“Several officials said that Reps. John Boehner of Ohio, the GOP leader, and Eric Cantor of Virginia, his second-in-command, delivered the appeal at a closed-door meeting of the Republican rank and file. Both men said the legislation contains too much wasteful spending that will not help the economy recover from its worst nosedive since the Great Depression, the officials added.”
After eight years of unprecedented spending by a Republican Administration (and a Congress that went along) the GOP is being obstructionist about spending a buck in the midst of a national emergency.
Just past the damned stimulus bill and if it doesn’t work, pass another, and another….
