As the President meets with the House and Senate GOP over the 2009 Fiscal Suicide Act, just so fair and balanced reporters like Keith Olbermann and Andrea Mitchell can drool over themselves aboot how mad bi-partisan he’s being, I thought I’d take a look at how folks are organizing against it, grass roots style.
Obviously the most important thing is ReadtheStimulus.org. This is a website set up by the Heritage Foundation and others to post FSA09 online so the taxpayers can see how their tax money is being spent. The Obama administration and/or the Democrat Congress were going to do this, but it’s Tuesday and they plan to vote on Wednesday. We’re still waiting. That’s some transparency you can believe in right there, I don’t care what you say.
The Club for Growth has set up a Twitter page called “Bailout Beggars” to track everyone looking for a hand out. He was only at it for one day and managed to find 31 different stories, each one more outrageous than the other.
Also, last night “American’s for Prosperity” hosted a conference call with Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-MN.) and Tom Price (R-GA) so that conservative activists could express their concerns over President Obama’s $825 billion stimulus bill Monday evening. 2,600 – TWO THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED – of them called in.
Rep. Bachman has also launched her own blog called “Majority Tracker” to…well; “track” how the “majority” is spending our tax money. As for this “bi-partisanship” the media keeps telling us aboot:
Only 1 of 18 Republican Amendments that were offered as part of the stimulus package were accepted by the majority. What happened to the rest? REJECTED… WITH ONLY ONE DEMOCRAT supporting ONLY ONE of the remaining 17 measures.
This blatant lack of bipartisanship combined with new restrictive rules put in place by the Democrat majority to silence the Republicans is why my office is launching a new blog called the Majority Tracker. With the Democrats in control of Washington, it’s vital that the Republican minority not only present its own alternatives, but that Americans know what those alternatives are.
So, that’s what’s happening (or some of what’s happening) out here in the fields. For now we just wait to see what this afternoon’s meetings with the President bring.
In the immortal words of Inigo Montoya, “I hate waiting.”
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God I love Michele Bachmann.
And I hate the term Bipartisan. A LOT. Because it’s a load of crap.