Posted on 02/04/2009 6:05:13 AM PST by andrew roman
Today's Washington Post headline may say that Democrats don't have the votes to pass the Obama "stimulus" package as it is currently written, but what does that really mean? That instead of a $900 billion monstrosity, it'll be worked and re-worked so that it is transformed into a lean mean $800 billion nightmare?
The bottom line is - Republicans tick me off. And it's catching.
If this were a petition to that effect, there'd also be a ton of enraged environmentalists, because a whole lot of trees would lose their lives to create the parchment needed to accommodate the signatures.
Republicans have been remarkably consistent at incompetence and vacillation in recent times - impressively steady in how they have continued to disappoint the conservative base, almost effortlessly. Dating back at least to the less-than-inspiring presidential campaign season, complete with a less-than-motivating squishy-in-the-middle candidate, the GOP has stirred more stomach acid than emotion.
Admittedly, for a brief shining stitch in time last week, Republicans didn't aggravate me so much, voting in unanimity against the Obama craptacular spending bonanza in the House of Representatives.
Conservatism had a pulse.
And then, as quick as it arrived, it became faint and irregular again.
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The socialists in the Democratic party create a bill demanding more than they need or expect to receive with the throw it at the wall and see what sticks approach. The Dems socialist comrades in the Republican party then do the same old tired reach out across the aisle in the name of bipartisanship approach. The Dems then pretend to relent and show a disingenuous willingness to compromise when in fact they have received most if not all what they wanted in the bill and sacrificed nothing.
And in this case, ours.
FoxNews is reporting this morning that the current total of the Bill is up to $905 Billion.
Porkers are padding all they can in to this monstrosity.
I changed "parchment" to "paper" when it was pointed out by a blogger at Free Republic.com called Durus that paper comes from trees. Parchment is obviously created from animal skin. Before publishing this post, I had written that representatives from PETA would be outraged because of the goats that would have to be sacrificed to create the parchment. I eventually replaced goats with trees, PETA with environmentalists, but left parchment in place. Thanks much.If this were a petition to that effect, there'd also be a ton of enraged environmentalists, because a whole lot of trees would lose their lives to create the parchment needed to accommodate the signatures.
great analysis. well written.
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