Maybe I should just make this a weekly feature, since every few days we have a new example of Democrat civility and bipartisanship, which looks a lot like a big, raised middle finger to the GOP. Take this:
"We gave the president what he asked for, a temporary stimulus bill,” said a senior Republican, “at half the cost of what the Democrats wrote. He knows it. They handed him a monster of spending. Rahm did this, and now he takes this to the Senate. Does Rahm want to be an honest broker, or does he want to be the guy who socks Republicans in the face? He isn’t helping with the Democrats, and he’s hurting with the Republicans.”
“Polling showed us that when we took the vote, independent support for the bill was collapsing,” a senior Republican said. “Democratic support was climbing while the independents ran away.”
“What does Rahm do? Is he going to go to the Democrats and say ‘no’ to this? Or is he going to make his president sign it?”
Emanuel’s answer to the Republican shutout is to announce that the Democratic Party will target Republicans by running campaigns in their districts to tell the voters that their representative “voted against 4 million jobs.”
Democrats will attempt to blame Republicans for a lengthy recession, even though they have the votes to do whatever they want. It's a stupid ploy, and, hopefully, Republicans will be able to counter it with ads pointing out that this "stimulus" package contained almost NO stimulus.
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