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11. but it turns out that the stimulus money wasn't actually being spent on the wine train. it was being used on a massive flood project we found out. they had to actually elevate the tracks and move the tracks. so while it looks like a pretty fancy wine train, it was just in the way. so they had to spend $54 million of stimulus money to move the tracks. and we also learned, josh, that the funds actually created 600 jobs, and those jobs were expected to last two or three years. so i don't know how that one ended up on the list of the worst 100 back in december. but the napa valley wine train c...

Hook for this. look no further than fannie mae and freddie mac. >> our economy's not worth doing this. >> excuse me, ed. the democrats rammed through a $862 billion stimulus bill that didn't stimulate anything. >> get out. >> is lending tight. >> lending is very tight. the president needs to pay for the things he's trying to do. >> come on, ed. this is pure double talk. this is pure hypocrisy. the republicans are always talking we love small business, we love extending benefits. it comes time to walk the walk, they won't do it. this is a good program. these loan would be paid back with interes...

Showdown vote to break the fillibuster. >> this bill is about protecting democrats from criticism ahead of the november election. a transparent attempt to rig the fall election. >> democrats say if that were true the unions might be on board. the idea that this limits free speech is bogus. the idea that this bill is unbalanced is bogus. >> one thing the president will win is more deficit funding for the afghanistan war, the house moved toward passage of $33 billion, a vote that unified republicans and divided democrats. the president will also win confirmation of elena kagan to the supreme cou...

The new -- the new election that we -- the new regime, the new administration, so forth and so on. what we -- all we really want i think from the so-called democratic wing of the democratic party is really to stand up for what we believe in. there is a congressman in virginia who is going have a tough time getting reelected, tom periello, very conservative district. replaced a very conservative republican. i think he is going to reelected by just a hair. why, because he practices something called conviction politics. he is down explaining to everybody in his district why he voted for the healt...

With the new election that we -- regime and new administration, so forth and so on. so, what -- all we really want, i think from the so-called democratic wing of the democratic party is really to stand up for what we believe in. there is a congressman in virginia, who will have a tough time getting reelected, tom periello, a conservative -- replacing a conservative republican and he'll get reelected by a hair, why? because he practices something called conviction politics and is explaining to everybody in his district why he voted for the health care bill and why he thinks it will be good and ...