"Exxxxcusssse MEEEEEEE!"
Representative Peter King (R,NY) of New York complained on one of the 'talking head' shows sunday, that:
Republicans Left Out Of Stimulus Plan, that the stimulus bill that President Obama is expected to sign tomorrow doesn't include input from his party.KING: This bill offers too many social programs, and by excluding house republicans it prevented it from being bipartisan. I'm hoping as we go forward with the housing and banking issues that there will be bipartisan cooperation from the start.
George Stephanopoulos (of ABC News) countered:
Only three Republicans, Congressman King, in the in the Senate, (and )zero in (the) House (supported the stimulus plan).
And I have to say, it -- it surprised me that zero Republicans in the House went along with this. And, for example, I know that you support infrastructure spending.
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I know you support Medicaid aid to the states, yet you -- you vote no on this. Was this more taking one for the team so the Republicans could be unified?
KING: No, not at all.
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(KING: )First of all, I do support the Medicaid provisions in the bill.
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(KING:) But as far as the infrastructure, less than 9.5 percent of the bill goes to infrastructure on transit and highway construction. That was a key part to me, which was really severely diminished. * (see note)(KING:) As far as taxes, actually, Lindsey says 27 percent {of the stimulus bill}. Really, it's only 18 percent in new tax credits, because the fact that the AMT was put in, which would have been factored in anyway. So it's really only 18 percent in tax relief. **(see note)
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(KING:)We give more tax relief to the arts than we do to small businesses.
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That's interesting. Giving money to small non-profit arts companies is the fastest way (faster then infrastructure spending too) to get CA$H from the government to the small businesses.
- Giving a grant to an Arts project will take that money and send it directly to the pockets of the artists, the curators, and the craftsmen who actually make the scenery, picture frames, or even the posters for these shows.
- These people will then take their money and FEED their families, and buy milk from the corner bodega (delicatessen, for those not in NYC).
(King: {continues}) And, you know, obviously, we have to do a lot. I supported strong infrastructure, strong tax relief. We didn't do it.
Yeah Congressman King. We DID do it.. We CAN change, and we WILL change.
And you, {old fashioned, intransigent }Republicans will be Left Behind if you insist on complaining your way past your so called 'loyal opposition' voting against CHANGE.
And I say to the Republican Party:
GO and threaten to bring on a Filibuster in the Senate. We haven't had a real one of those in over forty years... Let's tie up the Senate in real time, so we can really show the American People WHO is stopping the Government from helping us citizens in this Depression 2.0
* Transit and highway infrastructure spending was AXED from this bill because Lawrence Summers (former {disgraced}president of Harh-vard) decided that transit and infrastructure spending needed to be SHOVEL-READY, to support the concept of an IMMEDIATE STIMULUS to the Economy, rather then a LONG term concept or funding plan.
** As I said previously in this blog the Republicans have {time after time} repeatedly been obstructionists in the congress, and have started to continue this behavior in this new administration.
(Do you) REALLY want a BIPARTISAN government?
THEN stop yer bitching and complaining that you want a bigger tax cut.
We should have REMOVED all references to a tax cut in the stimulus and made it TWICE as large, and told you we weren't negotiating.
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