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holy smokes!
My thoughts exactly. Such a Republican fuss. Look at that pie chart. Now imagine if Republican poll numbers equaled the dark blue area (I know, it’s a leap!).
The Audacity of NOPE !!
In a few months, Republicans will argue that spending is okay again when they debate the Iraq supplemental.
It is amazing to me that the Repubs, with their miniscule objections, have pretty much carried the message, at least up until Obama’s tougher speech the other day. Obama ought to flash up a chart or two like these two, for the sake of Repub learners who respond more to visuals than to words, you know?
The Repub ideologues demonstrate once more their irresponsibility, in this case by their inability to respond thoughtfully and practically to this crisis. And it is indeed a crisis! But they’d rather play chicken!!
Fortunately, there are several who are willing to step up and break ranks: Snow, Collins, Specter, and maybe Voinovich too, the latter perhaps to keep Kennedy from having to make the trip up from Miami.
All that said, we’re still not there with final passage yet, as I have no doubt that the Repubs will continue to find ways to delay and obstruct.
Or the DOD Appropriation @4.
Interstingly, Congressional R’s aren’t doing themselves any favors in terms of public opinion. The GOP was busy hyping the Rasmussen poll that showed some slippage of support for the bill, but certainly did not mention this week’s CBS Poll:
*81% of Americans want the Recovery bll to be bipartisan;
*81% of Americans think that Obama is working on bipartisanship
*41% think that the Congregssional Rs are working on bipratisanship
*49% think that Congressional Ds are working on bipartisanship
62% approve of the job Obama is doing
48% approve of the job Congressional Dems are doing
32% approve of the job Congressional Rs are doing
76% think that the bill is moving at the right pace or not quickly enough
This poll isn’t all bad news for Rs, but it is the kind of news that can be a lesson (as if they needed another one) about full court messaging AND (I think) a healthy skepticism of just how much government can really accomplish.
But the thing to note here is that Rs did themselves no favors with the people they badly need to be able to ask for votes from. And if this is positioning on their part, this is expensive positioning — not just for them but for the country too.
What will you say, or with whom will you place the blame if the stimulus doesn’t work?
What will you say, or with whom will you place the blame if the stimulus doesn’t work?
Bush and his supporters.
It’s like a medical team trying to save a patient wheeled into the emergency room in cardiac arrest. You have to apply the paddles and push the button, but there is no guarantee it will work. It’s still the patient’s fault for sitting on the couch smoking and eating cheese dip for forty years.
Well, h., until the Republicans insisted on putting their fingerprints all over it… Talk about wanting a piece of the pie!
How many repubs. ? 3 – 4
Only one supposed Democrat was needed (Lieberman) for Republicans to declare things bipartisan.
Nice pie chart. It really drives the point home. Most of the so-called objectionable spending was removed before the bill got to the Senate. That must be why the stuff they cut out of the bill was funds for education and aid to states.
How many repubs. ? How many repubs…3 – 4?
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program
$300 million for grants to combat violence against women
$2 billion for federal child-care block grants
$6 billion for university building projects
$15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships
$4 billion for job-training programs, including $1.2 billion for “youths” up to the age of 24
$1 billion for community-development block grants
$4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”
$650 million for digital-TV coupons; $90 million to educate “vulnerable populations”
$150 million for the Smithsonian
$34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
$500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities
$44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters
$350 million for Agriculture Department computers
$88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building
$448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters
$600 million to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids
$450 million for NASA (carve-out for “climate-research missions”)
$600 million for NOAA (carve-out for “climate modeling”)
$1 billion for the Census Bureau
$4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
$850 million for Amtrak
$87 million for a polar icebreaking ship
$1.7 billion for the National Park System
$55 million for Historic Preservation Fund
$7.6 billion for “rural community advancement programs”
$150 million for agricultural-commodity purchases
$150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish”
here’s a few from NRO
Yeah. Protack posted that mess too awhile back. People here are reading the bill, not the NRO list.
Why Obama didn’t call on the troops beats me I am getting tired of all this Nice Nice shit with the REPUK’s. I would have loved to see the mob go to Washington and pull the Repuks out of the house and senate by the scruff of their necks. Tar and Feather them and ride them out of town on a rail. Like in the old days when snake oil salesmen would cheat the town folk.
And while I’m at it — that list is certainly not an argument either against the package and nor is it an argument that any of these expenditures isn’t stimulative.
As you can all tell I am really pissed at the REPUK’S
I thought that they were arguing for the stimulus by posting that list.
You mean Protack is opposed to economic recovery?
Figures.
But Obama did call in the troops….he sent emails all last week, trying to rally our support! I got at least 3 and yesterday another one. The problem with democrats, moderates, liberals and progressives is THEY DONT ACT WHEN CALLED UPON. Lame, lazy, talking heads but we DONT DO ANYTHING TO HELP. I made at least 5 phone calls to DC last week….how many did you make.
All these currency manipulations and corp. subsidies make a mockery of the concept of free trade. We need fair trade not free trade.
Now we have trillions in bailouts given to the socalled “to big to fail corpse”, to make sure their executives keep getting big bonus/salaries, dividends and golden parachutes while we get hyperinflated into oblivion by throwing good money after bad. Mind you these same execs who burned their companies to the ground, to screw insider trader share/bond holders~~ to bust unions, ship mftring overseas, cut employment benefits, hamstring the economy, take advantage of slave labor, undercut pensions, will turn our country into a form of a fascist police state while stagflation, recession and depression reign.
These are all the effects of a “wild booze party” and both corporate parties are responsible. Lets start dealing with the facts. Neither party is working for the american citizen, they are inbed with the corporates and they will destroy this country, if citizens dont wake up.