Did the Senate pull our collective leg last Friday when they said there was a deal on President Obama's stimulus plan?
If so, why are so many Republicans, from Congressman Mike Pence to Senator John McCain still badmouthing it?
It's the same blah blah blah... it costs to much... and tax cuts are the answer. I guess they didn't see the news that 600,000 jobs were lost last month.
President Obama did. That's why he's hit the road, holding a town hall meeting in Elkhart, Indiana. That's a city where the unemployment rate stands at better than 15%. It's a good bet most of those people, like most Americans now out of work, did their jobs every day until the plant closed.
President Obama did. That's why he's hit the road, holding a town hall meeting in Elkhart, Indiana. That's a city where the unemployment rate stands at better than 15%. It's a good bet most of those people, like most Americans now out of work, did their jobs every day until the plant closed.
Meaning, of course, that calls for personal responsibility are likely to fall on deaf ears. Telling a laid off worker it's his or her fault rather than high flying bankers who still don't miss tee times at their golf clubs simply won't work.
That's what Republican obstructionists fail to understand. They're coming across as far more sympathetic to the plight of financial institutions than they are to the needs of the American people.
President Obama will also hold a prime time news conference at the White House. Part of that will be taken up with questions about the tax troubles of a few of his nominees. There will also be questions about the TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) plan to shore up American banking.
Yet the big issue is the stimulus.
Is there a deal in the Senate, and when will it come to his desk to be signed? And why has it taken so long?
Is there a deal in the Senate, and when will it come to his desk to be signed? And why has it taken so long?
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I believe the republicans are obstructing this bill because they are afraid it will succeed, and they will finally be completely exposed, defeated, and rendered irrelevant. Obama must take off the gloves and call these guys out. Partisanship is not a bad thing. More than any terrorist group, foreign entity or cause, the greatest force of evil at work in the USA is the republican party.
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