Ooh! Those Awful Republicans, How Dare They? (I Didn't Know They Were 2/3 in the Senate)

It always amazes me how the press can turn a phrase. "Republicans push through..." "Republicans muscled through..." I see that the vote in the Senate was 79-9 and in the House it was 367-45. I thought that there were only 56 Republicans in the Senate including the 10 or so RINO's and only 230 or so in the House. I somehow have to believe that if this was a bill of which Liberals in the press approved, this would be called a "glorious bi-partisan victory for the people."

Republicans push tax and trade bill through Congress
By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Rejected by voters and limping off stage, the Republican-led Congress muscled through a sweeping bill reviving expired tax breaks, extending trade benefits for developing countries and protecting doctors from a big cut in Medicare payments.

The Senate cleared the bill for President Bush's signature early today by a 79-9 vote. Final adjournment loomed.

But Republicans dumped an unfinished budget on the Democrats about to take power, with the Senate barely meeting a midnight deadline to pass a stopgap spending bill putting the government on autopilot until Feb. 15.

The failure to pass budget bills for domestic agencies, said Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., amounted to "a blatant admission of abject failure by the most useless Congress in modern times."

The House, also working late into the night, acted first, easily passing the tax and Medicare provisions — along with a plan to open 8.3 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling. The vote was 367-45. It passed the trade legislation by a narrower 212-184.

I would have thought that Mr. Obey and his crew of Left-wing extremists would be thrilled at the prospect of passing the required budget bills. The Republicans have left the playing field and are allowing to Democrats to demonstrate their superior capabilities to solve all of the problems about which they have been so vocal in whining. Instead they express no gratitude at all for this act of generosity.

Could it be, now that the Democrats have to "put-up or shut-up" they are getting cold feet. Perhaps, as those among us who are Conservatives have been saying, they have nothing to offer but the tired old failed socialist ideals they have tried so many times before, and they know that they will not be able to do anything better than that which Republicans have done and probably much worse, given their antipathy for capitalism and private enterprise.

They have been talking down the economy for the past five years without pause, now let's see them do better, or even half as well. I've already noticed how all the conversation about how bad the economy is doing has quietly shifted to "it's really not all that bad" and "perhaps we shouldn't move too fast in making changes."

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