For both stimulus bills, enough to get them passed. It will be the same with HC. And the traitors? Yeah, all RINOS. But hey, they’re WAY better than Obama, right?
The GOP Establishment was able to bring the party together to opposed the Obama stimulus as a means of appeasing us and making us think they are all conservative.
Its happening now with the “healthcare” issue.
They hope to use the emotions we feel against it to make us think they are good because they oppose it.
On other issues, the Republicans play games.
Ten GOP Senators like Lamar Alexander voted on procedure to move a leftist judicial nominee to a final vote the other week.
Then there were 39 votes against the leftie in the final vote with Republicans looking like they opposed the Obama nominee while ten of them voted the other way in a procedural vote before the final one.
Heck, my own Republican congressman voted for some Jack Murtha defense pork (earmarks) so he could get some for his own district on the side.
The GOP insiders have a tradition of creating the “wedge” emotional issues to get our votes, then they go down and give us Medicare Part D and try to support amnesty for illegals.