Posted on 01/28/2009 5:05:03 PM PST by Michael Eden
In public - and eagerly devoured by an Obama-worshiping press - Barack Obama and his team of advisers have framed the process of crafting a stimulus package as one that will be inclusive and bipartisan in nature.
But in private - and now happily increasingly in public as well - Democrats are telling Republicans where they can stick their objections to Democrats acting like money grows on trees and that the government can dig the economy out of a hole by digging deeper and faster.
Obama had the pretension of talking about his plan passing with 80 votes in the Senate. How about 178 forks in your eye instead? Obama talked about going through the budget "line by line" to cut out waste, but can't even do that with his own spending initiative.
The Republicans may actually grow a spine as Democrats shut them out of a room so they can craft a bill featuring little actual stimulus but massive spending to fund projects that Democrats have always wanted.
"There was no Republican input at all involved in what House Democrats outlined today," Boehner, R-Ohio, said at a news conference at the Capitol. "I just took a moment to look over the draft from Chairman [David] Obey and the draft or outline from Chairman [Charlie] Rangel. Oh, my God.Boehner also said:"I just can't tell you how shocked I am at what we're seeing. You know, it's clear that they're moving on this path along the flawed notion that we can borrow and spend our way back to prosperity."
“We expressed our concerns about some of the spending that’s being proposed in the House bill,” House Minority Leader John Boehner said after meeting with Obama.And would that the hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives was the only issue. This spending bill (i.e. NOT a "stimulus" package) features $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts so they can finance more insults to Jesus displayed in jars of urine. It features $400 million to throw away on "climate change" research. But the "mother of all pork" is the $4.19 BILLION that will go to Obama front group ACORN. This package is more about instilling old socialist-welfare packages than it is about stimulating the economy.“How can you spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives?” Boehner asked. “How does that stimulate the economy?”
"Stimulus"? The Congressional Budget Office has said that at least 25% of the Obama bailout would not even be spent before 2011. GOP Whip Eric Cantor has compiled a sizable list of media sources reporting just that fact. That won't help our economy when we need it - which is RIGHT NOW. And only about 12% of the spending can even be construed as "stimulus." The Wall Street Journal rightly states that the massive socialist pork package has nothing to do with the economy.
Nancy Pelosi expressed the bi-partisan spirit of Democrats:
"Yes, we wrote the bill. Yes, we won the election," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters yesterday, saying Republicans were not being realistic in their expectations.Meanwhile, Pelosi all but predicts that the $825 billion figure is going to continue to balloon higher:
Pelosi suggested that the package, currently at $825 billion, could become even larger.Barack Obama put his feelings about bi-partisanship this way:“It has grown,” Pelosi said, “and we’re still in the process.”
"I won," Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation.Obama met with Republicans to tell them all how wonderful he was, assuring them how open he was to bipartisan compromise. Nice gesture undermined by its sheer showy meaninglessness. Obama talked about compromise, but the bill stayed the same hard-core partisan waste of money.
To those of you who believe that Obama was the king of the fairies, and that happiness and fluttering butterflies would follow him wherever he went, he is already presiding over the same-old, same-old:
The GOP's shrunken numbers, particularly in the Senate, will make it difficult for Republicans to stop the stimulus bill, but the growing GOP doubts mean that Obama's first major initiative could be passed on a largely party-line vote -- little different from the past 16 years of partisan sniping in the Clinton and Bush eras.To their credit, not a single Republican supported the Obama bailout and social spending package. All 178 Republicans in the House of Representatives turned it down. But Nancy has her vote. American wanted Demcorats to run the country, and how they get to see what that will mean for them. As of right now (there's time for it to mushroom even more yet), it means an additional $350 billion in interest payments over the next ten years. CNN reports that the plan with interest will be $1.2 trillion.
Why does Barack Obama want "bipartisan support"? If this massive spending program would really "stimulate" an economic turnaround, why would he even want Republicans horning in on his credit? Why not pass it, and crush the Republicans for good for failing to support this wonderful legislation? Because he wants cover, that's why. When this mother of all pork fiascos fails, he doesn't want Democrats absorbing all the blame for it.
Personally, I feel this way: let the Democrats ram it through on a highly partisan and ideologically-driven vote. Let them pile it as high as they can with all the lavish pork their greedy little brains can imagine. Let them imperiously shove all kinds of liberal socialist spending onto the country. And let Republicans stand against it, vote against it, predict it will fail horribly, and then hang it around Democrats' necks like a giant, dead, rotting albatross in the coming months and years ahead.
Democrats don't need Republicans to transform our market based economy into a socialist government-run economy. Fine. Just as long as they don't have the naked chutzpah to even ask for it, much less expect it.
Don't ask us for a kiss while you're trying to rape us, Democrats. Expect to get your eyes gouged out, your nose broken, and as much other damage as we can possibly do to you.
If they don't, then any failure in the legislation will be attributed to that part that involved Republican input.
Something similar happened with changes made to regulations concerning California's power industry.
Something similar happened, too, with lending for homes.
No. Democrats have complete control and the public needs to be reminded every day.
Well, this is a good start. Now all we need is for the Senate Republicans to filibuster.
Credit where credit is due. No republican votes for socialism this time. Oohrah!
If only the RINOs in congress weren't in such a hurry to bend over.
The Republicans are only upset because the Left locked them out of all the pork for their home districts, and that’s all there ever is or was to this.
I am PROUD of our Republicans for ALL saying NO!!!!! (and of the 11 Dems that said NO too!)
Fillibuster tomorrow!
I hope every single Republican votes NO in the Senate.
Even if these retards pass it, at least the Repubs can say they wash their hands of it!
...And any Repub that votes for it deserves to lose his/her seat!
How long before states like Oklahoma and Utah who were 60% against Obama decide they’re not paying for this anymore and talk about succession?
Never happen. There will be no civil war, nor any Second Revolution, or any other such nonsense.
Because The Sheep love The One (piss be upon him), and conservatives will never rise up.
They better grow more than a spine. It is high time for these RNC bozos to get their head out, and get down and dirty, say like blowing the lid off this BC issue, and several others, P U B L I C L Y. Hit the street running fast and furious. Put Obama in his place, which is out on the street.
Yep yep and yep. The press isn't going to do this. Every failure is going to be the failure of "congress". Every victory is going to a Democrat congress victory. Republicans need to keep reminding the public that they're not voting for liberal democrat policies.
It’s getting close. The problem is leadership. Name a politician you would fight and possibly die for? Sarah maybe?
Your where I’m at, nbhunt.
I say “Do unto Obama as liberals did unto Bush.” Wrote an article with that title (I think I put it on Free Republic, too).
http://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/do-unto-obama-as-liberals-did-unto-bush/
When a fight gets mean, you’ve got to get mean if you’re going to win. And when you’re already on your back - like the Republicans are - you’ve got to get REAL mean.
Democrats keep talking about “bipartisanship” while they ram one hardcore partisan rule change or legislation through after another. Obama claims he’s above “partisan issues” like abortion even as he rams home the hard-core liberal agenda.
We’ve got to wake up every single day determined to expose these people as the lying, fool hypocrites they are.
Republicans should keep reminding everyone that Democrats are in complete control.
If they don’t, then any failure in the legislation will be attributed to that part that involved Republican input.
You’re completely correct. Democrats were in charge of this country for two years while everything went to hell. And 57.4% of Obama voters were so damned ignorant they didn’t even know that.
Republicans need to show their opposition, loudly explain why they are opposed, predict what a disaster the Democrat’s agenda will be, and SCREAM at the top of their lungs when things don’t go right. And they need to do it on a daily basis.
I hope every single Republican votes NO in the Senate.
I hope so, too. But it almost certainly won’t happen. There are enough Olympia Snow types who clearly aren’t out for any kind of Republican ideas or agenda.
“HomeschoolMomma,” huh? As far as I’m concerned, if you’re homeschooling your kids and protecting them from government brainwashing facilities, you’re “HERO Mama.” Keep up the good work.
Credit where credit is due. No republican votes for socialism this time. Oohrah!
And a pleased oorah! to you!
Republicans need to show Democrats that sitting on top of the wall in control of everything makes them great candidates for the Humpty Dumpty fall. Let’s keep pushing them while they’re wobbling up there.
I'll guarantee these RINOs vote yes:
Voinovich
Snowe
Graham
Hatch
Specter
And possibly McCain.
Never
During the last two years we had a Republican President who exhibited great reluctance to use his veto power to check the Democrat Congress. He also was also unable to locate his veto pin during the 6 years he enjoyed a Republican majority. Unlike the current occupant of the White House, he was unable to locate the bully pulpit.
I voted for GWB twice and against BHO. GWB had 8 years and BHO has been in office a little over a week. The mess we are took years to develop and 8 of those years were under a Republican administration that called itself conservative while spending like there was no tomorrow. Whatever we want to believe about what will happen under BHO with a large Democrat majority, we were deep in disaster on inauguration day. As Truman said, “The buck stops here.” This crisis began on GWB’s watch I for one hold him largely responsible. Had he shown some spine the last two years and used his veto pen and the bully pulpit I would believe differently. Unfortunately, he showed no ability to fight after the Republicans lost the majority in Congress. You score no points if you don’t even try.
Does anyone know if this is true.....and who it was?
I've posted on several threads trying to get an answer, but no luck.
Leni
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