The Party of "NO"

The Staunch Defenders in the Party of Fiscal Responsibility hewed to the party line, voting unanimously against the new President's stimulus package, declaring it to be lacking in tax cuts for the wealthy. How, they ask, can rich people lend money to poor people as long as they're saddled with the wealth-destroying taxes imposed by the irresponsible policies of the discredited President Clinton's economic plan? No, it's just as they suspected; President Obama had no true intention of acting in a bipartisan way. Continuing the Tax-Cut-And-Spend policies of the "Fairly Successful" President Bush (William Kristol,Weekly Standard), that is. Unanimously declaring themselves the Caretakers of Small Government.
The good news in all this: The President can stop wasting time and effort trying to be collegial toward the Rebublicans in Congress. If House Minority Leader John Boehner had feigned some degree of bipartisanship, he could later have blamed the Democrats for Politics-As-Usual, when the President was eventually forced to throw some juicy partisan red meat to the more carnivorous among the House Democratic Caucus. Instead, we can return to the dysfunctional system we've been heir to since Ronald Reagan claimed that Government is the problem, not the solution, and proceeded to prove his assertion.