Let’s Hope They’d Rather Be Right Than Popular
President Obama apparently has a message for DC Republicans: If you want to be accepted by the in crowd, you’ll have to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh:
“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.
One White House official confirmed the comment but said he was simply trying to make a larger point about bipartisan efforts. “There are big things that unify Republicans and Democrats,” the official said. “We shouldn’t let partisan politics derail what are very important things that need to get done.”
Let’s hope Republicans take principled stands against what’s being called a stimulus package. That seems to be what John Boehner and Eric Cantor are doing. Frankly, I’d love seeing the bill get zero GOP votes. That way, voters can’t hang it around our necks when it goes splat.
One thing that’s certain is that President Obama is going to continue his fearmongering campaign in hopes of getting his stimulus package passed:
“We are experiencing an unprecedented economic crisis that has to be dealt with and dealt with rapidly,” Obama said during the meeting.
This combination of fearmongering and hyperbole is something I’d expect from Al Gore. It appears that President Obama is equally willing to tell tall tales to get his agenda passed. People with a grasp of recent history realize that Al Gore was best known for his partisan, divisive tactics and his willingness to say anything to get President Clinton’s agenda passed.
Here’s what House Minority Leader Boehner said in confronting President Obama on the stiumulus package:
“You know, I’m concerned about the size of the package. And I’m concerned about some of the spending that’s in there, [about]…how you can spend hundreds of millions on contraceptives,” House GOP Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) later said. “How does that stimulate the economy?”
The simple answer is that things like that won’t stimulate the economy. They aren’t meant to. Here’s some additional proof that President Obama will use fearmongering tactics to spend unprecedented amounts of money:
But White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs countered: “There was a lot of agreement in that room about the notion that we’re facing an economic crisis unlike we’ve seen in quite some time…that we must act quickly to stimulate the economy, create jobs, put money back in people’s pockets.”
While there’s no denying the fact that we’re in a recession, it’s intellectually dishonest to say that “we’re facing an economic crisis unlike we’ve seen in quite some time.” We certainly saw something far worse during the last days of the Carter administration.
The key question that we must keep asking is how spending $200,000,000 on maintenance of the National Mall will help pull us out of this recession. Here’s another key question we should keep asking: How will spending $650,000,000 on digital TV coupons pull us out of this recession?
Let’s hope R’s in Washington, DC start paying attention to the bad policies being pushed by the Obama administration. Let’s hope that they vote against pissing huge chunks of money away. It isn’t that I think they’ll derail this pork-laden legislation. Rather, I’d hope they’d vote against this so they don’t get blamed for the damage this legislation will do. I’d hope they’d vote against this legislation so they don’t get blamed for the wasteful spending that’s a significant part of this legislation.
BTW, here’s a thought worth pondering: John McCain campaigned saying that he’d veto bills that had earmarks in them, saying that I’ll veto the bill. I’ll expose their names. I’ll make them famous.” Now he’s irritated that John Cornyn is actually following conservative principles in opposing this legislation.
It’s also interesting that Sen. McCain isn’t raising any objections about the corruption machine known as Timothy Geithner.
Technorati Tags: Pork, Stimulus Package, President Obama, Robert Gibbs, Tim Geithner, Corruption, Rush Limbaugh, John McCain, John Cornyn, John Boehner, Conservatism
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
January 24th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
The more jackass wannabees the messiah can get on board with his horrendous pork, the more he’ll be able to toss the failure toward Republicans. And McCain and his liberal ilk are dumb enough to swallow the messiah’s brand of “bipartisanship”, which is simply a nice way of saying “Do it my way or we’ll grind you into the unsophisticated dirt we know you are.”
January 24th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
You need to be re-edumacated Carlos!
We supposed to it with the program. Socialism is the answer to aaaallll our problems. Just shut up and pay your road taxes, income tax, gas tax, carbon foot print tax, social security tax, medicare tax, sales tax, property tax, capital gains tax, vehicle registration, your childrens kiddy tax, death tax, all the other “fees” they are going to come up with to fund all this horseshit!
Oh and by the way, kindly report the number on your 401k and, and turn in your gun.
There dont you feel better, welcome to heaven on earth.