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The GOP AKA The Great Obstructionist Party are done this was the final straw.

Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, why didn't the Republicans use the opinions of rightist policy commentators to come up with a plan of their own, hold it up in front of the Democrats, and say “Here's our plan. Let's sit down and see if we can work out a compromise.”? That's how “bipartisanism” ideally works, isn't it?

They can't have that…why that's too much like right! ***Gasp*** Then the Country might become….”united”!!!

Anyway, why didn't the Republicans use the opinions of rightist policy commentators to come up with a plan of their own, hold it up in front of the Democrats, and say “Here's our plan. Let's sit down and see if we can work out a compromise.”? That's how “bipartisanism” ideally works, isn't it?

Oh, and let me pick on a couple of things: “His health czar went down in flames.” NO, his choice for health czar did. He was a nominee, it didn't work out. Obama apologized for trying to pick him anyway after he found out about the tax issues. I still haven't heard Bush apologize for his actual cabinet. But hell, that could take all year for all the damage they have done. Another, Judd Gregg accepted the offer, then walked away. That makes Judd a flake. In the real world, if you accept a job, order the desk for your office, and have your business cards printed up; you show up. You don't? Then your a flake, and so is Gregg. That's on him, not Obama.

If anything, Obama has stuck to his word. That he's faced opposition is just Washington. That Washington thinks this looks horrible for Obama, is just Washington.

And the AMERICAN PEOPLE have spoken.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18861…

With Barack Obama’s victory in passing a massive stimulus package marred by days of bad press—as not a single House Republican backed the bill, his Health Czar went down in flames and his second pick for Commerce Secretary walked away—the administration has been cut down to size, and lost some of its bipartisan sheen.

Such, at least, has been the beltway chatter, but so far the numbers don’t back it up.

Obama’s approval rating remains well above 60% in tracking polls. A range of state pollsters said they’d seen no diminution in the president’s sky-high approval ratings, and no improvement in congressional Republicans’ dismal numbers.

First, it assumes people are stupid.

Tax rebates, for example, presume that if people get money to increase their consumption, businesses will expand their production and hire more workers. Not true. Even if producers notice an upward blip in sales after the rebate checks go out, they will know it's only temporary. Companies won't hire more employees or build new factories in response to a temporary increase in sales. Those who do will go out of business.

The tax credit in this bill will have no effect in stimulating the economy.

Second, the thinking behind stimulus legislation assumes that the government is better at spending $800 billion than the private sector.

When President Obama says, “We'll invest in what works,” he means, “unlike you.”

Politics rather than sound economics guide government spending. Politicians rely on lobbyists from unions, corporations, pressure groups, and state and local governments when they decide how to spend other people's money.

By contrast, entrepreneurs' decisions to spend their own cash are guided by monetary profit and loss. That's likely to work better and certain to produce more innovation.

But the biggest problem is that the government can't inject money into the economy without first taking money out of the economy. Where does the government get that money?

It can either borrow it or collect it from taxes. There is no aggregate increase in demand. Government borrowing and spending doesn't boost national income or standard of living; it merely redistributes it. The pie is sliced differently, but it's not any bigger.

This is the largest spending bill EVER passed, and it comes with no guarantees it will work and worse, no guarantee that it will not, in the long-run harm our economy further.

The economy, we are told will be slow to recover. This year will be hard. Massive deficits caused by Bush's huge spending, followed by this bill and the bailouts of the financial and auto industries, will more than likely lead to inflation and tax increases.

Few here, I doubt remember the Carter economy: Multi-year double-digit inflation, gas lines, double-digit unemployment, double-digit interest rates, declining incomes, and rising poverty.

In two years we came out of that recession by doing 4 things:

(1) across the board reductions in tax rates to provide incentives for saving, investment, starting and expanding businesses, job creation, entrepreneurship, and work,

(2) removing the costs of unnecessary regulation, which today would especially mean removing the onerous restrictions on energy production, allowing drilling offshore and onshore for oil and natural gas, and revival of the nuclear power industry,

(3) controlling government spending, which contrary to longstanding liberal propaganda Reagan did do

(4) sound anti-inflation monetary policy.

What we suffer with today is not the worst economy since the Great Depression, but The Worst Economy Since Jimmy Carter, which was the last time Obama's ultraliberals were dominant, politically and intellectually.

This stimulus package is now the symbol of Democratic rule.