This guy is ridiculous. He pretty much cornered senate republicans and is getting people riled up to vote for the new stimulus package. which is pork-ridden.
125 million to renovate sewers in washington D.C, 75 million dollars to get people to stop smoking, which theoretically will hurt the economy even more, i saw at least 10 million to renovate tennis courts around the country, and public pools as well, i mean come on seriously? tennis courts?
It was my understanding from his campaign that Obama was totally against "corruption, lobbyists, etc", well mr. obama how the hell do you think millions of dollars to renovate buildings and giving money to other organizations come about. This kind of thing will attract every lobbyist on K street, and im not against lobbying, its an important and significant system in our government. but just the mere spening rage that dems are going for is ridiculous. 25 million dollars to reduce alcoholism on indian reservations? ok alcoholism is bad, but lets stick to the topic here, the economy right? ohhh yeaahh. there is some good stuff like a few billion for coal companies to research clean coal etc, but then theres hundreds of millions of dollars to renovate government buildings.
And now the thing is, Obama isn't showing leadership, he doesn't have the guts to tell his own party that they aren't doing things right, and all this "bipartisan bullcrap", this isn't bipartisanship, its fake bipartisanship, now speeches like this that he just made are forcing senate republicans to vote for this package that they know is full of stupid stuff, like tonight, it was a speech "directed to the senate" that he made, so why was it at a dinner and made all public? surely he wouldn't want the public to pressure the senate to vote on the bill (sarcasm). now all of these republicans are going to get calls from their districts and whatnot asking about they wont vote on the bill, and why they're so against helping the people and whatever. Senators like Lindsey Graham from SC know exactly what im talking about, if anyone saw him speaking in senate in the past couple of days, he was pissed off and frustrated, cuz he knows this isn't real bipartisanship. So shame on the senate democrats as well for rushing the bill, take it easy, look it over and take the bullshit out, cuz they know it's in their. you don't get second shot at 900bn dollars, you cant just say o yeah we'll change that/put that in in the next one. and again barack obama with his bipartisanship doesn't want to make it seem like the democrats are divided so he just goes with everything. Geez, who is wearing the pants in this administration huh? if this continues barack obama is going to become the puppet of senate democrats for the next 4 years, and have you seen the number of senators? dems have over a 58% voting share in both houses, so they can steer bills whichever direction they want pretty much, and im sure the extra 8% will come from a few republicans who will fold to avoid not getting re-elected if Obama's bully pulpit speeches like the one he made tonight continue.
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