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Why?

Obama and his Democrat cronies have all the muscle they need to ram that $819 billion “stimulus” package down our throats. The House of Representatives approved the package Wednesday, dealing the new administration a legislative victory.

The final vote was 244-188. All Republicans who were present voted against the bill. They were joined in their opposition by 11 Democrats. So it seems that that the Republicans have achieved bipartisan opposition to the bill.

But back to the main question - Why is Obama so intent on having the Republicans join him in support of:

• $650 million for digital TV coupons
• $600 million for new cars for the federal government. (at $30, 000 each, that’s 20,000 new cars)
• $6 billion for colleges/universities - many which have billion dollar endowments.
• $50 million in funding for the National Endowment of the Arts. (Do we need more “Piss on Christ” paintings?)
• $200 million for the National Mall, including $21 million for sod. (How’s that going to improve the economy?)
• Funding programs that already have large, unexpended balances. For example, the bill provides $1 billion for Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) - a program that already has $16 billion on hand. States also are sitting on some $9 billion in unused highway funds.

If his package is going to save the day, you’d think that he’d want the Democrats to take full credit. If this package was really going to work you’d think he’d want to have all the glory.

But no. He doesn’t want to take full ownership of this travesty. He wants bipartisan support because he knows that this package will not stimulate anything but a lot of anger and disappointment when the American people finally wake up. He wants bipartisan support because he wants to share the blame. He wants bipartisan support because he wants to undercut Republican opposition in the next election.

Congratulations to the House GOP. Here’s hoping that the Senate GOP follows their lead. The bill will probably pass anyway, but it’ll be a bill that no Republican voted for, and that’s good.

“Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age…Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties…“

Winston Churchill - June 18, 1940

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