BREAKING: House passes recovery bill + Where's the GOP's better plan? Thom Hartmann sounds an alarm

By GottaLaff

BREAKING: House passes economic rescue bill 246-183.

UPDATE: Not one House Republican voted for the bill.

Nancy Pelosi just gave Prez O credit for passing an economic package faster than any president in history.

Via the L.A. Times letters to the editor:

Where's GOP's better plan?

Re "Centrists over the line," Opinion, Feb. 10

Letter #1:

I would like Jonah Goldberg to tell me where the "fiscal conservatives" have been the last eight years. So far, all I hear from the Republicans is that they have a better plan.

The only thing they mention is more tax cuts, and the rest of this better plan is practically a state secret known only to Republican insiders.

Letter #2:

If, as the saying goes, art "feeds the soul," and if, as right-wing pundit Goldberg writes, the National Endowment for the Arts is a "liberal priority," my suspicion that conservatives have no souls would appear to be well-founded.

Meantime, I'm listening as Thom Hartmann sounds the alarm about how the Republicans are doing everything they can to push the claim that the Democrats and their recovery package are a complete failure. They will rant right into 2010, about how we've squandered trillions, knowing full well the recovery would take a couple of years to have any real effect. They will say the Democrats' plan was an utter disaster... prematurely, in order to win elections. It's a P.R. war, and they've already started it.

Hartmann:

"They will distract us with petty squabbles." [He also repeatedly refers to this post at Think Progress, re: Grover Norquist.] "A power play is being played by the conservative economic elite, that has been conducted in push-back against the New Deal since the election of '46, preventing Truman's single payer national health care deal."

"The economic royalists were brought back by Ronald Reagan, and they are getting fat and rich while destroying our economy. The 'impartial press' (see this post) are Twittering together with Rove, and Norquist is saying, “This is the bill that the Republican Party will be running against in 2010 and 2012 and 2014.”

Team Obama needs to push their message loud and clear, and drown out these obstructionist, elitist wingnuts. And they better win the P. R. war or this country is sunk.