After multiple attempts at reaching across the aisle with little success, President Obama summoned Congressional leaders to the White House to discuss the future of the stimulus package. Thus far, Obama has made the unorthodox trip to the Capitol to reach out and work on a solution. With differences between the House and Senate versions, further negotiations will be needed, regardless.Obama seems to be using his political capital in a hurry, and this is only phase one of the recovery plan. As seen recently, Republican support is not necessarily needed. Should the Democrats do what they feel is right and push forth without bipartisan support, or delay the recovery plan to amend the differences?
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I disagree with the notion that Barack Obama has used up all his political capital in just two weeks since being inaugurated because zero House republicans voted for the House version of the economic stimulus bill. It is more of an indication that the partisan bickering between the members of both the House and the Senate will go on. In other words, it was less of an indictment by Republicans of President Obama and more of an indictment by Republicans of the Democratic caucus in the House.
At first I thought that Obama and the Dems should try to gather bipartisan support. After including tons of tax cuts and other things preferred by conservatives, and then the House Reps voting unanimously against it... Now I think that the Dems should merely write up the most effective bill possible and vote it through, bipartisan or not. Our economy simply can't wait much longer, nor can it suffer from a bill which is written for political capital instead of the betterment of the nation.
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