On Feb 10th 2009 the house voted 100% (not counting no-votes) to allow a 48 hour breathing period for supplemental appropriations (the stimulus bill) in order to give the public a chance to read/understand and voice back on bills [11]. At 10pm on Thursday Feb 12th, the final stimulus package was made available to the public via their website in PDF format [13]. At 2:24pm the next day on 2/13/09, congress started voting, resulting in a 246/183 final tally in favor of the stimulus package; this was done without a single Republican vote and 7 descending Democrats [12].
Category: Politics
Because it appears that President Obama, Senate Leaders and the news media are completely unaware of what bipartisanship actually means; I would like to break it down.
Because I don't want to have another conversation with someone who has obviously only listened to CNN's filtered version of what the proposed stimulus packages include:
I dislike Al Gore for a number of reasons; his exploitation of environmental concerns to the tune of 10's of millions of dollars is just the tip of the iceberg, but last night I was cruising the dozens of world news RSS feeds in my beloved Google Reader when I ran across an article that joins the ever growing list of articles to again point a shadowing finger at Al Gore for his complete absurdness and do as I say don't do what I do persona.
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research is just one of the more recent publishers to point out Al Gore’s Hypocritical life style. Whether it's personal jets or using electricity at more than 20x the averge American Household rate, All Gore continues to give us reasons to call him a fraud!
"In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month." -CTPR
Now you could tell me that the evil empire (G Bush) was using 30 times the power and I could care less. Mr. Gore has decided to preach to me that I should decrease my footprint by ME changing MY life. He has told 10's of thousands of people here and abroad that we should drive a smaller cars and make personal concessions so we don't hurt the environment as much, bla bla bla. Yet it appears he hasn't made a single personal consession aside about $16k in window upgrades after getting 'caught'.
When will people see this man for the scam artist he is and stop fueling his retirement?
I don't care what your political affiliation is. How can any person who\r\nis informed and considers themselves principled not know who to vote\r\nfor in a race that has 3 very different candidates.