The best part of the stimulus bill? That no Republicans voted for it, which means they get NO credit

[Rabrrrrrr]

When it works, we have even more ammunition to use against the Republicans - we can always say "Remember, NOT A SINGLE Republican voted for it."

The economic recovery will solely, entirely, and utterly a Democratic doing.

Of course, the Republicans will find a spin their "no" votes as somehow actually being *in favor* of the package and the *real* reason that it was successful; or that the recovery happened *despite* the bill, not because of it; but people with brains will always know the real truth.

At America's most critical moment in decades, the ONLY people who voted to save the country were Democrats.

That's AWESOME!

And hopefully the Democrats, instead of pissing away such a victory like they usually do, will totally capitalize on it, take advantage of it, and sail long and hard and fast on the truth of it. This should be worth two decades of Democratic superiority.

[babylonsister]

1. But...but...they're already trying to take credit in their twisted little minds...

GOP lawmakers tout projects in the stimulus bill they opposed
By David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON — Rep. John Mica was gushing after the House of Representatives voted Friday to pass the big stimulus plan.

"I applaud President Obama's recognition that high-speed rail should be part of America's future," the Florida Republican beamed in a press release.

Yet Mica had just joined every other GOP House member in voting against the $787.2 billion economic recovery plan.

Republicans echoed their party line over and over during the debate: "This bill is loaded with wasteful deficit spending on the majority's favorite government programs," as Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Va., put it.

But Mica wasn't alone in touting what he saw as the bill's virtues. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, also had nice things to say in a press release.

Young boasted that he "won a victory for the Alaska Native contracting program and other Alaska small business owners last night in H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act."

more...

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/62181.html

[spanone]

6. the republics .....will take the money and run and they try to take credit in their states for it

[Peacetrain]

2. I like your thought process there..

Works for me!!

[BlooInBloo]

3. ""no" votes as somehow actually being *in favor* of the package"....

That sounds familiar from somewhere... Can't... quite.... place it.

:rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Hillary, perhaps?

Or just Republican doublespeak in general?

[BlooInBloo]

8. :)

[DrDan]

4. or blame if it fails

need to do all we can to improve this economy . . . make the plan succeed

if it does - more congressional seat losses in 2010

[daninthemoon]

5. Our local Oklahoma paper ran a front page story about how our

city will buy buses with stimulus money. While our senior senator Inhoffe is leading a one man crusade to decry the socialist spending bill, Oklahomans at home are already spending the money. If I hadn't just written a letter to the editor on a diferent matter, I would write that we must refuse the money. We elected Inhoffe and the other rethugs who have been showing out about this, and we rejected Obama's "socialism." Doesn't that make us hypocrites if we spend the fed's money? It's all about principles, isn't it? Or is it about opportunism?

[rvablue]

9. Frankly, I don't mind if they try to take a little credit...

it's ripping the GOP in two. The wingnuts are raving mad over it.

And then, come election time, their opponents can simply pound them repeatedly over the head with it.

Perfect!

[elocs]

10. The Republicans are rolling the dice on this one and probably everywhere else too.

If Obama succeeds, they are royally screwed. If he fails, along with America going down the tubes they can claim they were against it all along.

[Sparkly]

11. They didn't vote for Clinton's 1993 budget and tried to take credit for it anyway.

Truth is a minor inconvenience to them.

[Thothmes]

12. The reverse is also true. If it doesnt do much in the next

18 month, we get blamed and they get the House.