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What Walter Minnick did is what Republicans should have done. He didn’t just whine about the current bill. He offered a reasonable alternative to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama boondoggle. In this fearful environment nurtured by Obama and the news media, doing nothing is not going to sell. And since Republicans seem to lack the imagination to come up with something on their own, they should have gotten onboard with Minnick. Minnick’s bill is much, much smaller and is frontloaded so that it might influence the economy. It actually spends more money this year than the Obama boondoggle. In addition, Minnick’s proposal has a trigger that will shut down spending should the economy show signs of growth/Michael Costello, Red County. More here.
Question: Do you agree or disagree with this opening statement of Costello: “Probably nothing speaks to the sorry state of the Republican Party than the fact that Idaho’s Walter Minnick might be the smartest Republican in Congress”?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Lizard_People on February 13 at 12:00 p.m.
Heh. Of course, Ron Paul is the smartest man in congress, with Kucinich a close second, and Walter Jones and Jimmy Duncan are both up there…. but I laughed anyway!! :)
Aerie on February 13 at 12:34 p.m.
Minnick’s vote today should go down in history as the best Democrat friend the Republicans have ever had.
I wonder if Minnick and Lieberman are working together on things in the background?
Sparky on February 13 at 12:51 p.m.
I wish I hadn’t read more here. I was suckered into it.
pjc on February 13 at 12:53 p.m.
Well, there have been Republican alternatives to the spending bill. I believe Senator Thune (R-SD) offer one that proposed sending the money to the citizens rather than government programs or financial institutions.