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Can anyone be surprised that not one Republican in the House voted for the Obama stimulus package? In the midst of the worst economic crisis to hit the country since the Great Depression, a crisis brought about largely by the de-regulation philosophy of the Republican party, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and the rest of the Republican leadership have opted to return to the strategy of Newt Gingrich and walk in lock-step like lemmings over the political cliff. They do this, not surprisingly, while asking the rest of the country to follow.
It is truly astonishing that in the midst of global financial collapse, Republican leaders are once again peddling trickle-down economics - read tax cuts for the wealthy - as the answer to our economic needs. By opposing the rescue plan laid out be the administration, the GOP seems determined to gamble that electorate hasn't yet wised up, that in spite of the election of a new president and Congress, voters still don't understand what has been obvious to at least half the country for many years: the party that lionizes Ronald Reagan, Gingrich and other standard bearers of the right has never had the interests of average Americans at heart. It's a shame that now it may be too late to do much about it...
Can anyone be surprised that not one Republican in the House voted for the Obama stimulus package? In the midst of the worst economic crisis to hit the country since the Great Depression, a crisis brought about largely by the de-regulation philosophy of the Republican party, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and the rest of the Republican leadership have opted to return to the strategy of Newt Gingrich and walk in lock-step like lemmings over the political cliff. They do this, not surprisingly, while asking the rest of the country to follow.
It is truly astonishing that in the midst of global financial collapse, Republican leaders are once again peddling trickle-down economics - read tax cuts for the wealthy - as the answer to our economic needs. By opposing the rescue plan laid out be the administration, the GOP seems determined to gamble that electorate hasn't yet wised up, that in spite of the election of a new president and Congress, voters still don't understand what has been obvious to at least half the country for many years: the party that lionizes Ronald Reagan, Gingrich and other standard bearers of the right has never had the interests of average Americans at heart. It's a shame that now it may be too late to do much about it...
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