As Austin Roth noted, the hypocrisy of so many (including outside the States, imitating the worst play-pen leftism here — Mike, you need to develop a better self- and nationalistic concept for yourself, of your _own_) is remarkable. How many who screamed not to read the bill, but to pass it, Pass It, PASS IT!!! We Need To Do Something, NOW! objected strongly to the very same thing with the bailout bill. And now are both hypocritical and demonstrating they may be incapable of having learned anything? Why should we trust them, then, at all?

Hopefully it won't be too bad for us. That's all we can hope for now. And at least the Dems didn't get _all_ the crazy excess they sought. But you know they'll be back with more, later.

Economically effective action, K. The effects (timely or prompt effects, that is) have been already listed by sources such as Zandi at Moody's. I'd even concede to being outvoted in that I'd like to see some of the money spent on, again, serious, easily grasped things like infrastructure that would be long-term. This could wait until later, coupled with other future-promise things like R&D on alternative energy improvements, for example. (In the meantime, we benefit right away from transmission lines and other things like roads and bridges, so they should take priority in a later “long-term objectives” bill, and ideally I'd like to see some of the money in this bill already be devoted to such things if a big bill we shall have.)

There was no need for idiotic porky projects. This bill is typical Washington stuff and tailored for the Dems to buy votes and even worse, apparently just having fun spending money we are not free to spend on whatever these people currently feel like spending money on!

Obama has big spending and Dem preferences now set as precedents, his likely goal here rather than holding this bill in any truly high regard.

It would have been cheaper for that “something” to be sappy feel-good ads by the Ad Council.

Additionally, we were all supposed to be impressed by the virtue shown by the Brave Democrats for not bowing to Republican ham-handedness, and we were also supposed to sing the glory and praises of whatever few Republicans were brave enough to think of the Country instead of Party.

Now the shoe is on the other foot. The reaction? Why what a surprise. Now resisting the majority is voting AGAINST America (which seems to be a trademarked expression of Michael Stickings, Super-Patriot (D-Idiot)), and Democrats that voted their conscience against the first of the coming series of Five-Year Plans, aka The 2009 Stimulus Bill, are turncoats.

Oh, the hypocrisy of the Left, and Michael in particular, but that is stock-in-trade for both.

If you are to blame someone for the need for quick, drastic action- lets not forget all of the facts.

This is a flawed bill. The question is if it is so flawed it will not work and I don't think anyone knows the answer to that. I am glad the bill got done and I'm crossing my fingers.

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” — Mark Twain
Rewind to a few years ago, and the buzzword was “surge”. The president was pushing for a surge in troops to stabilize Iraq. The Democrats, includi…

This is from your own post Mr. Strickings and I would agree wholeheartedly.

This bill is smoking mirrors. The scream is that it must be done and done now…….no stop..dont read the bill…..what are you doing? trust us, pass it. What you dare question us? You unpatriotic obstructionist.

Yet when you analyze it. The money is to be apportioned out to september 2010. We have to do it now!!!!!!!!……oh but you cant have the money till next year. However I bet those starving artist get theirs right away.

Green. Nah Barak Obama and the democrats need something to run on in 4 years. It really is nothing more then Green Schemes.

The predictably trite shot at the GOP was beneath even your President, Michael. Poor form for you to show even less class than a Chicago politician.