Looks like Bush got what he wanted, no extension of unemployment benefits and a $70 billion package

[EV_Ares]

for business.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Thank you Nancy! Thank you Harry!

Assholes.

[mike_c]

2. those wily opposition dems are keeping their powder REALLY dry....

[radfringe]

19. I'd like to throw a damn match into their freaking powder room

freaking useless, absolutely freaking useless...

[Bluzmann57]

3. No surprise here

Just move along, nothing to see here. Or, to put it another way, same shit, different day.

[JuniorPlankton]

4. Why not? With the Republican-controlled congress

Oh, wait...:sarcasm:

[HeraldSquare212]

5. Still much more than Bill's stimulus package, even including inflation. nt

[CatWoman]

6. they traded that for a rebate for ALL Americans pulling a paycheck

whether they pay taxes or not.

heard that on NPR this morning.

I think the rebate is $300.

[EV_Ares]

11. Well I am glad that they are getting at least $300 but for those on unemployment

and looking for work, that added extension was certainly needed as well and would have helped tremendously. Also, I think a payroll tax deduction would have been more beneficial than the business package or at least a compromise with less of a package and some payroll tax cuts, but whatever.

[knitter4democracy]

21. It's not a rebate--it's a refund advance. It'll come out of everyone's refund.

If you owe, well, then you'll owe that much more. Great idea, huh. :eyes:

[OwnedByFerrets]

7. ...

Same Shit, Different Day. :puke:

[Fresh_Start]

8. Could the democrats in Congress be more pathetic

but at least they are bipartisan

[Th1onein]

9. You have a link on this?

n/t

[EV_Ares]

12. Should be soon, on MSNBC just some of the things in the deal, eom.

[EV_Ares]

14. Here is a link that just came out:

The Associated Press reported that Pelosi agreed Wednesday to drop Democratic proposals to boost food stamps and extend unemployment benefits. In exchange, Republicans agreed to extend rebate of at least $300 to nearly everyone earning a paycheck, including low-income earners who make too little to pay income taxes but pay payroll taxes to fund Social Security.

There is also broad agreement that the stimulus package will include tax break for businesses to spur them to buy equipment. The total price tag of the package is expected to be at least $150 billion, which is equal to about 1 percent of the nation's economic activity for a year.


Link to entire article:


http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/24/news/economy/stimulus_package/?postversion=2008012410

[endarkenment]

10. This was so unexpected.

Who could possibly have expected that our democratic leaders would cave in to corporate interests and screw working families?

[snappyturtle]

18. Who? Boehner. nt

[acmavm]

13. WOW! A three hundred dollar rebate. How much of a raise did

Congress give themselves just a couple months ago? Remind me please. Because I don't think this bullshit 'victory' of 2006 is doing any of us plebians a damn bit of good but the patricians in this country are making out like bandits.

Oops! Maybe they ARE bandits. Because they're fucking robbing us blind.

[bluedog]

16. what happened to $800? $1600 per family?

hell $300.is nothing........what with the gas prices we can drive to work for another month?.........what a bunch of total failures we have in Congress! SOB"S

[snappyturtle]

20. From the article it sounds like more than $300.00:

Sources told CNN that the deal would pay taxpayers $600 and two-wage-earner households as much as $1,200. A Democratic aide and a Republican aide said the deal will include an additional amount per child amounting to about $300.

An announcement on the plan could come Thursday afternoon, two sources told CNN.

[ToeBot]

15. And yet they expect your vote...

I'm sure everyone here knows what an enabler is.

[zabet]

17. I wish the American people

could vote on how much
pay the Congress Critters
get for not doing their jobs.

:puke: