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GOP: No Recovery for America
An $825 billion stimulus was passed this week to help America's economy. By now, everyone realizes the severity of America's economic condition. What's more surprising is how much bipartisan support the bill received—none. No Republican in the House voted to pass the economic stimulus. Quite frankly, I think it was an unnecessary act of partisan politics.
So, let me get this straight. When one of the biggest financial disasters to ever hit the U.S. occurred, the biggest one since the Great Depression, every single Republican decided that the proposed solution was no good?
To me, it seems as though at the one moment where coming together and working to solve our nation's problems collectively made sense, the other team dropped the ball.
That doesn't say too much in terms of independence of thought. Republicans, Independents and Democrats alike, no matter what party affiliation, are in need of some kind of help. When the country loses more than 100,000 jobs in a week, that's got to make any sane-minded person stop and think.
The current commander in chief ran a campaign partly on the idea of bipartisanship. He spoke about not running away from an idea because it didn't come from a Democratic or Republican colleague. Those sentiments seem to be lost on the current Republicans in D.C.
We have an enormous amount of issues ahead of us that are still going to need a great deal of support in order to solve. This whole political game of “my way or the highway” must end. There's too much at stake now.