My Question for President Obama

Your party, the Democratic Party controls both houses of Congress.

If you think this stimulus bill is, to borrow a phrase, all that and a bag of chips, why not just pass the thing along a party line vote?

What purpose is served by going on television and whining about Republican opposition?

You'll get all the credit when the economy recovers and be able to blame the Republicans for standing in your way and it could lead to a bigger congressional majority in 2010.

Or do you not think this bill will work and you're really doing what you do best - give speeches in campaign mode? While you're in campaign mode, you might want to check Nancy Pelosi's approval numbers. They were lower that President Bush's. That's pretty hard to do.

My advice to you? Scrap the bill and start over.

Fun Facts About The Stimulus Bill

Fun Facts About the Stimulus Bill: What we’re getting for our $827 billion

-It will actually cost $1.2 trillion when you factor in the interest payments
-The interest costs on the stimulus will run $95 million per day for the next 10 years
-It will grow the national debt to $11 trillion
-Interest payments on the national debt will now run $700 billion a year
- A Congressional Budget Office analysis found that most of the approximately $355 billion in proposed discretionary spending on “shovel ready projects” - highways, renewable energy and other initiatives - wouldn’t be spent before 2011

When you say these things out loud, does it still sound like a good idea to rush this through Congress?