Posted on 01/29/2009 9:24:01 AM PST by AJKauf
President Obama’s stimulus plan, we were told, was designed to jolt the economy, “save” or “create” jobs and garner bipartisan support. The bill which passed the House Wednesday by a 244-188 margin (attracting not a single Republican vote and losing eleven Democrats) does none of these things. Although the bill now goes to the Senate, the House vote is in a sense a stunning rebuke. As Minority Leader John Boehner said in a released statement: “This was a bipartisan rejection of a partisan bill.”
So what happened?...
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The only bi-partisan aspect was in the opposition to it.
Exactly. Wonderful statement.
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