why the Rush Limbaugh Party wants to make sure the economy they destroyed stays that way

[realthog]

Wonkette summarizes (for her full post see here):

So, here are some specific things the GOP will not condone, in this bill they’re not going to vote for, anyway:

• A billion dollars extra for the 2010 U.S. Census, which is going to pay good money to many jobless people in every American town — and shore up Lockheed-Martin, which is getting $500 million to build the data systems and run the machinery.
• $75 million for FBI employee salaries, because why would you want to pay America’s top cops to do law enforcement and investigations, in America?
• $500 million for Mississippi River flood control projects, which would employ thousands of laborers and keep dozens of construction companies in business, because nothing makes Republicans happier than seeing a Katrina repeat on the teevee every other hurricane season.
• $200 million for green vehicles on U.S. military bases and $600 million to replace the federal fleet of cars with hybrids, because only a gay communist could see the economic benefits of $800 bmillion in sales for U.S. auto manufacturers while simultaneously cutting the government’s gasoline bill by billions per year.
• $1.4 billion for rural garbage-disposal and recycling programs, because who but an Islamo-Fascist would want to provide much-needed jobs for the Red State countryside while keeping toxic garbage out of those people’s drinking water?
• $125 million to rebuild the broken, rotten, third-world sewer system of our Nation’s Capital. You give the blacks this, and who knows what they’ll want next! And by “give,” we mean “pay a decent wage to laborers in D.C., to rebuild their sewers.”
• $6 billion to pay dozens of big regional contractors, hundreds of local businesses and tens of thousands of American workers to retrofit federal buildings so that they’ll be energy efficient
• $200 million for computer centers at community colleges, because if poor unskilled workers want to “learn the computer,” they should just go to Stanford instead of complaining. 
   

I cannot tell you how angry I am that these bozoes are still playing partisan politics when people's lives depend on concerted action.

Limbaugh has actually been honest enough to say, on air, that he hopes the stimulus package fails -- with his millions, why the hell should he care, so long as the oxycontin and bile supplies hold up?

But it's depressing that those members of the GOP elected supposedly to serve this country and its people should have the same attitude. They should at least have the integrity and guts to explain to their consituents that this is the case.

Comments

[plattcave.livejournal.com]

Amazing that the partisanship started up again so quickly. I can only pray that we kick this crap in the ass and make a difference in the world.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

But don't you get it yet -- the new GOP director or whatever they're called -- told you -- never once in the history of the world has government created a job.

Ooops, the U.S. postal service person just rang twice.

Love, C.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"the U.S. postal service person just rang twice"

That wouldn't be to deliver a letter from someone serving in Iraq, would it?

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Naw. It was from the fire dept., the muncipal utilities dept., the Army Corps of Engineers, the police Dept., the community school board, the NYC prosecuting attorney's office, the zoo keeper, and well the signatures are getting awfully small as the paper's running out of room.

Love, C.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Don't they always?

[quilterbear.livejournal.com]

I cannot tell you how angry I am that these bozoes are still playing partisan politics when people's lives depend on concerted action.


I couldn't agree with you more.

And I heard that Limbaugh not only wanted the stimulus to fail, but for Obama himself to fail. How very patriotic of him.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

I especially like the objection to Lockheed Martin, whose operations in Georgia are centred in a GOP-voting district.

[tomaq.livejournal.com]

Remember, as the new Repub chairman said just yesterday, never in history has government ever created a job.

Yes, they really are that stupid.

I understand why Obama might reach out to them as an opening gambit, but I fail to see why he would water down a much-needed bill to get even a single Repub vote. Or why he would continue to court them. I know that in DC "bipartisanship" is more valued than actually getting something done, but if the Republican party were marginalized for the rest of its natural lifetime, that would be kind compared to what they actually deserve for, you know, wrecking the country.

My fear is that Obama, like other Dems before him, has internalized the "must get along with the Rs at all costs" meme.

OK, there's my rant...