A Victory of Unity

Republicans did the right thing yesterday. Even ABC's Good Morning America,
normally a hotbed of support for Democrats and Democrat causes, faithfully
reported that the bill seemed little more than a huge serving of pork.

The only thing that can stimulate the economy right away is tax cuts.
The Democrat plan provides paltry cuts and credits that will provide a meager
$12 per week to most workers. Whoopee! I'll buy the first round of coffee. You
want to stimulate the economy? Put big bucks back in citizens' hands NOW. A tax
holiday for a few months, a la the Gohmert plan, would do that, instantly. A permanent across the board tax cut, would do much more.

Read the rest. Here.

Especially this quote:

In the House Republicans' meeting with Obama on January 27th, Maryland's sole Republican Congressman, Roscoe Bartlett, said it best:

"Mr. President, I probably come at this from a slightly different perspective. I
remember when FDR beat Hoover in 1932. So I remember the Great Depression very well. I don't remember any of the many government programs affecting the course of the Depression. Government programs didn't work then; I don't know why we think they would work now. Mr. President, I think our obsessive borrowing has fully mortgaged my kids and my grandkids. Now we're working on mortgaging my two great-grandkids. Mr. President, I think it's more than a little bit selfish to
try to solve our economic problems which we created by burdening future generations yet to be born .... "

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