President Obama has a huge package. He’s trying to use it to stimulate the country, but Republicans like Mitch McConnell, John McCain, John Boehner and Michael Steele are being coy. They’re flirting with the President, inviting him to the House and having drinks with him, but they don’t really want to play ball. Coquettish is, I believe, the term. Meanwhile, the President’s stimulus package is being rammed through the House, and massaged through the Senate, all so that we, the American people, can feel relief.
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It’s a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.
I don’t blame Congress for being skittish. The last president and his treasury secretary pretty much hit it and quit it, begging and pleading for just a little belief, getting half of what they asked for, and then leaving the rest of us gasping for breath, no closer to satisfaction, feeling used and still wondering what happened.
But this President wants more interaction, is buying Congress dinner and wanting to watch Sunday afternoon sports, before getting down to business. He’s actually looking us in the eyes, and holding our hands as we walk down the hallway to the Lincoln Bedroom. It’s natural to be nervous. You know the rumor about black men, and we’ve already seen the size of this package that we’re getting.
But even though it may hurt a little at the beginning, it’s gonna feel so good once we get going. And when the stimulus goes flooding into the country, putting people back to work, putting money into the economy, making frigid credit markets a little looser, a little warmer, a little friendlier to the average citizen, we can all lay back and sigh.
Then we can do it all over again.
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That entry is unsettling (all the sexual innuendo).
I would like to see your in depth analysis of the stimulus plan and what it will do for us as a nation. You know, where is the money going? How will the money going to these places and uses benefit the economy?
Then, after you show your understanding of how Obama’s plan will stimulate, you can go back to taking shots at Republican officials speaking out against it.
Thanks.
It’s not the “speaking out against it,” it’s the ridiculous recalcitrance that’s blocking the stimulus. We’ve had eight years of “tax cuts” and deregulation. That’s why people are freezing and without electricity, because infrastructure wasn’t sexy. And if you want to start with the “where’s the money going?” let’s ask the same question with the first $350 billion from the TARP. It’s the “now we want accountability” crap coming from Boehner, McConnell, McCain, Hutchinson, and every other Republican on the talk shows and granting interviews this weekend that’s irritating.
Being in the minority party doesn’t mean that the majority party has to listen to you. The Democrats have figured that out now. And the “small government” mantra doesn’t make any sense when people are hungry, out of work, off the electrical grid, and the whole host of other issues plagueing (sp?) the country and the nation currently.
I personally think that there should be more infrastructure spending in the bill, and fewer tax cuts, because that puts people back to work and literally builds up the country. But standing in front of microphones when their philosophy has been SOUNDLY DISMISSED in the last two electoral cycles is whining and not helping anyone. Period.
It’s what their constituents elected them on. They sell this to their constituency, and therefore have the obligation to push it when working. I’d be pissed if I voted a guy in on one platform, only to watch him abandon it when he doesn’t have the power to push it through. I’m sure you would be too.
I just don’t see condoms, college scholarships, and renovating the computers at the state department doing the job. Unless a bunch of office employees getting laid off are going to know how to repair roads and renovate federal buildings, I don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.
We have a very obvious source of the economic crisis – the unavailability of credit. It’s costing people homes, companies can’t invest in their business, and America is having to go to China to finance our bailouts. I just don’t see anything in this stimulus package that addresses the issues with our credit markets.
I’m fortunate enough to still have my job, but not naive enough to expect it to be here forever. Our business has be seriously affected by the credit crisis and its only a matter of time before jobs become economically unsupportable.
Trust me. I don’t think these Republicans have the answers. I just want a stimulus package that works, and looking at the fine print of this package, I’m not confident that this is the one that will.
And that’s a legitimate conclusion, “looking at the fine print . . .” From the statements they’re making, though, I don’t get the sense that they’re reading the fine print. Just like Boehner told all the House Republicans to vote against it before he spoke with the President, and then they had a “victory” party afterwards, it sounds like stonewalling.
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