Badmouthing the stimulus bill
Back in the middle of February, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) took some time out his busy schedule to walk down the main street of the business district of the Park Circle area of North Charleston, SC badmouthing the stimulus bill.It got me to wondering: assuming that someone as busy as Senator Graham does nothing without a specific purpose, what was the purpose of this trash-talk walk? To assure his constituents that the end is near? To convince any of them that voted for Obama that they made a mistake? (Charleston County, of which North Charleston is a part, was one the only of the 46 counties in SC to go for Obama).
It saddens me that after Obama won a clear victory, Republicans feel the need to do everything in their power to undermine everything he's trying to do. And it amazes me that "cut taxes" and "don't spend any money" are their solutions to every single problem the country has.
For the first time in a long time, we have a president who has bold visions both to get us out of this financial morass and to make this a better country by improving health care, energy, education, infrastructure and more. And all the Republicans in Congress can do is whine about how nothing is going to work. Some contribution that is.
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 2:40 PM
1 Comments:
A FICA tax holiday would have been far more of a stimulant and progressive.
What we have is a fraud. Little spending will impact the current recession. It's a political bill to bind constitutenties.... that's about it.
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