The absurdity of the “stimulus package” is self-evident in the way the key Republican moderate conspirator tries to couch the message.
Arlen Specter - Why I Support the Economic Stimulus - washingtonpost.com
I am supporting the economic stimulus package for one simple reason: The country cannot afford not to take action.
This is precisely the sort of “planning” that results in a surgeon cutting off the wrong limb to stem the spread of a cancer. Actually, Congress may be planning to cut off the three healthy limbs by mistakenly identifying the diseased one as the sole healthy one.
“In politics,” John Kennedy used to say, “nobody gets everything, nobody gets nothing and everybody gets something.” My colleagues and I have tried to balance the concerns of both left and right with the need to act quickly for the sake of our country. The moderates’ compromise, which faces a cloture vote today, is the only bill with a reasonable chance of passage in the Senate.
Why don’t they just cut off our heads, too. These “moderates” are being directed by an administration that has, from a communications perspective, bathed in Jimmy Carter eu-du-toilett. Can’t you just feel the “malaise” dripping from Obama’s every word?
The only new spending I can legitimately support is for our national infrastructure, for the sole reason that we paid to rebuild infrastructures of too many nations that now use their American-made modernizations to compete with us. So, give me spending for steel mills and power grids and dams and roads and bridges. Give me tax breaks for corporate research and development conducted to benefit the public.
Don’t anesthetize me to death with bloated programs, or force me to participate in some odd orgy of pork.
This is a freaking charade being led by a new King with no clothes who has gotten his court to get naked, too. If the thought of seeing all those folks naked scares you (ewww!), remember that what they are proposing is far uglier.
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