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It’s The Blizzard’s Fault

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It’s The Blizzard’s Fault

Posted by: Jeffrey Berkowitz

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That’s what Senate Democrats hope to use as an excuse after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) pledged that they would move forward today with a motion to proceed on Stimulus II:

Senate Democrats will miss their self-imposed deadline for bringing a jobs bill to the floor Monday, and they’re hoping that the weekend’s epic snowstorm will give them some cover. Senate votes scheduled for Monday evening have been pushed back to Tuesday on account of the storm, but it seems unlikely that Democrats would have been ready to proceed Monday, anyway.

As we pointed out in this morning’s research briefing, it’s the increasing chaos that is preventing Senate Democrats from rushing through another round of wasteful binge spending:

Sens. Max Baucus (D-MT) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are fighting with Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) over the size and shape of Stimulus II.
So-called “moderate Dems” like Sens. Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) are getting concerned about their re-election prospects and pushing back on the price of Stimulus II.
And House Democrats are saying that the Senate Democrats’ bill isn’t big enough, and aren’t happy about Reid trying to break apart the bill they passed in December into smaller pieces.

But among the “blizzard” of chaos, Americans continue to lose their jobs and are left in the dark when it comes to how Stimulus II is being formed. As we highlighted on Friday, the negotiations over Stimulus II seem to be very similar to the negotiations Dems had with their government-run health care experiment: no details, no transparency, and a guarantee of more binge spending.

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Posted by TheTruth on 2010-02-08T17:14:27.063

His credibility sinks further as Democrats schmooze the lobbyists In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said: "We face a deficit of trust -- deep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works that have been growing for years. To close that credibility gap, we have to take action on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue -- to end the outsized influence of lobbyists; to do our work openly; to give the people the government they deserve." The day after the president uttered those words, a senior Democrat offered private policy briefings to lobbyists on the administration's plans. "In the upcoming elections, voters will face a choice between Republicans who are standing with Wall Street fat cats, bankers and insurance companies -- or Democrats who are working hard to clean up the mess we inherited by putting the people's interest ahead of the special interests," Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said in a press release Jan. 27. That weekend Mr. Menendez and 11 other Democratic senators hosted a "winter retreat" at the Ritz Carlton South Beach resort in Miami for 108 prominent lobbyists, who paid up to $30,000 each to attend. "The retreat's guest list is a marked contrast to Menendez's recent rhetoric, which has echoed the White House denunciation of 'special interests' and 'fat cats,' " noted Ben Smith of the Politico, who broke the story. In a report issued Feb. 1 which drew remarkably little attention from the news media given its importance, Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the $700 billion bailout for financial institutions, said TARP has not done what it was supposed to do and could be setting the stage for a worse fiscal meltdown in the future.

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