Reid cut a deal on the bailout. Translation, he caved.

[backscatter712]

The headline's on the Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/

Dig a little deeper, and you find the skinny on what's been cut.

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/stimulus-package/latest-cuts-to-the-stim-package-head-start-child-nutrition-food-stamps-public-transit/

Total Reductions: $80 billion

Eliminations:

Head Start, Education for the Disadvantaged, School improvement, Child Nutrition, Firefighters, Transportation Security Administration, Coast Guard, Prisons, COPS Hiring, Violence Against Women, NASA, NSF, Western Area Power Administration, CDC, Food Stamps

*****************************

Reductions:

Public Transit $3.4 billion, School Construction $60 billion

*****************************

Increases:

Defense operations and procurement, STAG Grants, Brownfields, Additional transportation funding

Yep, food stamps are out. Head Start is out. Everything useful is out. But increased defense spending got in.

Fuck you Reid, you spineless sack of garbage! You're worse than useless!!! Totally subhuman!!!

:mad: :mad: :mad:

[peace13]

1. If this is true Reid should be gone.

What a joke.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. It'll either be re-added in conference to fit with the House bill

or the bill's dead. House won't move a inch - and Reid - do us all a favor and RESIGN FROM MAJORITY LEADER!!!

Let us find someone with the cajones to do the job.

[madrchsod]

9. the only person with the balls to smack down the thugs is a lady

boxer should lead the senate...


reid is a complete fool

[CrispyQ]

18. Damn straight!!

Reid needs to go. I don't understand how someone with no spine can walk upright.

[IGotAName]

42. Did you see this?

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-barbara-boxer6-2009feb06,0,6742247.story

I'm the first to come to her defense but she sure ain't perfect. Knows an opportunity when she sees one.

[scarletwoman]

44. "reid is a complete fool" -- you misspelled TOOL. (nt)

[Cleita]

3. C-SPAN stopped showing the Senate. When will the main vote happen?

I just hope this gets passed before more is cut out and then we can try to get those other things back in other legislation.

[wtmusic]

4. And we are willing to deal on this...why?

Oops, almost forgot! ($$$)

[madrchsod]

5. the people have been sold out by their leadership in the senate

why would we expect them to care?

[AlinPA]

6. Reid is weak senator and not a leader.

[derby378]

7. I'm cool with TSA funding being slashed, but - VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN?

Are you fucking kidding me? Who in their right mind would want to see that funding slashed?

I'm feeling a little weary right now...

[backscatter712]

8. What's really disgusting...

Reid again leaked out "A deal is made" before the deal was made. It'll probably come to a vote tonight, but who knows if the soulless fucks in the GOP will actually let their two cross-aisle senators on board.

So it might come to a vote and not make cloture. I'm sure Rush is wringing his hands in delight...

Like I said, Reid is totally fucking useless. Any negotiator worth his salt knows you don't say you've got the goods unless you've got the goods, or you've got a bluff that you're sure won't be called out. If he's bluffing, he's gonna get called out and sodomized in front of the entire country.

[hankthecrank]

10. re pubs wet dream(these cuts) what did he get for it zippo

[Lucian]

11. I'm fucking tired of the spineless Reid.

Goddamn! :grr: :grr: :grr:

[a la izquierda]

12. Great...just great.

Dumb down America and let the poor starve by cutting vital services. And hey, who gives a shit if women get beaten within an inch of their lives? :sarcasm:

These people are fucking crooks.

[woodsprite]

13. We have a strong Pres and VP, we should have someone strong

who'll support them. Reid needs to go! Why can't the other Dems keep him in line. Since he's not 'leading' can't they lead him by example?

[mascarax]

15. Agree - what's it going to take to dump Reid?

Tough times call for tough people.
I vote for Barbara Boxer. Someone who's going to stand up and call them out.
Look at that cut list!

[GeorgeGist]

47. Don't know about VP Biden ...

but President Obama seemed more interested in wooing Republicans during his honeymoon, than in paying attention to those who elected him.

A divorce might be in order, if he doesn't veto this 'build a higher' pie nonsense and rip Mr. Profit away from the jugular of people who work for a living.

[kiranon]

14. If true, Republicans and Reid need to go. Why is education the fall guy?

It is American genius/know how/innovative ideas that fuels our good times and our ingenuity needs good schools if it is to flower. Kids with disabilities such as autism/Aspergers are our future inventors, scientists, artists, musicians, mathematicians and nobel prize winners. Head Start works and helps many children make it when they otherwise would not. Republicans go after education because an educated public won't vote for them. They need all the idiots they can find to get and stay in power.

[Tesha]

24. 'Cause an edumacated population might get, y'know, "idears". (NT)

[Hubert Flottz]

16. What a man!

Let's hope the rest of the good things that Harry pissed away can be put forth and be paid for later on.

[WilliamPitt]

17. They were going to drop some of the tax cuts. Did that not happen? n/t

[burning rain]

19. This bs will continue until Dems bite the bullet & abolish the filibuster.

Stop giving 41 senators the power to stop anything.

[defendandprotect]

34. Our problem is with Reid and Pelosi . . . not with filibuster . . .!!!

DLC and "Blue Dogs" --- and with those Dems protecting establishment interests and

corporations!

[Triana]

20. I hope it doesn't pass in that form then - and REID NEEDS TO GO! n/t

[Tesha]

21. He always does (cave). (NT)

[Skidmore]

22. Now, can we have demonstrations and storm the Bastille?

[DFW]

23. Boxer or Kerry for Majority Leader

Time to mount the challenge.

As in NOW!!!!!!!

[burning rain]

25. This bs will continue until Dems bite the bullet & abolish the filibuster.

Stop allowing 41 senators to stop anything.

[nc4bo]

26. Calling it a cave is an understatement. Defense? Procurement?

:wtf:

Ayup - FUCK YOU Reid you spineless coward.

[pacalo]

27. Shameful. Step on the defenseless poor, while we spend more on "defense".

Way to carry that big stick, Harry.

:eyes:

[Zodiak]

28. While y'all are roasting Reid on a spit

(and I'm not going to stop you because he deserves it)

You might want to start up a grill for a few more democratic Senators that sold us out, as they do time and time again....Feinstein and Ben Nelson. All of this extra military spending can be put right on Nelson's doorstep...that was his baby, and Reid went with it. Nelson NEVER works for the Dems...never, which apparently makes him this powerful?

We have got to control these blue dogs and DLCers that insist on stopping any legislation that has any meaning and running to the Republicans, even when the pukes are being belligerent.

[glitch]

29. Obama should write them all back in with signing statements.

Or is that wrong now that the President is a Dem? Do it anyway in the hopes that some pukes will blow a few blood vessels.

President Obama, you got this. Show Senator Reid what a spine looks like.

[robinlynne]

37. Obama will NEVER do that. sorry. that is not who he is.

[glitch]

38. Yeah, I am sorry too. nt

[sendero]

30. None of that crap..

.. belongs in an emergency stimulus bill. Not it, OR the defense spending.

[defendandprotect]

31. Reid caved again --- right!!

Just like having the GOP in charge . . .

oops! they seem to be!!

Disgusting ---

[Wapsie B]

32. Let me see if I get this straight. Democrats are the party in power,

controlling the White House, the Senate and House. Why on earth does Reid have to cut a deal on anything with a repug? Let the gop members stroke out with uncontrollable rage. Marginalize them as they should be. Time to crack some skulls here.

[defendandprotect]

33. Hope Reid gets a ton of e-mail and telephone messages on this --- !!!

The list of those now excluded makes more than clear who the Dems are ignoring!

[Individualist]

35. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you

:sarcasm:
:sarcasm:
:sarcasm:

[VP505]

36. I thought that with a strong

and popular President and VP, a strong majority in the House and a near filibuster proof majority in the Senate we could count on Reid to start standing up to the Republickers, guess I thought wrong.:-( :-( :-(

[Enrique]

39. Reid caved because Obama made him

Obama said the time for talk is over! We need a bill NOW! Cut a DEAL with these mofos. I'll send my boy Rahm to help you do what you gotta do. I'm fired UP!

[DainBramaged]

40. Harry Reid is a gutless scumbag. If he got beat by a Puke in 2010, I wouldn't cry

We'll pick up enough seats in the Senate to have a 63-67 seat Majority after the Pukes fuck up everything Obama tries to accomplish.

[Enrique]

41. Obama wanted this deal

[DainBramaged]

43. They cut out ALL of the important social programs and up defense? Bullshit

Reid caved.

[Enrique]

45. Reid caved because Obama told him to cave

[bevoette]

46. i have to confess something...

i just went OFF on a rant to my husband about "it's no WONDER democrats can't win big - people like Obama (and Clinton) are exceptions, most of these people couldn't lead a lemming!!!"

i mean...WTF??

weak

[nadinbrzezinski]

48. Here's the problem... why bother voting? You think I'm kidding

mark my words, the PEOPLE gave these fucking cowards a MANDATE... they don't, people will stay home in 2010... or worst