'GOP senators draft stimulus alternative'...you'd think they won the presidency and both houses...

[spanone]

you believe these assholes?

CNN) -- A group of Republican senators drafted an alternative stimulus measure that narrows government spending to infrastructure programs and helping unemployed Americans, addresses the housing crisis and relies mostly on tax cuts.

The $713 billion plan was put together by Florida Sen. Mel Martinez, who has been working with a handful of other GOP senators.

The proposal includes $430 billion in tax cuts, $114 billion for infrastructure projects, $138 billion for extending unemployment insurance, food stamps and other provisions to help those in need and $31 billion to address the housing crisis.

The draft Martinez put together is a broader approach than what some GOP leaders have suggested.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans appear to want to limit the stimulus to tax cuts and addressing the housing crisis.

But the draft is more narrow than the Democrats' plan because it eliminates spending on government programs that Republicans and some Democrats say shouldn't be in the bill because they don't create jobs.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/02/stimulus/index.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Someone has to tell these f-----s that they lost.

Unreal, isn't it?

[Initech]

13. No shit.

[Wapsie B]

2. Uh boys, we tried it your way for how long? Look at the mess we're in.

Step aside little men and let the adults fix what you broke.

[spanone]

3. they learned nothing. nada. zip. ziltch. zero.

[malaise]

4. Rushicans need to buy a clue

Fucking losers.

[gratuitous]

5. Well, an alternative plan at last

And look at that! Even more of the same policies that got us into this enormous mess in the first place. Could anyone have foreseen that? The Republican solution to this clusterfuck is more clustering and harder fucking. It takes an uncommon mind to think such things will work after eight years of miserable failure. Uncommon, I tell you.

[spanone]

6. it's alllllll about tax cuts. it's the oldest bs in the political world

[ananda]

7. Yr country belong to us!

Get over it suckers!

[ColbertWatcher]

8. The GOP still controls the media; that's why this "news" gets out.

And why it will be seriously considered.

We may have won the majority of Congressional races and the White House, but the GOP still controls the media, the courts and the schools.

[BarbaRosa]

9. I was gonna say, with as much

air-time as these creeps are getting, they probably think they have a mandate. Every time I switch to a talking head show, there's another damn repug.:puke:

[ColbertWatcher]

10. They're all over the "liberal media"

:puke:

[spanone]

11. earlier on hardball they were saying that the republics won the spin war...it's now a spending bill

instead of a 'stimulus package'.....they could only have done this with the media's constant help

[liberal N proud]

12. They have not gotten used to not getting everything their way.

Spoiled little brats they are.



I was going to remove this sig pic once the inauguration was over but in light of the pouting and actions of the GOP, it is still appropriate. Maybe now more than ever.

[tritsofme]

14. Why do people get their panties in a knot over something like this?

The minority always offers worthless alternatives that have no chance of passage.

But I guess if you guys didn't have anything to whine about there wouldn't be anything to do.

[lamp_shade]

15. Love the troll. Years ago there was a "Sony's New Online Camera" link going around.

(Statenislandboys dotcom) You were instructed to look into the camera, smile and click the button. After a few seconds, a full screen pic of your "troll" appeared. I had a lot of fun with that.

[Hubert Flottz]

16. "you'd think they won the presidency and both houses"

You'd Think!