Reich says, “Republicans don’t want their fingerprints on the stimulus bill or the next bank bailout because they plan to make the midterm election of 2010 a national referendum on Barack Obama’s handling of the economy. They know that by then the economy will still appear sufficiently weak that they can dub the entire Obama effort a failure — even if the economy would have been far worse without it, even if the economy is beginning to turn around. They’ll say “he wanted more government spending, and we said no, but we didn’t have the votes. Elect us and we’ll turn the economy around by cutting taxes and getting government out of the private sector.”
Riddle me this Batman. Why does Obi Won Obama give two shakes about bi partisan support for this bill?
Could it be that most rational democrats know this thing is a trillion dollar boondoggle and they want the cover of "bipartisanship" so that two years from now they won't have to be accountable for this pile of excrement?
The way I see. If this bill was so damn good, I'd go out of my way to make sure not one republican did vote for it. Then there would be no ability for anyone in GOP to co op credit for it two years from now.
The fact is. Reich knows that this bill will do nothing to change an already weak economy for at least two years; election time. If they had any confidence this bill was a game changer, they'd do it........... without the GOP.
As we've learned from the bank bailout, lot's of crap gets pushed into this sausage casing under the guise "we have to act now". These clowns know this bill is a red herring. That's why they want the cover of "bipartisanship".
Frankly, I have to give one up to the republican party members who will stay true to voting against this bill. If this bill works, it ensures democratic governance for decades. In my reading, it's apparent that many of them believe that doing nothing is better than passing this bill and that the risk is minimal. That's a big thumbs up to me.
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