CBS News: GOP Who Backed Obama Stimulus

[Hissyspit]

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CBS News - Feb. 14, 2009: They received heavy criticism from within their own political party, but a few Republican Senators remained firm in their support of Pres. Obamas economic stimulus package. Kimberly Dozier reports.

[Historic NY]

1. Republicans that put people above party & politics...

my cousin a Democrat worked for Collins on her staff.

[DUlover2909]

13. I just sent 3 emails to each of the 3 senators thanking them.

Thank you for your bipartisanship. I, for one, am very grateful to you that you put your country ahead of your party. Thank you from Texas. I would love to shake your hand in person.

[Thrill]

2. Collins confirmed what Specter said. More Repukes wantes to vote for it

But were cowards.

[underpants]

3. If you were one of the last New England Republicans what would YOU do?

and Specter is in a blue Pennsylvania

this wasn't "maverick" or "radical" this was political survival

[MindMatter]

4. Exactly. The only real question is why the rest of them want to be on the 22% side

If the Republicans honestly think the nation is going to rise up against Obama for adding a trillion to the debt under these circumstances, they are nuts, considering that Reagan and the 2 Bushes ran it up by 9 trillion in times that didn't demand such action.

[underpants]

8. As my wife pointed out to me the other day

Bush is getting off easy with the "He created a trillion dollar debt" line
aside from the Iraq war being funded through additional funding procedures (not in each year's budget count)
the trillion dollar debt washes over the fact that he inherited a SURPLUS

Bush created OVER a trillion dollars of debt

[Chemical Bill]

9. Isn't that 5 trillion?

I looked it up. My apologies to our former * in chief, it was only 4 trillion plus, according to Katie Couric:

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/29/couricandco/entry4486228.shtml

Oh, wait, that was September, before the Wall Street bailout. 5 trillion it is then.

Bill

[ooglymoogly]

12. Wait a few months until all the theft is uncovered that has been and still is being

swept under the rug and the smoke and mirrors clears; It will be many times that. It will become the greatest theft in the history of the world.

[CLANG]

5. Aren't we cynical today, underpants!

:sarcasm:

[underpants]

6. Way to take the high road there

Mr./Mrs. 10 HEARTS

:sarcasm:

Hey! I have 10 hearts too!!!

[CLANG]

7. You donated $25 too?

:toast:

[Chemical Bill]

10. President Obama owes the stimulus to 3 repukes???!!!

The corporate media can't sing the praises of repukes enough, can they? Let's not talk about the Democrats who tirelessly worked to get this past the obstructionists.

Bill

[XanaDUer]

15. Yeah, that line was annoying to me, too.

Nt.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

11. Please, everyone, write them. Do a search on each of them.....

... and thank them. Let them know you are Democrats, and that you are greatful. I did!

[DFW]

14. We have heard this before, and recently

Sen. Jim Jeffords, R-VT left his party for the very same reason: "I didn't
leave my party. It left me."

I very much doubt that Sens. Snowe and Collins will leave the Republican party
and become become independents, but if they get enough hate mail and grief from
their fellow Senate Republicans, this could well change. They did their job, which
was to represent the best interests of the people of the state that sent them to
Washington in the first place.

Can those who voted no say the same thing and mean it? Remember what Collins said:
that some of their fellow Republican Senators wished they could have joined them.