It’s a lock for the GOP in 2010 as the House with all Democrat votes passed this mess of a waste, fraud and abuse package off on the American people – who by the way get $13 bucks a week out of the nearly trillion that will be thrown away.

Oink!

“WASHINGTON — The House approved a $787 billion economic stimulus package Friday afternoon, with Democrats successfully promoting it as a boost for middle-class Americans and Republicans countering in vain that it will only stimulate wasteful government spending.

The vote was 246 to 183, reflecting the Democrats’ considerable majority in the House and the Republicans’ deep dissatisfaction with the measure, whose estimated price tag has fluctuated daily and was finally placed at $787 billion on Friday. Not a single Republican voted in favor of the bill.

The bill was immediately sent to the Senate, where Democrats described it as essential, whatever its faults, and most Republicans described it as an irresponsible exercise in big spending. The Senate was expected to vote on the final legislation Friday evening, clearing the way for the paperwork to go to President Obama, who is eager to sign the measure.

The bill is not perfect, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who votes with the Democrats, said on Friday afternoon, but “it will stop the slide of our economy.”

Republicans continued to complain, however, that, whatever the bill’s original purpose, it had been stuffed by Democrats with “anything they wanted,” as Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, put it.

“We all understand the economy is in crisis,” Mr. Cornyn said. But he was among numerous Republicans who said they would vote “no” rather than endorse a bloated bill that will be paid for by future generations of taxpayers.

Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, countered by alluding to the deficits that accumulated during the Bush administration and asking rhetorically, “Where were my colleagues on the other side of the aisle for the last eight years?”There was no suspense about the outcome earlier Friday in the House, since the Democrats hold a 255-to-178 advantage in the chamber.

“After all the debate, this legislation can be summed up in one word: Jobs,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said. “The American people need action and they need action now.”

Yeah, Pelosi wouldn’t want to miss the plane to Europe

So how does this doom Democrats? Well 7 Democrats got the message, the majority of the American public want nothing to do with the porkulus, and are in fact flooding lines with angry calls. It’s now off the Senate, but with the three horse asses Spector, Snowe and Collins, it’s most likely going to pass.

Yet it’s not going to be long before Americans realize that this current bill, just like it’s predecessor isn’t going to work, and in fact will drive the economy further into the ground. When it does it will be all on the Democrats.

The silver lining, we sweep in 2010, the cloud at the cost of the US Economy.

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