The Porkulus that loved me
I keep reading an interesting dynamic out in blogland. Erstwhile Democrats “upset” or “concerned” that “Republicans are not working with Obama to save the country”.
Why should they care? The Democrats have sufficient numbers in the House, and nearly so in the Senate (and they have a few Republican turncoats on their side anyhow) to do, quite literally, anything they please. They demonstrated as much by shutting the Republicans out of the conference committee meetings on the stimulus bill.
Napoleon said “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”. If the Republicans not signing on with Porkzilla is such a bad thing for them, why would the Democrats even want them on board?
The only answer that comes to mind is that the Democrats know that the stimulus bill is nothing of the sort, and will not do anything to revive the economy. They didn’t want the Republicans on board as a show of “bipartisanship”. They wanted to be able to share the blame when it all falls apart.
Because if the stimulus works, and the economy is on a path to growth in 12-18 months, the Republicans are looking at an even further reduction in their hold in the House and Senate come 2010.
But it isn’t going to work. And the people that perpetrated it are gonna get owned.
If we make it to 2010, that is.