And passed with the votes of a whole slew of Pubbies.
(“Pubbies can’t criticize Obamanation’s wasteful spending “)YES, WE CAN!
Forgive my parlance. By "Pubbies", I'm not referring to you, I, or anyone else out here in fly-over country. To me, a "Pubbie" is a lilly-livered, liberal Republican elected official, such as the ones who voted to pass Bush's bailout and now fidget nervously whenever the time comes to criticize Obamanation's (non) stimulus bill, because they know their hands are dirty.
I don't know...are you a lilly-livered, liberal Republican elected official? I don't think so, but they and their staffers have been known to haunt this forum.
"ZERO GOP votes for Obama’s faux massive spending ‘stimulus’ and ZERO GOP votes for the massive $3.5 billion."
Well, better late than never, I guess. But I would've loved to have seen their principled stand against runaway spending five years ago, when Bush was spending like a drunk Cav Scout on a 3-day pass. Or last October, when the foundation was being laid for the house of sand our economy's become.
"The october vote did not have a clause that said they were wedded to any and all bailouts going forward."
As if that ever stopped any 'Rat looking for an excuse to spend, spend, spend! It's called a precedent, and last October, the bailout bill set the precedent for the continuing bailouts and (non) stimulus plans, as well as the nation-killing budget that just passed. Where was the principled stand by the GOP in October? The Pubbies in Congress didn't dare vote against the Pubbie-in-Chief, but now that it's a 'Rat in the White House, boy, they're just tripping all over themselves to find a microphone, so they can talk about how they voted against Obamanation's continuation of the crap Bush got the ball rolling on!
We expect the 'Rats to pull this crap...they're the enemy, and they're fighting us using tactics that have been very effective for them in the past. But when our own people stab us in the back, it's far worse...it's treason.
Flippin' cowards...every damn scumbag Pubbie who voted for the bailout last October deserves to be tarred and feathered. Too bad it's not legal.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
“To me, a “Pubbie” is a lilly-livered, liberal Republican elected official”
Which in my book is a distinct minority of elected Republicans.
Only about 60 GOP Reps in the House voted for the original bailout, most of them getting arms twisted by Bush admin. Do yo not forget that the first House vote FAILED BECAUSE THE GOP REPS REVOLTED AND DIDNT GO ALONG???
“I don’t know...are you a lilly-livered, liberal Republican elected official? I don’t think so, but they and their staffers have been known to haunt this forum.”
I am a conservative who thinks we waste our time self-flaggelating the GOP when we are now in an era where the DEMOCRATS WILL PASS ON A STRICT PARTY-LINE VOTE THE LARGEST BUDGET INCREASE IN AMERICAN HISTORY and do much other things that are evil, nefarious, and anti-prosperity. The GOP leaders are doing the best they can in a bad situation and it’s not helpful to feed into the liberal/Obama-supportive narrative of how bad bad bad the GOP is or was.
“I would’ve loved to have seen their principled stand against runaway spending five years ago”
I would have love to have NOT seen the creeping socialization of medicine happen - but it is: The S-CHIP expansion that Pelosi Congress demagogued for years, then passed and got vetoed by Bush, then passed again in January and get signed by Obama ... has now become law. ANother $60 BILLION / year in welfare-state expansion and a “downpayment on nationalized healthcare” as Waxman put it.
Every step of the way was paved by Democrats.
“The Pubbies in Congress didn’t dare vote against the Pubbie-in-Chief” WRONG! In the House, the majority of Republicans voted AGAINST the bailout.
“Obamanation’s continuation of the crap Bush “ WRONG! Obama isn’t merely continuing Bush policies - he is expanding, adding and moving far far far beyond the orbit of what Bush did. Nationalizing firms. a $1 TRILLION bailout on top of $700 b. Billions more and control of auto firms, which Bush did not want. $1 TRILLION in stimulus which is a huge waste. To call Obama a ‘continuation’ is simply wrong.
“We expect the ‘Rats to pull this crap...they’re the enemy, and they’re fighting us using tactics that have been very effective for them in the past. But when our own people stab us in the back, it’s far worse...it’s treason.”
- I dont cotton to double-standards that say its worse for a Republican to make a vote than a Democrat to make that same vote, just becaue Democrats are open about anti-prosperity policies doesnt make it any better, nor do I think it is helpful to dwell on past mistakes or use it to give the Democrats an out over the current jobs-destroying economic policies of Obama-Reid-Pelosi.
Here you are saying that pro-bailout Republicans deserve to be tarred and feathered ... . um ... The Democrats were in the majority last October - THEY made the bailout happen, and pro-bailout Obama was right there supporting it. The bailout is not the worst of the bills anyway - the future socialization of auto industry, financial sector, power sector (cap-and-trade), massive tax hikes, and bankruptcy of the Federal treasury are ... the bailout is a drop in the ocean of $16 TRILLION in spending in Obama’s first term!!!
So if you are going to tar and feather, be an equal-opportunity rabble-rouser and get the tax-and-spend-and-borrow-and-regulate-and-welfarize Democrats, right up to Pelosi and Obama, lined up to. Because they were and are FAR MORE INSTRUMENTAL in making the bailouts without end happen than any GOP House member.