I'm not sure how the Republicans in congress think they're going to look good by voting against a stimulus package. Here's the thing, Obama and the media made a big deal about going to capital hill and reaching out and holding talks. At this point they've voted against the bill (that passed anyway) and here's roughly the two ways that things can turn out:
1. It works. The stimulus jump starts the economy and the republicans look like sore losers, out of touch with Americans. They lose even bigger in the next election and several republicans are cast as the bad guys in the next Harry Potter movie.
2. It doesn't work. Obama and Democrats point out that they made major compromises with republicans. 1/3 of the total bill was tax cuts that the Republicans wanted -- even said they needed to vote for the bill. The republicans thus can be shown to have weakened the bill and again they look petty and out of touch with both Americans and economic theory. Several republicans are again cast as the bad guys in the next Harry Potter movie and the rest are forced to act in the sequel to "Confessions of a Shopaholic".
So the way it's all playing the media is that the republicans made changes to the bill and then refused to vote for it. They're voting almost entirely along party lines, except for 3 republicans who thought the bill had a chance of working. Now here's the thing, the Dems even got the conservative democrats and moderates... So it looks even more like the republicans are taking their ball(s) and going home; refusing to play with the other kids on the playground.
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