Obama begged and cajoled, sacrificed family planning – all in the hope of getting those un-needed GOP votes for the stimulus. And got none
President Barack Obama got the $825 (or $1.2 trillion over a decade) stimulus package through the House of Representatives but the 244 to 188 vote is a hollow victory indeed. Without a single Republican voting for the bill, his high-profile visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday came to exactly naught – at least on the House side.
Why? Fineman gave me a clue in what was – the first positive mention of Clinton’s presidency in the media
In the end it may not matter that much. In 1993, Bill Clinton passed his first and most important — and successful — tax bill without a single GOP vote in the House. The legislation is generally credited with having helped spur the Long Boom of the 1990s.
Generally credited? Not by Fineman and all of them – not then or since, but yeah, I agree.
Of course he gets condescending in the next paragraph
But in 1993, times weren’t as tough, and Clinton wasn’t proposing to change the way Washington worked. He just wanted to win, and he did.
Riight. Clinton didn’t change anything that Reagan/Poppy did…..So, now, the post-partisan billion dollar candidate, got his stimulus through the house with more tax cuts and without family planning – and also without a GOP vote. It’s nice to see the revisionism on Clinton finally getting the truth though.
So much for “post-partisan”. And…why couldn’t we have Hillary again?
And once again, Krugman seems to me stalking me 
Aren’t you glad that Obama watered it down and added ineffective tax cuts, so as to win bipartisan support?
Not Your Sweetie 
9 comments
January 29, 2009 at 9:08 am
Grail Guardian
They’ll admit Bill was a good President right after they admit Hillary would’ve been better than Obama. Which would be about half past never.
January 29, 2009 at 9:52 am
sister of ye
In each day’s list of new layoffs, I wait in vain for the announcement of layoffs in the punditry. Being a step away from the streets might give a needed clue to someone like Fineman.
But they’re so overpaid they could weather several years without work. Though I’m sure they’d consider it a serious deprivation to be forced to order a lower quality liquor.
As for Obama, I believe that the main reason he jetisoned family planning is because that’s what he really wanted to do. Doesn’t mean he was’t also begging for some Republican love, just that it would have been a twofer for him. As it is, he can still point to those mean Republicans to give himself some PR cover.
January 29, 2009 at 10:14 am
edgeoforever
sister of ye
I agree that sticking it to the women was a win-win for “feminist” Obama.
But I also think that his ego suffered a huge blow.
January 29, 2009 at 10:40 am
insightanalytical
Don’t wax too poetic about Clinton just yet…look what happened on Monday… It made me go ballistic…He sat there while his buddy Bush I made a totally creepy comment about women!!!
The Bush I-Clinton Roadshow Takes the Low Road in New Orleans at Guess Who’s Expense? (Hint: Women, of Course)
January 29, 2009 at 10:47 am
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January 29, 2009 at 11:33 am
Woman Voter
Obama begged and cajoled, sacrificed family planning – all in the hope of getting those un-needed GOP votes for the stimulus. And got none.
……..
What gets me so upset about Ms Magazine’s ‘Obama Superman FeMANist’ is that he sacrificed women’s health (reproductive health/family planning) and even their lives when it WASN’T NECESSARY!
Women only represent 17% (this includes Republican women too…so think about that) of those elected to office, we are ranked 69th in the world for electing women?!? Women represent 70% of the worlds poor, women own 1% of titled land worldwide and NOW in the US women can’t get funding for 51% of its population (WIMIN FOLK) for their reproductive HEALTH! 😯
The worst part is that MENz, those people that ‘Obama Superman FeMANist’ was catering to, made sure years ago that VIAGRA was covered by insurance companies and by Medicaid and Medicare. WAKE UP Ms Magazine…’Obama Superman FeMANist’ isn’t that into you or concerns of women. Where is the OUTRAGE??????
January 29, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Grail Guardian
Today Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter Equal Pay Law. That will placate the idiots at NOW, NARAL, and Ms. for at least 4 years.
January 29, 2009 at 12:22 pm
morninmist
I really do not think that folks with high ego’s such as his even recognize it.
…………….. edgeoforever
January 29, 2009 at 10:14 am
sister of ye
I agree that sticking it to the women was a win-win for “feminist” Obama.
But I also think that his ego suffered a huge blow.
January 30, 2009 at 12:14 am
KerryLINY
Great cartoon edge and great article. Oh I do not trust anyone who comes yelling smaller government and fiscal conservative. The result is pretty much predictable. Now we have a shapeshifter and this is even worse.