MSNBC just announced that the US Senate has approved their $838 million stimulus bill. Their version one close enough to the bill ratified by Congress about a week ago but it had $100 billion in spending trimmed in a move to win the votes of moderate Republicans. Republican Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania broke ranks with their party and helped pass the bill 61 to 36.

I haven't had the opportunity to look at the bills, but here's some differences highlighted in the article :

House's bill costs $819 billion. Senate, $838 billion.
Senate : Tax breaks for new cars
Senate Houses' allocation for NASA by $50 million
Senate : They sneaked in money for "network monitoring"

Now the Senate and Congress will be duking it out for a final bill to go to the President. Ugh. If only they had a system by which people could see all these changes and differences easily.

The Big Bush, Little Gerogie Bush, and Jeb Bush have all given John McCain their approval. Could there be a worse endorsement?

The Bush family have brought us two of the least popular Presidents in American history.

The Bush family helped arm Saddam Hussein before declaring him our enemy. They have brought us two Iraq wars, the most recent has turned into a quagmire sucking our soldiers and dollars down with no end in sight and no exit stratgy and no strategic purpose.

The Bush family helped arm al-Qaeda, then stupidly ignored warnings of an impending attack, allowing al-Qaeda to hit us hard. And they have failed to stop al-Qaeda even AFTER they attacked us.

The Bush family has brought us some of the worst economic times since the Great Depression, giving us no fewer than three rescessions with little recovery under their watch. Job growth under the Bush family has been rock bottom.

The Bush family represents nothing but failed domestic policy, failed foreign policy and deficits, deficits, deficits. About the only people who still like the Bush family are their good friends in Saudi Arabia: the Royal Saud family and their close allies, the bin Laden family.
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