The bill passed, but we have a lot to be proud of, thanks to everyone who participated.
We showed the politicians and media that literally hundreds-of-thousands of Americans from all walks of life are willing to fight to protect our economic freedoms through the incredible success of our petition. We shut down the telephone lines at the Capitol. We proved our side can compete and win on the “new media” front... For consecutive days, NoStimulus.com and Americans for Prosperity were the leading search terms on Google and Yahoo.
We turned what was supposed to sail through with 80 votes and no controversy into a bloody knock-down, drag-out fight. The bill faltered so badly that President Obama was forced to go back into campaign mode to save it. We created a dynamic unseen in Washington in a very long time--a conference committee that was scared to add to the size of a big, fast-tracked spending bill.
As a result of our effort, we can look to future public policy battles with a renewed sense of confidence. If we could come within 1 vote of winning in the Senate on this first and toughest battle, just think what we can do in the contests that lie ahead!
Thank you so much to everyone who took part in this effort. This was something special that we're proud to have worked on. Watch this space in the coming days for much more content both looking back at this effort and looking forward to the major policy fights to come.
Picture and Video Highlights from the NoStimulus.com Campaign:
AFP President Tim Phillips on Fox News
MSNBC Covers AFP President Tim Phillips, U.S. Representatives Tom Price (Georgia), Michelle Bachmann (Minnesota), Henry Brown (South Carolina), Virginia Foxx (North Carolina), Louis Gohmert (Texas), and Brian Billbray (California) for the delivery of more than 400,000 petitions from NoStimulus.com
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We have been guided by a republican administration who believes in this simplistic notion that people who have wealth are entitled to keep it.
Governments make lots of a bad policy during times of economic stress. A spending package that approaches $1 trillion is a case in point. Do we really trust the Congress and the Executive Branch to spend such vast sums wisely, especially after all the bumbling around and ill-advised bailouts this year? Does the government really have a long list of well-thought-out, cost-effective projects that will help our economy? I do not think so.