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J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles: Republicans Seek a Poorer Nation with Higher Unemployment
Firedoglake: The Audacity of Nope: GOP Puts Politics Ahead of Economic Recovery (Again)
DownWithTyranny!: Stimulus Bill Passes The House Without A Single Vote From Limbaugh's Cowed Republicans
Republicans Seek a Poorer Nation with Higher Unemployment
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
Had John McCain won the presidential election last November, a similarly-sized fiscal boost bill--more tax cuts, fewer spending increases, tilted toward the rich rather than toward the poor and middle class--would now be moving through the congress with genuine bipartisan support.
But Barack Obama won the presidency. And so the Republicans decide to try to make America a poorer nation with higher unemployment: 246-183-1 in the House, with not a single Republican representative voting yes:
some good video, george miller fantastic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdwfV-bcv3E:
Today when this country cries out to help ...
The Audacity of Nope: GOP Puts Politics Ahead of Economic Recovery (Again)
Firedoglake —
The House has passed the revised stimulus bill by a vote of 246-183-1. Full roll call of the vote can be found here.
Rep. George Miller summed up disgust at Minority Leader Boehner (R-PermaTan) and the GOP strategy of just saying "no":
Today when this country cries ...
Stimulus Bill Passes The House Without A Single Vote From Limbaugh's Cowed Republicans
DownWithTyranny! —
We saw the wrong way; now let's get it right All morning and into the afternoon, Congress tussled over the final vote on President Obama's jobs bill, H.R. 1, with Republicans going through their pointless obstructionist rituals to derail it and plunge the country further into economic chaos in the hopes that they will be recalled by the voters to clean ...
