Officials say tentative stimulus deal reached
 

For what its worth good or bad only time will tell.

Officials say tentative stimulus deal reached - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – Amid stunning new job losses and yet another bank failure, key senators and the White House reached tentative agreement Friday night on an economic stimulus measure at the heart of President Barack Obama's recovery plan. Two officials said the emerging agreement was for a bill with a $780 billion price tag, but there was no immediate confirmation.

The tentative agreement capped a tense day of back room negotiations in which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, joined by White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, sought to attract the support of enough Republicans to give the measure the needed 60-vote majority.

Officials strongly suggested that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's vote would be needed to assure passage. The Massachusetts Democrat, battling a brain tumor, has been in Florida in recent days and has not been in the Capitol since suffering a seizure on Inauguration Day more than two weeks ago. The senator's office did not comment.

Reid met privately in the Capitol with members of his rank-and-file to present the proposed deal.....continued

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Sellout Republicans who voted YES.

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Although Patters had a CBS poll which showed 51% approval, the reliable Rassmussen had the lastest poll at 37% for passage of the bill (a few days ago). The Senate should be ashamed of themselves.

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Expect Michael to come flying in with a clever picture or a "lockstep" comment. Oh wait no, he's captain irony I forgot.

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‘Stimulus': Your Money for Illegals, Welfare Recipients,
Arts, and Sex

Just how outrageous is this shameful $819 billion stimulus?

For starters — and this will shock you — both the House and the Senate programs have a loophole that even gives illegal aliens cash payouts.

Here’s how The Associated Press explained it: “Undocumented immigrants who are not eligible for a Social Security number can file tax returns with an alternative number. A House-passed version of the economic recovery bill, and one making its way through the Senate, would allow anyone with such a number, called an individual taxpayer identification number (TIN), to qualify for the tax credits.”

In case you didn’t know it, any illegal can get a TIN number from Social Security, no questions asked.

This means illegals who broke the law to get here will be eligible immediately for federal cash — up to $1,000!

It gets worse. Let me detail for you some facts from the “stimulus”:

More than $4 billion is earmarked for "neighborhood stabilization activities" — money that will go to groups like ACORN, which worked closely with the Obama campaign, the same group accused of massive voter fraud.
Almost half of the proposed spending will directly benefit the Service Employees International Union, federal, state, and municipal employee unions, or other Democratic-controlled unions, according to writer Ben Stein.
$600 million goes for news cars for top government bureaucrats.
Obama promised major infrastructure projects — yet only 5 percent of all the money goes for this.
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts.
$75 million to fund anti-smoking programs.
$650 million for the switch from analog television to digital.
$335 million to help prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
$600 million for “climate change” research programs

Re: Officials say tentative stimulus deal reached
 

Joe if you read its down to a mere 790 billion from 920 billion=130 Billion less so they must have taken some of those Pelosi projects out.

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It's a spending bill, not a stimulus bill. It's a Liberal wet dream come true. Sigh. Well, we knew it was coming.

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HMM you have to spend to stimulate.

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Actually you don't but if you're going to spend it should all be on stimulative projects and not on pet projects.

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I dunno what the particulars are, so I'll wait till that's out to comment specifically. I will say though that this bill could very well pass, and the economy could rebound despite of that. This puts people like me in a ****ty position, since I'd like the economy to rebound, but don't think the bill, as it was being reported in the media, was worth passing.

****ty position is with respect to the fact that I don't want to see $1 trillion of spending added, but do want the economy to 180.