Republican Stimulus Hypocrisy: They Knew it Would Work

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I am not even going to try to comment to people who simply want to believe that the path they landed on first is some how divine,the true way and then lie, lie, lie trying to win at shooting off their own foot. What I have to say is going here and straight to the GOP. You Republicans think your so clever lying to the ignorant, exactly what can come of it? You are taking down our country in your attempt to discredit the Democratic party and how will that end for you? What do you think will happen when those same people are destitute from medical bankruptcies and the foreclosures that come with it? Do you think they won't ever figure you out? Do you think they won't see that you are corporatists and come to recognize they have been done out of a life? Do you think then the angry, hungry, homeless, mob is going to let you sit up there in your mansion eating cake, still trying to lie to them about how you did them out of healthcare? All that anger you have been so carefully cultivated is going to come home to roost. What goes around comes around.

Republicantreason of IA 9:47AM February 17, 2010

The partisan dribble that is published under the guise of "critical thinking opinion" is ridiculous.
Politicians have learned that "pork" gets them reelected... unfortunately it is a modern political that began when Democrats and some Republicans decided they wanted to use the Government as a Proxy Mommy and Daddy.
Instead of writing crap like this... how about calling the out the party in control to get them to fix the problem... then they might have something to run a campaign on.
Instead it is just "I know you are but what am I..."

Kevin Andrews of FL 10:46AM February 13, 2010

You GOP right wingers deny, deny deny. I suppose you'll deny the GOP plan to do away with Medicare as we know it also. You folks want to see a revolution in this country, mess around with with the silver hairs and their health care. Well see how that hopey changey stuff work for you lying tea baggers then.. Wink Wink

Monk of TX 10:55AM February 11, 2010

TO THE AUTHOR_ Honorary tea bagger...
Author said in article:
“GOP representatives and senators were so sure that the stimulus bill would be effective, in fact, that they could not get to their desks fast enough to start peppering the federal government with requests for projects in their districts.”
Did you take a course in College that discussed logic ?
Just because some GOP representatives and senators put in for PORK that means they knew stimulus bill would create jobs ?
First off who said it would not create jobs ? Of course it would create some! Second, is it the best bang for the buck, if there is, what?
John F. Kennedy said best way to increase government revenue was to cut tax rate on the rich:
http://www.heritage.org/research/taxes/wm327.cfm
What did each stimulus job cost. I picked lowest amount I noticed ?:
“$160,000 Per Stimulus Job? White House Calls That 'Calculator Abuse “
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/10/160000-per-stimulus-job-white-house-calls-that-calculator-abuse.html
$160,000 is lowest cost I notice per job. Others went much higher.
Point is cheaper to cut taxes for wealthy and let them create jobs. As my first link advises. A job is better for a lower income family than a few hundred dollars kick back. That few hundred dollars only enhances economy for a short while, job creation really helps.
Making more government jobs delete government revenue. Far better to let private sector create, thus increasing government revenue.

Bill Hedges of MO 5:59AM February 11, 2010

Seriously folks! Just because you vote against a bill, does not mean that the tax payers in your district are forbidden from prospering from the very bill they will be forced to pay for. If this is all the Progressives have, God help them! Try running the Country instead of blaming the Repubs for having common sense.

Loder of CA 2:39PM February 10, 2010

"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader John Boehner knew the bill would pass. So while the legislative committees they sat on were in session, they negotiated some of the highest earmarks for their respective states/districts."
"'We know their endeavor will provide jobs and investment,'" Wilson said on behalf of some hometown candidates for stimulus funds."
What else is new? Lies and political expediency go hand in hand.

jon of IN 10:55AM February 10, 2010

" Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader John Boehner knew the bill would pass. So while the legislative committees they sat on were in session, they negotiated some of the highest earmarks for their respective states/districts."
And your point was? Are you suggesting that they should have foregone any monies to their districts even though they knew that on the whole, the 'stimulus' package was a farce?
Puleeeesss.......

enzo11 of IN 9:57AM February 10, 2010

"When it came to the stimulus package, anybody with half a brain realized that most of it was pork, and in fact, pork that would have no long-term effects on jobs or the economy. The Repubs were correct to vote against it - the bill was not going to do as the Dems advertized."
Let me educate you geniuses. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader John Boehner knew the bill would pass. So while the legislative committees they sat on were in session, they negotiated some of the highest earmarks for their respective states/districts. GO READ THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORDS.
Then they turn around in a most duplicitious fashion and vote against the bill. Meanwhile, the money pours into their state/district, and they can claim that they brought the money in for their constituients, while also claiming that it was expensive, and will never stimulate the economy. How does so much money help their state/distict, but doesn't work when it is in someone else's bailywick???
If you find this brand of farcical behavior and double-dealing as the kind of politics that will lead this country out of trouble, you are sadly delusional or pathological. If you cannot demand honesty and transparency from your own party, why do you have the audacity to blame the other side?
You people amaze me with your self-serving denials about how you contribute to the mess, and then try to hang it all on the Democrats.
How Un-American.

lancemh of KS 2:59AM February 10, 2010

Bennett: I guess the $2 million and the last year didn't work
In March of 2009 Senator Bob Bennett was rated one of the ten most liberal Republicans in the Senate by Human Events based on the American Conservative Union Ratings for 2008.
Why Bennett spent $2 million to convince voters he is Conservative is beyond me?
I guess he is now going to start spending money saying he will save our money from being spent.

arc of UT 2:43AM February 10, 2010

Where do these guys come from? They apparently present significant credentials to the organizations that hire then provide them the opportunity, through an internationally recognized publication, to display to the entire world how stupid and naive they are? Really, where do they come from?

Dave of FL 12:23AM February 10, 2010