This will be a short diary, but the message is important! We need to get this out and HEARD.
The reason the Republican Party is trying to destroy the stimulus package is NOT because it's bad - it isn't.
It's because it's GOOD.
Proof below the fold.
They want the stimulus package to fail. They are fighting it tooth and nail because it is a plan developed by Democrats - not because they think it won't work. They're terrified it WILL work, that jobs will be created, and Democrats will get the credit, keeping them out of power even longer.
Yes, I said it. They're fighting against jobs for their own constituents in the hopes of winning those broken and beaten Americans back into the Republican fold.
And they are willing to see us fail as a nation in order to get that power back.
Ken Blackwell, who recently ran for the position of head of the Republican Party, said this:
"Most federal employees, that are not political employees, vote Democrat," Blackwell argued. "Creating 600,000 new jobs might help cement Virginia in the Democrat column, making it harder for Republicans to retake the White House."
It's all right there in black and white, folks. They want the package to fail. They don't want new jobs created. Why?
So they can get back into the White House, and tear us down once again.
And we HAVE to stop it.
If I made errors, please forgive me. I was in a hurry, as I have to go run errands, but considered this important enough to put out there.
Thanks.
And a HUGE hat tip to Keith Olbermann at Countdown for giving us this story a while back.