This is from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), speaking about the stimulus at the Heritage Foundation:

The stimulus bill that is being championed by President Obama, which was passed by Democrats in the House last night, is the worst piece of economic legislation Congress has considered in a hundred years. Not since the passage in 1909 of the 16th Amendment -- which cleared the way for a federal income tax -- has the United States seriously entertained a policy so comprehensively hostile to economic freedom, nor so arrogantly indifferent to economic reality...

This bill is not a stimulus, ladies and gentlemen; it is a mugging. It is a fraud.