"This is a spending bill, not a stimulus bill," said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.

[Bleacher Creature]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090209/ap_on_go_co/congress_stimulus_257

Economic stimulus bill moves to Senate test vote

WASHINGTON – The Senate lined up to advance the $827 billion economic stimulus legislation backed by the White House on Monday, and Democratic leaders vowed to deliver a bill to President Barack Obama's desk within days. Still, key lawmakers braced for a difficult round of further negotiations aimed at producing a final House-Senate compromise.

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Even so, in the hours before Monday's vote, Republican opponents attacked it as too costly and unlikely to have the desired effect on the economy. "This is a spending bill, not a stimulus bill," said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.

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At some point, I'm going to start supporting an intelligence test for election to Congress. I really wonder what Lamar! thinks a stimulus is. I would speculate, but I know that we're not allowed to start sex threads.

[Avalux]

1. Has that fuckhead not been paying attention?? Stimulus = Spending.

There is no other way to do it. I will say one thing for the idiots, they are stubborn, even when it's clear they've lost.

[Jennicut]

4. Like duh. To them, its all about tax cuts, that is it.

[WinkyDink]

2. To imprint the usual "Democrats do nothing but spend" theme. He knows the real score.

[MercutioATC]

3. He's right. Not enough stimulus bang for the buck in this bill.

I don't like the Republican tax cut plans either, but this bill is garbage.

[theoldman]

6. The big mistake made by the Democrats was putting the tax

cut into the bill. Tax cuts should have been a separate item later on.

[MercutioATC]

7. I think tthe bill should have concentrated on real stimulus items...

...alternative energy research and funding for the arts may be worthy of federal dollars, but they're not stimulus items.

[Chulanowa]

5. And this is a sock, not a stocking!

That's not a shoe, that's a moccasin!
It's not a fruit, it's an orange!

It's not a dumbass, it's a Republican!

[EraOfResponsibility]

8. "THAT'S THE POINT"! - President Obama

[Rocknrule]

9. I'll bet he'd support it

if the bill was to put a trillion dollars or so towards blowing up Middle Easterners or buying yachts and Hummers for him and his country club buddies.