What will the Republicans do now?

I agree irish, I hope the republicans will be more co-operative and work to solve our countries problems, not only financial problems but the conflicts going on in the Middle East and Africa. I was very dissapointed though when the republican leadership sent an email to all republicans in Congress to vote against any stimulus package that was put up for vote before the terms in the package were even discussed. Obama tried to reach out to the republicans but they denighed his effort. I voted republican in the general election primary, but when I saw what took place, I voted Democratic in the general election. I hope I have learned my lesson from that experience.

I remember seeing John McCain's proposal and it was such a small amount that it wouldn't have done much of anything to help. Did you notice that the main thing the republicans were wanting was tax cuts. Well, if you will notice the bill has double the amount for tax relief than any other category. This was a large concession to the republicans.

I would not say it was a large concession. What I would like to see is the democratic memebers of congress policing their own members. In the stimulus bill that was suppost to stimulate our economy not only illegal immigration varification for jobs taken out (so now our borrowed money is helping them too) but Pelosi put in millions to "save the salt harvest mouse". How is that going to stimulate the econmony? It isn't. There were several pet projects like that in the stimulus bill. They spent money we don't have and on projects that will do nothing for the ecomony. That made it really hard for me and other converatives to support the bill. They should have left out the BS wasteful project spending and just focused on what would help the economy...then they would have seen more support. It is like the partriot act...they put a good name on it so people will go ok, I am patriotic so I will support it, but it was not a patriotic bill. They called it a stimulus bill, most of america said yep we need a stimulus....when it reality a lot of money was needlessly wasted. We are spending more money than we have. That is a problem. Our gov. needs to trim the fat. Find what is absolutely necessary fund it and cut the rest. pay down the national debt, and let us americans keep more of the money WE earn so that we can decide how to spend it. and most of all not leave a mountain of debt for the next generation to pay for. Did they cause this mess? No. SO they should not have to pay for it. The only word I can use for Congress right now is irresponsible.

"I remember seeing John McCain's proposal and it was such a small amount that it wouldn't have done much of anything to help." It was over $400 billion. That's enough money to buy Walmart and Microsoft so if you don't think that's enough to do anything, then you clearly have no concept of money and business. "Did you notice that the main thing the republicans were wanting was tax cuts. Well, if you will notice the bill has double the amount for tax relief than any other category. This was a large concession to the republicans." That's a load of crap. You must get your talking points from Chuck "Chump Change" Schummer. Obama PROMISED those tax cuts. That was the bulk of his campaign platform. He actually wanted $350 billion but Pelosi cut it DOWN to $250 billion so we're not even getting the complete amount promised by Obama, much less enough to be called a "concession" to republicans. "What I would like to see is the democratic memebers of congress policing their own members." I would love to see this too. Instead we only had a handful of democrats who stood against this and they were simply ignored by their party just like the republicans. "They should have left out the BS wasteful project spending and just focused on what would help the economy." They certainly should have. Unfortunately they chose to follow the policy of Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel who said 'You never want a serious crisis to go to waste and what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you didn't think you could do before.' They saw this as their chance to push every pet project that had been rejected over the last 20 years. "Our gov. needs to trim the fat. Find what is absolutely necessary fund it and cut the rest." Unfortunately they are doing just the opposite. Obama never met a spending bill he didn't like. They are finding UNnecessary things to fund like resodding the national mall. They insist it will create jobs, but hey, I could create jobs by resodding my property, it's wasteful though and I can't afford to do it. If I can't afford to waste money doing that on my property, why do the democrats in congress think it's ok to waste my money doing that at the national mall?

Most of the Dixiecrats (Strom Thurmond and the like) jumped ship for the Republican party in the 60's, when the Democratic leadership started promoting civil rights. The two parties aren't the same as they were a hundred years ago.

"Eisenhower ranked as one of the 10 worst presidents despite a GNP growth of over 25 percent and inflation that averaged 1.4 percent." That's pathetic. Eisenhower was the first president to help push the civil rights movement. He supported Brown v Board of Education and passed two civil rights bills as president. Sadly Kennedy gets all the credit for bills that he, and later LBJ passed.

You must understand Ward, you will really get hammered for bringing something truthful on this board. The "hard line" republicans here just can't stand the fact that they lost the election and they thought Bush was such a great leader when he was officially rated 7th from the bottom ending up #36 out of 43. Oh yes, Lincoln #1, George Washington #2 and Franklin Delano Roosevelt #3. The stimulus bill put twice the amount of any other item in the bill into tax relief and that was what the republicans were screaming for.

I heard it referred to as financial child abuse. Very fitting if you ask me.

very fitting. We are abusing the next generation. We are robbing them blind.

I personally am amazed by what democrats consider bipartisanship compared to the republican definition. To republicans bipartisanship meant John McCain working with democrats like Kennedy and Feingold to forge bills that represented the desires of both parties. To democrats bipartisanship means closed door sessions with no republican input followed by the president schmoozing and telling the republicans to support it because he won.