WASHINGTON (CNN) – A dozen House Republicans are targeted in a new House Democratic political campaign that criticizes the GOP lawmakers for opposing the $787 billion stimulus package.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will contact voters this week by telephone with a recorded message saying that their Republican congressman voted “against the largest tax cut in history,” and against a stimulus bill that the business friendly U.S. Chamber of Commerce supported.
The campaign also includes “emails and text messages directly to targeted Republicans’ constituents,” a DCCC official tells CNN. House Democrats have also created a Web site to explain how they believe the stimulus bill will affect individual congressional districts.
Only three congressional Republicans, all senators, voted for the final passage of the stimulus bill.
Full list of Republicans targeted after the jump
The House Republicans targeted in this new Democratic campaign include:
Rep. Judy Biggert of Illinois
Rep. Ken Calvert of California
Rep. Michael Castle of Delaware
Rep. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania
Rep. Jim Gerlach of Pennsylvania
Rep. Mark Kirk of Illinois
Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer of Missouri
Rep. Dan Lungren of California
Rep. Thad McCotter of Michigan
Rep. Adam Putnam of Florida
Rep. Dave Reichert of Washington
Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas
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"Largest Tax Cut in History" Only the DCCC could tell that lie with a straight face and not be struck down by lightning.
The DCCC will do well to run for cover over this $787 Porkulus Bill because while some of the American people were born at night, it wasn't last night, and nobody is fooled by this massive spending bill.
Too right, the GOP have really let down their voters by putting petty partisan stubbornness before what's best for the nation, and it's only right that they suffer consequences in 2010.
If the democrats had done the same when the GOP was in the ascendency I would have expected the exact same thing.
They are on their way out of the congress, Zealots who take party interest above National interest, let them profer solution to this mess rather than tax cuts ,Am more crictical about members from illinois because they have a president that has their constituency as his home state, Shame on them, no mater what they think Obama is the 44th president of USA PONT bLANK .
Welcome to the USSR-USA. I just hope Americans are smarter than to believe the propaganda the comrades are putting out. Heaven help us all if the Dems get voted in to a majority again.
Is Nancy Pelosi's travel expenses part of the stimulas???? What a disgrace she is!!!
The media is doing it's best to destroy any unity there may have been that is needed to solve our problems.
CNN, MSNBC(Morning Joe) and Fox have provided a hostile forum for the stimulus package. Daily there is a string of tirades by the uninformed talking heads that this will not work or that will not work. Suddenly everybody working at both networks has a PH.D in economics. There was the twit on Fox saying she wanted to know when the stimulus was going to start to work! I have heard way too many of these clueless comments. President Obama id not God, just a mortal man, doing the very best he can after listening to well informed counselors. No one knows what will or will not work. You whiners need to grow up, this is real life not a video game. There are no certainties in life! This now has helped to escalate a class war in this country. Instead of having all of us pull together as a unit, this one is whining that one is not working and getting unemployment is an entitlement, I have paid my bills and do not want to help others, blah, blah blah. Guess what, most of us have paid our bills and bought homes we could afford, but we are not whining about it 24/7. The future of the country is too important.
And now, Clinton, Fox and CNN are all yammerin' about President Obama talking down the economy!. I cannot watch Fox anymore(I only watched it to keep tabs on the enemy) because after the Kelley wench in the AM I want to grab the Xanax and take the whole bottle with a Prozac chaser! In one breath she rants that government spends to much and in the very next breath complains because the USDA is not doing it's because it does not have enough people. Hello??? You get what you pay for, stupid. You want him to come out in a 30 minute speech and wave a magic wand and speak happy talk? How can he possibly respond to 24/7 attacks? Would you like the President to tuck you in and give you warm milk and cookies?
We had a happy talk President for 8 years and look where we are now. I am an adult and I want the President to tell me the truth, and nothing but the whole truth about what his advisors say about the condition of the economy. Save the bedtime stories for the under 5 crowd.
it looks like the Republicans will be looking for new jobs in 2010.
The Republican members of Congress were like victims of Aphonia. Their silence was deafening when Bush declared war on Iraq without justification or provocation causing billions of dollars to be spent needlessly (not to mention the human toil). They were silent when the government was warned by knowledgeable economists that we were heading towards an economic crisis. They didn't have much to say about the bankruptcies and jobless rates piling up. Now, it is time for the American people to send them home permanently so they can listen to their hero on radio - Rush Limbaugh.
ONE BIG HUGE *SIGH*, i'm getting tired of this. I don't want to be called, i want you to DO SOMETHING! I just voted! NOW LEAVE ME ALONE!
Do you know how to tell when a democrat is lying? Check to see if there lips are moving.
"House Democrats have also created a Web site to explain how they believe the stimulus bill will affect individual congressional districts."
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As a lifelong Democrat, the only part of this entire article I agree with is the one part I quoted above. This is hardly the time for attacks and aciduous criticisms of the like. This is the time for forward thinking with measured planning while maintaining a working knowledge of what failed (and how it failed) in the past. Our country is in real trouble and actions like this DCCC business are a waste of time, resources and trust in our elected officials.
That's right Democrats, stop letting Republicans get all the airtime whenever they have a gripe. I find it funny that somehow the media is liberal yet conservatives are allowed to use it as a whipping post for everyone. During the Bush Administration, everyone, including the media was hush, hush on criticism until it was painfully obvious where this country was going.
Let those who oppose get NOTHING
good fur them
Well the Democrats better worry about their own race, because this Democrat along with many other are going to vote against the Democrats in our State who voted for the Stimulus.
We don't mind a stimulus......however, we hate all the pork in the bill they approved.
How on earth can you spend almost a trillion dollars of OUR MONEY without looking it over thoroughly?
It should be on the front page of every page of every newspaper erery day that tax credits are given to companies who outsource our jobs and we are still bringing in millions of immigrants when we cannot even employ all our own people. PROTECTIONISM right! Who is going to protect America if we do not do it ourselves. TO PROTECT OURSELVES IS NOT A BAD THING. When congress keeps this from happening you can bet it is because they are benefitting in some way!
These people need to spend some time in the unemployment line. I will be glad to do my part to get them there.
This is funny, are the demo's that voted against the bill being targeted as well?
It's time to forget about the republicans and get on with straightening up the mess they created and left.
WHY are the republicans getting so much attention, anyway? They got us into this mess.
Great!
Some of the Republicans who voted against the stimulus package are already taking credit for it! They actually sent out press releases to their constituents telling them that it was through their efforts certain provisions were in the bill – the very same bill that they voted against!
They need to be called out!
The party of no, no new ideas, tax cuts and all white country club members will soon be the party of none
Bye, bye
Sounds like political trickery is being played by the republicans! President obama go ahead and nationalize our economy and be done with it already! The sooner the better for all of us!
Conservatives, literally, would rather rule a bankrupt nation than help govern a prosperous one. Their strategy, right out of the Newt Gingrich playbook, is oppose, stall, delay, criticize, obstruct, prevent, filibuster, distort, exaggerate, and block any effort to solve any problem in America. If the Obama Administration fails - and Americans suffer - they will be in a stronger position in 2012.
Conservatism has far outlived any usefulness it might have once had in the national dialog.
The Rushpublicans purposely voted against the stimulus to try to derail Obamas' success in his presidency. But, all they have succeeded in doing, is making themselves look greedy, self-centered and racist. But, come 2010, they'll regret their politicking. They'll go down BIG time. Me, personally, can't wait to see their demise.
Nothing will help their re-election chances better than the democrats attacking these republicans for voting against an $800 billion spending bill that raises taxes on states, increases the deficit, increases inflation and fuels democratic pork-projects.
Congratulations to ALL representatives and Senators who voted against this Spending Bill.
its about time gop has pay back. because they fail to help american poeple
I am willing to put my money to help defeat gop
Add a few GOP Senators too guys!
These people should all be ashamed and we should vote them out of office.
i don't see how the republicans can LOOK AT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, our country needs help now, President Obama has a plan, maybe it's not perfect, but it's with the people's BEST INTEREST IN MIND, it will get us BACK ON THE RIGHT TRACK, the republicans need to leave Washington for good.
OH...One other thing.. The list is really TOO SMALL !! I am an independent that has voted both Republican and Democratics and I can tell you this is my philosphy.... When things get this screwed up and 90% of all economist that TRULY understand the dynamics of the econmy say it NEEDS government spending to prevent things from getting worst...YOU SUPPORT IT!! You compromise some and get behind it..It is VERY SAD so many Republicans are so small minded that they don't understand they are really sounding like a bunch of idiots..And I mean that literally. When they economy starts to regain it's heartbeat we can then debate tax cuts , waste in spending programs, and a plan to balance the budget in 4 to 10 years, etc... BUT THIS IS NOT THE TIME.....
I am in favor of the stimulus but I worry about what Congress will do.In the past the Congress has O.K'd benefits for illegal immigrants and done other things which sap the U.S. economy.Dual citizenship is another way to send paychecks from American jobs to Mexico and abroad.It also dilutes the amount of jobs available to the American worker.Not good at a time of Gov't bailouts with taxpayers money.I feel I should replace the word Liberal with Stupid because congress knows all the facts.There is no telling what Congress will do next.
Off with their heads!
GOP brought the U.S. to its knees
the sooner the Repub party dies off, the healthier for the U.S.
Maybe the DCC should target themselves
This is a shame, here we have someone who has volunteer to plug the hole in the ship surrounded by high winds and choppy waves but yet the Repugs sit back drinking champane , eating shrimp cocktails and complain about the method of the repairs being made . They need to resign so that a true citizen came serve the people .
As I have said repeatedly, the people are going to have to put pressure on these republicans who are playing politics with our futures! Call it what they will that is the reason behind their decision NOT to support this stimulus package!
The ONLY other reason would be that they are NOT going to get any way to skim off the top of this package for themselves. Trust me.... good ole boy, ole time politics is till out there....don't forget the Burris debucale! He is just a symptom of how politics works in this country!
Wake up, People, demand what we need... and that is for Obama to be able to follow through on his campaign promises! That is why we voted for him! We want this package! Time to bail out the People... not just Wall Street and Republican congressment and governors!
These stimulus programs are a silly way the politicians try to show us they are doing something. We lost our tariffs when Bill Clinton gave China "most favored nation status". There went the good paying factory jobs!
Now if we really care about our economy we will undo that act! we need to go back to the 1950s taxes and tariffs, utherwise we will never become the great nation we were. Those tax brackets went up to 91%, thet controled the greedy, and the tariffs kept the factories here!
all Republicans should be ashamed of their elected officials.
(this is a corrected version of a previous comment!)
These stimulus programs are a silly way the politicians try to show us they are doing something. We lost our tariffs when Bill Clinton gave China "most favored nation status". There went the good paying factory jobs!
Now if we really care about our economy we will undo that act! we need to go back to the 1950s taxes and tariffs, otherwise we will never become the great nation we were. Those tax brackets went up to 91%, that controlled the greedy, and the tariffs kept the factories here!
Funny none of the Republicans are on the list that are front and center doing all the politicing against the bill. My guess is most if not all of those on this list will be unemployed in the near future.
Why don't we also add John McHugh from upstate New York. That worthless lifer in the house has even refused to meet with the President today because of 'other priorities' in his district. Congressman, your district is second poorest in the state–maybe you should get off your ideological high horse and become a team player–call it a step in the interest of job security.
I'm glad the DCCC is putting them on blast. The people need to lknow who voted against the bil so we can vote them out next year.
I praise the 12 republicans who voted against this spending bill. It had to be difficult to vote for what's right rather than follow like sheep.
Hooray for their courage. I wish we had more like them in Congress, those who oppose wrong no matter the consequences of going up against people who will try to destroy you if you have an opposing view just because they have the money.
Odd that when democrats have money, they seek to destroy opposing views, not debate, not partisenship, but to destroy. Yeah, that's change you better believe in or else.
I praise the 12 republicans who voted against this spending bill. It had to be difficult to vote for what's right rather than follow like sheep.
Hooray for their courage. I wish we had more like them in Congress, those who oppose wrong no matter the consequences of going up against people who will try to destroy you if you have an opposing view just because they have the money.
Odd that when democrats have money, they seek to destroy opposing views, not debate, not bi-partisenship, but to destroy. Yeah, that's change you better believe in or else.
Typical demoncrats. Lets not worry about the results.
Go right ahead. The entire American public knows this bailout sucks. The only ones that are in favor of it are the idiots who wrote it.
Actually, I think these Repubs were against the largest waste of taxpayer money in history. What a waste of effort...those Dems need to be focused on managing/spending that money. Instead, they want to play politics with everything to make themselves look good. Go figure...more of the same...
What's the DCCC so afraid of that they have to attack their colleagues?
This isn't about a tax cut.... this bill is about SPENDING.
Remember these names... they will be the heros in the next election.
of course they are.... they are playing politics with our relief stimulus package!
If not that, then it is good ole boy, ole time politics... which is alive and well... thank you very much... all you have to do is look at the Burris case to know it is true... that is not an isolated case by far! The only other explanation is that they do not want the strings attached... that means they will NOT be able to able to skim off the top their own profits!
Let them say what they will... the above is the ONLY reasons!
Whew! I am in Pennsylvania where the public servants, Governor Rendell (Democrat) and Senator Specter (Republican), serve Pennsylvanians. Both want America to succeed and are not obsessed with political careers.
I like to listen to both sides to see what the reasons are. This time the Republicans are just plain sad. No options, no credibility after the past eight years they could have handled things and blatant falsehoods. They simply come across and rehearsed talking points.
I watched Meet the Press, Governor Jindal merely ran his mouth with a carbon copy of the Republican sour grapes cry.
ooops... my computer froze up... I had no idea that both posts would make it through.... my apologizes
Hurrah for the DCCC – my congressman (Reichert, R-WA) is on the list. He represents what is now a swing district. Hopefully we will retire him in 2010.
Repugs sure are ibnorant!!!!!!!!
Thank GOD my representative voted against this bill! It is nothing but pork. To call it the "largest tax cut in history" is nothing short of a an outright LIE to the American people. But I've gotten accustomed to liberals lying.......
Are they also going to target the 11 Democrats who didn't vote for the stimulus? Somehow I don't think so.
Oh please bring it. Has anyone noticed that the states in the most trouble are also the states with the highest tax rates and the ones that are most heavily unionized in the private and public sectors?
The Republicans insist that they have a better idea on how to turn around the economy than the Democrats. However, their incompetence and greed are what got us in this mess. If they have better ideas how come they haven't put them forward anytime over the last eight years. The mess in the economy had been coming ever since Ronald Reagan piled up massive deficits by perpretrating the fraud of supply side economics and his removal of Federal oversights and controls which were needed to keep our economy in line. His failures as a president and leader have led to the conditions we are now facing. George I and George II have only made matters worse by their incompetence. The conservatives complain about tax and spend Democrats but that is better than being borrow and spend Republicans. At least the Democrats try to pay for their programs while the Republicans just want to write bad checks and run up huge deficits.
I am very glad the republicans voted against the package.
I cannot believe that our elected officials voted on a package that was not read.
It would be like buying house without going inside and then find out someone filled the place up with garbage.
They could have taken the time to read and understand what they were voting on, besides the word stimulus.
From what I understand and know this package is going to nothing for the economy for several years.
I guess these people thought it wise to follow what some else said rather than use thier own brain.
So I guess nothing has changed in Washington except who is in charge.
Republicans will now whine, "I didn't know there would be consequences for me for being irresponsible. It's not fair. There have never been consequences for me before. Someone should have warned me."
Personal responsibility, my ...
I am very glad the republicans voted against the package.
I cannot believe that our elected officials voted on a package that was not read.
It would be like buying house without going inside and then find out someone filled the place up with garbage.
They could have taken the time to read and understand what they were voting on, besides the word stimulus.
From what I understand and know this package is going to nothing for the economy for several years.
I guess these people thought it wise to follow what some else said rather than use thier own brain.
So I guess nothing has changed in Washington except who is in charge.
dccc, attack them because those people have no heart. they want to pile up our taxes dollars for wars and do nothing to help people in this country. i pay taxes but i want to see that they re being used in roads and health care not for wars. the conservatives thoughts are not good for America.
The few brave individuals are not the only ones that had the backbone, sanity, and intelligence to recognize the long-term negatuve implications of a spending bill, such as this. It may have a large tax cut (certaintly not the largest, when adjusted for inflation), but the remaining portion of the bill that makes up over 3/4 spending, negatively outweighs any so-called benefit of this massive spending bill and paces long-term hooks in the individua states that wil cause the long-term cost to more than triple. Stimulus is the antithesis of spending and this bill certainly is not Stimulus. Spending by any other name is still spending.
I am a Pennsylvanian, Sen. Spector is my Senator. He also knows that our roads are in terrible condition. Plus in Philly there is trouble, it is open season on Philly policemen. The last police officer is a 25 years old, he and his wife are expecting their first child. Now the arsonist hit school buses near Coatsville, PA.
I believe that we all need help, Pennsylvania as well as the rest of the 49 States are in deep trouble.
I could get in trouble with NRA memebers who believe in the 2nd Admendment. I think there should be gun control, due to what I had said above.
I read in our paper all of the Foreclosers in Berks County. People wanted to live the American dream, by having a home, with a two car garage, 2.5 kids and both parents working to make ends meet. All of a sudden these American who bought a home within there means and lost their jobs due to the economy. Don't you think that they would like to be helped to restructure their mortgage, and Bush rewrote the bankruptcy laws where the average American would have a hard time to get it, but the huge Corperations could get it at the snap of a finger. In my area, there is three Attorney's who does this.
I read that Stimulus and if you read it you would understand and I would love to welcome the United States of America....Welcome to the 21st Century....
Good, keep up the attack!
Please add Rodney Frelinhuysen from NJ. This dinosaur HAS to go!!!!!
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OK, let me get this straight: Bi-Partizanship by Democrat definition now means "You will vote with us OR WE WILL NOT ONLY OUT-VOTE YOU, WE WILL WORK TO GET YOU OUT OF THE SEAT YOUR CONSTITUENTS SAY YOU SHOULD HAVE."
I believe this tactic has been used before in politics. Then, they were called brown-shirts. Now, they are the DCCC. This isn't politics anymore, it is thuggery.
In short: a democratic congress and white house is nothing but a collection of goons and sore winners. How is this healthy for the country?
CNN's latest "poll" shows 3 of 4 Americans "scared" of the direction we are taking.
Let's see, our Federal Government is throwing billions of dollars out the window. Obama surrounds himself with people who have cheated or will cheat the taxman. Corruption is the cornerstone of the politics of Inninois, where many of the slugs that work for Obama hail from.
Obama uses the word crisis and catastrophe in every other sentence as he continues to run for President (sshhhh....Obama, you won, you are the President, now act like one)
and CNN poll shows people are scared.
What a shocking result.
Obama, give the masses bread and circuses, bread and circuses, its what they want. "Worked" in the old Soviet Union, fo a while.
13 GOP Reps who had the moral courage to do the right thing. Thanks for th elist. Think I will send them all a campaign contribution.
Just because someone doesnt rubber stamp this ridiculous stimulus package doesnt make the partisan or racist for the matter!
I'm a democrat and even I opposed this bill. Not to say the longterm programs don't merit funding, but this stimulus thing is supposed to work as a shot in the arm for the economy RIGHT NOW not in 2013! Out of panic that we need to pass something right away we've been cornered into footing the bill for a lot of spending (about a third of the bill even by Democratic estimates) that won't yield benefits for years.
am so proud to be a Republican,I can boast that not one Republian voted to :
Cut off all items for Veterans Affairs,and those were reduced and the $2 billion the Senate wanted for VA construction was wiped out altogether.
Military construction: Cut and put into a general pot, a change from targeted money for each branch of the services. Army construction alone went from $600 million in the Senate and $900 million in the House to $180 million in the final bill. But negotiators compromised over a general military construction fund - the House wanted $3.75 billion while the Senate allocated $118 million and settled on $1.45 billion for all services.
On the other side of the aile the Democrats priorities:
**4 billion for ACORN (A PAID extension of the Democratic Party involved in voter FRAUD)
**the bill includes $30 million for wetlands restoration that the Obama administration will then use to restore MOUSE habitat in the bay.(most people try to get rid of MICE)
**250 million dollars for Pelosi's(a Catholic) CONDOMS (that's a lot of condoms, Nancy)
**Thanks to a sleazy back-room deal between Barack Obama and Harry Reid, the city least in need of government bailouts will get a $8 billion pork project for a train from Disneyland to Las Vagas in the final version of Porkulus. Now Southern California residents can have another way to lose their money, and we can all pay for the ride:
If Obama is really looking ahead ,he will realize his daughters children (his grandchildren)will still be paying taxes on this bill.That’s his legacy.WOW
@ southerncousin
That's just misdirection. The auto-industry in MI, for example, is not close to failing because of high tax rates and union activity protecting workers. It is failing because its business model was total crap, and because its insistence on shoving gas-guzzling behemoths down our throats and dependence upon getting people to buy a new car every couple years even when they don't need one was short-sighted and narrow-minded. They should have been trying to move into the 21st century, but they're in bed with big oil in the middle ages.
I say the Republicans who oppose the stimulus should not take anything. Nothing. Jindal and the rest of them who say that they will take some money but not all are hypocrites. They obviously believe in some of its merits so give me a break. They should give ALL the money to the Democratic governors who are for the stimulusand their states. We voters won't forget the hypocrisy, Republicans.
@'Democrat' against the stimulus:
Did you ask that same question when George W was spending OUR tax dollars frivilously and giving it away to the Iraqi people?
Ya who needs Unemployment bennies.
For the first time the FEED THE CHILDREN organization that provides food to third world countries (like Dafur).
Made thier forst drop in History on US soil in Ohio,
DHL closed it's plant in MAY of last year which left 6000 residents without a job and there are no jobs!
There severesence packages ran out!
So FEED THE CHILDREN stepped in.
How sad our country must look on the worlds stage!
They're targeting G.O.P. that may be ready to jump ship with the right coercion. It's a seek and divide mission, and don't be surprised if some of these Governors take the bait. The G.O.P. can't survive as the party of no.
So Kevin in Ohio....I expect you will be returning any and all dollars you may receive in tax credits and or breaks...even if it's just a few dollars, right? I also expect that you will not patronize or purchase goods from any company that creates even just one job because of the bill.....the list can go on and on....
Wow...do you suppose with a Democratic President and Democratically controlled congress, that somehow some of that stimulus money will find its way into the DNC so they can go after what is left of the Republican party?
Oversight of the Democrats is sorely lacking.
This is free advertising and a boost to these Republicans re-election campaigns.
The fat lady is singing loudly now.
The Democrats have sown the wind and now they have to reap the whirlwind.
"If you want to stop a snake you don't step on it's tail, you have to step on it's head and crush it, otherwise it will just bite you." -Author 'Bomber' Harris
If the stimulus package doesn't work Republicans might get re-elected, but if the stimulus does work the voters will remember who voted against it , and vote them out of office.
I find it amazing how ignorant the American People are. If you think for one minute that the so called stimulus package is going to help, you need some serious counseling. This package is filled with garbage that individuals put in to help their own agenda. Tell me why we need money for condoms. Why Reid needs a bullet train from LA to Las Vegas, 8B worth, that by the time it is finished will probably top 20B.
Wake up America. You are spending your children's and grandchildren's and likely your great-grandchildren's legacy. Is that what you really want.
Let the votes be known!
@ texas teacher. I hope you are teaching PE and not math or government.
Wait for what's coming next.
Obama is now calling for restraint to balance the budget.
Now, last week he spends $800 billion on pork. Know what's coming this week? Tax Increase.... Sure, he'll call it "elminating the Bush tax cuts for the rich"; but we all know how that works.
You know that $16/week that the pork package gives the "average American', well the average American will now owe an additional $38 / week in tax increases.
Change we can believe in alright.
hooray for the courage of these republicans? most of the people living in their districts were opposed to the plan. that is not courage. having them voting for the plan, that would be courage.
What of the Democrats that voted against, I wonder what will happen to them besides NOTHING?
Typical demoncrats. Lets not worry about the results.
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Typical republican patriots. Let's kill innocent Arab women and children and spy on our own citizens.
Since these Republicans don't have a solution to help the people of the states they represents, then call them out, they don't deserve to hold any office. Trillions of dollars being spent in WAR and they have the nerve not to vote for helping Americans. GET RID OF THEM.
Why are 3 in 4 Americans fearful for the country? Because of nonsense like the stimulus bill. I know that this comment board is mainly used by partisans to throw knee-jerk reactions and thoughts at the other side. I can tell by reading a few comments, that's no big mystery. But come on. Calling people IGNORANT because they disagree with spending HUNDREDS of BILLIONS on a plan that no one has read, no one fully understands, that is full of pet projects and payback? This is totally BOGUS. Wouldn't you prefer a more thought-out plan? I don't blame anyone for examining this thing for strings attached and loop-holes and all sorts of shadiness. The whole mess stinks of corruption and waste.
Um....
Well...aren't people ALLOWED to disagree with the stimulus bill?
Ontop of that, is this REALLY what we need the majority party to be doing right now? Spending time and resources on telemarketing to point out that the minority party disagreed with them? Bill's passed already, right? So...what's the point again?
As a fellow "VietNam COMBAT vet" I find your "ibnorant" misspelling very embarrassing. PLEASE learn to spell BEFORE calling someone else ignorant. It does SO MUCH for your credibility!!
You know that there is a funny side to this mess we are in right now.
If attempts by Democrats to pull us out of this mess work as they hope, then Republicans will suffer for years to come and if they don't work then Democrats will be blamed for the potential failure of our nation. I guess you wonder what the funny part is. Well, while Democrats are making efforts to turn our economy around, Republicans are in opposition to and are working very hard to insure the attempts fail and they do not seem to understand that if we do managed to pull ourselves out of this mess they will be seen as making efforts to cause the country to fail. Now part of our problem is that almost no one in government lived through the GREAT DEPRESSION so there is no one to guide us. We have to use our own ideas and no one knows for sure if any of them will work. If Republicans had won majorities in Congress and the Senate and won the White House they would be in control just as they were during the Bush years. Now that they are not on control, they are doing everything they can to cause the party in power to fail. This is not in the best interest of our nation. I feel that as a nation this is a time when we should all be working together as a nation in an effort to make the adopted ideas work.
Seeing Americans working against each other is what really scares the hell out of me more than a failing economy and I don't care if it is Republicans against Democrats or Democrats against Republicans. This is not the time for this kind of crap from adults. Now is the time to work together and if it doesn't work then we should try something else but we should not trying to put forth a plan and then have some working in an active manner to cause it's failure.
Well I guess it is not so funny but more of SAD.
It is hard to praise these 12 republicans who, like sheep, followed the wishes of Rush Limbaugh.
Do they really need to target these GOP folk? When the constituents of these GOPers see other states begin to get out of the muck we are in now, that's all it will take. They have a right to go after these people; however couldn't their monies and tactics be better spent for the next election?
All they need to do is let Haliburton implement the stimulus package. That way the greedy rich people get to skim billions off the top and the lazy poor people all get low paying jobs rebuilding this great land of ours. Everybody wins. Now play nice everybody.
-Some Guy
PLEASE, learn to spell before calling others "ibnorant"
Take a look at the stock market and then tell me that voting for the stimulus was the wright move. I though Obama said this would arrest the losses in the market immediately. He also said that it would create jobs immediately. What dose unemployment look like as of now? I know, I need to give him more time, right. I guess using the means Obama said would determine if the stimulus worked or not is unfair.
They are running around trying to make a case for failure. they should be targeted. it is one thing to criticie a failure – like bush of conservative ideology , but quite another to wish failure on the United States and wish misery on millions of American working families. these folks should be targeted, and so should the entire GOP.
There are political signs in my neighborhood where the once proud 'elephant' and 'GOP' are noteably missing. It appears their only chance of election is to avoid their party affiliiation on their literature.
this spending bill is going to be terrible for the nation...the only bright spot in this situation is that you spending liberals are going to be destroyed just like us conservatives....the misery and pain that this inflation and stagflation will bring is going to be great....and let me tell you liberals something your god obama can't save you from the misery and pain...you asked for it you got it!!!!!!!!!!
Te people that shoud be targeted for ousters are the democratic members of the House. We are in a mess, and what people utterly fail to realize is that for 34 of the pat 40 years, Democrats have controlled the House 34/40 folks? We need to toss the dead wood, including Nancy Pelosi, barney Frank, and about 30 other beauracrats. while the Dems runs ads attacking GOP members that voted against the spending bill, nancy Pelosi spends hundreds of thousands of taxpaypayer dollars vacationing in Italy.
These republicans and the Govenors that are refusing parts of this stimulus package are hurting the people of their state, all they care about is their re-election, hoping and banking all and everything that this stumulus will fail..........but what they forget is the ones they are hurting will remember this come election day and they are cutting their own throats.......I hope this stimulus will be successful and that these republicans and Governors are voted out of their office........
If any governor refuses it, how about diverting to the states which opt for it (this would up the ante for them).
one other point stand firm conservatives even liberals will vote for you when this ship sinks
Where was the GOP opposition when they allowed "W" to increase the federal deficit larger than at anytime in U.S. history? In fact, under GOP leadership (if that's what you call ZERO OVERSIGHT) Bushie II spent more borrowed money on the National Credit Card than all of the previous US presidents combined!! But you won't hear the Greedy Old Party mentioning that. No, they just want to keep the middle-class picking cotton while they ride around in their blacked out window limos and fly in their Lear Jets at taxpayer expense. We don't need the Republican'ts help or vote to pass the stimulus bill. We already did it without them with a few GOP Senators who saw the storm coming and were brave enough to take shelter in the Obama fortress of Reason.
southerncousin sounds like 'W' with the "bring it on' comment. Are you from a rich area of Dallas?
this gets more ridiculous by the day! No one wants to help anyone, as long as they get theirs.....what a nation we've become
Okay, now this is getting ridiculous......
One thing I have always valued as a US citizen, born and raised, is the right to disagree. This smacks as complete bullying and I don't like it one bit. Any person with a functional brain can pick up a newpaper or go online and know who did not vote for the Stimulus bill. This invasion into people's homes is just oo much!
Kevin in Ohio February 23rd, 2009 9:08 am ET
Thank GOD my representative voted against this bill! It is nothing but pork. To call it the "largest tax cut in history" is nothing short of a an outright LIE to the American people. But I've gotten accustomed to liberals lying…….
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The Republicans are so used to lying that they actually believe their own lies. That's why we should ALL be very AFRAID!
They lied us into the Iraq war.
They lied us into giving a bank bailout for their buddies.
They lied us into believing that trickle down economics works even though it has been PROVEN NOT TO WORK. Thus, the 1.3 trillion tax break Bush gave to the top 5% of the wealthy in this country was just MONEY IN THEIR POCKETS.
No, I don't believe the Democrats can hang with the Republicans when it comes to lying. They have the corner on the lying market.
Well, it's interesting that we are getting all this Republican rejection, now that a Democrat owns the White House. We didn't hear nearly as much of this when the Bush Administration (the failed 2-term Republican President) instituted the $700 Billion TARP program.
To be fair, House Repubs dragged their feet, but realized that the financial world their team had tried to mold to their constituents massive advantage was crumbling around their feet. They got that done, but now along comes an economic stimulus with tax cuts and infrastructure spending and they change their tune.
I don't know of anyone that likes having to push a massive stimulus through Congress, but I also don't know ANYONE that things this thing will work itself out. Stimulus equals Spending.
Believe me, all you folks that "love your mothers", "love your God", and "love old-fashioned conservative values". We Democrats don't want to be here. But at least we've got a President that's listening and taking action.
You only have to go back to Katrina to see what a scared and ineffectual leader looks like. I'd much rather have action, than inaction.
We don't want to be here any more than you do. But, please think back over the last 8 years and tell me why we're really here. And don't say ACORN. We're here because of a completely and utterly deregulated financial market that abandoned all discipline.
Thank you President Obama and your team!!! AZ schools are a MESS and need sooooo much help!!! This is a start and ANY of the repubs that do not want the money, send it to the states that do!!! You all will see a "mass exodus" to those states!!! Come live in AZ and try and get your kids a decent public school education! Impossible! AZ is 50th in the union and we will be behind third world countries next!! Our roads are not much better!! The rich got richer out here and being a nonunion state they expect everyone to live on 10dollars an hour!!
Could some of you who keep saying it is pork, please list the items in the bill that you consider to be pet projects targeted to specific districts?
Stop thanking "God" that your representatives voted against the Stimulus Package. God is not in them, and the devil is in their strategies. Stop calling it a "Spending Bill." Every time you do, you reveal how little you know about the Package. Stop listening to Drudge, Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter-geist and the like. All of those people have money (right now). They are playing political games with you. Wake up.
None of us that have to pay for the stimulus are actually in favor of it....
we now see for ourselves just what the rethugs do when they want to help themselves and not the american people, just say NO!! america deserves better. i can't wait to see them all go in 2010 then maybe we cant get to work fixing our country. they never said a peep when reagan nationalized the air traffic controllors in the 80's, but then that was union busting and that was ok. now because of their de-regulation the banks may have to be nationalized and the government has to become the largest spender and employer now the scream commie, socialist etc. where were they the last 14 years they controlled everything?? they were living large and they were ok with that. they still had jobs and healthcare and money. that's what they care about, not you or me or america. they must go.
A simple question--Has anyone READ the stimulus package bill?
I'm glad mine voted against the welfare bill and I'm out of a job soon. This stupid bill will not get me into another job in the next few weeks. And the piddly littel tax cut that Sen. Obama gave us is just as worthless. Nothing but symbolism – That's all this is!
according to the Dems (which ran on a spirit of bi-partisanship) Bi-Partisan means the democrats spending the equivalent of a million dollars a day for the next two THOUSAND years, and the republicans grabbing their ankles.
Raise the tax on small business, I,m very tied of hearing that the future of this country is in the hands of small business. Small business is actually what it means , small . The manufacturing capacity of this country has been gutted . Sub contracting to SMALL BUSINESS , has eliminated the infrastructure of the public sector to the point that the capacity to re tool for the challenges of the new world economy are all but non existent. Small business cannot expend the cash or credit to retool and become a world leaders again. It is a pipe dream to believe that our future will be enhanced with our nation wide support of small business. How many small businesses does it take to equal a U.S. Steel or DuPont or CATIPILLAR. PLEASE THINK
I'd be more inclined to have sympathy for them if I didn't believe that they were delaying the bill purely for the sake partisanship. It's great if you can pick apart someone else's plan, but you don't get any points in my book unless you can offer a counter-proposal, instead of just delaying for delaying sake.
It is heartening to hear that everyone hasn't been brainwashed into believing that the stimulas package is going to save the country.
What needs to be done is prosecuting the criminal CEOs that ran these companies down for their own greed and make them pay restitution. Democrats are blinded by their ideas of power and will ruin this great country.
high level blackmail by the Dems....either vote with us and do as we say or we will target you....come on Obama get your boy in order.
shame on the Dems ...
Why do you need the Republicans? You are in charge of both houses, and the Presidency. Go ahead, take responsibility for your actions, for once. Are you afraid that when this whole thing blows up in your faces you will join the ranks of the jobless? No problem. You get your full pensions and medical care for life. You don't have to worry about anything.
Remember Republicans: OBSTRUCT! OBSTRUCT! OBSTRUCT! It's what we're paying you for. You are the only thing that is going to stop B.O. and his "Democratic SOCIALIST Party of America" from destroying this country. May B.O. fail and may God Bless the G.O.P!!!
Good. Let the whole world know about the corrupt NO sayers.
Expose them all, they supported Bush's politic and still are.
Get them out in 2010.
GO GET THEM – THE TALIBAN PARTY NEEDS TO GO!
I can't believe the ignorance of people. The stimulus bill does not benefit you. Unless $13 a week can pay your bills or unless you are a large construction company that will be getting the contracts to bulid all these new buildings and infrastructure. Of course the big business construction guys are 100% trustworthy and are going to give their illegal workers great pay and benefits right? They aren't going to charge the government 10 times the amount to do something than what is really required so they can pocket the difference. I like to see new schools built, but after the buildings are up where are they going to get the money to actually hire and pay the teachers? Just because you build a building doesn't mean there is money to sustain it. I am like a majorty of the U.S. and I don't work in construction, didn't buy a house I couldn't afford, live within my means, and sacrifice my wants to make sure my families needs are met. I applaud my conservative representatives.
I think they deserve a standing ovation!
I can't even imagine that the extra $13 in my paycheck will stimulate anything; but, I guarantee that the interest spent in giving me that $13 will cost not only me but my son and his children and maybe even their children.
I would find it interesting if CNN put up a post and everybody could tell them exactly what the $13 means to them.
Just remember next year 2010, it is only $7.70 extra so enjoy it while you can.
I say the DCCC should have better things to do with its time like trying to solve the mess in IL and MN and stop focusing on the next election. My goodness haven't we had enough! Obama's only been in office for a little over 30 days and they are planning 2012.
Solve the problems in all 50 states regardless of party affiliation!
Oh yeah, I'm soooo sad my republicans voteed against giving me a whopping $13 a week!!! Give me a break!! They call that a tax cut??? Gee, what am I going to buy first with that windfall? NOTHING!!
I applaud the GOP for having spines & saying NO to overwhelming socialism!!!
Excuse me, but, the Democrats don't need any Republican votes on anything, they own the majorities in Congress. So, guees what they own it lock ,stock, and barrel. If it fails and it sounds like it's on its way to being a total failure, the Democrats are the one that ought to be affair about losing these jobs.
Seems that these 12 are about the only ones in DC with some real backbone. And just what do these democrats plan to tell us when they need yet another huge stimulus bill in a few months?
We live in a political & corporate world where it is easy to say "No". That's not where the courage is required. Leaders have to grow businesses and make progress ... responsibly.
Every 4 years the country says how much it disapproves of Congress as a whole but, people locally laud their own Congressman. This is why nothing ever changes.
I'm glad to see the DCCC take these steps. I encourage them to reprise these commericials in 2010 when these men are running for office. Americans have short memories for the transgressions of their locally elected, and re-elected officials.
It's time to fire these 12 guys and replace them with moderate & progressive democrats. That's what we call "taking responsibility" and "being accountable".
Obama back to his campaign strategies, forcing the people to do his bidding. Talk about fear mongering. I thought he was against that. Those that vote for the stimulus are putting their own children and grandchildren in debt - boy are they selfish - only wanting those nice "eco-friendly" cars and remodeling of the office.
A taste of thier own medicine –I love it. Dear republicans, you had your chance over the last 30 years and blew it. Thanks for leaving such a mess for my generation to clean up. Thank God that I do not know a single person my age that is a Republican, the Grand Old Party is exactly just that - Old, and dying.
I am so proud that my Congressman and both of my U.S. Senators voted against B.O.'s PORK bill. Keep it up Republicans! It's about time you start acting like Republicans again. I hope you fight these marxist and socialist ALL THE WAY!! Keep obstructing and resisting and in 2010, the Congress will be yours again!!
These 12 anti-Americans did not hesitate to vote for billions to repair Iraqi roads and infrastructure, yet now complain spending on U.S. soil is wasteful. Just who do the repugs really represent?
It's a great day in America. Finally a President who does not get into the fray, but just keeps doing what he feels is best for this country. I like how he is ignoring all the noise from the other side and from (as Gibbs says) the cable news networks. People listen someone has to try to do something to bring this country out of the toilet that the Repubs took us to in 8 years. why weren't they before the cameras early on letting the American people know their feelings?
President Obama will be just fine in spite of. He has already made history since taking office and will continue to do so.
I believe in siding with the best man, but at this time I don't see a Repub that is a best man just a grumpy one. Mr. Steele, Mr. Banner, Mr. Cantor, Mr. McConnel please take a look at yourselves. You are a disgrace, you offer nothing better just fight against what is offered. Mr.
McCain you had your chance and the people rejected you, enough said. Guys old grumpy faces and old ideas are a thing of yesterday, please understand that.
And OOOOOO cable news – John King, Chuck Todd, FIX News, Lou Dobbs just to name a few. You all seem so flustrated because it is not going your way. It is a new day, you can't seem to handle someone who wants to do things the correct way which is not your way. Try being less flustrated and just report the news and leave your ideas where they belong.
Finally, Mr. Obama will succeed or fail, but let him do it on his own.
Republicans had no alternative plans & Barack offered them about 35% going to tax cuts. All the leading Economists say these tax cuts won't have any stimulus effect on the bill.
It's long past time to invest in high speed rail lines, energy alternatives, improved education & health care.
Otherwise, we're heading toward the dark ages.
Thank God for Obama.
Only time will tell about Bailout II, but those who voted against are truely the American heros. What will the Dems do to explain the next bailout package? Let's see the spending reducutions in the budget that will pay for this. Let's see what our President feels doesn't work, and looses it's funding?
@DW, NY FOR OBAMA '08 wrtoe "all they have succeeded in doing, is making themselves look greedy, self-centered and racist"
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I would like to know how voting ones conscience makes that one rasicst. You are very quick to use the word but I believe you are the one who is being racist.
How? Everytime someone disagrees with President Obama you will say they are racist. That is wrong. That is why we are a nation of ideas because we don't all think the same way.
I say you need to lay off the Kool-Aid and get a grip on reality. The Republicans had ideas that would have really stimulated the economy and helped President Obama look even better but the dems wanted spending over tax cuts. So we will see who is correct and who will have egg on their face.
I wish the representative from my district was on this list. Congressman Lewis from the 41st district is the worst of the corrupt. The numbskulls in this district keep re-electing him. Their rationale is that he has been there forever and it wouldn't work well for the district if we lose our seniority. He's a crook and everyone here seems to know it.
It is time for the name calling to stop. So what if republicans voted against the stimulus package?? The dems still passed it... We will still pay for it for years to come. Dems got what they want but they still want to destroy repubs... Why?? What will that gain? How will you get bipatisanship if you personally attack the individual and thier job and expect to play nice the next day at work?? Oh I forgot, I'm from the real world... We will see how popular the Dems stay when they go back asking for a third installment to the stimulus bill... Maybe next time they will get it right but I doubt it... How can you when you don't read what you vote for.... At least when I voted McCain I knew what I was going to get.... And it wasn't this mess...
If each individual person in the US read the bill and voted it would not get passed. I guess it fits though. The liberal "edjumacated" few apparently know what is better for our society than the rest of us un-educated masses. Does it show that I was learned during the "democrates" rule... Mi horrobile speling and grammmmer is a resullltt of democratic policies fore edgucation.. Yes I understand that is difficult to get through but I'm sure you get my point. It always seems like it is the dem way or the highway... To quote a "great" man... (funny in itself but still works) "Can't we all just get along?"
We can't do it can we? Americans are hateful, they do not want to help each other unless there is something to gain for themselves. Americans are ignorant to the fact that helping one another benefits everyone. Heaven forbid we help each other! Instead, pull yourselves up by your boot straps get a job and quit whining! The illegals are stealing our jobs!! Don't know many white men and women picking tomatoes or working in the chicken plants, maybe a few but the American citizens are lining up just waiting for those jobs! It's my right to make $70 an hour for putting a widget in a do hickey, and what losers people are for making $10 an hour and how dare they have the audacity to want to buy a house! This is the American mentality and frankly I am sick to death of it. For all you so called Christians out there Jesus helped people, he didn't say get a job you slob, he held out his hand to lift up the human race, Americans see giving help to others as a hand out and want no part of being truly compassionate towards each other. I know it's a rant I'm just fed up!
I am reading this and in absolute disbelief at what is coming out of the mouths of some of you idiots on here. Look, you can hate the President all you want. He is doing for this country what none of the republican presidents have ever been willing to do, but yet and still you outright bigotted people have your agenda to think about while there are families starving and losing everything they have. Shame on anyone who agreed with the values and cohersion being put out by the GOP and you have the odacity to defend them. I wonder where you people live because it must be in the glitter and glam of society where you think that Obama is going to steal what you have had others work so hard to build for you. You all are egomaniacal and need to be put in your places. Think about it like this, who gets to experience the best that the U.S. has to offer? The rich..... Who should have to pay for the best life has to offer? The rich...... Who is trying to get everyone else to do their jobs for them? The Rich.... You have all been handed the best of the world but still complain about how bad your life is.... Give me a break, I am so sick of hearing what you think and feel. Your agenda sucks for the rest of us and still you think that you are being done wrong. Get over yourselves and start working to better this country not just you and your friends in your elite groups.....
There is definitely some party bias in many of these comments. Even though I usually vote Democratic, I am glad that many of the representatives from my state did not vote for the stimulus package because in the long run it will not solve the problem we are facing and will only create a dependency for government to solve every problem when other resources should be in place. While too many people are dumb enough to believe one party is better than the other, they fail to realize that both parties are a failure and created this mess from the mortgage failure started by Clinton and Barney Frank to the mismanagement by Bush and a very costly war. I never want to see one party have complete control of government because then there is no balance of powers and one segment of the population is hugely ignored.
Frankly, if I get a pre-recorded message on a phone call, I just hang up. I don't even listen to what they have to say. I know a lot of my friends and family do the same. So how much money did the Democrats spend on this attack? Wow, what a waste! I guess that's our tax dollars at work. I'm proud of each and every one of these Republicans for standing up to wasteful spending. This action just goes even further to show the corruption and lack of morals in the Democratic party. It's no longer about working for the good of the people. It's back to Hamiltonian politics and PARTY FIRST MENTALITY!!! Anything to stay in office and further your political careers, right Democrats???