What do you call someone who eliminates hundreds of thousands of American jobs, deprives millions of adequate health care and nutrition, undermines schools, but offers a $15,000 bonus to affluent people who flip their houses?
He answers his riddle with this: A proud centrist.
The true answer is a Republican and a handful of so-called "blue dog" Democrats from "conservative" states who are hijacking legislation which could benefit millions while at the same time giving away money to people who don't need them.
And the reasons these legislators hate working people and pander to the rich are twofold. For the Republicans it is a desire to see Obama fail by being obstructionist and helping their own fortunes in 2010 and 2012, no matter if they destroy the world economy in the process. For the Democrats, it's a matter of wanting more of those political contributions from the same corrupt interests as those financing the Republicans.
They don't care about the rest of us. They really don't care.
The stimulus bill will go to conference, and no doubt some of the parts eliminated by the Senate will be restored, maybe even all of them, for the bill is going to pass both houses regardless.
Even if it passes, Obama has lost some political capital by naively believing that if one just reaches across the aisle, all the legislators in both parties will sing kumbaya and the country will get moving again. Obama should realize if he tries to reach across the aisle with these fascists, he will get his arm bit off.
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