Right move, wrong reason

“It’s Vintage, Duh”:

Does it seem to anyone else that quite a few GOP Congressmen/Senators are voting against the spendulus bill because the Dems didn’t let them help draft the disaster?  (As opposed to them voting against it because it’s a bad idea.)

Yep.  Unnamed (’cause I forget who)^[1] Congress-critter was on local radio Thursday, carrying on about how “offensive” Obama’s talk of “bipartisanship” was when he appeared before the Republican reps  (as he knew that Peolsi had allowed no Republican input on the House version of the bill).

His talk left me with the strong impression that the stimulus bill might have been acceptable to the Republican caucus if it had included some Republican pork, and that some Republicans had intended to vote for it, but changed their minds when the President failed to give them “proper deference.”^[2]  Sad.

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