Well, it probably was too good to last. After the courageous and surprisingly unanimous GOP “NO” vote on the Taxpayer Extortion Act, it looks like the Political Jock Itch has returned to it’s home base. That being more useless than Helen Thomas pitching ProActiv. The chamber of the U.S. Senate. (Hat Tip: Michelle Maklin)

You know, these “moderate” types are like the seaweed monsters in the movie, “Horror at Party Beach” who went on a panty raid/rampage during a girl’s slumber party. Like Mike and the Bots said, no matter what species a creature is, they will still have the urge to panty raid. Only in this case, it is this country’s wealth and the wealth of the next two generations that are being raided. Like a coke addict with a wallet-full of stolen money, they are sucking this country’s economy right up their Stalinist noses.

So, in predictable fashion, Sen. Ben Nelson, (D)-NE is trying conjure up support for a new “Gang of 14 (Jackasses)” in order to “rescue” the “unacceptable parts” of this train wreck of a bill.

From FOXNews:

Senate Republicans and some Democrats aren’t happy that the $819 billion economic stimulus bill that the House passed Wednesday contains billions of dollars for programs that arguably won’t spark much job growth.

As a result, one moderate Democrat is looking to bring some of his colleagues together, as was done in the past on the issues of judicial appointments and energy policy, to find some common ground on how the stimulus bill might be improved, Fox has learned.

Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., who famously gathered Republicans and Democrats in a so-called “Gang of 14″ to avert a shutdown of the Senate over judicial nominations, is aiming for similar bipartisanship in the stimulus debate. Nelson told FOX News he has invited a group to his office Friday to see if more can be done to create jobs in the stimulus bill — such as a major boost in funding for infrastructure projects, which appeal to many of his colleagues.

“We need to focus this on getting people back to work quickly,” Nelson said.

The “Gang of 14″ compromise in 2006 displeased many conservatives. Republicans controlled both houses of Congress at the time, and those involved in the compromise group agreed to take some of the party’s power options off the table in exchange for Democratic promises not to filibuster Bush’s judicial nominees except under “extreme circumstances.”

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a moderate who was a member of the original “Gang” and a close friend of Nelson’s from their time on the Senate Armed Services Committee, got an invite, as has Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Nelson’s energy compromise group colleague.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-ME

That must have been a misprint. She is no true Republican. She and Snowe have been the Dem’s long-term, cheap voter-hookers for years, walking the streets of the Senate, ready to drop political dress at the drop of a hat. And their pimp is McCain.

But than again, I expect nothing better from party traitors looking to dig their way into Crap Sandwich Two and digesting what they can for themselves and their liberal supporters.

“We need to focus this on getting people back to work quickly,” Nelson said.

The best way for that to happen would be for Nelson and all of his Demitburo criminals to immediately resign and promise to stay 3,000 miles away from DC for the next 3,000 bleems.

As for “infrastructure”, that is just code for laying millions on adding the brightest and shiniest toys to a government or campaign contributor’s building. For anyone who has ever driven in DC itself, it is not called the Pothole Capital for nothing. You would think after about 50 years of this “infrastructure” spending would have had those potholes filled years ago. Then again, we are crossing a) federal spending and oversight with b) the DC city government. Incompetence on the level of the Obama Cabinet.

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