This comment makes my blood boil “Republican leaders in the House asked their members during a closed-door meeting on Tuesday to oppose the recovery plan unless significant adjustments are made before the bill comes up for a vote on Wednesday.” Every single Republican should vote no on this welfare giveaway called, Obama’s Stimulus plan. All we are doing is helping the democrats get more powerful by allowing them to put us more in debt. I for one will be watching the votes carefully and will be extremely disappointed if one Republican votes in favor of any part of this plan. If the Republicans cannot see they are being used by the democrats by joining Obama then they are not smart enough to be in Washington. If Congress wants to get the economy moving again, I suggest they recess for several months. We don’t need more government! That is my opinion and I am sticking with it.
Bob
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for back-to-back meetings with Republicans in the House and Senate to try to draw bipartisan support for – and tamp down criticism of – his $825 billion economic stimulus plan.
A week after being sworn into office, Obama returned to the Capitol for the first of what his advisers said would be frequent visits with members of Congress. Yet it was still a rare event for a president, particularly a Democratic one, to sit down with the entire Republican conference.
But even before the president stepped into the meeting, Republican leaders in the House asked their members during a closed-door meeting on Tuesday to oppose the recovery plan unless significant adjustments are made before the bill comes up for a vote on Wednesday.
They said they would ask Obama to urge the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, to make changes to legislation that they believe includes wasteful spending.
“The Democrat bill won’t stimulate anything but more government and more debt,” Representative Mike Pence of Indiana, chairman of the Republican conference, said Tuesday. “The slow and wasteful spending in the House Democrat bill is a disservice to millions of Americans who want to see this Congress take immediate action to get this economy moving again.”
