The silliest line of attack against Republicans for voting against the House stimulus bill is that they did so for no good reason. The pro-Obama echo chamber must be so loud as to drown out all of the many reasonable critiques of the House plan -- most of which point out that there's nothing necessarily wrong with the idea of a stimulus package. So we have Eugene Robinson write today that the House GOP vote was
a triumph of discipline over reason, of doctrine over observation. There is abundant evidence suggesting that we are in a new political era with new rules and a new lexicon. Those who ignore that evidence will have only themselves to blame if, like the air traffic controllers, they end up losing their jobs.
This despite the fact that Rasmussen's numbers have support for the stimulus falling. Rather than explain why theirs is the best of all possible plans, the Democrats have fallen back on chest-thumping, emotional appeals, and name-calling. When the bill first ran up against Republican criticism, the Democrats had a very simple answer. To the victor goes the spoils. Pelosi: "Yes, we wrote the bill. Yes, we won the election." Obama: "I won." This is the same logic you find throughout the recent writings of the Obamaphiles. Victory forecloses debate. Remind me where that's mentioned in the Constitution?