Posted on 01/24/2009 7:19:29 AM PST by yoe
President Barack Obama and congressional leaders are struggling to maintain an atmosphere of bipartisanship as the House moves toward a critical first vote next week on an $825 billion economic-stimulus plan that has Republicans increasingly nervous.
At a White House meeting Friday, the president and congressional leaders from both parties hashed over the plan, with Mr. Obama showing he wasn't afraid to flex his muscles in an ideological debate. Challenged by one Republican senator about why Congress should accept a certain piece of the package, participants said the new president replied simply, "I won."
[snip] It came after Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R., Ariz.) challenged the president and Democratic leaders on the balance between spending and tax cuts. He raised the traditional Republican position that a tax credit for people who don't earn enough to pay income taxes isn't a tax cut but a government handout.
Mr. Obama contested that notion, saying such workers pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, property taxes and sales taxes. The issue was widely debated during the presidential campaign, when Republican nominee John McCain challenged Mr. Obama's tax plan as "welfare."
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"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." --James Madison
Why should Republicans be nervous? Just vote against the nonsense. It didn't work last time. Why do they think it will work this time?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
bipartisanship to a liberal democrat is when republicans and other non-liberal democrats bend to the liberal democrat agenda.
poisonous partisanship is when republicans work to put their agenda into effect.
(as mr. stalin said, any number of opposition political parties may co-exist with socialism as long as those parties are in jail. this is the ambition of the liberal democrat party in the u.s.; if one looks up the definition of scu&bag in the dictionary, the words ‘democrat congress’ will be seen.)
IMHO
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“Bipartisanship” translates into sharing the blame if it fails [and it will] and the Dems getting the credit if it succeeds. The Dems have overwhelming majorities in both houses of Congress. They don’t need Reps to pass this stimulus package.
I love Kyl. I hope he continues to rally opposition. If Obama’s only logical retort is “I won”, the Republicans just have to oppose him and be very clear why they are. In 2010, things will change when his plan predictably fails. It’s going to be at least a couple of bad years for America, and the job of Republicans is to limit the damage to give this Republic a chance.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
If the GOP decides to get some stones, the message is simple. This bill is nothing but the fulfillment of a trillion dollars of liberal spending. Nothing new, nothing to help the economy. It gives tax cuts to those that do not pay taxes. That is welfare on the backs of other tax payers who are already struggling. Expanding the deficit and debt is counter productive. It is more of the same. We vote against it. The only solution is lowering tax burden, shrinking government and freeing the economy to rebuild and expand.
I bet we won’t hear anything close to this from more than a few.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
How unpatriotic you are!!! LOL!
I plan on having fun over these next four years, as I turn the tables on the Democrats.
For example: "Let me see if I have your position correct. You want Rush Limbaugh removed from the public airwaves for simply voicing that he wants Obama's agenda to fail. Yet you were forcefully crying out just a few months ago that "Dissent is Patriotic" when Bush was President. So which is correct: Dissent is Patriotic, or Dissent is Unpatriotic?"
“I want gridlock.”
music to the ears.
the time to be poisonously partisan is upon us. to the phones i go.
IMHO
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
True enough, but once implemented, it will be very diffficult to unring a bell. SS and Medicare are prime examples of how once something is institutionalized and bureaucratized, it is virtually impossible to get rid of.
This is NOT a Stimulus Bill It IS REPARATIONS ! Billions for ACORN ?! Lets get Real This is Reparations disguised as stimulus
The central claim of postmodernism is that reality is whatever you say it is, and if you want to change reality, start by changing the meaning of words.
Orwell understood that early, in what he described as duckspeak.
So, “freedom to choose” means that parents no longer have the right to prevent statutory rapists from taking their young daughters to abortion clinics without their knowledge or permission. It means that doctors no longer have the right to refused to perform abortions. It means that babies have no right to live.
“Family planning” means killing off your family. “Reproductive rights” means teaching people not to reproduce.
And “bipartisanship” means Obama/Reid/Pelosi’s way or the highway. Aren’t we lucky that Juan McCain has promised to help lead this biparisan effort?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
LLS
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