A Must Read. Why Bipartnship Won't Work.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/an-open-letter-to-preside_b_165359.html

On The Stimulus Package By Noah Tenney

I'd like to ask all of you to write to the White House and to Senators Boxer and Feinstein to support less tax cuts and more infrastructure spending in the stimulus package currently in Congress. Recent events have shown that tax cuts are what are getting us into the current economic mess. Meanwhile, the infrastructure has been stagnant for a long time, and spending in infrastructure projects would create jobs and help the economy. The White House and Boxer and Feinstein all need to know that now is not the time to be appeasing the Republicans. Right now, helping those in need is more important than bipartisanship. Watering down the stimulus bill with more tax cuts and less spending in order to ensure a filibuster-proof majority is nothing but counterproductive when the stakes are so high. The Republicans should be allowed to filibuster, so that everyone sees them for who they are and so that everyone gets pissed with them, as opposed to having a watered-down bill which does not do enough. I think Paul Krugman puts it best here:


http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/what-the-centrists-have-wrought/


Thanks.
-Noah T.

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