Watching just a little bit of the Senate debate over the stimulus, I am reminded of just how disingenuous and dishonest the Republicans are, and I wonder how it is possible that they were ever allowed to run things.
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I particularly enjoyed watchign Obama hit the GOP over the head on stimulus spending. Good timses.
“of course it’s a spending bill, that’s what a stimuklus is!”
HAHAHAHAHA
Bob Corker could have a lobotomy and no one would notice a difference.
DiFi is concerned about the bill.
the Sanders/Grassley amendment passed on a voice vote. It makes TARP/bailout corporations adhere to stricter visa rules to prevent hiring of non-Americans at lower wages.
Did Dodd’s idea (or at least I heard him discussing it) of the $15K tax credit for home sales get any legs?
That’s getting closer what I think we need except I think the money should go directly to paying principal on existing primary residence mortgages.
Dodd’s method encourages lending, but is essential a bubble re-inflation device that would also pop.
73-24, Coburn’s amendment passed. No money for casinos, golf courses, museums, or aquariums. What a brilliant construction by Coburn.
CSPAN’s scroll says it passed, but it must have been on a voice vote yesterday because I don’t see it in the roll calls.
Coburn has got to be driving even his fellow Republicans nuts. He’s introduced about a quadrillion amendments. I think this one will pass. It bans money from being spent on museums, aquariams, or golf courses.
Tom Udall has an amendment that creates a tax incentive to companies to hire veteran’s that have served since 2001. It passed on a voice vote.
Next…
Another Coburn amendment.
Coburn’s amendment requires competitive bidding on contracts. That sounds good, but I think it is really an effort to strip out Buy America provisions of the bill.
Hmm. Maybe not. It appears almost everyone voted for it.
What the spectacle makes me wonder is what it will take for Obama to accept the reality that “reaching out” is a dead end and “shutting out” is the path to change we can believe in.
I still think this has it backwards.
What Obama did is have the extremely liberal David Obey draw up a spending bill that included goodies for almost every Democratic interest group and then told the Republicans that they could have some say in modifying the bill. He made a big show of being reasonable and accommodating and then made a bunch of ‘concessions’ and at the end of the day he is going to pass a bill with about $900 billion in it (even larger than the House).
And, yet, he’s struggling to get the votes he needs because he doesn’t have Gregg, Kennedy, or Franken, and the Republicans don’t like funding Democratic interest groups. Seems to me that the outreach is going to work, though, and that’s all that matters.
You think he’s struggling to get the votes to pass it, or to beat a filibuster?
filibuster.
In that case it seems to me the time is ripe for the big showdown. Let the GOP try a filibuster and let Obama keep using the bully pulpit to expose their destructiveness. I waver on whether I still believe that this “nonpartisan” crap is just part of Obama’s long game, or whether he really harbors delusions about the real intent of the GOP vanguard. Now may well be the test that makes the case one way or the other.
“I wonder how it is possible that they were ever allowed to run things. “
One word, bro.
Village.
They got a good-looking, manly actor to play the part of President. One who knew how to hit his marks and say his lines well. Then they fed him a steady diet of wingnut talking points and the corporate media spread it far and wide as gospel.
is a sort of a deal.
We will be “bipartisan” which means that we allow the minority to have a say if the minority is reasonable.
Well, the FUCKING MINORITY IS NOT REASONABLE.
I say, ram this shit down their throats. Call them unamerican. Blame the loss in jobs on the Republicans, and do it every single day, every single hour.
Get on message and stay on message, and make them FUCKING PAY.
When we have them cowed and on their backs, then we say “now doggie you can get a single little bipartisan bone”.
Until then, Obama is getting taken to the cleaners, and it’s his own fault.