"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"John R. Carroll" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"Stuart Fields" wrote in message
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I wonder why this hasn't hit some of the news channels. I know that I
have not seen this before.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.p...w&pageId=88218



If the Republicans hadn't gutted money for the states from the House
version of the stimulus bill, the 10th Amendment issue would die in a
hurry.

Don't be surprised to see those funds restored to the conferenced version
of the bill Ed.
What I don't understand is why the bill doesn't contain payroll tax
abatement provisions. That could be accomplished with the stroke of a pen
and would be as quick a stimulous as you could get. Republicans would
have been hoist on their own petard, and they'd have been falling all
over themselves to get behind the bill.

Oh, you underestimate their creativity. I'm sure they'd find something to
bitch about no matter what was or was not in the bill.

I'd forgotten what happened Ed but there originally was a payroll tax
holiday in the stimulus paseed last year.
It was opposed by the Republicans and taken out infavor of tax incentives
for corporations. Big Oil as a matter of fact.


To them, this is about trying to score political points, not about helping
the country to recover. If you listen to Limbaugh, that's exactly what the
hard-core wants: failure.

I listened to Rush while I drove the Pacheco Pass from I-5 to Gilroy
recently.
In nearly an hour he really didn't say a single thing. I didn't hear one
fact, argument or proposal, just an hour of snarky, high school level
blather. Very strange.


And I'm thoroughly disgusted with McCain's grandstanding and sleazy
manuevering.

That surprised me a little and I haven't given much thought to it.
I figured he'd adopt a populist outlook, especially after hearing his
initial statements
There is a political calculation here that I can't quite fathom. I think the
Republican party is blowing the calculus on 2010.

He had it right the first time, when he said that his understanding of
economics is not one of his strong points.

Isn't that, and comic relief, why he brought Palin to the ticket?
LMAO

JC