Rush for Judgment?

All of Obama’s extraordinary efforts to involve Republicans in his Stimulus Package went for naught. The Democrats put $300 billion worth of tax cuts in the Bill just to please the GOP members in the House and when the vote came yesterday not one of the 177 Republicans voted for the package. The final tally was 244 to 188, as 11 “Blue Dog” Democrats voted nay as well. Obama should now say, bleep them, we don’t need them and it’s clear they don’t want to join us, so let’s take the $300 billion in tax cuts out of the Bill and put that money where it should have gone in the first place, into Infrastructure expenses, where more jobs can be made available. (100,000 people have already lost their jobs this week.)
In sum, the rule of the day is still polarization and it doesn’t look like the situation will change anytime soon. Our new president was naïve to think he could sweet talk them into bipartisanship when he knows the GOP remnant in our current government is all to the right and moving further in that direction all the time. He also mentioned Rush Limbaugh’s criticism; indeed, it now appears that the titular head of that remnant of the Republican Party is none other than Rush Limbaugh. He has been anointed to that position by the FOX AND FRIENDS trio and others on cable TV this morning. The trio on FOX showed a picture of Rush on Mount Rushmore, being one of the four on that national icon. His response to that was typical for his giant-sized ego: “It looks like it has been there for a long time.” He does seem to be calling the shots and this morning he said he would soon reveal his own Stimulus Plan that, unlike Obama’s, “will work.” It sounds like he better run for office and put his mouth where the votes are.
Some say Rush is an entertainer who uses politics to amuse and distract the 20% out there that who cheer his screed and applaud his antics. Well, all I can say is, only a bankrupt party would follow a glib clown as leader and spokesman.