Mike Malloy has a good take on the Stimulus Package Vote

Not one dime from this money goes to any congressional district where a Repuke (or the 11 DLC/Blueballed Cowards) voted against it.

I believe that's more than fair. Fuck 'em. And fuck the idiots who keep sending them back to DC.

Say 45% of a population in a Repub district voted for Democrats and for Obama, while the other 55% voted for McCain and the Repubs. Do we abandon the 45% by virtue of their location by cutting off their stimulus money?

....then they probably never will. Unless they get pissed off at their Repuke "representative" for fucking up the stimulus vote, and vote his (or her) ass out in 2010.

As I said though, if the already fucked economy before the election wasn't enough to make them vote in their own interests, will an even more fucked economy, due to their Repuke congresscritter be enough to push them over the edge?

But that's one point we don't want to find ourselves in economically speaking.

Obama is President of the United States, not president of the people who voted for him.

Those people don't stop being Americans in need of assistance just because their Congressperson is an asshole.

for nearly 30 years is really working for us. Right?

:sarcasm:

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There's no need to punish them for the stupidity of their representatives.

Because that's what's going on right now. We let the Repukes go on and on and on about their idiotic tax cuts as if we don't already know that said tax cuts won't work. They take out perfectly good things to include more of these stupid tax cuts and then the Republicans once again unanimously vote against it.

Meanwhile in the attempt to "not punish people for the stupidity of their representatives" as though the people of that district had nothing to do with putting the fuckwits in the office in the first place, we're punishing everyone else by stalling what may be halfway decent legislation. If they want to vote against it fine then don't ask for any of it. Let them keep trying their tax cuts and see how that works out for them.

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You're a sick person if you agree with this.

I'm not saying I agree. I just don't think it's the worst idea in the world. I've heard worse.

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Really?

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Why do you want to punish people who didn't even vote for the scumbag?

How exactly is this bending over backwards supposed to help the greater cause. The Republicans don't want the stimulus then they don't they don't need it. Let them explain to their constituents why there's nothing coming their way. It's called accountability. It's not punishment to withhold something one voted against.

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To say that you would deny aid to them to make a political point is just plain cruel.

obstructing. They don't want the stimulus. So you're going to what force them to take it? It's not punishment to not force someone to take something they don't want. How hard is that to understand?

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Wow.

job to let him know.

That's how our system works does it not?

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if they don't want to play ball, we will just take it away and play with people who do.
Hell, after all they just flushed the country down the drain over the last 8 years.

I live in a red state. And I don't like this idea at all.

:rofl:

She quoted a right wingnut site saying that $4+Billion of the stimulus package would go to ACORN. Of course it's a lie.

They deserve to have egg on their face. That is either a very bad case of lazy report, or just a case of being completely dishonest.

It's punishing the constituents unfairly. And you might say 'well they voted for the bastard!' Well, what about the people who DIDN'T? They deserve to suffer too?
How would you have felt if Bush did something like this?

effect Mike himself shows he was only joking. But any Republican voter might of got nervous hearing that and that made me smile a lot. The basic message he was getting across is Republican voters should know the consequence of their actions, in an immediate way. Maybe not this way but it would show there is balance in the world if they felt the pain they caused. I think Mike gets misunderstood at times as he isn't always being literal but more satirical.

I'm tired of that shit.

Lets just expel all the red states from the Union.

:sarcasm: (for the impaired)

I live in one of the reddest counties in a very red state. I wrote our GOP Congressman and asked him to support the Stimulus Bill, and got back a long lecture on the efficacy of tax cuts.

I don't see any Federal money coming into this district for a long, long time. If was working in defense, where it appears most of the jobs paying more than $30K a year are concentrated, I'd be shaking in my boots. If I were Obama passing out the defense largesse, I'd make sure a lot of it went to Groton CT or California, and screw NW Florida, Georgia, or Oklahoma.

repuke turd who calls himself this district's Congressman. Each time he runs he faces a new Democratic challenger with no money to take him on. Nevertheless, his percentage of the vote total has been shrinking because some people are finally waking up. I agree there are a significant number of voters who routinely vote against their own self interest because they don't know any better, but I don't think districts like this one should be punished because the Dems have yet to run a strong enough candidate or put up the funds to run a competitive race.

the Dem Congressional campaign committee will start putting some money into districts like this one and pick off some of these sleazebags. It's disheartening that they write off districts where they could win with a solid candidate. Obama took this county 55 to 42.

...who voted against this bill. The sad thing is, I live in a solid blue district, where he didn't even have to pander, yet he voted against Obama. My sincere wish is that my district offers us another Dem for this congressional seat, because Cooper, is apparently a dumbass.

American people's lives by trying to screw people just because they're represented by Republicans. He's President of the entire country.

A better idea would be to make sure the residents of the states where Republicans voted against the stimulus package are well-informed that their elected Representative voted against their interests. And when the economy starts turning around, Dems need to keep impressing on people that the upturn their state is experiencing is in spite of their elected Reps who voted against all those new jobs they're seeing, and if they'd gotten their way their state would still be circling the drain.

They will all be voted out. Thelma Drake in Virginia was voted out after voting against the first version of Webb's extended GI Bill. She could explain all day that she voted for a later version, but she was sunk forever in a military community with her first vote.