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To: LindyBill who wrote (292014)	2/11/2009 3:25:39 PM
From: DMaA	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793977

I don't hear any Republicans complaining about it. Do you? But as the leadership, backed by the overwhelming majority of GOP members, is proposing big plans and is trying, without success, to engage in negotiations with either the president or his congressional party allies, the president willfully misled, by implication, his public.

To: LindyBill who wrote (292014)	2/11/2009 4:44:14 PM
From: skinowski	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793977

There are a few backbench Republicans who propose nothing. Interesting.... the idea of the government NOT sticking its fingers into the economy is seen as something almost ridiculous by most observers. Often by the very same people who have no doubts that all these schemes in the end will only make the situation worse.

To: LindyBill who wrote (292014)	2/11/2009 7:34:10 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	9 Recommendations Respond to of 793977

One has to listen closely to spot the straw men and general bunk that carefully -- indeed, it would seem, instinctively -- are laced into his answers. Not that closely. The bunk was obvious, if not picked up on by any of the fawning reporters. Did we hear this obvious question: "You say your opponents want to do nothing. But there have been a number of Republican stimulus bills introduced to the floor. If you had tried to compromise with the Republicans, do you think you might have gotten real bipartisan support instead of only 3 Republican Senators?"