Whistleblower protections axed from stimulus bill by Republicans

enufff is enuff how long are we gonna let these fat cats run this country to the ground??!!! the same damn people have been pulling the strings since before our great grandfathers time.. what will it take to dethrone them?...

"the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil..is for good men to do nothing..."

What else is new? Thats politics. Same sh*t different day.

What else is new? Thats politics. Same sh*t different day.

Susan Collins is a crook and so is her father. They have totally screwed up my life. I used to live in Northern Maine. Don Collins is guilty of insider transactions with the utility company he was a board member of (Maine Public Service). They tried to cite a nuclear dump one mile from my house in Perham, Maine and I fought back. They, along with a lot of other Republicans, have trashed my house, there have been deaths of witness and, of course, 911; the "high jackers" coming in through Maine. The Collins family and Olympia Snow have lot to hide. They have totally ruined my family's life. It's been 15 years of torture, harassment and hell. They don't deserve to be leaders of this country.

Why has this post been stuck on top of my Google page Current gadget for so long?

all the shit in this bill and this is what your worried about

So much for Obama's Memorandum for the heads of Excutive Departments and Agencies which in part states: Government should be transparent. Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing.
No protection for the little guy that reports something means he gets STOMPED to DEATH. Beware!

Republican, Democrat I don't think it makes much difference they all cover up for each other! Our rights go out the window with both parties, but I guarantee if I were to pull the same shit that our so called leaders pull they would throw my ass in jail so fast that it would make my head spin. They all need to be thrown out of office and put some honest people with some common sense and integraty in office.Make laws that are sensible instead of trying to tell everyone how to run there lives and screw us out of everything that we pour our blood and sweat into. I am sick and tired of having my rights push aside like if I were some kind of sub human. Those who have taken advantage of their power in office might not be held accountable while they are here on earth, but when they go to meet there maker I prey to god he holds them accountable!

no the republicans don't think the stimulus will work. the republican way is the way it was done during clinton's presidency u cut taxes people then have more money. then with that extra money the people spend it. when they spend the extra money it gets the economic cycle moving again then creates jobs. and when more people are working and paying taxes it increases the govts tax revenue.

also to all of you blaming republicans the democrats have had congress for a while now and just now have attempted to do something.

but im not worried they will fuck it up, or not do nething because they r afraid of pissing off their voting base. and you will vote republican again when you get your heads out of your asses.

Whistleblower protection? DUH! It don't mean a thing in a country where the gov. teaches by example. Waco - Stray from the controlling flock and get your mothers and children cremated while there still alive. Kent state - Protest U.S. crimes in other countries and your military heroes will shoot you. Michigan - Try blowing the whistle on police drug dealers, dirty judges and there prosecutors and/or the wealthy they work for and be tortured and murdered in there jails. Go to www.bewareofmichigan.com and read about one of the few that survived.

I am just guessing here, but this sounds like a lot of the "stinky" political bargaining that I have seen so much of at the state level. If one party REALLY wants a bill to pass, the other party feels pretty much duty-bound to see how much the first party is willing to "compromise" to get the bill passed. One of the most common tactics is to represent that a particular section of the proposed bill is already covered by existing law, so it would either be redundant or would "confuse" the jurists charged with enforcing the law. It's surprising how often this works -- expecially when the logical response to the redundancy argument is: "well, then having it in law twice shouldn't hurt anything, should it?" And of course jurists are usually pretty well-educated. They rarely get all THAT confused when confronted with two laws on the same subject. On the other hand, when we are losing tens of thousands of jobs each day, people are willing to hold their noses and jettison good law in the name of speed. Really, really sucks -- but it really, really happens all the time.

too bad there's not a law against government stupidity, & government waste. Then we could have prisons full with damn politicians, & not habitual traffic offenders, & other no violent crimes.

PS.. Who even says China & Japan are going to keep floating these US government loans every year? For sure this year.. I wonder what B.O. is going to use for collateral to get all that money.

Why don't we just stop footing the bills for the Iraqi government, & let them spend all that oil money they've been hording since we became their sugar daddy. Someone on here once asked "what my problem was" (I'm assuming he meant the attitude).. & this news topic gives a good look inside my irritation & why its at the level it is. Because (to be quite frank)... My two kids, grandson (their generation) are going to have to work to bring back some sense of dignity to America, because all the greedy SOB's have used political correctness to steal, rape & pillage any & all accounts they could get their greedy little hands on. If i or you had done the something, we'd be in jail/ prison.. Because they're bankers, politicians & lobbyist.. the B@st@ards get to walk with the money...with no fear of ever being punished for their crimes. That (my friend) would p!ss off a Saint.

The republicans once again protect the rich at the expense of everyone else lets abolish the republican party and lock every last one of these criminals up starting with Bush and Cheney!

I thought you might be interested in reading a letter from Halliburton whistleblower Bunny Greenhouse urging all Americans to continue the fight for greater oversight and accountability. You can read Bunny's letter and help her protect taxpayer dollars by visiting
http://capwiz.com/whistleblowers/issues/alert/?alertid=12666936

If "whistle-blower' were called 'justice seeker', 'truth seer', or 'sees what is real', would it make a difference?

Absolute nonsense. Their are laws on the books to deal with people who divulge security secrets. This is more of the same to protect wasteful, illegal and criminal behavior in the goverment and corporate boardrooms. This continues a long history of the government suppressing emberassing information under the guise of national security.

you cannot keep creating money with no value or the system will fail as it will at this rate 25 years and the capitalist cycle will run out unless some foundational changes are back and bullshit expenses like vietnam and iraq are eliminated seeing as we never had the money in the first place to even go there without a standard like gold people have no limit on how much they can spend and too all republicans Regan increased debt by 75 percent and then his old buddy George Senior increased it by 45% and the only president in the past 28 years to create a surplus my man Bill Clinton f*** reganomics

I am shocked...SHOCKED I tell you! Ten bucks says the Rs propose a last minute amendment to actually protect fraudulent expenditure of federal funds...

clayjj05 your a idiot! get fucking real and lay off the paint fumes you huffer.

man i love the credibility of rawstory.com.

and who gives a shit if this is even true.

You liberals got 900 billion dollars in your pet projects that will probably hurt the economy even more.

take it or leave it, but shut the fuck up..

theyll hush for the republicans for that
the republicans will hush with the 4 BILLION for ACORN

i am going to be honest. I dont know shit when it comes to polotics. I am fucking clueless!!! i would like to get involved more but even in articles like these i cant understand the political vocabulary. could someone please break all this shit for me in a non bias way. im not stupid but i just never bothered myself with this shit.

Democrat or Republican it does not matter seeing as both parties are not looking longterm seeing as this stimulus is just a temporary fix to the permament problem that is the fiat money system. THE ONLY WAY OUT LONGTERM IS THE GOLD STANDARD WHY HAS GOLD GONE UP CONSISTENTLY FOR THE PAST 9 YEARS AND COUNTING BECAUSE paper currency has proven throughout time to always fail prove me wrong b****es also 13.5 trillion deficit by end of 2009 yeah we sure can pay that back right and even with the stimiulus if it creates the estimated jobs each person has to make 200,000 a year just for the bill to hit an equilibrium

This is a disgusting move by the people in power. The Dems will also lose all credibility if they do not reinstate the whistle blower provisions. Do not forget that both crooked Dems and Reps, all benefit from the removal of this provision.

epic fail

its amazing that even when they're completely outnumbered in congress, republicans still seem to run the show and get whatever they want for the thieving billionaires on wall street that they represent

Power, destruction and republicans all go together. I thought our votes would matter. They didn't, it's more of the same.

Republican destruction will continue. President Obama may think he accomplished something by trying to include Republicans, all he accomplished is "more of the same" destruction of Democratic principles. That's not the "change" America needs.

Maybe if he didn't do away with signing statements, he can make changes after they vote for it. It worked for George W.

SAD! SAD! SAD!

The three across the aisle that are voting with Democrats can now be considered the most powerful Republicans in DC.

My "hope" is gone. This was the straw which broke the camels back. Whistleblowers could have helped to repair our past, leading us to a trusted future. I can't believe the republicans were able to steal the truth. I don't have much money to loose, but truth is something which should be free. I had hoped President Obama would seek the truth. I was wrong!

SAD! SAD! SAD!

How the fu*k are the Repugs making ANY decisions at this point???!?!?!?? Didn't Dems win just about EVERYTHING? This is nuts.

Nothing new here just a bunch of crooks (the GOP)
want more protection, more immunity from their evil doings!
Garbage in garbage out!
Dump the GOP!

Of course they did.

Sadly, obstructionist tactics are very effective. Additionally, the American public is usually of too short of an attention span to even be able to detect such tactics.

My question is this; one of the key elements in a properly functioning market is the availability of information. To those educated neocons, how can you justify the silencing of information that the market needs to successfully function?

Bush and the his crew trying to save thier asses from be accountable for the royal screwing they gave America. They all belong in prison along with thier accomplices.

The Obstructionist tactics are going to be the death of the Republican Party. Any moran can see that the Republican minority in Congress is not willing to help the American people the same way they helped Wall Street at the tail end of the Bush Error.

Bansheewail, over and out.