Rants and Raves

Isn’t it interesting that the people who proclaim loudest that they are reaching out as bipartisans to accomplish their agendas are also the quickest to ditch the proclamation when they don’t need it. In the latest stinkulus bill discussion, the Republicans were certainly invited to attend the meeting; they simply weren’t allowed to participate.  

“I won” Barack said to the top Republicans when they pointed out that 90% of the legislative abomination is nothing more than pork. In other words, too bad. You can’t do anything about it, and your input means nothing here. Barack certainly did win. And now he has successfully outraged every conservative with a voice and every taxpayer with the ability to see what his great stimulus plan is really funding. Beginning with that comment, many of us are already counting down until the next round of elections in 2010, when the pork bill won’t have done anything more for the economy than the last pork bills did, and the “I won” statement can be stuck right back in his face by American voters.   

Having secured their positions and having eliminated the opposition, Barack and Pelosi have no need to be bipartisan anymore. They’ve got that good old feeling of invincibility as they look at the next two years without checks or balances to stop them; they can see no end to the amount of taxpayer money they can spend. For now.    

As for the truly bipartisan position, as conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh so elequently points out, 11 democrats and every last Republican with a vote said no to the stinkulous bill, teaming up in an attempt to deflate a number of dangerously pressurized political egos. Naturally, the side of reason was still not powerful enough in this climate, but I wonder exactly how hypocritical Obama and Pelosi feel today with that knowledge, considering their constant outcries of bipartisanship. My guess is not at all. That would, after all, require a conscience combined with the ability to logically think.