PLYMCO_PILGRIM
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All I can say is you must have been asleep during the first two months of Obama's presidency. Prior to approval of the Stimulus Bill, both McConnell and Boehner were already grumbling, so Obama actually paid a visit to THEM on Capitol Hill, rather than summoning them to the Oval Office. That happened the last week in January, as I recall, but thereafter the Republicans gathered all their wagons in a circle and decided to grandstand against any stimulus package at all. Boehner was inyourface on this even more than Pelosi, revving up the herd to JUST SAY NO. McConnell, being a little more gentlemanly, did the same thing only sounding a little less like an asshole.
Obama appointed Ray LaHood, a Republican, as Transportation Secretary, offered the Commerce post to Judd Gregg who, accepting the position then turning it down, couldn't wait to get on television and blast Obama from one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the other.
And you wonder why, after just over 200 days of this nonstop bullshit, Obama is appearing more partisan?
I was about to respond and navy beat me to it.
Let's see let me recap.
800 Billion dollar stimulus introduced with on a Thursday evening prior to debate its over 1000 pages long gave members little time to actually read it. The bill has resulted in such things as 3.2 million dollars spent on turtle tunnels, 1.7 million on marsh mice studies, and a whole host of spending that will not create jobs, and all this in the face of statements made along these lines , that unemployment will not rise above 8.5% with it's passage. This bill is a disaster and is showing as a disaster and no amount of spin will make it better.
1.2 Trillion for a cap and Trade bill that over 300 pages was presented in the middle of the night and was not even given to members and assumed they would go to the congressional web page to read it. However, debate went forward with amendments cut off and here is another bill that proposes more Govt. mandates and add to the deficit.
1.6 Trillion for a healthcare bill that Nancy Pelosi is determined to ram through the house regardless how much damage it will do.
So spare me this notion of how much the democrats are doing things so well, when by the end of this year if all these bills actually pass into law, the deficit will be tripled in one year of Obama's Administration. So please spare me this notion of how much the democrats care when the plan on turning this nation into a 3rd world backwater.
That is not reaching out.