Obama vs. McCain: The Rematch

McCain: Stimulus Bill Steals From The Next Generation
Source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/267223

As the slimmed down stimulus bill has passed through the US House, it is now on the US Senate floor. There is still much GOP opposition in the US Senate.

Today, the newly slimmed economic stimulus worth up to $787 billion has been passed through the US House of Representatives. Again, there was still unanimous GOP opposition to the bill. Now, it is going through the floor of the United States Senate. However, we will have to wait until later this evening to receive an update.

This is because the vote will be kept open. Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio should be returning to Washington D.C tonight. He will fly back to Ohio on Saturday to attend the funeral for his mother. A vote from Brown is expected to be the 60th vote that Democrats will need.

So far, Democrats have gotten the support of three moderate GOP Senators. But, it seems that is all the GOP votes that Democrats will need.

GOP Senator John McCain of Arizona had much criticism towards the stimulus bill.

“I think that the majority of people understand that this was generational theft,” McCain said in his criticism. He implied that the economic stimulus was stealing from the next generation.

McCain said he hoped Democrats and Obama would think it over. So far, McCain is giving harsh criticism to the stimulus. He says it is pretty much “stealing from the next generation.” On a side note, McCain was Obama’s GOP rival in the 2008 US Presidential Election.

It is highly likely that the economic stimulus will pass through the floor of the US Senate. This could be a possible prelude to “Obama vs. McCain: The Rematch.”

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Comment by 7R33SandR0P3S on February 13, 2009 at 9:19pm: Three names to remember

Source: http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/02/13/good-morning-senators-c...

Good morning, Senators Collins, Snowe, and Specter.

Karma. It's what's for dinner.

Posted by Moe Lane (Profile)

Friday, February 13th at 12:01AM EST
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Jim Geraghty is quite blunt about the consequences of Sen. Kennedy’s being absent for today’s vote, and Sen. Gregg’s return to the Senate: “Guess what, Sens. Snowe, Specter, and Collins? You are providing the decisive votes.”

And Senator Reid is worried about this. He’s trying to scare up another GOP Senator to give cover to these three - something that even his own people are admitting to be a low probability scenario. Roll Call (no link, sorry) is also reporting that he’s trying to pair Kennedy’s yes vote to a Republican’s no (this requires the approval of the Republican in question, by the way) in order to make it a 61/38 vote on a technicality. Just in case this isn’t clear by now: this is contraindicated for any Republican Senator.

Contraindicated.

So. Going to be a fun vote today, huh? Pelosi and Reid have been hiding knives under their smiles at each other throughout it all, and particularly yesterday: Reid is still scrambling for the support he needs to make sure that his caucus can cash the checks that his ego wrote; Pelosi’s inability to control the CBC has likely made Sen Gregg inaccessible to any deal (not to mention, embarrassing the President at the worst possible moment); the Democratic Congressional mood is so ugly that the White House had to send in Rahm Emanuel to keep everything on track; and, in the piece de resistance to this unholy mess of legislation, when they finally got copies of the debt bill that nobody’s read and nobody has time to, the first copies went to K Street lobbying firms. No. Really. Democratic staffers were forced to admit to press people today that they didn’t have details about things that lobbyists had already told the press. There’s something… pure about that.

Don’t get me wrong: betting that it’ll pass is still the safe bet. But it’s going to be one heck of an ugly win, and it’s not one that’s going to enhance the reputation of Democratic legislators. Or of the three Senators that chose to stand by them.