Midknight Review -- new and revised: OpenCongress reviews the latest spending bill. The unemployed need the benefits. The Nation needs the bill paid for. Both are possible.

Editor's notes: before we all run off shouting the news that the GOP hates the working man in need of help -- that is not the case at all. ALL they want is for this spending bill to be paid for . . . . . "CUT SOMETHING" is their plea. We agree. Donny Shaw presents the cuts in the bill, an effort to make the bill "acceptable" to those who oppose. What is missed in all this "cutting," is the fact that the bill, regardless of its content, IS UNPAID for. We are currently borrowing 43 cents for every dollar we spend. THAT is unacceptable. Bush spent money at a record pace -- 3.4 trillion in eight years. Obama has spent nearly the same amount (just in annual budgetary considerations) in only two [fiscal] years - and asks for more with the passing of each week. "No" to the working poor is NOT the end game, here. Rather, it is trying to get a renegade congress to stop their wreckless spending habits. That is what the American people want. Both parties need to agree with the people they say they represent.

H.R. 4213 - This bill extends unemployment benefits and COBRA until the end of November, 2010.

After From OpenCongress by Donny Shaw -- consulting with lobbyists yesterday to see what it would take to win a few Republican votes, Senate Dems are back with their latest revision of the H.R. 4213, the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act. Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid [D, NV] has already filed cloture on the revised bill, and according to the congressional record, "a vote on cloture will occur on Friday, June 25, 2010."

Cloture is a procedural motion to overcome a filibuster that requires 60 votes to pass. According to reports, the Democrats have been within two votes of passing the cloture motion for several days now. This latest revision is designed to shore up support among Democratic and Republican moderates to win those crucial two votes. At this point, all indications are that it hasn't worked.

So what has changed in the latest revision? Read Full Article >>>>>

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

OpenCongress reviews the latest spending bill. The unemployed need the benefits. The Nation needs the bill paid for. Both are possible.

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