Sometimes you don't need the whole story

According to the LA Times, Obama is putting the heat on the Republicans. I didn't read the whole story--just saw it pop up on my Google News page. That won't take much--they melt in a hurry with even an angry glance. After all my years of voting Democrat, this was the most difficult thing to get used to. An opposition party that didn't oppose, a party that fell for every Democrat "bi-" line that oozed across the aisle. Even Bush. He could stand up for the unborn and the embryo, he could fight the terrorists, but he was putty in Teddy's hot hands.

Obama says "the 'half steps' now urged by the GOP for the stimulus bill are the same ideas that led to the financial crisis." No sir, that's not how we got here. Open your recent history book if it hasn't been digitally modified yet. READ as the ALA poster you posed for says. We got into this mess from our elected officials (aka the government) interferring in the economy; first in social programming, then in housing. Some with good intentions, most from lobbying efforts. Or, social mortgage programming trying to make a mortgage a civil right for the low income, the illegals and the single moms. Of course, the clever investors and house flippers just drove their fancy SUVs and Mercedes through the loop holes. Then the builders and developers became as dependent on government funds as the farmers. To get out from under the "new deals" our Congresses from Carter through Bush 43 forced on the banks, the risk was simply passed along to investors. Now you demand BO's New Deal Redux to dig us deeper in debt and socialism like a decade of FDR. There aren't enough Republicans around DC to stop your power grabs, but it was nice of you to give them a nod.