1. Just wait until it comes back from the senate. I still see 50/50.

2. Political suicide in the making, which is a good thing for the demise of the gop. I can't wait to throw a party with a hearty AMF to the 19th century, racist gop.

Bottom line, pathetic.

Time to make em pay

I sure hope that if getting more concessions is the plan, that we don't fall for it. I say obstruct away! People are sick of this partisan crap and if the Repubs are willing to sit back and watch the country go down the drain, we should let them. People need to see them for the obstructionists that they are. If the Republican Party wants to kill itself, we shouldn't stand in its way.

I think the GOP overestimated the Blue Dog nay vote and underestimated the Democratic leadership.

Either way, I say screw 'em. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of pinheads.

We need more people out in the media highlighting today's vote as clear evidence that today's Republican Party is not even remotely concerned with good governance.

Let me show you exactly how Obama played chess with the GOP.
1.He shows that he is fully bipartisan listening and even implementing some of their ideas
2.He makes Rush the defacto Republican President
3.He passes the bill, which would have looked nice with Republican backing but in 2010 if it works will TOTALLY SINK REPUBLICANS because they ALL VOTED AGAINST IT.

Level 4 Chess folks, level 4 chess.

Now THAT is how you run a party caucus.

Is it political suicide? Perhaps. But that makes the Republican leadership look even better--in the face of potentially strong political backlash, they held their membership together and at least took a unified stand.

Nancy, take a page...

Well, looks like this is your stop, fellas. So long and say hi to the Whig and Federalists for me.

What a surprise huh? The swine do all they can to twist and distort the stimulus bill into yet another GOP disaster, Obama gives away the family planning component that was included and they still vote no. If only the Democrats were more bipartisan eh? The Republicans are scum and they prove it daily. This particular vote is only another instance of the hypocrisy, their lying, and their bad intentions. Expect more of the same in the Senate.

Tonight the Republicans told the American people 'f**k You,' You're on your own. Obama set the trap and the republicans took the bait. The entire Stimulus Package debate was watched for weeks by the public and the rethugs are telling the American people 'We are not going to work with the new President unless we get what we want.'

Why is this some sort of a terrible move by the GOP - it was the only move they had. If they supported it, it would be Obama's bill, and if it failed with their support they couldn't make a political issue out of it. However now that they've voted against it, at least they have a chance - even if that chance is hoping a $825B in spending doesn't work and the American economy collapses.

Oink! oink! This should be a clean jobs plan. It should not look like pork. Condoms?

I am an Obama support.

Both sides employed a strategy and each side thinks they got what they wanted, or at least expected. Jonze is right that the R's really had little choice, from thier partisan perspective. The D's knew pretty well that this would happen, and quietly did what they wanted, with some deference to Obama on at least appearing to be bipartisan (e.g., scuttle family planning).

We don't know yet how this will play out. Much depends on how and when the economy responds over the coming months and years.

But the other part is the media. What's the SPIN that all this takes as we go forward? I'm not yet confident that the D's have learned to outmaneuver the R's in this regard. The R's are all over the airwaves, and the D's are not offering much of any counter-narrative. THAT troubles me.

The other thing that troubles me are all the folks here who keep writing-off the R's... some actually envisioning a post-Republican political landscape. Huh? Are you joking?!? A wounded animal is much more dangerous - especially when cornered. But aside from that, overconfidence sinks ships (think Titanic). I'll give you Jr. prognosticators a real prediction: The Republicans aren't going away in your lifetime, so get used to it. 46% of voters still chose McCain. Now, that's my-party-right-or-wrong commitment you can believe in, my friends.

So I just wanted to make a point about "post-partisanship" because I see so many people misapprehending both the moment and the strategy on this, in my opinion.

A lot was made of when Obama essentially "pre-conceded" and included some tax cuts to businesses before even starting to work on the bill. He then held yesterday's meeting with Republicans and even after all of this, no Republicans voted Yea. Some people are taking this as a repudiation of negotiating with Republicans since they aren't interested in governing, since to them, they can only win by Obama failing, a classic zero sum game. And most of the critics assume that Obama is getting some sort of rude awakening on this.

Once again, I urge people to read Audacity of Hope, because there is a whole chapter on this game, and it's crystal clear that Obama is well versed in it (to say nothing of Rahm Emmanuel) and certainly doesn't think it's played for fun.

But what people are missing is that it's not about convincing Republican politicians. He knows they have their role to play for their party. It's about convincing Republican VOTERS, and I can speak from both the polls and personal experience that it's working. Voters approve of this immense bill by something like 80/20. And yet the tax cuts only account for something like 3-5% of the total bill. It's huge. But look at the strategy here. Republicans get everything they want. Concessions. A meeting with Obama. Happy talk. Time on TV. And still, not ONE of their congresspersons votes Yea. And so Obama comes out looking responsible, reasonable, realistic, and most of all, BI-PARTISAN and Republicans look like petty obstructionists. And the bill that passes is the largest spending bill, perhaps, in history (I haven't looked that up) but the perception is that it's "too small" and Dems made lots of concessions on it.

So in the end, he's in a position to seek still more money, and Republicans can't even complain because they forced the bill to be "smaller" than it might have been, and then voted no anyway.

And polls are showing a s 24% generic ballot preference for Dems in 2010.

IMO, this was very well played.

We'll see what the Senate does next week...

It is a travesty that Dems are not on the airwaves constantly saying this: the Republicans' answer to 8 years of Bush tax cuts and a failed economy is more tax cuts. Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. The message machine is criminally negligent right now. Obama plays the bipartisan; democratic talking heads attack. The latter just isn't happening.

Time for trickle-up economics? I think so.

Anderson Cooper just had some reporter on saying that Obama needs to move more to the center to get more Repo support. Uh, no, that is not the way to go.

Who has the pressure on them right now? Obama or the Republicans? He has shown more than enough willingness to compromise and be inclusive. If they want to reject Obama's offer of inclusion they do so at their own risk.

The truth is that there is no reason to pass a bipartisan bill if only Democrats are going to vote for it. Pass a partisan bill!

Obama had a steep learning curve during the election cycle. Let's hope that, as president, he learns quickly that bipartisanship is a romantic idea that - in today's congress - just doesn't work. He turned a good bill into a bad bill in order to get Republicans on board. His reward: zero Republican votes.

OK, I'm a nitpicker, but there weren't actually "10 Blue Dogs" among those who voted nay; there were just seven.