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Don’t take the money.
That’s my advice to all of the GOP Congressmen who will now get funds for shovel ready projects in their home districts and home states thanks to President Obama’s stimulus program you voted against. Stick with your small government principles. Refuse to take the money for the projects that will be putting your constituents back to work. Tell Washington and the President, “Thanks, but no thanks. The principles that made me vote against those projects will not allow me to support the programs they are funding in my district/home state so we will be returning the money to the Treasury.”
What do you want to bet that this will not happen? I bet you the over-priced mortgage on my house that every creepy, loud-mouthed rightwinger who proclaimed the advent of socialism or big government giveaways in the days before the stimulus passed will take that money like a newborn takes to the tit. It is the hypocrisy of every NeoCon republican in Congress and the Senate as well as most of the republican governors who talked the talk about “tax cuts” but will take stimulus money with a smile and an open hand.
Not a peep from Rush Tub-a-lard or Bill-o about refusing the money. Nothing from the usually vocal House leadership of Boehner and Cantor. Silence. The screw is turning, though.
Funny (not really) how none of the House republicans voted for the stimulus but already some of them are back in their districts taking credit for the good works promised in the legislation. The same thing happened back in 1993 with Bill Clinton at the helm. He passed a stimulus bill with no republican help, they predicted doom and gloom, and then turned around and claimed credit for the 1990’s boom years. This time around they are issuing press releases gloating over the new projects funded by the stimulus while the leadership is crowing about shutting down the vote and unanimously voting against the package. They illegally co-opted Aerosmith to do it and were proud of it. They truly have no pride and even less sense.
Both the Senate shitheads from Texas voted against it, Cornball and Huckabuck as did the congressman who supposedly represents my district, Lameass Lamar. I hope we don’t see any of the stimulus money here in Texas because these three think we can pull out of this fiscal crisis on tax cuts alone and I want to see that for myself. I want to see unicorns, jackalopes, and huge piles of lottery money on my front porch, too, but something tells me I won’t see any of this happening anytime soon.
What’s truly amazing is that now they are crying about how there was no bipartisanship involved in this bill. What lying sacks of shit. They got tax cuts while infrastructure was tossed aside and they were even offered a seat at the table but swatted it aside for the sake of ideological purity and now have the nerve to state that the President did not act in a bipartisan manner. Fortunately, the public isn’t buying this lie and no one except their base and the hoptoads on the radio are repeating it.
For the last time: if you are a republican Congressjerk or Senator that voted against the bill, refuse the money. If you are a republican governor who didn’t want to support the stimulus, don’t allow any of the money to fund projects in your state. Please. Stick by those vaunted republican principles. If you do, there will be more money for the rest of the country that does want it. We’ll include you in on the next round (if needed) and you vote for it.
26. NeoCons are not interested in bipartisanship. To them, bipartisanship is when the Democrats cave in and accept the NeoCon position. It doesn’t work any other way.
President Obama needs to wake up. Listening to the NeoCon-run GOP and their failed ideas only wastes his valuable time. Bipartisanship cannot take place while republicans refuse to compromise, insist on the same old tired tactics, and then crow to the press that they won the battle of ideas. They lost the election and somehow think they won the war of ideas. Have you seen the shape the country is in?
Tonight at his press conference, President Obama was still trying to placate disaffected republicans and reach across the aisle. All it’s gotten him is three GOP votes in the Senate. Admittedly, those three votes helped push the Democrats past a 60 vote total so they could vote on the stimulus package. I may be wrong here but I predict those votes will dry up once Al Franken is seated as Minnesota’s senator and there are 60 votes on the Democratic side. Then obstructionist republicans can appeal to their base by continuing to block the progress of legislation knowing how short the public’s memory is about these kinds of things.
Given that the majority of republican congress-slugs are hardcore NeoCons, they have nothing to lose by standing up to the President. It merely solidifies their base’s attitude and gives them a concrete sense of pride in having done so. History teaches NeoCons nothing. They are always right even when they are wrong. Back when Bill Clinton was trying to pass the Deficit Reduction Plan (the plan that solidified the eight years of positive growth the Clinton years are famous for) it passed Congress without one GOP vote. They were proud of that accomplishment for years and even won Congress back from the Democrats by running on that platform. Ignoring the effects of Clinton’s plan was SOP for the GOP and, from the looks of things, nothing has changed in the NeoCon/republican mindset.
They new Chairman of the RNC even praised the “beautiful goose egg” that the current bunch of clueless House republicans dumped on the President’s plan completely ignoring the fact that they had no real counter-response to the President’s Stimulus plan except that tired old “more tax cuts” mantra. If we followed their plan, taxes would soon be cut to the point that there won’t be enough money coming into the government to run anything. That is the REAL republican goal: starve the government of tax money so every social program gets eliminated and private sector companies can step in to take over. Again, history is not a strong republican subject because we tried that 100 years ago under republican presidents and it was a complete failure then. (See: The Guilded Age.) Nothing changes with these people.
My favorite Texas Senator, John Cornyn, spent the last two weeks getting all kinds of publicity bashing the Stimulus plan but when it came down to putting up or shutting up Senator Cornball was nowhere to be found. Even Senator Kennedy dragged his ailing body to the Senate chambers to vote on the plan but where was Loudmouth Cornball? Off in NYC for a meeting with rightwing media slimeballs and Wall Street money people, that’s where. That should tell you his real priorities and sum up the republican agenda in three cogent points:
1) Make as much media noise as possible but have no authentic counter proposals.
2) Congratulate each other on sticking together as the ship of state is sinking.
3) Chasing after re-election money is more important than doing the people’s business.
President Obama should make republicans earn any future concessions by offering up votes in exchange for a seat at the negotiating table. Giving them parts of the program free of charge just plays to their misguided sense of entitlement and gets you nothing in the end. Bipartisanship, my ass. Time to play hardball. The country’s future is at stake.
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