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Gaffetastic:
Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
The good news and the bad news
Obviously, the good news about the unanimous House Republican opposition to President Obama’s stimulus bill means that the Republicans in the House (all of them) seem to have found their way again. Not only that, but it means that Obama’s claims that this will be a “bipartisan bill” are bogus, at least as far as the House is concerned. The Senate, of course is a different matter. Even though Obama is sure to get the token support from enough Republicans in the Senate, in the end he will own this bill, whether he wants to admit it or not.
The bad news is, of course, that the bill still got passed by the House. We’re in a position right now where our opposition to any bill is pretty much token. It’s going to be a long four years on that front. That said, the willingness of Republicans in the House to show in force that they aren’t going to roll over and take whatever Obama and House Democrats present to them as a “bipartisan bill” is very encouraging and they should keep it up. Obama might be a popular guy now, and everything that he does viewed as “golden,” but as we all know, doing what’s right doesn’t always mean doing the most popular thing. Last night, Republicans in the House did the right thing.
Make sure to thank them.
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One other point: to encourage genuine bipartisanship in the right direction, we should write and thank the Democrats who crossed the aisle. Here’s a list.
It may not be a long four years, all Congress-critters are up for re-election in 2010. We should get involved now!
We-el, if the bill were really anything more than a symbolic measure designed to show that “something is being done,” I’d applaud the GOP for standing on their principles. But since it is all about convincing Americans that the problems in the economy are being attended to, all they’ve done is show that they’re on the wrong side of symbolic history. I’d say they were jumping off a cliff, except for the fact that I imagine all of the remaining GOP Representatives come from safe districts, where they will suffer no electoral harm.
The Senate, however, is another story. I imagine there will be a few GOP votes there (but not very many).
I heard in the news yesterday that China is not going to but anymore of our debt. So in order to pay for this “stimulus” we are going to end up printing the money. Now the Reps need to be out there telling that to the American People. Nothing devalues a currency like the wonton use of the printing press. – Lorica