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Would not have taken the action he just took if we didn t have 41 votes to stop this monstrosity. i don t think there s any doubt about it. for economic conservatives, a 1924 page bill just died? a 1924 page bill just died. six thousander marks will not now move forward? yes and i feel badly because i had so much fun with them. they should have said before this bill came to the floor and asked would you like your earmarks pulled out? no, they were perfectly willing to vote no and take those earmarks hope. the problems with this process don t lion one side of the aisle they lion both sides. the know that the republicans are trying to say this is just about the democrats is the kind of hypocrisy that gives us the lowest ratings we have in terms of confidence of the american people. greta: you just heard republicans wasted no time to take credit for the death of ....
Bad it is the process. if you are transparent, if you can defend them if you put them up front and let them go through a full hearing and get debated. and you can successfully convince 99 other senators that having something dedicated to the forever memory of john murtha for a public service center is an important use of taxpayer money, that s one thing. that is not how it is done. it is slipped in. put in some big package. so you have to vote for the earmarks in order to vote for making sure the soldiers are gonna get their next month s pay. greta: can we admit that business about transparency is a big fat lie? when you dump a 1900 page bill, and say now vote for it. can we quit lying to the american people about transparency? there was no transparency here. it was interesting the senate was going to be forced into reading the bill it was going to take 50 hours reading ....
The opposition to it. greta: interesting, two issues i see. one substantive, whether it is a good bill. two, the process. first the process. it was dumped on everybody about 36 hours ago. it is about 2,000 pages. essentially we are back to the health care stimulus situation in terms of process. people are asked to vote on this important bill, no one had a chance to study it and make sure waits a good bill. right there s a bigger failure of process, we are over two months into the fiscal year, not a single one of the 13 appropriations bills has been passed by both houses and send to the president. i m not aware of a single one that has passed either house. we are funding the government not through the normal order of budget process with careful examination of appropriations bill. you are right they are trying to wad this up on the eve of christmas jam it through threatening people if they don t vote for it, they may be ....
Not a guarantee this is somewhere less than 50/50. lessc8af likely alternative is they pass pomeroy and send it back to the senate. i don t think the senate is going to adopt it. so we are going to be at loggerheads there. another alternative pass the pomeroy amendment, it back to the senate and cave. i find that unlikely. most likely outcome they end this process. there s a new fox poll out showing that by a margin of 68% of the american people support this tax cut compromise. abc at 69%. pew a days ago 60%, bloomberg 69. gallup 66. all polls similar to fox. in the fox poll, republicans, independents and democrats were all between 67 and 69% in support. if they reject the american people on this, particularly this late in the year with all the ramifications this has for january, if we don t get this ....
The opposition to it. greta: interesting, two issues i see. one substantive, whether it is a good bill. two, the process. first the process. it was dumped on everybody about 36 hours ago. it is about 2,000 pages. essentially we are back to the health care stimulus situation in terms of process. people are asked to vote on this important bill, no one had a chance to study it and make sure waits a good bill. right there s a bigger failure of process, we are over two months into the fiscal year, not a single one of the 13 appropriations bills has been passed by both houses and send to the president. i m not aware of a single one that has passed either house. we are funding the government not through the normal order of budget process with careful examination of appropriations bill. you are right they are trying to wad this up on the eve of christmas jam it through threatening people if they don t vote for it, they may be ....