Comments on: GOP Leaders Oppose Haste On Stimulus

Washington Post: Congressional Republicans Seek Extensive Vetting of Proposal, Which Could Push Its Passage Back To February

[samthetvcat]

Sometimes the GOP actually come up with good ideas, but they seem to sort of end up shooting themselves in the foot with the delivery.

Like with the auto bailout, they put those conditions in which would have made great strides towards making the big 3 viable, only the contempt they seemed to have towards unions which resulted in their lack of attention to demanding concessions from management as well made them look like they only cared about scoring political points. And then polls ultimately showed that people actually supported the auto bailout, so they ended up on the wrong side of the issue.

The way they''ve set up this opposition here too to me seems to smack of political calculation (?) Because they haven''t expressed ANY concern whatsoever for the tanking economy, the stress people are feeling, and the thirst for some urgent relief.

It''s actually probably great to know that it''s not so easy in life for Government to just whip off a check for hundreds of billions of dollars, but they should have at least offered to pass an emergency stimulus bill of a smaller scale on day one - maybe to get stimulus checks out to the public asap or something like that.

I don''t know if this helps their image of being kind of cold, apathetic, and all about saving THEIR money (?)

[collegedudeu]

It''s not just "liberals" who are fed up with the Republican party. My ideals are to the right, however I refuse to align myself with the current republican brand. It has become a party of corruption and fecklessness. There is a reason why republicans are losing elections and members, such as myself, and it has nothing to do with "liberals". It has to do with their do-nothing approach that is causing America to fall further behind the rest of the world.

[kazoodan]

Exactly Davicar- It started with a realy Dumb Democrat- Clinton- . Good God, now we have the woman as Sec of State- Geeze, what''''s next..Michelle Obama running for NY Senator?

Posted by peace4321 at 12:22 PM : Dec 30, 2008

Wow. Still blaming the dog for the child urinating on the rug. Sad.

[suzyku]

The Republicans have gotten us into the current mess we''re in! We should NOT listen to anything they have to say, they''re all clueless nuts who are more concerned with their own (bad) agenda''s then moving this country out of the *** pile they''ve put us into! Just say NO to them! They have already done enough harm and have proven their worthlessness!

[renojmc]

Good for the Republicans! The liberals think they know best how to dole out our money to us. Just cut our taxes and leave us alone! That will stimulate the economy.

[sharednotion]

Personally, I like the idea of some sort of temporary "sales tax holiday." Congress could choose a period, such as the last weekend in March 2009 (allowing time for federal, state, & local government co-ordinate for the sales tax holiday). Congress could pass a federal law ordering the U.S. Treasury to reimburse state AND local governments for 100% of sales taxes lost that weekend, but ONLY in states whose state legislatures mandate ALL units of government in their state to bring all sales taxes down to ZERO throughout that ENTIRE weekend. THEN, heavy publicity through the news media would let Americans nationwide know about the savings they can get on ALL purchases that weekend (INCLUDING ZERO federal state or local excise or sales taxes on the purchase of a new car, for example: as lomg as a downpayment of at least 10& was paid in that tax-holiday weekend, the no-tax policy would STILL apply on all of your subsequent payments on the car.)

[dnamj]

The Republicans are bound and determined to turn the USA into a third world feudal mess. I hope that they keep losing elections.

[torva-2009]

"GOP Leaders Oppose"

The epitaph of the Republican party!

May it pass quickly to oblivion and from memory!

[lochlan-2009]

"but Republicans, particularly McConnell, have the ability to at least slow the process, which could delay the infusion of federal dollars into the hemorrhaging economy"

The Republicans are skating on the thinest of ice. I''ve personally sworn off voting for a republican for a long long time, after these last eight years, and there are no shortage of people in this boat with me. Sure hope these few remaining republicans use their last days, in a party that could fade away to nothing, to do something good for once for America and Americans. It would be nice to see them really keep an eye out for the wasted and excessive spending at the Dems disposal now. As long as it is done with America''s interest in mind, and not the greedy elitist agenda the GOP had these last eight years, at a cost of tens of trillions of $$$$ to every HARD WORKING American.

[afmca]

It is sad that the Republicans spent the last 8 years destroying the American economy and ruining the lives of millions of hard working middle class Americans and the Republican Senate and House leadership want to use their ability as the new vast minority to slow down legislation to spread the pain even longer in 2009.

Every leading economist states that the American economy needs a quick and huge kick start; not more tax breaks for the wealthy. The Southern based Republican Party was willing to see large U.S. based auto companies go belly up to support their quest for low wages and foreign imports. They now want to see how many more companies that employ Americans at good wages they can destroy.

O''Connell should have been defeated in KY. He is a worthless political hack. Boehner will be gone in 2 years once the people of Ohio realize he was willing to let more manufacturing jobs disappear. The Republicans are dinosaurs and their leaders are becoming extinct. At least it proves the theory of evolution ... Republicans just cannot adapt to the changing political climate.

[cariboubarbi]

Has the GOP become the party of NO?

No new ideas.

No responsibility for the huge mistakes they''ve made.

No to anyone who''s been elected to get us out of this mess.

[hologram5]

They are worried about an 850Billion dollar price tag when they already tossed 750B to the wind with no regulation? Hmm, sounds kinda idiotic to me.