Those of us who live in the north know the benefits that cold and lack of sunlight have on garbage storage. During the winter you never have to worry about garbage stinking or maggots growing in your garbage cans. No, it’s not until heat and sunlight are applied that garbage begins to stink and you get nasty little things like really like garbage showing up to gorge on it. A similar thing can be said about alleged, stimulus bills.
When kept in the dark and not allowed to be viewed because all around it are yelling that it will be an economic “catastrophe” if the bill isn’t passed NOW, stimulus bills don’t stink. In fact, when kept in the dark, you can hardly tell that it’s garbage at all. However, as light is allowed in and heat in the way of questions gets applied, even the prettiest packaged garbage begins to stink. The longer it’s in the light and heat, the more the stink increases.
Doubt me?
I wrote here how Rasmussen had found a decline in approval rating of the stimulus bill of 8% in just one week! That change in approval was during the week in which the House passed their version of the stimulus with no Republican support. With an additional week of scrutiny and the beginning of debate on the Senate version, Rasmussen reports that support has dropped another 9% and now has more Americans against the bill than for it.
The longer the bill is exposed, the less the public supports it. The less the public supports it, the more Senate Republicans seem to be getting the message that this is one battle worth fighting and finding a better solution for. Even John McCain, the Senator voted “most likely to try and get a long with President Obama,” has decided that the stimulus as proposed, is unacceptable:
"’No bill’ is better than this bill," McCain told CNSNews.com just outside the Senate chamber.
It’s time to put this bill out to the curb for pickup. McCain claims that he will reveal a new proposal on Thursday. I don’t know if it will be any better but there’s no doubt it won’t be any worse than the current stinker.
