Posted on 02/05/2009 11:46:54 AM PST by rabscuttle385
President Obama talks about seeking bipartisan accord ... and he reaches out to GOP senators ... but how many Republicans are even open to the need for fixing the economy through government spending?
As The Washington Independent's Dave Weigel points out, that question seems to have been answered in a Senate vote last night. When Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) offered an alternative stimulus plan that would replace all government spending in the stimulus with a series of tax cuts, 36 Republican senators voted for it.
To emphasize the point, that means all but four GOPers were perfectly happy with scrapping the core assumption of the president's plan. Here, then, are the four Republican senators whom Obama has the best shot at working with: Susan Collins (ME), George Voinovich (OH), Arlen Specter (PA), and Olympia Snowe (ME).
Republicans don’t have a say now thanks to RINOs voting with their brothers on the left.
Depending on how they do it, it may not be all that bad. Remember the old saying...”Keep your friends close and your enemys closer”. It seems it is more important today than ever.
Side note. Did you read that TRICARE fees are going up 100-400%? I read on another thread that it is in the Porkulus bill, but I haven’t beeb able to verify that.
My Army Echos newsletter said that the freeze on Tricare prices rising was renewed in a bill recently and it would remain till Sept 30, 2009. So for at least a few more months there is no raise. Yep, we will have our rates jump by about $72 a month I think it is. If what they rumored the raise would be is the actual number. If it is more, then of course the additional will rise more than $72.
$1,000 ayear? My $13 a week just got shot all to hell.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.