(ENOUGH!!!) WH THREATENS VETO Of Second Stimulus Over Food Stamps & UnEmployment Benefits

[kpete]

this is too much, too much for them, nothing for the rest of us, nothing and i am NOT just talking $$$, kpete

White House Threatens Veto Of Second Stimulus Over Food Stamps And Unemployment Benefits

Today, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a statement of administrative policy today recommending Bush veto a proposed second stimulus package. The $56.2 billion package, announced yesterday, would extend unemployment benefits for seven weeks, increas food stamp benefits by 10 percent, and provide $50 million for food banks, among other proposals. This afternoon, Senate conservatives successfully blocked the bill, as the motion to proceed won 52 votes, eight shy of the necessary 60.

In the press briefing today, just an hour before the Senate vote, Dana Perino said the White House opposed the measure, specifically citing its extension of unemployment and food stamp benefits as explanation:

PERINO: There’s some elements of the package that have been put forward by Democrats that we do not think would be stimulative to the economy, such as unemployment insurance. The food stamps, we believe we have met the need.

VIDEO & MORE AT:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/26/perino-second-stimulus/

[Marrah_G]

1. ARG ARG ARG

I HATE HIM HATE HIM HATE HIM HATE HIM!

STUPID IGNORANT FAUX REDNECK ASSHAT!

~done~

[Karenina]

15. Meanwhile, Congress passes $633B spending bill?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4097100

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[Betsy Ross]

3. OK Dana,

Just try to live on food stamps for one week. Change your belief of meeting the need to the facts about living on food stamps. More f'ing BS from the WH.

[aquart]

4. Balls of brass. Block the bailout.

Let the billionaires beg for food stamps along with the rest of us. Enough.

[ProgressiveFool]

5. Oh my god, this is current? WTF???

How fucking stupid are they, that it's ok to do a $700 Billion bailout of fat cats who got themselves in their own mess with greed, arrogance and stupidity, but not even 10% of that for real red-blooded Americans who need real help through no fault of their own?

WTF is wrong with those GOP bastards? This better hit the news big-time, because this is seriously maddening stuff.

[tpsbmam]

9. Asshole. It's a good package.....I don't agree with 100% of it but it's a good

New Deal type package -- that's why Shrub doesn't like it. It targets money toward programs serving those who need it most and it spends money on programs that will ultimately really build our economy. I've seriously thought for a long time that the Republicans are trying to cull the herd so there are fewer of us to use increasingly limited resources and they want those resources mostly for themselves and their ilk. This is just one more example.

[ProgressiveFool]

16. I wasn't even aware of this bill, the bailout's been sucking up all the oxygen

Good move by our Dems, though, putting something for blue-collar America out at the same time, to expose the Repubs with all their anti-bailout posturing. IMO the repubs want the bailout, but they want the Dems to do it.

[tpsbmam]

28. ITA on the good move....they need to publicize it better though --

LOTS of people don't know they proposed this. I haven't heard them talking about it when they've been interviewed lately. They need to spread the news!

[AndyA]

6. As far as I'm concerned, I can't wait until the Bush Administration gang - every last one of them -

drags their sorry, puss-filled, pimple-covered, infection-oozing asses out of our government.

[FatDave]

7. Hey Georgie.

Why don't you just spend the next 4 months pounding sand up your ass. We'd probably both be happier.

[woodsprite]

8. OK - I know people on here think it's tinfoil hat, but...

I'm really thinking they're trying to provoke the American people into a civil uprising inorder to declare martial law and cancel the elections. Can we just shut down Congress until a new Pres gets in?

[fla nocount]

25. Not tin-foil hat, they're pushing the public's buttons, reminds me of the ex-wife. n/t

[madrchsod]

10. 7 weeks? that`s 6 weeks less than the extension already in effect

i`m running out of my emergency 13 weeks so no 7 weeks more for me. in two weeks i`ll be dropping off of the unemployment statistics.....

a billion plus for the guys that created this mess and we can`t have a measly 7 more weeks

[ladywnch]

11. well you sure as hell haven't met the need for more jobs! you morons!

[R. P. McMurphy]

12. "as the motion to proceed won 52 votes,..."

eight shy of the necessary 60.

If these bastards are going to obstruct every bit of legislation with the threat of filibuster - why don't we call their bluff. Make them actually get up and filibuster. Let the world see how ridiculous these pricks and their heartless positions are.

[ProgressiveFool]

18. for once, goddam it, Reid better force the actual filibuster /nt

[redqueen]

21. Indeed... past time to call their bluff. WaMu just failed... the iron is hot *now*. (nt)

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Moot point if "Senate conservatives successfully blocked the bill, as the motion to proceed won 52

votes, eight shy of the necessary 60."

[Lochloosa]

14. 115 Days 10 hrs. 28 mins and counting

[screembloodymurder]

17. Bailout the fat cat's pool cause that's where we're putting their bodies.

It's ok for us to starve, but don't touch the golden parachute.

[Shallah Kali]

31. We are not real people like them. We are subhuman to the haves and the have mores

anyone outside their little world does not count. we are like ants scurrying about and only matter if we make a smear on their shoe as they walk all over us.

I don't know how much more of this compasionate conservatism I can take.

[Irish Girl]

33. sad but true..

All we are is cannon fodder for their corruption. "Useless breeders and useless feeders" is how I believe we were described as.

[Irish Girl]

34. ..

<dbl post, sorry folks>

[kenny blankenship]

19. Yah, Dana you tell 'em : Unemployed people are well known

for not spending money on stuff you buy from stores and places such as like teh econmony. Personally I believe that U.S. Americans what are unemployed got so much money since they're not working anymore that they just stay home and roll around on their money. They just like enjoy life and have parties like you see on TV like that show Real Life, yah. Fer sure.

[redqueen]

20. That's Bush! Willing to hand $700 Billion to Wall Street with NO OVERSIGHT...

unwilling to help Main Street at all.

[radfringe]

22. take the second stimulus bill and stick it in the bail out bill

and then bush will sign it

[screembloodymurder]

29. I think that's his point.

You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.

[polmaven]

23. Only 116 days left!

We'll not find President Obama even THINKING about saying no to something like this. Particularly in times like these are!

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!

[Jim__]

24. Make it part of the bailout.

Fuck bush.

[LSK]

26. ummm ok in a recession PEOPLE LOSE JOBS!!!!

AND CANNOT FIND JOBS!!!

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[Hawkowl]

27. Obama can make points with this

Bail out for fat cats? But no aid for food banks?!?! Corporate welfare is o.k.?

[intheflow]

30. Paul says, "Let them eat caviar!"

These f*ckers are the stupidest, most heartless administration I ever hope to live through. :(

[sarcasmo]

32. They want to bankrupt the country and say Fuck the average Joe/Jane.

[undergroundpanther]

35. I HATE RICH PEOPLE.

I resent them and despise them all. WHY do we TOLERATE this shit?
People NEED FOOD...WHY do the RICH do this shit?
I HATE them.I want all those pus bag NeoCon psychopaths all GONE.Forever.I want them broke and all the money these PIGS hoard given to people who need shelter,food,heat, health care ,dentists,transport,community support,mental health help,


The Rich must return what they have STOLEN from the people.
NO MORE GOLDEN PARACHUTES.No more super wealthy people.
We Must LIMIT HOW MUCH ONE CAN HAVE.Because Some can never have enough. The rich pigs are like an alcoholic that cannot stop drinking until he is dead, there are interventions to try to help addicts.. Likewise we must find a way to FORCE them stop stealing from the poor and working class.

The Rich's insatiable greed theft of the commons is stealing away our health and sanity now!! How much more will they get to STEAL from the poor and working poor??How much more suffering will we the many endure so the few rich will never suffer a unfulfilled want?

No one has a right to be so rich at the expense of everyone else.
Why do we let the rich take and take and take!! Why?

[Greyhound]

36. Please just for once don't fold at the threat, make that shitheel actually veto the bill. n/t