If the country really needed the bail-out package in order to save our economy from certain disaster, then the Republican House Republican's excuse for not voting in favor of it yesterday was completely bogus and puts politics ahead of country!
A perfect analogy to follow:
My wife, my child and I are riding along in a boat. I'm driving the boat. Of course, with me in charge, none of us are wearing any life-preservers and I am driving wrecklessly.
I crash the boat, it begins to leak water and starts to sink. As the boat is almost completely sunk, my son falls into the water and starts to drift away from the boat. He is now drowning.
My wife and I are still standing in the boat. She reaches over and grabs the life-raft to throw to my child. I tell my wife that we should start bailing water out of the boat and then the boat will be strong enough to save us all. (In fact, I ponder to myself that if only the capital gains tax were eliminated, I could sell this boat and buy a better one). My wife says that we should throw our child a life raft and save him now because the need is urgent. I tell her that shrinking the amount of water in the boat is a better idea. Besides, that life raft is too expensive to just throw into the water to save our child!
We argue for a few hours. We argue far too long to be effective. My child is really drowning now. My wife needs me to help throw the life raft because it is too heavy for her to throw all by herself.
Finally my wife talks me into agreeing to throw the life raft. I grab the life raft. I am going to throw it. My child is desperate, flailing in the water.
Just then, my wife points her finger at me and says "You know, we wouldn't have been in this situation if it wasn't for your wreckless driving! And you never put life-preservers on any of us. In the future, you're not allowed to drive and everyone will have to wear life-preservers!" She then takes a victory lap around our sinking boat, celebrating the fact that she convinced me to throw the life raft.
I see her behaving this way and my ego is bruised. My feelings and my pride are hurt. I don't like the way she just acted. I turn to look at my child and his weak arms can barely keep his head above the surface of the water.
Then I fold the life raft up and put it away under the seat cushions of our sinking boat. I don't care that my child is drowning. That's not as important as my hurt feelings and my comprimised principles! I know more about saving drowning kids by bailing out my own boat than my wife does! I know best! My policy was to bail water out of the boat and not to waste an expensive life raft. I would have sided with my wife - that is, until she hurt my feelings! Now I am going to put the life raft away and swim to the shore. When I get there, I'll work to cut the capital gains rate so that I can sell my boat that just sunk to the bottom of the ocean. My child will be 777 feet below the surface, but darn it, my wife shouldn't talk to me that way! In the end I can say that I stuck to my principles, at least after my wife hurt my feelings, that is.
All the guys back home will be really proud that I didn't throw an expensive life raft into the water to save my child. They would all agree that shrinking the water in the boat and seeking tax incentives to sell my sunken boat is a much better idea than throwing a life raft into the water to save my flailing child. How could I have faced the guys when i went home if I had followed through with my agreement with my wife?!?! It's all my wife's fault. And my mother-in-law's fault too. I know that she was phoning in instructions to my wife and messing this whole situation up.
As for my child... I don't know if my child makes it through the end of the story. The final chapter has yet to be written