61 Yea, 36 Nay, 2 Didn't Bother...

The Democrat controlled Senate passed that stupid Stimulus(porkulus)package today!

They got 3 RINOs to go along with their insanity:
Sen. Arlen Specter (PA)
Sen. Susan Collins (ME)
Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME)
All traitors to the Republican Party!

The Senate approved an $838 billion economic recovery package bill Tuesday, as Democrats held on to the few Republican supporters who helped hammer out a compromise measure last week...

The massive package is a blend of spending, tax cuts and incentives that both the administration and Democrats in Congress hope will create jobs and stimulate the economy. But most Republican lawmakers oppose it, saying that while government action may be necessary the plan as crafted is too bloated with wasteful spending...

On the other hand, you could look at it like this...

50 Ways To Love Your Government
1. $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
2. $380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program
3. $300 million for grants to combat violence against women
4. $2 billion for federal child-care block grants
5. $6 billion for university building projects
6. $15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships
7. $4 billion for job-training programs, including
8. $1.2 billion for “youths” up to the age of 24
9. $1 billion for community-development block grants
10. $4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”
11. $650 million for digital-TV coupons; $90 million to educate “vulnerable populations”

POORLY DESIGNED TAX RELIEF
12. $15 billion for business-loss carry-backs
13. $145 billion for “Making Work Pay” tax credits
14. $83 billion for the earned income credit

STIMULUS FOR THE GOVERNMENT
15. $150 million for the Smithsonian
16. $34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
17. $500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities
18. $44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters
19. $350 million for Agriculture Department computers
20. $88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building
21. $448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters
22. $600 million to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids
23. $450 million for NASA (carve-out for “climate-research missions”)
24. $600 million for NOAA (carve-out for “climate modeling”)
25. $1 billion for the Census Bureau

INCOME TRANSFERS
26. $89 billion for Medicaid
27. $30 billion for COBRA insurance extension
28. $36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
29. $20 billion for food stamps

PURE PORK
30. $4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
31. $850 million for Amtrak
32. $87 million for a polar icebreaking ship
33. $1.7 billion for the National Park System
34. $55 million for Historic Preservation Fund
35. $7.6 billion for “rural community advancement programs”
36. $150 million for agricultural-commodity purchases
37. $150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish”

RENEWABLE WASTE
38. $2 billion for renewable-energy research ($400 million for global-warming research)
39. $2 billion for a “clean coal” power plant in Illinois
40. $6.2 billion for the Weatherization Assistance Program
41. $3.5 billion for energy-efficiency and conservation block grants
42. $3.4 billion for the State Energy Program
43. $200 million for state and local electric-transport projects
44. $300 million for energy-efficient-appliance rebate programs
45. $400 million for hybrid cars for state and local governments
46. $1 billion for the manufacturing of advanced batteries
47. $1.5 billion for green-technology loan guarantees
48. $8 billion for innovative-technology loan-guarantee program
49. $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
50. $4.5 billion for electricity grid

PLUS...
REWARDING STATE IRRESPONSIBILITY
$79 billion for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund

How's that for Change You Can Believe In!