He hasn't even tried to sell his bill to the American people.  I still don't know what he wants, or how he thinks it will help the average guy/gal.  I'm not convinced that even he knows.  

Am wondering how long it will be before it is leaked that "some" on the economic-advisor side of this are unhappy with the president's decisions to bow to political pressure.

The GOP is just killing the Dems on the social side of this bill, and it escapes me completely why the Dems have not better explained that while jobs must be created (and here's how the bill will do that), there is an obvious and crying need for a lifeline for those who have been hardest hit by the economic downturn.  The farther these people are allowed to fall, the greater the burden to the state and local jurisdictions, which are already having trouble keeping their heads above water.  The feds have the ability to stop the domino effect that will wipe out the states, but have we heard anything about that?  I haven't.

The scale and scope of the plan just plain sucks, and it's sucking more and more the longer the Milquetoast Mob is allowed to "shepherd" it through the Senate (translation: slice it, dice it, cut it, water it down and turn it into pablum so bland that even a baby would refuse it).

This is classic short-term thinking, of course.  And with a short-term thinker in the White House, we are doomed for the long term and will fail.

That said, this will play out to 3Ms' (Maine's "Moderate" Morons) Holy Joe's and McAssdrips's delight.

these frakkers are dumping the bill on the kids and wont give them an asbestos free school to learn in so they have a chance in life

the one hot meal a day many of them get, cut

head start, cut

school construction, more than half cut

I am disgusted
still calling the critters who area all avoiding emptying their voice mails cuz they dont want to hear it

Pelosi needs to stand up for he children she surrounds herself with when taking the gavel..

I believe the President must know this.

What will it do for the folks who have had their homes taken away from them?

It reads like the well-known Republican trickle-down theory - or as Archie Bunker accurately described it, the "tinkle-down theory".

One thing is sure. It does not supply relief to the people who need it most. We are supposed to wait for an indefinite period after the money is given out for any benefits to tinkle down upon us.

There is no sense of urgency on the part of the government to help those among us who were most severely hurt by the financial crisis.

This probably is not what Obama had in mind when he evoked the "founding fathers" - but I'm beginning to take them quite seriously:

"...all experience [has] shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

Also:
 1. There is no political benefit for Pelsoi in changing the bill.
 2. reid would lose specter and collins and therefore the bill, which would give republicans and the corporate media even more hay to make over Obama and democratic failure.
 3. Obama wants a plutocratic bill, not one that works.

I had posted several  days back that Obama would only get one shot at this stimulus plan so he better check it out with the best minds and get it right.  There will be no second chance.

If the stimulus plan fails that is the end of Obama, nothing that he would accomplish after that would have any significant meaning. The republicans know this. Obama's failure on this one issue is the republican's victory for the next election.

They waited too long and the layoffs spiraled exactly where we thought they would.  I know 8 people who have lost their jobs in recent weeks and their prospects are dim.

The Chicago Tribune didn't even have a print version of their career section as I can only imagine that they did not have much in the way of job advertisements to justify running the section.

I think they might be depending too much on the MO-Mod they are discussing which is a mistake unless of course the payments from individuals is reduced to 30% of what they receive from UI benefits.