Posted on 02/02/2009 8:28:56 PM PST by jazusamo
A brief glimmer of sanity among Congressional Republicans has been followed, almost immediately, by a return to the more traditional Washington insanity.
Last week, every single Republican in the House of Representatives voted against the Obama administration's "stimulus" package — which had stimulated an orgy of runaway spending by Congressional Democrats on everything from sports arenas to sexually transmitted diseases.
This was a rare smart move by the Republicans. If the Republicans had gone along, pursuing the will o' the wisp of "bipartisanship," then if the stimulus had by some miracle succeeded, it would have been a bill for which Democrats would claim credit at the next election.
On the other hand, if the stimulus failed — which seems far more likely — then it would be called a "bipartisan" bill, meaning that the Democrats would pay no price at the next election for a colossal failure.
Since President Bush started the "stimulus package" game, this was also an opportunity for Congressional Republicans to cut themselves loose from the political baggage of the Bush administration's unpopularity.
Within 24 hours, however, Republicans in the Senate came out with a plan to have the government fix mortgage interest rates at four percent — and use taxpayers' money to cover the losses that lenders would otherwise sustain.
It is painfully obvious that government intervention in the housing markets over the past several years has been at the heart of the boom and bust that has led to a huge economic downturn.
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Sowell nails it again.
Dr. Sowell.
Your piece should be required reading among Senate Republicans and alleged Republicans (such as Lindsey Graham.)
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Since President Bush started the “stimulus package” game, this was also an opportunity for Congressional Republicans to cut themselves loose from the political baggage of the Bush administration’s unpopularity.
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I don’t understand why “Republicans” went along with the Bush spending spree for 8 years.
Is the Republican congress responsible for their drunken sailor spending?
Why have they grown a spine now?
Don’t they have kids that will live here in 40 years?
Senator Treason and Congressman Hairdo have sold us out.
It absolutely should! It might encourage them to grow a little spine.
Thanks for the ping jaz.
Another great article from Dr. Sowell.
Like Dr. Sowell said it was only “a brief glimmer of sanity,” they’ll have to do better.
1. It’s not a question of “if this porkulus bill will fail”, not even “when this porkulus bill will fail”, but how the MSM can spin it. It doesn’t have a chance of actually doing anything. That’s irrelevant.
2. Sowell is right as usual, stay away from this thing. When the sheeple still don’t have a job after the Gubmint spent billions on global warming research and STDs and electronic medical records and road construction and stop smoking programs....they will vote the clowns out of office in 2010.
The truth shall set them free.
You’re right, I don’t believe it has a chance of success. Repubs stay away!
Sowell gets it. Do the RINOs look at someone like Sowell as he enemy? Seriously, if you asked a RINO who the most influential Republican president was, they’d say Reagan most likely, yet they strive to be NOTHING like Reagan. I have to wonder if Sowell ran for office if the Republicans would throw him under the bus?
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Thomas Sowell Ph.D, one of America’s great thinkers, I wish we had millions more like him.
I agree, he has some thought-provoking articles.
I have always loved Mr. Sowell. He embodies everything great about rugged individualism and constant desire for enlightenment.
You can say that again!!!
I wish it was Dr Sowell in the white house.
bump
Republican leaders(if you can call them that)are our enemy.
BTTT!
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