Not one Republican vote! Not one! And that is the Republican Party's response to the American public who, as every poll indicates, are begging for less partisanship and more "just get the job done."
The Obama stimulus package passed in the House along strict party lines. So there it is America, we now know who to thank or blame. That being the case the Republicans just painted themselves into an obstructionist corner. They are betting on and praying for national failure. Like Rush Limbaugh, they are hoping the economic recovery fails. They have bet against our future, even against a president who reached out in an unprecedented way to them. Their answer to President Obama's extended hand? A clenched fist! Head in the sand! The "we won't play!" of perennial brats.
The Republican Party just doesn't get it. We are in trouble! And our country's fate and the success or failure of the Obama presidency is now one and the same.
The Republicans could have done a great thing for their party and the country: sent a message to the world -- we stand together! Imagine the impact on tomorrow's stock market, and our enemy's view of America and our standing in the world if instead of a partisan Republican "NO" vote the backing of the recovery plan had been unanimous approval!
If the Republicans weren't stuck in a white man's reactionary country club past -- and I speak here as white former life long Republican -- this momentous vote could have changed American history. It would have changed it not just on this issue but because of the symbolism. It would have told all Americans -- we are at war with our weaknesses, we will prevail, take heart help is on the way.
The Republicans might have then shared the credit, even won a few elections in the future. Now their fate is sealed. Obama will succeed. America won't forget who to thank.
The Republicans have made themselves the enemy of our recovery. They would rater take us all down than let our president have his day. While President Obama is blessed with a large vision, the Republicans are mired in a petty past, a small "victory" in unanimous obstruction passing for a moral "victory."
With this NO vote, the Republican Party sends us this message: we are a group of bad losers, don't entrust us with your future! And: We are betting against you America!
We Americans are wounded. President Obama has arrived with his ambulance as he promised he would. All the Republicans could think of doing was to try and let the air out of the tires. Shame!
Frank Schaeffer is the author of Crazy For God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back (Now in Paperback).
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Can anyone explain that to me?
Is this the Democrats watching out for middle America or is it payback for all the campaign contributi
The vote shows that "bi-partis
The "partisan" side was the "YES" side - only Democrats.
You also seem to be silent on your hero's selection of scandal-ri
Why aren't those same people complainin
If we prove these suspicions true, that changes the entire world politcal scene - and many, many people will go to jail. So of course there are very vested interests against reopening the 9/11 investigat
Many books in print support the demand for a reinvestig
Here's the Young Turks showing the clip and commenting on it.
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How's "Rush says 'JUMP!' Republican
This one's a spoof
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Harder to do in the senate, since they are statewide and 2 per. BUT, if BOTH of a states senators vote NO...
Enough for my fantasies, back in reality, didn't the Pubbies forfeit any seats on the conference committee that reconciles the house & senate bills? I mean if they ALL voted NO, why should they be trusted to make compromise
On the sabotage front, I've heard some GOP senators bragging on TV how they're going to dangle bi-partisa
Rush (and Sean, and Mark, et al) well be SO proud!.
Both sides have a vested interest in partisan politics and it seems obvious that neither side is willing to extend a hand across the aisle.
They lie, all the time. They don't like the bill because it spends money that will help U.S. citizens instead of handing the money to Halliburto
If you can't see the hypocrisy inherent in their every move after spending ten billion every month for the past five years on a war we started on the basis of lies, then I don't know what else to say.
Economists agree that it's a reasonable stimulus package. If you prefer to accept a different conclusion based on statements made by known liars, then be my guest.
You are so right.
I don't know whether the media is just so lazy that they just run with whatever talking points the RNC distribute
When America's in trouble, the rich can always be counted on to step up and fill their own pockets, with the "remedy."
I also can't believe that the GOP is still preaching tax cuts and de-regulat
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Imagine this if you will, Obama brings the entire Bush Administra
Because it lined their pocket's, that's why!
Read about Stalin if you want to learn what a dictatorsh
Economists agree that the stimuli package is good, except it would be better with more spending. That is economists
The only people I have heard say that the Stimuli Package is bad are partisan hacks, republican aperatchik
If you keep taking economic advice from fools, you wind up with the current conditions
We voted for change, not more of the same as what got use here. Get over it.
Voodoo Economics is not only a complete failure, it is an unmitigate
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For Richer or Poorer, In Sickness and in Health, In Good Times or Bad, Till Death do us part, we are commited to defend this Great Nation and it's People.
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Only because it is not a total Republican plan, that means it's useless and that mean's they do not have to do what they have been Elected and Paid to do.
The Republcan Party along with some Democrats have demonstrat
Would it be too much to ask if we could simply try something different?
I do not agree with everything in the plan myself, but we must do something other than whine, throw pi$$y fiit's, and hide behind Rush Limbaugh who never ran for anything but a pill.
If it were up to me, I would try something a lot less expensive like put a million dollars in the hands of every Tax Paying American that earned less than $250k per year, and the Economy would turn around faster than you could say It's Over.
When common folk's have money, they save some and spend some, resulting in Mortgages,
I don't want to stimulate China's economy and create more jobs in China, we need jobs created here.
Trickle down has trickled down everywhere but here. Here is where we need it.
When common folk's have money, they save some and spend some, resulting in Mortgages,
Interestin
I love how The Pubbies keep screaming about the Democrats' plan costing close to $1 trillion - yet they never mention the $6 TRILLION Bush added to the debt, between his $1.3T & $1.2T tax cuts and all the money wasted on Iraq.
Up until 2007, they kept both wars and Medicare part D off budget, then bragged about keeping the deficit down (while quietly borrowing a half trillion per year, mainly from China and SA, and about $1.5T each for '07 & '08) When the Dems took over congress, the WH moved those items back onto the budget, then pointed the finger at Democrats for "exploding the deficit".
They are despicable