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Posted on 01/28/2009 at 6:06 pm by Bob Cesca

by Lee Stranahan

Stimulus plan passes House. Not a single Republican vote for it. Rugged individuals, all. Baaaa…

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  • camel54

    Big surprise. Now’s the time the president needs to have a presser. He needs to point out that he, in good faith, made several concessions against his own party’s recommendations and in return the Republicans have tried to hold the US economy hostage to enforce their own relevence. Wouldn’t it be nice if he willingly withdrew HR1 at this point and said he wants it to go back through the House with the family planning back in, with fewer tax breaks, with everything Democrats want; that the Republicans have invited this on themselves by being unwilling to compromise after eight years of disastrous economic decisions.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Camel, that sounds so fucking sweet! I doubt it would hapoen, but you never know.

  • kansasdem

    The GOP = Grand Obstructionist Party = Republican’ts!

  • http://www.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    Folks – if we’re going to be political junkies, we need to keep an eye on the long game. The news came out yesterday that all of the House republicans were going to vote against – it’s a symbolic measure to bolster bipartisan efforts in the senate – in a deal already worked out between the President and the republicans. A couple of additions by the Senate that the President took from his meetings to the Senate version of the bill, and then the bill passes in the Senate, upon which the two bills get reconciled and the House gets another chance to vote.from the HuffPost article on the House passage:

    Also, some Republican lawmakers have said in recent days they know they will have a second chance to support a bill when the final House-Senate compromise emerges in a few weeks.That gave an air of predictability to the proceedings in the House, as Democrats defended the legislation as an appropriate response to the specter of double-digit unemployment in the near future.

    What might be helpful to remember is that Obama himself was a Senator, and a lot of his cabinet are from congress, and have legislative experience. They are working the congressional process.QT

  • JG

    The bottom line is the Republicans do not stand for anything other than power. There’s no reason form them to support Obama–Obama should continue to woo them, but at the same time, he should stop capitulating as it is clear that will not help at all.The economy will recover under Obama–then the right wing will really be screwed–

  • colonelsanders

    … and the Republicans, as well as their lackeys in the MSM realize just how irrelevant they are.Heckuva job, Boehner!

  • Mike H.

    Did Dennis vote for it?

  • Packy

    The Elephants Are Circlin’ Up™ and such as, you betcha.And also the Position Flexible™.

  • GItheScholar

    The term you are looking for is “Sheeple”. Their great shepherd is Rush Limbaugh.

  • https://www.coffeemakersetc.com/images/Paper_Filters.jpg Elvis the Dingeldein

    Let’s not forget that Clinton passed his landmark 1993 economic package — the one that raised taxes on Rich Fuckheads and so Republicans said it would hurl us into a dark Recession, ruin the economy, freeze markets, make the Statue of Liberty shit herself and cause Christian babies to choke on their own locust vomit — without a SINGLE Republican vote in Congress. Not one fucking Republican vote. Al Gore had to break the tie in the Senate.And we all know how that turned out. Balanced the budget, ushered in the Information Revolution, I got fucking rich at UUNET Technologies, had lots and lots of Internet Startup Sex, and Bill left office with a fat fucking surplus behind him. And not a single douchebag Republican voted for his “disastrous” economic package.So Fuck. Them. Blue.