Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Blogging Will Resume In…
...Just a few days.
I don’t want to bump the RMBB post too far from the top, so I’m going to hold off serious posting until after the bash has passed. We’re not going for huge numbers this time (although, feel free to pass the links around and encourage some new faces to join us), but I want to make sure that all the fine folks who I’ll be drinking with get themselves some quality time at the top of my blog.
In the meantime, I will merely get angrier as I get emails from Campaign for America’s Future and (We Refuse to) MoveOn.org telling me that not only is it vital to pass that abomination of a stimulus package that our fine Senators are brawling over, but that it is probably a bill that doesn’t go far enough and doesn’t spend enough of the taxpayers’ future earnings to really accomplish “progressive” goals.
Which is pretty much all I need to know about those folks.
I’m not particularly old (although I’m not that particularly young, either), but I remember when nearly $900 billion was about the entire budget of our Federal government. The idea that, in the wake of all of the debt piled on by other supposed stimulus plans of questionable result, we should pile on hundreds of billions of dollars of more debt to fund an even more shaky “stimulus” effort.
The reason that the public has turned against the package is not because the GOP is saying mean things but because there is both a reasonable worry about the wisdom of adding that much new debt in an effort that many people don’t believe will have the desired result, and because the entire exercise seems to violate Obama’s promise of change. This bit of pork looks and tastes just like every other big, questionable bill that has passed through DC in the past--and that’s not even adjusting for party and ideological affiliation.
Obama’s promise to reach across the aisle might be coming true, though. The bill is looking unpopular enough that it simply must be creating impressive bipartisan resistance.
So, yeah, I’m not going to talk about things like that until after the party.
Comments & Trackbacks
HAS the public turned against it? Please say they have. Is there really any chance it won’t pass? I thought there was no way in hell that last one would pass, and it sure did and has already been wasted.
GOD I hope it doesn’t pass.
I saw something this morning--can’t find it right now--that said that about half of all respondents to a survey were opposed to the stimulus package and that a good chunk of those people thought that it would be bad for the economy and bad for the country.
Which doesn’t mean it won’t happen. I mean, our representatives don’t have the most stellar record of listening to folks like you and me, do they?
As for me, I’m terrified that it will find it’s way through the senate. I hope it’s misplaced fear.