Last Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favour of President Obama’s Economic Stimulus Package, despite every single House Republican voting no. Yes, you heard that right – not one Republican congressman voted in favour of economic stimulus, despite Obama granting them face-time to discuss their concerns and significant concessions in the bill itself. The legislation is now being sent to the Senate, yet in ominous news it looks like Obama hasn’t learnt his lesson, promising to reshape the bill to ensure the support of Republican senators.
This slavish devotion to the continued courting of Republicans over the stimulus package is not just nonsensical in the wake of the House GOP effectively telling Obama to go f— himself but downright dangerous as well and yet another example of the mystifying american obsession with “bipartisanship”. I explain why over the fold.
