First a Stimulus Deal, Now the GOP Whining

clipped from www.politico.com Republicans took to the Senate floor today to launch an attack on the deal struck late Friday, which is expected to pass an approximately $800 billion stimulus through the upper chamber. Republicans complained that the deal — which Democratic leaders struck with three moderate GOP senators — left them out of the legislative process. "This bill was put together, this compromise, and it resembles nothing I see as bipartisan," said Nebraska Sen. Mike Johanns. "If you think about the dynamics of this, just less than four percent of the Congress participated in this on the Republican side," said Johanns. "I think we've got some better ideas that could have been incorporated into this legislation if it had not been such a partisan exercise," added Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl in a floor speech.

We've had eight years of Republican's "better ideas" Jon. Turns out they aren't better ideas -- they're stupid ideas. Had all this free market moonyism actually panned out, then you'd have some basis to bitch. Of course, had all this free market moonyism actually panned out, there wouldn't be a need for an economic stimulus anyway.

This will be the GOP until 2010 -- complaining about everything, trying to block everything, and political grandstanding.

If you value your life, don't get between a Republican and a TV camera for a while.