CNN reporting tentative agreement on stimulus bill in senate!

[dgibby]

Reporting now.

[ShortnFiery]

1. If true, GOD BLESS AMERICA!

:patriot: :applause:

[swag]

2. Will Lucy pull the football away this time?

[jillan]

3. Oh - I hope you are right!

[Mike 03]

4. This sounds promising, but whenever there is "agreement" I get suspicious.

Hope this is good news.

[Winterblues]

5. Republicans must have gotten a lot more tax cuts for the wealthy.

I guess anything is better than nothing and a lot can be made up when Obama presents his first Budget..

[lpbk2713]

6. Hmmm?? What 's the tradeoff?

I guess I'm just a skeptic by nature.


:shrug:

[Parker CA]

7. Tweety just said the same thing. Now, what exactly was removed to come to this agreement??

[Still Sensible]

8. So how far did Harry and Co. have to bend over? n/t

[acmavm]

9. What did the dems throw away in the name of 'bipartisanship'?

[dgibby]

10. Dana Bash:

Sources: some unnamed Dems and Susan Collins
Tentative agreement: around $780bil.
Story in progress. More to come asap.

[Fgiriun]

11. Why

Democrats shouldnt give an inch to the republicans. Their ideas let alone their intentions are useless and unbeneficial in the short or long run. This "compromise" probably includes a cut on the education portion of the bill, healthcare( probably completely removing health information technology measures) and massive cuts on the energy proposal.
Not to mention more tax cuts!!!
And its also likely that no republicans would vote for it anyways. Maybe they wont filibuster, and whithout taking any risks, have their ideas passed.