether it will really stimulate the economy," McCain said on "Fox News Sunday," adding later: "There has to be major rewrites [of the legislation] if we want to stimulate the economy."

McCain's comments were echoed by House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he and many of his colleagues could not support the measure in its current form because they "see this as a lot of wasteful Washington spending, padding the bureaucracy and doing nothing to help create jobs and preserve jobs."

The plan being pushed by Obama and Democratic congressional leaders would add thousands of miles of electronic transmission lines, retool thousands of schools and federal buildings and build infrastructure to promote wind and solar energy. It contains $275 billion in tax cuts -- not nearly as much as Republicans want -- and would fund a range of programs that GOP officials say are unnecessary or would not stir economic activity quickly enough.

The White House has set a goal of spending three-quarters of the money within 18 months and wants Congress to pass the plan by mid-February.

One of Obama's top economic advisors, Lawrence H. Summers, told NBC that the stimulus plan was a "properly sized approach to move the economy forward."

Summers did not rule out additional government investment in troubled banks. And House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) said on ABC's "This Week" that it could be necessary......................................... ..................

More: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-stimulus26-2009jan26,0,7544832.story

Need some cheese to go with that whine?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?

:beer::cheers2::beer:

Psychoblues

Hobbit
01-26-2009, 12:02 PM
So when a Democrat screams for hours, maybe days, about how a Republican plan is going to destroy the world and can't be allowed to happen and blah, blah, blah, it's righteous objection, but the second a Republican steps forward and says, "Maybe this isn't such a good idea," it's whining? Way to be a dick.

Bonnie
01-26-2009, 12:24 PM
I changed the title only slightly to put it in a more understandable wordage for the jerks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sen. John McCain and House Minority Leader John Boehner object to the economic stimulus plan. McCain also criticizes a Pentagon appointment and the decision to close Guantanamo.

By Peter Wallsten
January 26, 2009

Reporting from Washington -- Republicans signaled Sunday that they would not be daunted by President Obama's soaring approval ratings, criticizing his proposed $825-billion economic stimulus plan, his strategy for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and his decision to exempt a top-ranking Pentagon appointee from new ethics rules.

Some of the sharpest criticism came from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the party's challenger to Obama in the election and the recipient of aggressive outreach as part of the new president's efforts to forge an image of bipartisanship.

Obama honored McCain on the eve of last week's inauguration with a bipartisan candlelight dinner, and he has solicited his former rival's advice on top appointments. McCain has returned the favor by pressing fellow Republicans to speedily confirm Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

But Sunday, McCain had few kind words for Obama's initial moves as president. He called it "disingenuous" for the White House to impose new rules to limit the influence of lobbyists but immediately claim an exemption for William Lynn III, the nominee to be deputy Defense secretary, who has lobbied on behalf of defense contractor Raytheon Co.

McCain said he would not have announced the pending closure of Guantanamo, as Obama did last week by signing an executive order, without having first decided what to do with the 245 detainees being held there.


And the senator said he would not support the stimulus plan in its current form, asserting that it should have more tax cuts and less emphasis on projects, such as repairing the National Mall or extending broadband access to rural areas.

"There's got to be some kind of litmus as to whether it will really stimulate the economy," McCain said on "Fox News Sunday," adding later: "There has to be major rewrites [of the legislation] if we want to stimulate the economy."

McCain's comments were echoed by House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he and many of his colleagues could not support the measure in its current form because they "see this as a lot of wasteful Washington spending, padding the bureaucracy and doing nothing to help create jobs and preserve jobs."

The plan being pushed by Obama and Democratic congressional leaders would add thousands of miles of electronic transmission lines, retool thousands of schools and federal buildings and build infrastructure to promote wind and solar energy. It contains $275 billion in tax cuts -- not nearly as much as Republicans want -- and would fund a range of programs that GOP officials say are unnecessary or would not stir economic activity quickly enough.

The White House has set a goal of spending three-quarters of the money within 18 months and wants Congress to pass the plan by mid-February.

One of Obama's top economic advisors, Lawrence H. Summers, told NBC that the stimulus plan was a "properly sized approach to move the economy forward."

Summers did not rule out additional government investment in troubled banks. And House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) said on ABC's "This Week" that it could be necessary......................................... ..................

More: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-stimulus26-2009jan26,0,7544832.story

Need some cheese to go with that whine?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?

:beer::cheers2::beer:

Psychoblues

So in your mind legitamate questions and or objections to a multi billion "so called" stimulus plan is whining...


psssst there are still 70+ million of us who are not in raptured jubilation over the annointed one's aka (Soros"s puppet) presidency and to that still deserve some measure of representation in government especially given that it is mostly that 70 million aka the middle class who will be footing the bill for all the pork barrel money Obama has in this bill to KISS the rest the of the worlds ASS.
Your a patriot right, when did you stop believing in checks and balances???

Gaffer
01-26-2009, 12:33 PM
So in your mind legitamate questions and or objections to a multi billion "so called" stimulus plan is whining...


psssst there are still 70+ million of us who are not in raptured jubilation over the annointed one's aka (Soros"s puppet) presidency and to that still deserve some measure of representation in government especially given that it is mostly that 70 million aka the middle class who will be footing the bill for all the pork barrel money Obama has in this bill to KISS the rest the of the worlds ASS.
Your a patriot right, when did you stop believing in checks and balances???

The only checks he does is the check on how full the bottle is. The balance is taken care of by having arms on his chair so he doesn't fall out.

Noir
01-26-2009, 12:34 PM
Just as a childish side note, please tell me you pronounce Mr. Boehner as 'Mr. Bo-ner'

5stringJeff
01-26-2009, 06:30 PM
Just as a childish side note, please tell me you pronounce Mr. Boehner as 'Mr. Bo-ner'

No, it's pronounced 'Bane - er.'

5stringJeff
01-26-2009, 06:30 PM
Need some cheese to go with that whine?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?

Dissent is patriotic.

Psychoblues
01-28-2009, 10:35 PM
You are correct, 5stringer.



Dissent is patriotic.

So, I guess we'll be listiening to patriotic whining for at least the next 4 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're IT, cowgirl!!!!!!!!!!!!

:beer::cheers2::beer:

Psychoblues

Psychoblues
01-28-2009, 11:53 PM
I don't think so, hibbit.



So when a Democrat screams for hours, maybe days, about how a Republican plan is going to destroy the world and can't be allowed to happen and blah, blah, blah, it's righteous objection, but the second a Republican steps forward and says, "Maybe this isn't such a good idea," it's whining? Way to be a dick.

I think it's just whining?!?!?!!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!

Need something else to dim your already dull senses?!?!??!??!?

:beer::cheers2::beer:

Psychoblues

BoogyMan
01-29-2009, 12:19 AM
Porkula got his way as his minions in the House have passed the porkulus package that will very well seal the fate of our country. At least the conservatives grew a backbone and said NO!

Psychoblues
01-29-2009, 12:31 AM
Really?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!


Porkula got his way as his minions in the House have passed the porkulus package that will very well seal the fate of our country. At least the conservatives grew a backbone and said NO!

We'll see what happens in the Senate but I doubt seriously if the Republicans will be very proud of the display by their congresspersons in this day's vote by them. Did you notice the ten's of Democrats that voted with them?!?!?!?!?!?!? It was a bipartisan rejection of otherwise sound economic strategies intended for the overall growth of our nation and it's future is how I see it.

Sarah Palin/Rush Limpdick or vice versa in 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Need somethin' to wash that bullshit down?!?!?!??!?!!?!?!??!??!?!?!?!?!?!?

:beer::cheers2::beer:

Psychoblues

BoogyMan
01-29-2009, 12:37 AM
Really?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!

We'll see what happens in the Senate but I doubt seriously if the Republicans will be very proud of the display by their congresspersons in this day's vote by them. Did you notice the ten's of Democrats that voted with them?!?!?!?!?!?!? It was a bipartisan rejection of otherwise sound economic strategies intended for the overall growth of our nation and it's future is how I see it.

Psychoblues

This giant crap sandwich is the sole property of Porkula and his minions in congress. Sound economic strategies? When did pork turn into a sound economic strategy? Keynesian economics have NEVER worked and we will all suffer, as will our children from the intransigent stupidity of "The One."

Psychoblues
01-29-2009, 12:43 AM
Keynesian economics? Have never worked?!?!?!?!?!???!



This giant crap sandwich is the sole property of Porkula and his minions in congress. Sound economic strategies? When did pork turn into a sound economic strategy? Keynesian economics have NEVER worked and we will all suffer, as will our children from the intransigent stupidity of "The One."

Our children, grandchildren and their children will wuffer the idiocies of gwb and you have the audacity to refer to "Keynesian economics"?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?

You are delusional or educated far beyond your intelligence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lemme give you something to chew on for the next few months!!!!!!!!!!!!

:pee:

:beer::cheers2::beer:

Psychoblues

Psychoblues
01-29-2009, 01:05 AM
Actually, Bonnie, I never complain about legitimate discourse and debate.



So in your mind legitamate questions and or objections to a multi billion "so called" stimulus plan is whining...


psssst there are still 70+ million of us who are not in raptured jubilation over the annointed one's aka (Soros"s puppet) presidency and to that still deserve some measure of representation in government especially given that it is mostly that 70 million aka the middle class who will be footing the bill for all the pork barrel money Obama has in this bill to KISS the rest the of the worlds ASS.
Your a patriot right, when did you stop believing in checks and balances???

But the whining by the obstructionists is getting a little old for 2009, isn't it?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?


Need something for the tired old dry throat?!?!???!?!?!?!??!?!

:beer::cheers2::beer:

Psychoblues

red states rule
01-29-2009, 08:14 AM
Anyone remember this:

“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, “WE ARE AMERICANS AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DEBATE AND DISAGREE WITH ANY ADMINISTRATION!”

It was screamed by Hillary Clinton