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BO Doesn’t Play in Peoria

Mary Katharine Ham [1]Mary Katherine Ham writes in Weekly Standard [2]:

The House just passed the stimulus package with no Republican support, and eight “no” votes from Democrats.
Rep. Aaron Schock, whose llinois district is home to Caterpillar, spoke on the floor about the president’s speech to his constituents and their telling response. Caterpillar has been a central part of Obama’s stimulus pitch the past couple of days, but the pitch has been bumbled, as the rest of the stimulus message has been. Obama claimed the Caterpillar CEO told him he’d be rehiring some of his 22,000 laid-off workers as soon as the stimulus bill was passed, but Owens later flatly contradicted the President’s claim.

Schock’s constituents were urged by the president himself to tell Schock to vote “yes,” but he was not approached by one constituent, Caterpillar employee or otherwise, asking him to support the stimulus

Barack Obama did not convince one of Schock’s constituients to support Porkulus. not one.