This poor stimulus bill has been kicked around and blown up a million times, completely dismembered, bathed in acid — basically Robocop, except boring, and with money. So what secret provisions did House and Senate negotiators slip into the bill into order to win the eternal fealty of the lobster queen Susan Collins and the other handful of senators who hold the entire fate of the free world in their parsimonious little fists?
Hard to tell, who knows, etc. The House-Senate conference is convening as we write, and maybe once they’ve all convened and a bunch of Republicans have stormed off shouting about pork we’ll have more details. But for now here are some details:
- Obama’s little middle-class tax cut will probably be reduced by 20 percent.
- That $15,000 tax credit for new home purchases will probably be reduced, too; ditto new cars.
- State aid, which got reduced in the Senate bill, may inch up again, and so may school construction.
That is all fine, but what about the much-discussed executive pay caps? In or out? We need to know this so that we can start handing out munitions to our Citizen Army in the proper quantities.
House, Senate Negotiators Reach Agreement on Stimulus [Washington Post]
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Mitch McConnell is a gayer Clarence Boddicker?
3Also, will our new qur’ans be tax deductible? I want to buy mine before it is mandated in the sharia, but I want to make sure I can write it off on this past tax year, if possible.
…so that we can start handing out munitions to our Citizen Army in the proper quantities.
Ah, the stuff of dreams. Legal action? We’ll just settle up with bullets.
How dare you suggest a communist insurrection to support executive pay caps? Don’t you realize that Dagny Taggert, Hank Rearden, John Galt, Francisco d’Anconia and their pals deserve EVERY DIME they make for providing the investment genius that puts food in the maws of the useless moochers of the working class?
Hooray! When Hopey signs this thing, it’ll also contain a provision identifying that date as National
Shitload Porky EarmarksEssential Infrastructure Requirement Day. Everyone will get the day off, except people who aren’t government employees.What about free Viagra? It IS a stimulus package, no?
Robocop 2 is another movie guaranteed a slot in the NRO’s top ten movie list. Because the OmniCorporation cracks skulls when it comes to the Detroit police organizing and the CEO is the paradigm of conservative capitalistic values. Also, the criminal kid son Hawk kills two birds with one stone: he epitomizes conservatives’ Hitler Youth appeal while playing to their latent man-boy love tendencies.
Fuck the pay part — let’s just cap the executives.
[re=241452]V572625694[/re]: make that “National Shitload of Porky Earmarks…Day,”
Fingers on the home keys — ready, begin!
Why are we buying caps for these people? Surely they can afford their own millinery.
Honestly, what the fuck?
So, when can we expect, (after tantrums, passage), the Rebubs to claim responsibility for it’s success due to the herioc efforts of their “centerists”? And Hannity’s entire being to explode, live on the teevee also.
[re=241455]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Word to your muhver.
You know who else hates pork? Osama bin Laden. Just sayin’.
Does the bill include specifics on how Americans should celebrate Ho Chi Minh’s birthday?
[re=241465]freakishlystrong[/re]: Now THAT is pay-per-view I’d go for!
[re=241469]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: Win.
Sarah used the word “parsimonious”? Hot.
[re=241472]mylesfromnowhere[/re]: You’ll get the Repubs claiming success for fwee, all over the “librul media”…
Asshat will, however be more porcine than ever, and to watch him suck it will be worth every $$$ paid to cable.
Barry may not be able to poop rainbows, but if he can poop cash, then good enough for me.
[re=241455]SayItWithWookies[/re]: I always like to think of the executives wearing capss that have their salaries airbrushed on the front all flea market style, with like a firebird or mud flap boob lady or whatever.
Hobotown, USA may be in flames, but any day that features a headline like Bank CEOs flogged in Washington is a good day and smacks of medieval justice. Can court jesters and public stocks be far behind?
Strippers will run the banks!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aztIwy.Yl3oQ&refer=home
Early word is that some of the money to help bail out states got cut as well as health insurance to poor people. Which is why I wish beforehand, Obama had introduced that nice homeless to “the centrists” to see what happens to people when you cut money to poor people. I also wished that if Obama did that, he’d given her a crowbar in case they still didn’t get it.
That being said, I still hope Maine and Nebraska go bankrupt.
Put me down for a .50-cal machine gun.
And some foie gras, please.
“Your move, creep.”
“I’ll buy that for a dollar.”
Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law.
[[DIRECTIVE 4]]
The Republicans have proven once and for all that self-immolation is not a one time trick
“STAY OUT OF TROUBLE.”
They probably gave Specter the NFL.
You can definitely see the result of the plan is having in the markets yesterday and today. And Congresses handling of the bankers the other day was laughable. It was like the proverbial pot calling the kettle black.
I’m just looked at the widget ExactPrice and it looks like one of the only things going strong right now is the precious metals. Gold actually has topped $950 today and is currently at $947.80. Tells me a lot of big investors are cashing in for gold hedging against a dollar they think is going to be toast.
And with all the foreclosures going on and the continued housing price falling I and jobless rates I think we’re probably in for a tough time over the next year. And that may be the only thing to bank on that President Obama said.
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