Republicans turned off by size of Obama's package

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By Tom Brandt / Opinions Editor
Friday, January 30, 2009
Republicans are not sparing the rod when it comes to beating up on President Obama’s economic stimulus package, but it’s clear they are unable to raise their membership to withstand the newly found vigor of his congressional muscle.

President Obama’s massive $819 billion spending-and-tax-cut package was rammed through the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday without the support of a single Republican member. Even with 11 Democratic representatives opposing the bill, the 244-to-188 count reflected the bulging Democratic majority that has now swollen the House.

Ever since the Republican fantasy of endless majorities began collapsing beneath a disgusting load of GOP lies and incompetence in 2006, Republicans have quickly come to realize they can look probably forward to many legislative defeats like Wednesday’s ahead.

For six long years, America gave the Republicans all the rope they wanted – and sure enough – now they have hung themselves.

While the lopsided tally of Wednesday’s House vote surely must have been hard on GOP members, President Obama was not about to stick it to Republicans, as he graciously invited Congressional leaders of both parties to the White House that evening for cocktails.

“He said he wanted action, bold and swift,” pointed out Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, according to the New York Times, as debate began Wednesday morning on Obama’s gigantic package, “and that is exactly what we we’re doing today.”

As debate over the dimensions of Obama’s package snaked through the House, the blame game over who bore responsibility for America’s current economic pickle grew predictably partisan.

According to the Times account, Rep. Virginia Foxx, Republican of North Carolina, raised the familiar argument that GOP tax cuts in 2001 had stimulated years of job growth. The firmness of the U.S. economy had only flagged, Rep. Foxx complained, once Democrats fastened their grip on Congress in 2006.

These comments obviously pricked the ears of Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, who noodled his GOP opponents by pointing out it was their member’s dysfunction that savaged America with “the economics that got us into this mess.”

Although conservative commentators like Fox News’s Glenn Beck have hammered the president’s stimulus package as somehow “socialistic,” arguing in his January 26th column that America should “call a spade a spade,” most observers view the Obama plan as much more likely to stimulate America’s flaccid free-market system than Bush and Paulson’s bailouts for the big banks – which shafted the country’s real working stiffs.

The meat of the Obama package consists of billions for the states, and programs to help families overcome the hardships brought on by six years of Republicans jimmying with government regulation and jacking up corporate welfare.

In the end, witnessing the Obama stimulus package being massaged by Congress is much like watching any government sausage being made; it’s not for the faint of heart. But this package is probably the best tool available to stimulate America’s soft economy – and in that, we can all take some satisfaction.

The Obama package may not be the best piece of stimulative legislation ever to enter the Oval Office, but it represents the best job harried congressional members are likely to come up with. And it certainly beats any package Bush ever raised.

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Sounds like you already have knowledge of what his package is like...why dont you tell us instead.

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The words were inserted into very appropriate slots in the article

Postes r made from an iPad or iPhone. Spelling and gramhair mistakes guaranteed move along,

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Sounds like you already have knowledge of what his package is like...why dont you tell us instead.

It really does scare you doesn't it......

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Kinda like when you sent me a message last night and ran away from me by blocking all incoming messages before I could send a reply.....you afraid?

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...and he can jump, too.

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Kinda like when you sent me a message last night and ran away from me by blocking all incoming messages before I could send a reply.....you afraid?

No tired of the incessant whining

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Well if you weren't afraid of hearing what I have to say then I would think you would welcome a debate and be able to back up what you say.

But sending a message...then blocking me directly afterwards before allowing me to retort..

is nothing but running away with your tail between your legs...

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...and he can jump, too.

Maybe there is a reason why white men can not jump. We lack the spring loaded 3rd leg.

Back in the late 1980s I was playing in some college caliber full contact summer hockey in Canada and one of the blokes on the team was a brother. Well let me tell you this fellow was mighty proud of his package and he was not afraid to show it off in the locker room. And what could we say? Our brother had a larger package than any one of us white folk.

Not sure if he played basketball where he could put his 3rd leg to good use, but he was a mighty fine hockey player. Not good enough for the NHL (we did have one NHLer playing with us that summer and he was the complete package). But nevertheless the brother was blessed with great hockey skills and a package that rivals Obama's HC package.

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

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You just gotta love it... CLASSIC

"classic" is the correct word. This is a column for Jan of 2009, just weeks into his Presidency.

I guess his package shrunk over the winter due to cold, and then regained some girth with the warmth in March.

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Well if you weren't afraid of hearing what I have to say then I would think you would welcome a debate and be able to back up what you say.

But sending a message...then blocking me directly afterwards before allowing me to retort..

is nothing but running away with your tail between your legs...

Who the fuck wants to listen to your retort

As I said in the PRIVATE message.. I am not laughing with you.. I am laughing AT you

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I've already been briefed about you from some others. Your name says it all.

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As debate over the dimensions of Obama’s package snaked through the House

Ya gotta love the author's sense of innuendo.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

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I've already been briefed about you from some others. Your name says it all.

That is correct..... I tend to avoid the whimps that prefer door mats around..... the whimps need not apply

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Anything you say to feel better about yourself.

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Anything you say to feel better about yourself.

Here this guy has something for you

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Chuck

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I think... he likes you!


Chuck

I just don't know why I always seem to attract a certain type... short stalkerish kind of wierdo's who have fantasies about "being dominated" by a tall woman

Stalkers.. cant live with em.... and can't shoot em without a LOT of justification

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so I'm a stalker now huh.

get it straight....

I like ladies

not women who look like men in drag with manish features

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so I'm a stalker now huh.

get it straight....

I like ladies

not women who look like men in drag with manish features

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

must breath......


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Me thinks thou doest protest too much.. like so many of your fellow party members with the foot tappin thing goin on

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must breath......

appearantly in your quest for liberalism you suddenly forgot how to spell.

its BREATHE

unless your breath is just plain stinky...

I vote for the latter...

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Your one warning.

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Chuck

I just don't know why I always seem to attract a certain type... short stalkerish kind of wierdo's who have fantasies about "being dominated" by a tall woman

Stalkers.. cant live with em.... and can't shoot em without a LOT of justification

You got that right! Does 'justification' have the same interpretation as 'he needed it', here in Texas?

Chuck

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must breath......

appearantly in your quest for liberalism you suddenly forgot how to spell.

its BREATHE

unless your breath is just plain stinky...

I vote for the latter...

Reading comprehension is not your forte is it...and APPARENTLY your spelling went to hell in the search for ultra-conservatism, but you probably blame your liberal teacher’s for that

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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of course its totally fine for her to call me a stalker...guess you missed that