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purplkat

The Stimulus Plan

Feb 11, 2009 08:48

Well, it's looking like maybamaybe the stimulus plan is going to get through, and the economists I've been reading are really unhappy with it. In fact, Paul Krugman is downright furious. (Read his blog for more on his problems with the deal. He has attacked Republicans for being complete assholes about the whole thing and whining about " ( Read more... )

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miintikwa February 11 2009, 19:04:08 UTC

*applause*

I hate the way the damn Repubs are being so determinedly oppositional. I hope the Dems find their balls and start doing something with them.

purplkat February 11 2009, 20:23:19 UTC

IMO, they should deal with them like they're children. Go ahead and offer them the carrot first -- meeting with them and listening to them and giving them some of what they want. And then, if they don't fall in line, the damn stick: Taking away everything they wanted. Eventually, they'd realize that a compromise is better than nothing, and the dems still get to look bipartisan.

miintikwa February 11 2009, 20:36:32 UTC

Amen to that.

akumadaimyo February 11 2009, 21:07:09 UTC

Chrissy and I actually voted no on prop 8 so we aren't the idiots who are only now whining about it, that is pretty sad and upsetting Where were they when it was time to vote? Chrissy was even telling people it's basically a Jim Crow law. (And it is.) Though that revelation came from an older customer who told Chrissy that she remembered those laws and that Prop 8 was essentially just that. I'm sort of angered by minorities who would vote yes on 8 but who are mad about things like Jim Crow and how they were treated in the past, ect. What right do they have to turn around and do that to gays? :-(

purplkat February 12 2009, 08:08:21 UTC

The thing that got me even more than the whole 'gays aren't people' bullshit that surrounds Prop 8 is that it's an amendment that specifically takes freedoms and rights out of the state constitution. That's a big reversal on... pretty much everything this country stands for. And it's something that other minority groups (like Mormons, who are not well liked by the religious right) because they could have their rights taken away too, now that there is a precedent that they're fighting so damn hard for ( ... )

akumadaimyo February 12 2009, 08:12:32 UTC

Pretty much. If you go around intimidating people that will just make them think they were in the right. I know they are angry and upset but it's not gonna help.

compostwormbin February 12 2009, 06:23:48 UTC

I agree. There should have been no concessions on the stimulus, and Obama should have called their bluff. Because if Repubs DID filibuster (unlikely) the ugly turn of public opinion would have nipped it in the bud fast.

Obama is making the kind of mistakes I had hoped he wouldn't. Hope he wises up fast.

purplkat February 12 2009, 08:12:18 UTC

A large part of the stimulus selling strategy/mistakes seem to have come from the House and Senate democrats, rather than the White House. Obama has been surprisingly hands off up until recently, and I think that has a lot to do with, as I mentioned before, Reid and Pelosi whining because they're too chickenshit to be decent leaders and are thus getting the reigns of power taken the fuck away from them. The so-called "strategy" the democrats have been taking reeks of Pelosi and Reid's cheap perfume. My hope is that these mistakes have a lot more to do with them than with Obama.

Oh, and I hate you for your icon. That fucking song is stuck in my head, now. :P

compostwormbin February 17 2009, 09:05:38 UTC

It could be argued that "hands-off" has been Obama's mistake. Or, he could be letting things play out naturally so he can figure out how to address the problems. I am on the fence with that one.

I'm sorry my icon gave you an earworm. I love that song but guess not everyone does.