This should hopefully mark the end of the kumbaya horseshit bipartisan nonsense. When one side of the aisle is so divorced from reality that they're arguing with a straight face that spending isn't stimulative, you can't work with them. Can't legislate with them. Can't do it! I'm hoping that Frag wasn't right about Obama being too nice to Republicans but it sure was looking that way for a bit. Good to hear him rip into these idiots now.
Honestly, they made several mistakes. First was giving away too much to begin with. Should have just opened up with half of the tax cuts they put in there so you can make a show of "giving ground" to the Republicans. If you'll remember when the broad outlines of the package were made public, Republicans were all happy and surprised. Then they figured since that was your opening offer, let's see what else we can wrangle. The second big mistake was letting some easy targets make their way in and letting the Republicans get their bearings by bashing them. Oh well. Live and learn, Barry O. Live and learn.