The House has passed the stimulus bill with not a single Republican vote.Aren’t you glad that Obama watered it down and added ineffective tax cuts, so as to win bipartisan support?
Ok, but my understanding is that it still has to get through the senate, right. So it's not like the Dems could have just written ANYTHING they liked and zipped it through. Just because mom isn't paying attention doesn't mean you can get away with anything when it still has to get past dad (although it seems odd to be casting R's as the parental figures here, when a whole lot of them seem more intent on behaving like spoiled 12 year olds).
Plus some people smarter than me (e.g.,) argue that Barrack is playing the long-term optics here - he gets to come back and say: "we offer them compromise after compromise, and consultation after consultation, and STILL they don't even try to support the results."
Though, I guess at some point you have to stop playing politics for gain and using the gain that you've already bought... it's a tricky thing, no.
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