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This somewhat disappointing stimulus package brought to you by: Bipartisanship™


Paul Krugman is not in the mood for bipartisanship.

The Nobel laureate today declares Obama's stimulus package "somewhat disappointing," because it "just doesn't look adequate to the economy's need." Krugman raises the possibility that the Obama team's desire to please the other side is the culprit behind what Krugman sees as a stingy economic plan:

Press reports last month indicated that Obama aides were anxious to keep the final price tag on the plan below the politically sensitive trillion-dollar mark. There also have been suggestions that the plan's inclusion of large business tax cuts, which add to its cost but will do little for the economy, is an attempt to win Republican votes in Congress.



 

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Let me ask what is the difference between a liberal who wanting Republican support adopting much of their policy and program and a "blue" dog or "bush" dog who finds it expedient to adopt much of the Republican policy and program. As George Wallace once put it "not a dime's woRth of difference'. At least with the bush dogs we are spared the sanctimonious rhetoric of "bipartisanship" justifying surrender.

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What's the difference between Corporate Party A and Corporate Party B?

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Hear! Hear!

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what is the difference

The Liberals cannot, (but perhaps not for lack of trying) lick their own privates.

The Blue Dogs, on the other hand...

Oh, I'm sorry about that image...please, carry on...

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How about we wait until the final bill comes to Obama's desk before blasting it? Anybody who understands this process knows that a bill this big is going to look very different once it has been pushed through both houses and all the compromises hashed out. I actually think there's a pretty good chance a lot of those tax cuts will fall by the wayside and Obama is just putting them in there to give the appearance of bipartisanship knowing full well that they can be quietly removed later when nobody is looking. Let's give this administration and Congress a chance to actually pass the bill. I'm sure there will be plenty for us armchair critics to be unhappy about by that point.

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You wait. You do it well. I have waited enough. Obama promised serious change. His proposal, not his fall-back position, is seriously deficient. That is something we can discuss now. But you won't do even that. Perhaps you just think it is a wonderful proposal because it comes from wonderful Obama? That is how it sounds.

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"Press Reports?" "There have also been suggestions?" I thought the Left was more scrupulous when it came to their news sources? This is only the first draft and opposition is expected. Even in the final draft, someone or some group is going to be disappointed. It's surprising to read that Obama's promise of tax cuts and reaching across the aisle should just be so easily pushed to the side.

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Wow, what a shame this bill has already been written, put through committee, passed by both houses and signed into law by President Obama. It's shocking how the bill passed with no additional money being added by Congress. What truly makes it a shame is that there is no Constitutional mechanism by which additional economically stimulative spending can be enacted. It's also shocking to me that there are no other legislative or executive initiatives planned or ongoing that would have a stimulative effect.

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I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you. How dare they make sausage and let us see it!!

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Bipartisanship is date rape.

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It's like the HOlocUAst AND AIDSS!!

IT"S LIKE THE AIDS HOLOCAUSTT!

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