Watched "Washington Week" with Gwen Ifill last night. They spent most of the half hour discussing "bipartisanship" over the porkulus bill that passed the Senate a couple of hours before the show went on. Little discussion of the bill's contents, or the likelihood of it staving off Great Depression II, the talk was all about "bipartisanship". The panel seemed to feel that, despite all but three "Republicans" voting against the bill, bipartisanship was live and well, and somehow desirable.
Me, I feel this bill wastes money that ought to go to job creation on pay offs to political cronies. Only 11 percent of the money will be spent in 2009 when it is needed, and only a third of it funds job creating activities. The Republicans, rightfully, voted against it en masse, so the result is clearly the Obama/Democrat bill.
That's partisan, and we need that kind of partisanship right now. The voters deserve to have a choice at election time. They have one now, you like the porkulus bill, vote democratic, you don't like porkulus, vote republican.
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