Good letter, makes the point clearly.
Specter will most certainly ignore it, since he is so self convinced of his perfection but it might affect the other two. Here’s hoping.
Even if those “cuts” stay out of the Porkulus bill, one dem senator said they would just put it back into the omnibus bill that would come later this year!
The real question is ‘what is good for America’. The bad effects of the Porkubus needs to be weighed against the even bigger bad of continued rule by Obama and the Democrats.
It’s a tough call, but I come out that job one is getting Obama out of there at the earliest opportunity.
The problem with the Republicans standing firm on this issue is that the media will immediately rev-up all the cliches. It will be pointed out that Big Banks and Wall Street Fat Cats got theirs, courtesy of the GOP, but that the crippled children waiting for cold soup are now going to bed hungry, due to ‘Republican greed’.
Further, and even more devastating it will make the very serious economic problems we have “the Republicans fault”, at just the point that it is slowly dawning on people that the people in charge are the Dems and they seem frantic, confused, corrupt and unprepared.
Given all this I have long thought the the truly best response of the GOP is the EXACTLY the one we are getting. The House unanimously votes against the Porkubus. The Senate passes it, with all Dems for it and almost all Reps against it. PERFECT.
As a result: Obama owns the deficit, Obama owns the increase in US Debt, Obama owns all the fatty lard attatched to the bill, Obama owns all the corruption, and most importantly: OBAMA OWNS THE RECESSION!
His congress has given his $1 TRILLION to fix the recesssion. We have been explicitly promised MILLIONS OF NEW JOBS.
The fact is we conservatives know that the government can’t make real jobs, govt. jobs in many cases are just another tax sink hole. The Stimulus is unlikely to stimulate enough to actually end the recession, and may make it worse.
This is a story that will pay dividends for years. While it is difficult to over-emphasize the real suffering and harm that the Porkubus will do, I still take solace in the fact that the end result of this vote is transferring total, visible responsibility for the entire financial and economic malise clearly onto the weak and puny shoulders of Barack Hussein Obama.
You gotta like that, folks! So, cheer up. We win either way. (I’ve already forgiven the three turncoats for this, given the above analysis. I think they are doing the GOP’s work here, if not America’s. Still without a strong GOP & Conservative movement there is no hope for America except to become France 2.0)