Stimulus Passes House
February 13th, 2009 by 
Kevin
House just passed the Stimulus Porkulus bill 246 – 183. Once again there was bipartisan opposition as all Republicans and 7 Democrats voted against it. Only Democrats voted for it.
In addition this violated Pelosi\’s promise to post a bill online for at least 48 hours before a vote. It went online last night at 11pm. That\’s only 10 hours before the House convened to consider the bill….. By Democrat math, 10 = 48, which explains why they think this bill will stimulate the economy even though economist say it won\’t. But to be fair they had to vote so that Pelosi could catch her porktastic flight to Rome…also at taxpayer expense.
Plus many members haven\’t even received a copy of the 1000+ page bill, even though lobbyists had it by early afternoon yesterday. So you know damn well probably not a single member of the House had even read this piece of shit before voting on it….and even they admit that.
This is the bipartisan Era of Hopenchange we were waiting for…
Now it\’s up to the Senate, where it is not clear that they will get the 60 votes they\’ll need.
[Crossposted at True North]
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February 13th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
I didn’t think they needed the 60 votes? This is coming up under different rules than the last time, I think a simple majority is all that’s required. so unless 8 Democrats have the collective intelligence of at least one normal thinking human, it’s a done deal.