Where is Jerome with his GOP polls on this? this is politico jermone! almost as good as drudge!

And according to Gallup, 59% support the bill and 67% support the way obama operated. according to CBS 81% think Obama was bipartisan and reach out while only 41% think GOP reach out.

http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx

But i understand you have to cherry pick GOP polls to cast a bad light on Obama, big surprise!

I remmeber your "Golden standards" polls in the GE. you are a joke and so is Rasmussen who consistently leans to gop (including bush approval numbers).

how about take a non partial poll like Gallup or CBS or PEW? nah common sense is too much to ask.

He got what he wanted as well, huge victory in this difficult climate IMO(having to rely on GOP senators and right leaning media hacks).

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/020 9/18860.html

Here's a list of items frequently touted by Obama and how they fared in the recent negotiations:

Hybrid Vehicles for Federal Fleet
House: $600 Million
Senate: $300 Million
Final: $300 Million

Computerizing Medical Records
House: $20 Billion
Senate: $19 Billion
Final: $19 Billion

Rural and underserved Broadband
House: $6 Billion
Senate: $7 Billion
Final: $7.2 Billion

School Construction Modernization
House: $21 Billion
Senate: Zero
Conference: Folded into $44.5 Billion in aid primarily to prevent teacher layoffs

High performance green federal buildings
House: $6 Billion
Senate: $2.5 Billion (some may have been reallocated)
Final: $4.5 Billion

Head Start/Early Start Expansion
House $2.1 billion
Senate: $1 billion
Final: $2.1 billion

Neighborhood Stabilization: buying up foreclosed homes in distressed areas
House:$4.2 billion
Senate: Zero
Final: $2 billion

Education technology
House: $1 billion
Senate: $1 billion
Final: $650 Million

"That the President failed to adequately frame and tout the merits of this bill to the American people is, I hope, a lesson that his team has learned"

wrong, 59% support the bill by latest gallup. What eh failed to get was more repug votes, what he succeeded to do was to show GOP as the party of NO (gallup poll from last week shows 60% (!!) disapprove of the way gop handled the stimulus, 67% approve of the way obama handled it) and a party who models them selves after taliban!!

Big party and legislative victory imo.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/114577/Stimul us-Support-Edges-Higher.aspx

P.S. this is one of MANY legislative things he has done so far, including Lilly ledbetter, SCHIP, EO's on civil liberty, gitmo and EPA stuff. but nice reach back to your primary mentality. Move on.

--"Clearly there are views that are different here, and we should have focused on them earlier."

--Says he "went back and forth on it," but "this is more a question of just being me."

--Calls Obama "an extraordinarily talented indivdual."

--Says he doesn't plan to run for re-election. "There are other things to do in life."

Gregg is not running for reelection according to the page!

http://thepage.time.com/

Gallup, it was all over news yesterday. 67% approve of way Pres obama has handled the stimulus so far while 25% disapprove. the number for repugs is horrendous, 31% approve while 58%(!!!!) disaprove.

there was a CBS poll last week as well that showed 81% (!!) of public though obama was trying to reach out while obly 41% though rethugs were reaching out to Pres.

His approach with public is resoundingly good, rethugs are seen as party of NO now more than ever. now Obama thinks this will wok and if it does even marginally it will seal the deal for the dems.

Apparently a conference bill CANNOT be filibustered. Bowers says that but I am not concrete on this.

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do;jse ssionid=5A62394ADC64385AD4DEF799B1D7C540 ?diaryId=11422

Democratic Caucus (11)
Evan Bayh (IN)
Michael Bennett (CO)
Kent Conrad (ND)
Mary Landrieu (LA)
Joe Lieberman (CT)
Clarie McCaskill (MO)
Ben Nelson (NE)
Jeanne Shaheen (NH)
Mark Warner (VA)
Jim Webb (VA)
Mark Udall (CO)

Republican Caucus (5)
Susan Collins (ME)
Mel Martinez (FL)
Olympia Snowe (ME)
Arlen Specter (PA)
George Voinovich (OH)

Gibbs knew about it today somewhat. but the fact that he is not voting for the stimulas is outrageous, least he can do is vote for it now that we nixed our 60 votes for 2 years(though I suspect if gregg plays ball he can influence his chief of staff who is a place holder after all to vote on clotures or for the squeaker bills).

on the plus side obama seems to have the votes without him (CNN broke this couple of hours ago), though it would be nice to add to that bipartisan cred votes.

LOL

Not only Obama has the 60 votes to get this thing passed (CNN breaking news tonight), ALL repug ammendments failed today! all! and most of them with good number of republicans wvoting with dems to defeat them.
Vitter amendment LOSES 32-65
DeMint amendment LOSES 36-61
Thune amendment LOSES 35-62
McCain amendment LOSES 44-53
Inhofe amendment LOSES 38-59
Cornyn amendment LOSES 37-60
Bunning amendment LOSES 39-57
McCain [#2] amendment LOSES 31-65

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/4/2 11217/6755/325/693271

See all those McCpig losses (including his bill to abolish the buy America act...defeated by 65 votes!)? Cheers to that!

Everything good he has done would be done by any dem! they don't count! all he dose is bad otherwise! we get it. and my point proven.

You seem to throw insults around a lot. grow up. Fact is your bias is blatant almost in your every post here and on openleft. you always slant against whatever obama does 24/7 and guise it in sugger coating it to seem reasonable. whether Edwards or Hillary (who were you for after edwards dropped out?) you were always anti-Obama slanted and still are.