A Time To Celebrate?

Polls show that a large majority of the american public wants this stimulus bill, thousands of people are losing their jobs everyday, people's retirement funds continue to dwindle, families are losing their homes, and the Republicans continue to be tone-deaf! Do they just not care about the average american? Nevermind, don't answer that. They're actually celebrating their united front against the stimulus bill according to several articles I've read today.

New York Times:

Republicans profess to be unconcerned. House Republicans on Thursday headed off to a retreat at The Homestead, a Virginia resort, still celebrating their unanimous stand — despite Mr. Obama’s visit to the Capitol to seek their support — against a package that in their view has too much big-government spending and too few tax cuts. Their unsuccessful substitute was entirely of tax cuts.

Washington Post:

The bill passed easily despite the opposition of all 177 Republican House members, but party leaders delighted in what they considered a victory after two straight electoral drubbings and much soul-searching about what the party stands for.

Now did I miss something? Didn't they just lose the presidency and a bunch of seats in the House and Senate? Wasn't a third of the stimulus bill comprised of tax cuts specifically to satisfy Republicans? Didn't President Obama ask Democrats to remove the controversial family planning aspect of the bill and several other items to once again appease the Republicans? Come on now, how much compromise do they expect? Their definition of bipartisan is to concede and give us everything we want!

Didn't we try it their way for the last 8 years, and look where that got us! They had no problem with Bush's $500 billion annual deficit spending for the last 8 years to benefit rich tax cuts! They had no problem spending hundreds of billions of dollars in Iraq without any budget oversight! Now all of a sudden they want to be fiscal conservatives! Their spending and 'supply-side' economics got us into this mess, their ideology of deregulation has led to a run-away train of greed and corruption that is still occurring with our bank bailout money! They have gotten us into the worse economic mess since the 1930's and now they don't want to spend any money to get us out of it, and they're proud to say so! I just can't even begin to understand the nerve these guys have.

The Republican party continues to be the obstructionist party, and as long as they keep going on that route, eventually they will be no party at all!