Posted on 02/07/2009 7:34:23 AM PST by Michael Eden
Three Republican Senators made the Republican Party irrelevant until at least 2010. Their names are Susan Collins and Olympia Snow (both from Maine), Arlen Specter (of Pennsylvania).
After being nearly entirely excluded from the process of drafting the legislation for the Obama American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (or Generational Theft Act, or European Socialist Act, or whatever you want to call it - just don't call it "stimulus"), House Republicans finally showed their backbone by unanimously opposing the bloated fiasco. And all but three Senate Republicans joined their House colleagues by standing firmly against a bad Democrat plan.
Only 37% of Americans actually supported the terribly flawed plan, and support was declining daily.
I took part in a US News & World Report survey. Here are the results as of today:
Do you think the stimulus bill should focus more on tax cuts or more on spending?In other words, an overwhelming majority of Americans favored the Republican approach.1. 23.69% I think it should focus more on spending
2. 23.47% I think it should focus equally on spending and tax cuts
3. 52.84% I think it should focus more on tax cuts
Democrats are thanking their various deities or lack thereof for the three invertebrate Republican Senators. I don't doubt that Democrats will trumpet this as a "bipartisan compromise." What else should you call it when 3 out of about 218 Republicans votes for a hard-core partisan Democrat bill?
It is sad enough that this plan - which WILL hurt the economy badly over the long run - will pass.
But this betrayal - or display of spinelessness - from Susan Collins, Olympia Snow, and Arlen Specter, has long-term consequences that mean that this tragic socialistic undermining of the capitalist system that made this nation an economic superpower is only the beginning.
In the House, 178 Republicans stood up and said, "HELL NO!" And they were joined by something like 36 Republican Senators. A solid front, to be sure.
But three turncoat RINO-Republican Senators are all it takes to tear the throat out of any Republican opposition to any bill.
Today's vote is a demonstration of the fact that Republicans have no influence whatsoever in our government. Come what may, Republicans are totally irrelevant until at least the 2010 election.
The American people voted for complete Democratic domination. They are going to receive complete Democratic domination. And they are going to pay the bitter consequences for complete Democratic domination.
Democrats own everything now. And the only thing Republicans can do is keep reminding the American people of that fact until they turn on the Democratic Party the way they turned on the Republicans in November.
The ultimate political accountability is elections.
People get the government they deserve.
Yep.
I used to pray, “Lord, please don’t give us the leaders we deserve.”
But that’s just what we’ve gotten now.
And now we deserve to suffer for our choices.
Accountability is great until you screw up and it bites you.
I totally agree with you.
The only thing liberals lack at the moment is the power to do it. But I routinely hear liberals making claims that conservatives should be marginalized and, yes, even “reeducated” or locked up.
They want to. And the moment they can do it, they will.
Look at what atheists are saying about Christians. We’re not just insane, we’re evil. And we’re “indoctrinating” our children (cause we don’t abort ours, you know) and ruining the planet. Something must be done.
Right outa the Book of Revelation and the Antichrist.
What was it that Maxine Waters said about the Oil Industry?
If you don’t stop what you’re doing we will Sociali, uh, hum, we’ll have to nationalize the Oil Industry.
Doc,
Interesting tidbit to remember. You know, I’m actually old enough to REMEMBER way back in August of ought seven when Maxine Waters said that. Boy, it was really scandalous back in them days!
Now, of course, statements like that are quite the yawner, now that we’ve pretty much socialized the whole damn economy.
Pretty amazing how low we’ve sunk, aint it?
all three sold out for 30 pieces of pork.
I agree with you on one level, and disagree on another.
I didn’t vote for these clowns or their policies. And you won’t find me among the supporters of any of the earlier massive government “stimulus” spending under Bush. It isn’t my fault.
But America as a country voted for these rat bastards. And as long as I live here, I - and you - are going to share in the misery. In other words, it’s not like the sun will shine in Republicans’ yards and it will hail on Democrats’ yards.
In that sense, “we” are responsible for this. “We” as a country voted for these awful leaders, and now America is going to pay horribly for it.
It can also be said that there were more democrats that voted against the measure than there were republicans that voted for it.
Good point.
The “bipartisan” vote was against the bill, not for it.
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