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No Republican Votes for Stimulus Package

By Philip Klein on 1.28.09 @ 6:22PM

The stimulus bill passed the House 244 to 188, without any Republicans voting in favor of it. No bipartisan cover for President Obama, at least not yet.

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Robert Rosencrans| 1.28.09 @ 6:28PM

Amazing!

Brian Kirk| 1.28.09 @ 6:38PM

I guess Obama was right: the House GOP is listening to Rush after all!!!

Mack the Knife| 1.28.09 @ 7:14PM

Why didn't they do this during Bush's admin?
Bush ran up a bloated, fat, and obese governement
in spending. Better late than never, I guess.
I guess the Republicans finally got their balls back!

P. Aaron| 1.28.09 @ 7:17PM

Just wait 'till it goes to the senate. RINO's are squishy over there.

dlw| 1.28.09 @ 7:19PM

Outstanding!

No "bipartisan" cover for a trillion dollar welfare bill....

WendyG| 1.28.09 @ 7:47PM

Right on!

Alan Brooks| 1.28.09 @ 8:29PM

mack the knife,
Bush did his Thing to buy support for the war effort.

ConservativeWanderer| 1.28.09 @ 9:40PM

Mack, partly because the line "we're just supporting our Republican President" gave the weak-knees in Congress a measure of political cover.

That cover is now gone.

Also, some of them have probably figured out by now that being Democrat-Lite just got them in trouble with the voters, so they're gonna try being conservatives instead of "me too but not so fast" lefties.

There's probably other reasons, but those are the two that pop into my mind right now.

DJ| 1.29.09 @ 12:04AM

Thata way Republicans! It's about time some "Backbone" is shown and a special "Thanks" to those eleven Democrats that said "NO" also!!!!!! Can you imagine the amount of "Pork" that was added in those 400 pages!!! Not including the basis of a thorough "Highjacking" of this Country Economic Woes.....