C-SPANning the World

As I write this, the Senate vote on the stimulus bill is about 36 minutes away. At the moment C-SPAN Radio is covering the debate live with the Republicans decrying that this is simply the shameless expansion of government and clinging to the dead notion of supply-side economics. It's kind of sad, actually, some of the tactics that they've been using to discourage the passage of the bill.

Honestly, I don't blame the Republicans for playing the obstructionist card here. They've really got absolutely no reason politically to be for it. Some form of it will undoubtedly pass, and then we sit back and wait to see the effects it has on the job market and economy. If the stimulus is successful, the Republicans get little to no credit for it; it was the brainchild of the Obama administration. If it ends up failing or the perception of the public is that it's failed, the Republicans get to say "I told you so" if they were (mostly) against it.

But seriously, they are really running out of ideas.



Thank you Senator Thune. In knowing how tall a tower of ten billion hundred dollar bills would be, I am a more informed citizen on the notion of the stimulus.