Elections Have Consequences!!!! YYYEEEEEAAAAHHHHH!!!!

[Stinky The Clown]

At least in theory ...... I've heard ...... somebody said that ....... maybe it was back in high school civics class I heard it ...... I know I heard it ......

edit to add:

NOW I remember ..... they matter if you're a Repubican.

Well sorta ..... but ya know ..... they always seem to act like they own the place ......

[stray cat]

1. Envision McCains and Palins stimulus package with the GOP in charge

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Pretty much what we got now from the Senate

[stray cat]

3. Do you really think so - tax cuts to low incomes only, extending unemployment

have you heard the ideas from the GOP that didn't get included?

[MadHound]

6. Tax cuts to corporations, cutting infrastructure spending,

Cutting education spending, unemployment spending, increasing defense spending. Sorry, but this so called stimulus bill is indeed more and more like a 'Pug bill.

[Wetzelbill]

5. they wouldn't have one

First of all, you'd have either Phil Gramm or John Thain running Treasury, which is bad enough. Although Thain might be able to create a few jobs remodeling his office anyway.

But they wouldn't have a stimulus. Republicans don't really believe in this, and McCain certainly doesn't. He would have put into effect a spending freeze and tried to balance the budget domestically while enlarging our war efforts in Iraq. He probably would have been forced to put through some type of tax cuts and because he would veto spending and their are enough Blue Dogs in Congress, he probably would have gotten it done. So basically, we'd have a broadened war effort at the same time as more tax cuts and a spending freeze and an attempt to balance the budget by gutting almost all federal spending. That's insane. We'd have been in a depression for sure, probably for the next 10-15 years. It would have done irreversible damage.

And based on what his head economics advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin said in a book that was scheduled to come out after the campaign, McCain would have eventually raised taxes, but again, he'd have tried to balance the budget by ripping up domestic spending. It would have been bad, we averted catastrophe and probably the end of our country as we know it by not electing that guy.

[Cyrano]

4. Damned if I can see it. The Thugs are still bullying and the Dems are still cowering.

Obama's really trying. All he needs is a Democratic party with some grit backing him up.

Unfortunately, the Dems have been caving in for so many years, they forgot how to fight back. They probably no longer even grasp the concept of fighting back.

[Marr]

7. The problem is that too much of the Democratic "leadership" is owned by the same people who

own the GOP.

People like Reid and Pelosi are in those positions because they were acceptable to the power structure. In other words, because they're corporate whores.