January 28, 2009

"40 Year Wish List"

Marc Comtois

WSJ:

"Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before."

So said White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in November, and Democrats in Congress are certainly taking his advice to heart. The 647-page, $825 billion House legislation is being sold as an economic "stimulus," but now that Democrats have finally released the details we understand Rahm's point much better. This is a political wonder that manages to spend money on just about every pent-up Democratic proposal of the last 40 years.

We've looked it over, and even we can't quite believe it. There's $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that hasn't turned a profit in 40 years; $2 billion for child-care subsidies; $50 million for that great engine of job creation, the National Endowment for the Arts; $400 million for global-warming research and another $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects. There's even $650 million on top of the billions already doled out to pay for digital TV conversion coupons....

This is supposed to be a new era of bipartisanship, but this bill was written based on the wish list of every living -- or dead -- Democratic interest group. As Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it, "We won the election. We wrote the bill." So they did. Republicans should let them take all of the credit.

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"Republicans should let them take all of the credit."

And they just did. The "porkulus" bill just passed the House 244-188, with not a single Republican vote, and actually some Democratic defections. Good for them for standing together and using their spines.

Posted by: Will at January 28, 2009 6:31 PM

Hold on America...Change is coming...in 2011.

Posted by: tcc3 at January 28, 2009 7:17 PM

Who said that liberals don't believe in Christmas?

Posted by: Tom W at January 28, 2009 9:16 PM
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