Limbaugh proposes that because the Democrats got roughly 54 percent of the votes to the Republicans' 46 percent, the stimulus package should be allocated along his definition of ideological lines, i.e. 54 percent towards infrastructure improvement and 46 percent toward tax breaks for Limbaugh and his friends.
He writes, "Fifty-three percent of American voters voted for Barack Obama; 46% voted for John McCain, and 1% voted for wackos. Give that 1% to President Obama. Let's say the vote was 54% to 46%.
"As a way to bring the country together and at the same time determine the most effective way to deal with recessions, under the Obama-Limbaugh Stimulus Plan of 2009: 54% of the $900 billion -- $486 billion -- will be spent on infrastructure and pork as defined by Mr. Obama and the Democrats; 46% -- $414 billion -- will be directed toward tax cuts, as determined by me."
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Why surely it seems like just yesterday that Al Gore won the national popular vote in 2000 (and arguably won the popular vote in Florida too).
Limbaugh must have called for the incoming Bush administration to allocate ideas based on the proportion of election returns. I'm sure President Bush and the Republicans in Congress graciously accepted their 49.5 percent share of everything. (Note: We would be much better off right now had this actually happened.)
He makes a VERY good point. But "bipartisan" was not in the Bush vocabulary (much like many normal English words). In fact, the Obama Administration has been FAR more bipartisan already than Bush was his entire term in office. Of course they and the Democratic Congress are not going to just adopt every GOP idea, despite the whining of the GOP lawmakers...and for two very good reasons. First, people voted to change course, not to just keep doing the same thing and expecting different results. Second, as we saw from 8 years of a Republican White House and 6 years of a Republican Congress, those ideas DID NOT WORK. Why do it their way again...it FAILED.
Limbaugh is an idiotic idealogue...he just wants to stick to failed ideas because they fit his worldview and political beliefs. Never mind that those ideas have already failed. Idiots just keep on charging along the same course.
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