Comments on: Don’t Ask, Won’t Tell: No Role For Bipartisan Oversight On Stimulus

By: gospelance

gospelance — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:21:29 +0000

Repubs must take a stand against the Leftist Regime. And I don’t think it will backfire, once they (the Obama voters) see what they have wrought.

By: ErickJD08

ErickJD08 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:05:29 +0000

I live in the Chicagoland area and Rahm Emanuel’s seat is up for election. I think this is an opportunity to elect a republican who will listen and practice responsible government spending. I recently looked into Greg Bedell’s campaign and he fits the bill.

We need to get a Republican in the 5th District in Illinois.

By: Oneon1isto

Oneon1isto — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:16:01 +0000

Yes, the people-counters at the census bureau are actually a bastion of evil democratic tomfoolery. Part of the left-wing conspiracy. Anyway, I’m going to have to second sinz on this one. Congressional oversight for this bill would be a non-starter, and the point is to act quickly to stop the downward spiral. The oversight board also seems fairly comprehensive (way more than for the first 350), and with enough egos in the room to keep eachother in check. Which is to say this post seems aimed more at complaining about a democratic executive that yes, is exercising its executive power rather than anything else.

By: Sigfraud

Sigfraud — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:34:31 +0000

Yeah right… I just bought a donut for breakfast… it cost me almost $210 billion.

By: larryo

larryo — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:33:47 +0000

Poor babies! How long did the country have to examine the Patriot Act before a vote was forced?

By: ratmalph

ratmalph — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:19:42 +0000

“Congress just voted almost a trillion dollars in new spending on a party-line vote.”

Wasn’t the stimulus bill that passed $790 billion, as in $210 billion shy of a trillion?

If I was in the market for a TV that was $790, I would say it was almost $800, not almost $1,000 and we’re talking about a significantly smaller number there.

By: Bulldoglover100

Bulldoglover100 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:08:03 +0000

Our Party did not want bipartisanship and sooner or later people in this party will wake up to the fact that the Karl Rove politics are not working for us anymore. The rest of the country is passing us by. Instead of screaming on any MSM show that would have us we should have been working towards something that would help this country and make us apprear relevent because the fact remains. The people in this country voted us out of power and the Dems are in the drivers seat right now.
Fighting against a program that the same majority thinks will help this nation will not garner us any support from those who voted it away from us.
It’s a hard truth we had better learn or we will be in this position for a long time. If Obama’s plan works? Bet on it and now? If it does? We can take no kudo’s for helping.

By: gospelance

gospelance — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:12:04 +0000

the Dems are making some shameless power grabs here. another one is the census. they probably justify it by asserting that “it’s what the country needs.” —their “enlightened” leadership, that is.

By: sinz54

sinz54 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:32:30 +0000

I understand the purpose of this. “Congressional oversight” would devolve into congressmen protecting the infrastructure projects of their own districts from oversight by other congressmen, and especially from attempts by the rest of congress to cut funding for those projects. Every congressmen would protect the projects in his district, and attack the projects in the districts of the opposition party as wasteful. This is an attempt to take such pork-barrel and log-rolling concerns out of the process.