The Democrats are still trying to get the Republicans involved in the stimulus bill. And when I say involved, I don’t mean they are reaching out in a bipartisan nature, asking them for input and advice on how to really make the country stronger.
No, when I say involved, I mean, the Democrats want the Republicans there to share the blame when this thing tanks. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said:
“People vote for what they believe in. Clearly, the Republicans did not believe in the agenda that I just described for you, and that’s probably one of the reasons they voted that way. I think they probably voted their conscience and they couldn’t support that. …
We reached out to the Republicans all along the way, and they know it. And they know it. They were part of the original bill, with the — some of the tax provisions were their suggestions. They had what they asked for in terms of committee mark-up. They had the rule on the floor that gave them plenty of opportunity to make changes. They just didn’t have the ideas that had the support of the majority of the people in the Congress. ”
You can bet that those same tax provisions will be in the hot seat when the liberal stimulus bill fails or makes things worse. The only thing saving the Republicans is not one of them voted for the bill. That will give them some necessary separation from the law when the truth of it comes out.
But the really funny part of the article is Pelosi saying she wasn’t trying to be partisan. This woman is as partisan as they come. For example, how many Republican amendments were allowed to the bill? Sen. Jim DeMint knows:
“The Senate committee that addresses this has produced a bill and we’ll start talking about it next week,” Senator DeMint said in an interview today on Fox News. “It’s very much like the House bill. They rejected every Republican amendment. So this idea of bipartisanship is a bunch of rhetoric. There is no bipartisanship on this massive spending bill, but I think it is going to help define the Republicans and the Democrats once again because every Republican in the House rejected this and I think every Republican in the Senate might do as well.”
Hopefully, there is some spine leftover from the House Republicans, because perennial RINO Senators like Olympia Snowe are going to need all the help they can get in order to vote with conservatives. But they have to vote against this. Let the Democrats own it. All of it.
Let the failure be theirs.
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