A few simple questions for Republican lawmakers who opposed the stimulus bill
February 14th, 2009 at 08:29am Pat Cunningham
 
1. If you say you didn’t have time to read the bill, how could you have prepared long LISTS of things in the bill you don’t like (including bugaboo items that aren’t really in the bill)?
2. Are you saying that you invariably read every word of every bill on which you vote?
3. Does not your Republican caucus (or your own office, for that matter) have staffers who pore over proposed legislation and alert you and your fellow GOPÂ members to items of potential concern? Where were these staffers in this instance?
4. How can you claim not to have had time to read the bill when you’ve had plenty of time to run from interview to interview to complain that you haven’t had time to read the bill?
5. Can you say with a straight face that you might have voted for the bill if you had had time to read it?
Well, thanks for your time. I’m sure you have to run along now to your next interview in which you’ll talk about not having had the time to read a bill you never would have voted for anyway.
Oh, and say hello to Rush for me, will you? Or is it Sean this time?
POSTSCRIPT: One other thing:
Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who attended his mother’s wake last night, had to fly back to Washington in the dead of night to cast the decisive vote on the stimulus bill and then return home for today’s funeral.
Since Brown’s yes vote was never in doubt, couldn’t one Republican senator — Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, for example — have changed his own vote to yes so that Brown could have stayed with his family during this difficult time?
Just asking.
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1. Orlando Clay | February 14th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Yet another brilliantly written post, Pat.
It’s nothing short of astonishing how difficult it is for the GOP (especially the rabid Cons on the far right) to come to terms with the fact that they have very little, if any, power or clout left in their arsenal.
2. Michael Jessen | February 14th, 2009 at 10:49 am
What no comments on this FACT?
Democrats Not Supporting the Stimulus
http://thepage.time.com/democrats-not-supporting-the-stimulus/
3. Pat Cunningham | February 14th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Michael: And your point is…?
4. Henry | February 14th, 2009 at 11:26 am
What social programs are you referring to? And the reason the ‘liberals’ are in a hurry might be what? Republicans who voted against the bill on Friday wouldn’t have voted for the bill on Monday. That is just BS. C’mon, get real.
5. Craig Knauss | February 14th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
It wouldn’t have happened on Monday either, people. Monday is a federal holiday. Hello?
6. Henry | February 14th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Choose any day you like. The vote wouldn’t be any different.
7. snuss | February 14th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
What happened to Obama’s “transparant administration”, which PROMISED public access to the law-making process? B.H.O. has proved that he is no different than any other lying Chicago Democratic politician, other than he is spending the tax monies of multiple generations yet to be born. Some “change”.
8. bannernews | February 14th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
I think one change is that Barack is spending it in the US not Iraq.
9. Michael Jessen | February 14th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Obama warned over ‘welfare spendathon’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5733499.ece
Nothing more than spending on dead beats that will vote for the socialist party.
10. bannernews | February 14th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Ya as I said earlier, he’s spending it on our deadbeats not Iraq’s. By dead beats I assume your talking about the captains of the financial world who lost trillions, wet their pants and came to Washington to join the socialist army. Socialism for the rich.
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