MTP - I agree that much of the money being spent in this plan is for "worthy causes", but this is a STIMULUS BILL. The overwhelming intent, if not the entirety of this bill, as promised repeatedly, is to generate jobs and jumpstart the economy. At another time and under different circumstances, a bill like this would be wonderful. This is not a stimulus bill - thats the point we are debating here. Call it something else and the reaction would be very, very different. I'd be very interested to see the reaction if this bill was brought to the house under any other name.
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I don't really understand, yes I know the other side wants/needs to be represented. Is it completely the dems fault that the elected repubs are not able to represent their voting base? If a person is frustrating, pigheaded and outright hostile to work with, are you going to work with them? No. I'm not saying that the republicans are all like this, but I can't help but think that dems are not the only ones with character flaws.
Maybe the republican voters should take another look at their republican representatives.
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Try looking at that statement without the labels Dem & Rep. I think that is a little more accurate. This has been going on for a long time and the party with a majority has always done this. The difference this time is that there is such an overwhelming disparity in the numbers of representatives from each party. The D's have virtually all the power right now and do not need the R's to pass anything. They have the power to do it all without them.
Regarding the last line - think of it this way. Isn't that the reason why the R's are in the minority? The voters did exactly that.