Economic collapse if we don’t pass a pork laden, free spending, 88% Democratic payoff non-starter of a bill RIGHT NOW?  Catastrophe?
I agree with the Big Dog. 
Barack Obama is using fear, or fear mongering, in order to scare people into support…

You don’t need gubmint to run your life.

You don’t see a politician because he is a well packaged smooth talker but he came from the sewer of Chicago and he is a politician.

You don’t beat the Clintons unless you are.

Mack, you are right on…

That is a testament to what a good politician he is – you’re talking about a guy that pulled down well over a million dollars last year.

The basic assumption in human interaction is that each is watching out for their own self interest. Otherwise, then you exist simply as a mark for somebody else who will take heartless advantage of the fact that you are not watching out for your own interests.

The “Stimulus Package” doubles the deficit (deficit’s “bad”, remember?) and allocates only roughly .12 cents out of every dollar spent to actual stimulus. It’s a pig. Even the Congressional Budget Office admits it’s a pig. To support it simply on a partisan basis is to commit economic suicide.

The government is “overhead”; they do not create wealth, and they cannot organically create and fund jobs. They have to take their money from the citizenry or borrow it to pay even $100 dollars in salary.

I know you’re about “redistribution”, but the reality is that rich people and companies tend to leave when you abuse them via the tax code. A perfect example is “Mr. Imagine”, John Lennon, who left his home England to avoid the heavy taxes, thereby depriving the desperately poor and snaggle-toothed wretches in England the benefit of his wealth.

The word republican has become synonymous with stupidity. No further need for these people to prove that. Maybe they could show some actual sense for a change.

Well, the foolish thing here, really is that these republicans don’t seem to realize that Barack Obama doesn’t need them, but they sure need someone like him to lead the country. If they deserve someone as generous, HUMBLE and intelligent as him is a different question. Maybe they deserve Bush, so they got him for 8 years. If they still don’t see their mistakes, then why, they can always go back and elect someone like Bush. Who’s stopping them?

I don’t see Obama as a politician first. I admire his huge courage and generosity and spirit of love in undertaking this huge task of re-building America. I don’t think the republicans who are attacking his administration here have any clue of the selflessness and dignity of such an undertaking. They can only look at their own country in terms of the narrowly defined self-interest of the consumer/ small corporatist. If Obama is unsuccessful in bringing about change, it is not due to his personal failure, but due to the failure of a system that has been defined in terms of narrow self-interest for decades and cannot rise to the challenge of responsibility now. All Americans have an equal share in that system, and if they have been traditional republicans, then all the more so. Because republican politics is fundamentally defined by narrow corporate self-interest. It is not surprising that these republicans are unable to see the change that Obama wants to create, because their own ideology is so based in self-interest that anything that is not so exclusively based in self-interest seems like an anathema to them. They have all the time in the world to analyze someone else’s failures, but none to examine their own failures. They grab onto whatever they can, when they criticize Obama’s government, but they lack any insight into Obama or his policies.

Jacksmith…really? Where to begin…

For starters, the “Bush Republicans” (not that such a thing exists) aren’t blocking anything or anyone. Daschle and Killefer withdrew their names. Had they the courage, they probably would have made it through the process. The reason they bailed is not due to the Republicans but because the American people were starting to wonder about the hypocrisy of the Obama administration. As for the laughingly called “stimulus package” the Republicans certainly aren’t blocking that either. By all accounts…and by the words of Reid and Pelosi…the Democrats have the votes to pass this without any Republican support. So why don’t they? If they are so sure that this is best for the country…if they are so sure that they are right and the Republicans are wrong why don’t they go ahead and pass that piece of crap bill? Because they lack the courage to do so. They want to be able to spread the blame when it fails to revive our economy.

2 more points…

1) I wouldn’t call an election of 53% to 46% an overwhelming mandate for “change”. And I’m quite certain if Obama had run on a campaign promise of “I’m going to spend over 1 trillion dollars of your money in my first two weeks in office” he never would have been elected. At least if he had, that would be ONE promise that he could say he kept.
2) I had to laugh out loud at Obama’s Sat. morning radio address when he said the bill gave tax relief to the middle class of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. Wow! You jackasses in Washington want to spend over a TRILLION DOLLARS of OUR money and we should be grateful to get back a thousand? Gee, thanks, oh wise and generous One.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

I’m not sure where you’re coming up with “President Obama’s repeated offers, and gestures of collegiality to Republicans”, but he coasted through the entire speech on nothing but ridicule and jabs at Bush, Palin (excuse me, but the campaign’s over) and Republicans in general.

Bipartisan? Hardly. He couldn’t be more partisan if he tried. Going for a quick lunch and cocktails with a few RINO’s hardly counts as crossing the aisle.

Liberals never made an attempt to work through issues with conservatives, so why are conservatives now expected to bend over and take whatever’s handed to them?

The hypocrisy, if it weren’t so pathetic, might be funny.

Tom Daschle, and Nancy Killefer are two of the finest, and most competent public servants you could possibly hope for in these appointments. They have been assassinated by the Washington healthcare lobby through their paid Bush Republican henchmen in congress. These Bush republicans are the same people blocking the economic recovery plan put forth by the Obama administration.

I am BURNING MAD America. And you should be too. Tome Daschle and Nancy Killefer were exactly what we needed to help turn this country around and fix our economy, and catastrophic healthcare crisis.

If I were their boss I would tell them to get right back to Washington. And dare congress to not approve them. How ridiculous is it to reject highly qualified people that this country needs just because they made a mistake on their taxes. Don’t stand for that anymore America. They apologized, and paid their taxes, and that should be it. Their country needs them. But President Obama has to do what he thinks is best. I understand that. I’M JUST SO MAD at the anti American Bush Republicans.

Like many of you I have been trying to enjoy the after glow of this Beautiful historic election. But I see that the republicans in congress and their cohorts aren’t going to be good sports, and LOSER’S!

SO BE IT!

In spite of President Obama’s repeated offers, and gestures of collegiality to Republicans. Bush Republicans have seized upon every opportunity to stab President Obama in the back. And by doing so they are stabbing you, and the rest of the American people in the back. Well, you don’t have to put up with that. And you shouldn’t put up with that. President Obama has only been on the job two weeks. And he inherited two wars, and the worst economy since the great depression.

We had an election. And president Obama, and the democrats won BIG. And Bush Republicans lost miserably!

The Bush Republicans are the ones responsible for the worst economic crisis since the great depression. And the Bush Republicans are responsible for the worst healthcare crisis in American history. A healthcare crisis that is killing hundreds of thousands of you every year. Rich, middle class, and poor a like. Insured, and uninsured. Men, women, children, and babies.

President Obama, and the Democrats should take back all the concessions they granted the Bush Republicans, and tell them to put up! or shut up!

Everyone, start calling and contacting these Bush Republicans and tell them to stop blocking President Obama, and the Democrats recovery plan. And stop trying to block, and corrupt healthcare reform. Tell them to get on board with President Obama and the Democrats, or GET OUT!!

If these Bush Republicans refuse to cooperate I want all of you to immediately begin the process of removing them from office by every legal means possible. Including impeachment, and recall. I want you to bring the full weight and power of the movement down on their heads that swept President Obama, and the Democrats into control of the whitehouse, and congress. Take no prisoners. Use all the techniques you learned over this past historic election. Be flexible, creative, adaptable, and relentless like you were in the past.

To my cyber warriors I call on you again. You are among the best and the brightest. I call on you to move this fight from the cyber world to the living rooms, dens, and work places of the voters these Bush Republicans misrepresent. I know I can count on you. This is a fight worth fighting.

To my fellow World citizens. As an American I invite, and welcome you and your advise, input, and help. By delaying Americas recovery, and healthcare reform, these Bush Republicans are delaying our commitment to your recovery, and to being the better America for you that we aspire too.

I had hoped it would not come to this after our historic election. I had hoped that the Bush Republicans would respect the overpowering will of the people, and the World. But I guess not. All the Bush Republicans really care about is them-selves. Well, SO BE IT! Lets finish the job.

Sincerely

jacksmith — Working Class

I heard a statement today from BO that basically said since when has there been a bill of this size passed without some pet projects involved (in response to the amount of pork in the bill). How outrageous – just because it has been done before (and we know that he got in there on hope and CHANGE) does not make it right. Nor does it make the very valid concerns of many citizens (and some reps) over this enormous waste of our money. As far as “compromise,” he is “putting his foot down saying I won and I have the people’s mandate for change.” That is beyond arrogant and dead wrong (not the winning part of course). I think it has been proven by polls and the amount of correspondence received re this bill that most of the American people (that he is paid by and supposed to be representing) are against this bill in a big way.

And – as an aside – I believe that the new cap of $500,000 for Wall Street execs does not apply to the ones that have already received our hard-earned tax money as a handout but any further donations BO determines to be “extraordinary.”

I have a great idea – how about a pay cap and freeze for all of Congress. No more company cars – you buy and maintain your own. No more hotel rooms and meals on the people, you eat, you sleep, your dime. Serving in this capacity is to be an honor, a privilege, not a windfall. If everyone needs to be responsible (per the Messiah) then let’s start with the people up there in his ‘hood, shall we?