[lbo-talk] Republican solution? More tax cuts

[Fernando Cassia]

[Sorry if this has been posted already, I haven't been following the 
list lately trying to keep my head away from the guillotine]

http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/05/obama-stimulus-republicans-opinions-columnists_0206_peter_robinson.html?partner=popstories

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"Making its way through the House last week, the legislation proved so 
bad that it galvanized the most woe-begotten and demoralized group in 
the capital, the Republicans. Every last Republican in the House voted 
against it."

As the legislation was being considered in the Senate this past week, 
public support for the measure dropped, according to a Rasmussen poll, 
to a mere 37%--and fully half of all respondents told pollsters they 
expected the measure to make the economy worse.Conservative Senate 
Republicans, such as Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, have proposed rewriting the 
legislation altogether, replacing the spending provisions with tax cuts. 
Their slogan? "Twice the jobs at half the price."

President Obama, so recently triumphant, is now reeling.
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FC