Ok now this pisses me off. The gang of 14 returns for post partisan love fests! yep i  worked like hell to get 59 dem senate seats and these jackasses return in a senate no longer evenly split. Note who is in this-sen Nelson of Ne. You know this dude. The one who voted to ban partial birth aboritons etc.. He wants to cut STD ed funding and Pell Grant increases. A dem is proposing to do this.

Also note another buddy is in this-union slayer sen corker of TN. The guy who killed the auto bridge loan becuase he wants the UAW dead.

The only good thing Im hearing is a major boost in jobs creation funding. Liek I always said the senate bill will have loads of sh*t-worse than the House.

At least Sen kerry is speaking out today saying he want those business tax cuts out of the bill and opposes the bad bank idea.

Welcome to post partisan unity.

Influential Senate Dem Questions Party Support for Stimulus Bill
Sen. Ben Nelson told FOX News he is unsure how many Democrats will support President Obama's $819 billion economic stimulus bill.  
By Trish Turner

FOXNews.com

Friday, January 30, 2009

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a moderate who was a member of the original "Gang" and a close friend of Nelson's from their time on the Senate Armed Services Committee, got an invite, as has Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Nelson's energy compromise group colleague. On the Democratic side, Nelson has reached out to Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., a strong ally of President Obama, as well as Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and freshman Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.

One item that likely will be discussed is an amendment that would add billions of dollars to infrastructure projects. Nelson is crafting that measure with Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif, both on the Appropriations Committee.

And Nelson doesn't want to stop there. He wants to pluck out what he says are extraneous projects in the stimulus bill to pay for the amendment. Providing hundreds of millions of dollars for prevention of smoking and sexually-transmitted disease -- though they may be worthy causes -- does not create jobs. Nelson even is willing to remove popular Pell Grant increases, saving them for annual spending bills later in the year.

"We need to sit down and see who owns these projects," Nelson said, and see if they can be removed from the bill. "We need to keep (the bill's cost in check) and see if we cant change around what's underneath that to create more jobs."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/ 29/senates-gang-poised-strike-stimulus/