Reply #12: It's all political gambit. [View All]

[Wildewolfe]

They're completely sunk if the various stimuli work and they know it. It doesn't matter if they vote for it or against it. The only *political* hope they have is to vote against it all and hope it fails. That is the ONLY way the republicans make a comeback.

It doesn't matter what the content is, how good it is, how much it will benefit their constiuency, how good it is for the country as a whole. It's pure political survival at it's basest and worst level.

If the stimuli works and they vote for it the democratic party is the party of change
If the stimuli works and they vote against it the democratic party is the party of change
If the stimuli doesn't work and they vote for it they are complicit in failure
If the stimuli doesn't work and they vote against it they can say "I told you so" and win back some seats