Top Republican lawmakers Sunday called on President Obama to change his political strategy, arguing that the passage of a massive stimulus bill on a party-line vote showed he has failed to deliver the “change” he promised.
“If this is going to be bipartisanship, the country’s screwed,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, told ABC’s “This Week.” “I know bipartisanship when I see it.”
The $787 billion bill made it through Congress with the support of three Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. Obama is expected to sign the bill Tuesday in Denver, Colorado.
“This is not ‘change we can believe in,’ ” Graham, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, told ABC. He said Democrats “rammed it through the House” after starting out “with the idea, ‘We won — we write the bill.’ “
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Is President Obama Off To A Bad Start? VOTE NOW!
February 16, 2009 · 1 Comment
I’m going to give President Obama 100 days before I make a thorough assessment of his job performance. I’m curious to see if you all feel President Obama is off to a bad start as some GOP senators are claiming.
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euandus // October 28, 2009 at 12:49 pm
I think the government is structured to thwart bipart. I have just posted on the Senate, suggesting that it reform is needed. To read, pls see http://euandus3.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/the-u-s-senate-what-is-it-really/