America: It Was Nice Knowing You

 

 

AP:

In a major victory for President Barack Obama, Democrats muscled a huge, $787 billion stimulus bill through Congress late Friday night in hopes of combating the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.

After lobbying energetically for the bill, Obama is expected to sign it within a few days, less than a month after taking office.

Supporters said the legislation would save or create 3.5 million jobs. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., conceded there was no guarantee, but he said that "millions and millions and millions of people will be helped, as they have lost their jobs and can't put food on the table of their families."

Vigorously disagreeing, House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio dumped a copy of the 1,071-page bill to the floor in a gesture of contempt. "The bill that was about jobs, jobs, jobs has turned into a bill that's about spending, spending, spending," he said.

The Senate approved the measure 60-38 with three GOP moderates providing crucial support - the only members of their party to back it. Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio cast the decisive vote after flying aboard a government plane from Ohio, where he was mourning his mother's death.

Hours earlier, the House vote was 246-183, with all Republicans opposed to the package of tax cuts and federal spending that Obama has made the centerpiece of his plan for economic recovery.

 

Giant historical-sized kudos and heartfelt thanks go out to all the Republicans who stood firm against this madness, forcing the Democrats to own this oncoming debacle.  Aside from the three RINOs, the Republican party proved that it is once again the party of fiscal responsibility, and a voice of sanity in a nation gone crazy.  While the Kool-Aid soaked masses of the Obamessiah faithful are celebrating their hoped-for utopia right now, they'll soon come to regret their misplaced devotion, and some of them may actually find the rude awakening of reality enough to bring them back to sanity.  For those of us who had our eyes open going in, well, at least we went down fighting.  Hopefully we'll be able to hold off the worst of this monstrosity for long enough to take back our country in 2010 and put it back together again.  For the three turncoats...you will be remembered, too, for an entirely different reason.  May your constituents have long, long memories, and may you find retirement very, very soon.

 

I'll post more analysis and commentary in the coming days as this disaster plays out, but for now I just have one thought: we were all warned.

Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.

Those words were uttered by Michelle Obama on the campaign trail last year.  'Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual'...that last sentence suddenly has new meaning now, doesn't it?

 

America, it was nice knowing you.  I hope you survive this gunshot to the temple.

 

There's my two cents.