The WaPo story is misleading. It only takes 60 votes to pass the stimulus if there are 40 senators blocking a vote. Kyl and McCain won't be around to vote (although McCain is lobbying for "no" votes).

Even if some Dems like Ben Nelson or Blanche Lincoln might not vote for the bill, they won't help Repugs sustain a filibuster.

Also, where's my latest Elana Schor video? I needs my fix.

I don't think capping the CEO's pay at $500,000 will work for the simple reason the big wigs will leave to other companies and the TARP companies will not be able to hire new replacements as nobody will go work there for $500K. I know that may sound ridiculous, but companies are still in competition with each other and if you can steal the upper management away, knowing nobody experienced will want to replace them given the salary is locked in, the place has a much higher chance of failing.

I think an amendment might be necessary where if somebody is brought in from outside the company, and that person is coming from a non-TARP company then they should be able to get bigger money.

I sure wish Cheney would just stick to "hunting" pre-stocked and placed birds.

Maybe he could take Scalia or Thomas with him. They could have fun.

"When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry."

Good. Worry yourself to death, dick.

No one will mourn your passing.

Cheney is a disgusting excuse for a human being.

Lemme get this straight, Dick....any future terrorist attack will be Obama's fault. 9/11, of course, was not Bush's fault, it was Clinton's, right? Anything bad that happens is the fault of whatever Democrat happens to be in the vicinity. Gotcha.

He needs to go crawl in a hole and never be heard from again.

Cheney's administration led us to most of the problems Obama is working on right now! Reports today even show that Hamas is weak and loosing even more international support.
http://www.governmentalityblog.com/my_weblog/2009/02/hamas-shows-more-signs-of-weakening-by-stealing-from-un.html

Dick really does not want it to come out that he took frequent trips to Gitmo to "relieve stress".

When was the last time a recently departed president or vice president engaged in such douchebaggery? I'm sure they've all been asked to do interviews, but unless my memory is failing, they have mostly declined, or avoided being critical of their successors.

Hey Dick we don’t have to give up our rights that brave Americans fought unlike you, to protect ourselves. You fucking criminal screwball.

This dickweed needs to be waterboarded. I’m against torture, but he insists that waterboarding is not torture, so he should get a good dose of it.

Random comments:

) The press uncritically accepts the argument that closing Guantsnamo means releasing hard-core terrorists. That has never been true.

2) The figure of 61 released inmates returning to the fight is misleading at best and probably just plain false. Both Cheney and the Pentagon have an interest in fighting the closure of Gitmo.

3) There will be terrorist attempts. Simply put, the number of successful attempts is equal to the total number of attempts times the success rate for those attempts. Bush has helped increase the number of potential attempts and too little to decrease the success rate (better port security, protecting nuclear materials, etc.).

3) Mike Allen is bedazzled by Cheney, and doesn't want to lose his 'access' even when Cheney should be forgotten and ignored. He always reminds me of the rich kid who smiles as he pays a bully to beat somebody up.

Regarding Cheney. He is right that terrorists will try to attack the US again.

However. Cheney is just stating the obvious. He could have just as easily said that somewhere in America, someone will commit a crime.

I watched a Nova show last night called The Spy Factory, which talked about the NSA in the pre and post 9/11 world. The first half of the show demonstrated that US agencies had the information it needed to stop 9/11. With due diligence, the government had a shot at preventing the WTC attack without the Patriot Act or resorting to domestic eavesdropping.

Shame on Cheney for his statements. He is trying to do his best to maintain politics as usual in Washington.

Oh and, for the record, this:

“I don’t believe there’s two sides to every story. It’s black and white,”

is hilarious.

Hopefully Penis Cheney will go hunting with himself and shoot himself in the face.

Folks on the Hill seem to forget that the Senate doesn't need need 60 votes to pass legislation, most especially the Recovery bill!

Harry Reid only needs the spine to make the Republicans read phone books on the Senate Floor until they allow a vote

Inhofe (Okla) was on the news this morning talking about how good the prisoners have it at Gitmo. Made it sound like the prisoners are living a life of luxury, and he said the other stuff we've heard is just lies. The Republicans are waging a PR war, and right now it feels like they are winning in the media and chipping away at public opinion one day at a time. Obviously this was planned, once Bush got off the scene. We need to fight back.