Tale of two parties

To follow up on my last post..main stream media has now caught on that the GOP opposition is all about party renewal and nothing to do with the Stimulus, in fact, they are banking on the Stimulus package to fail in order to win elections.

From Washington Post,

But the Republican Party has made its own bet: that the stimulus package that Democrats rushed through Congress will have been deemed a failure by the time the 2010 elections arrive, leading voters to rebuke Obama and reward the GOP with much-needed victories.

Republican Party, instead of working to lift this nation out of the worst recession since the Great Depression, are now hoping that the stimulus package will not work and the country will sink deeper into this recession. Meanwhile, President Obama and the Democrats in Congress know the risk of this bill politically, yet they fear the consequences of inaction more. Democrats are willing to bet on their political future because they believe that the future of America is bigger than any individual or political party.

“Now, look, I won’t lie to you,” Obama told a crowd in Fort Myers, Fla., last week. “If it turns out that a few years from now people don’t feel like the economy’s turned around, that we’re still having problems, that folks are still unemployed, that our health-care system’s not more efficient, then, you know, you guys won’t applaud me the next time I come down here.”

The president never shied from calling the stimulus package “my bill” while stumping for it around the country. With only three Republicans supporting the measure in Friday’s votes, there is almost no political cover for Obama if it doesn’t work.

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“We stand as Democrats ready to be accountable to the American people for this legislation and for the results we predict it will bring,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) said shortly after the bill passed the House on Friday.

This is the tale of two different political parties, one that cares of the future of this country and one that cares only for it’s political future.

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This little snippet from the Washington Post article clearly shows the hypocrisy of the Republican Party when it comes to deficit and spending..

Republicans rarely worried aloud about the deficit during the spending spree of George W. Bush’s presidency, as Bush largely ignored the mounting red ink as he waged war in Iraq and battled terrorism.

But the massive stimulus plan has given Republicans a political opportunity to try to erase the memory of those years by convincing the country that they have found religion again when it comes to spending.

How can you trust a party like the Republican Party. If you are truly a fiscal conservative, can you trust their words after eight years of Bush and a predominately Republican Congress? Spending and deficit is only bad when a Democrat is in office. There’s an old saying that Bush butchered, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Will you continue to let the Republican Party pull the wool over your eyes and fool you over and over again?