Stimulus rant

Noticed in 'letters to the editor' section of the Times today in response to the partisan passage of the stimulus package that President Obama signed into law yesterday. Most of the Republican lawmakers were against any form of stimulus in its current form.

What the country is experiencing right now is nothing short of an economic Katrina. The Republicans’ response has been eerily familiar: first, to pretend it wasn’t happening; then, to do nothing as homes and ways of life were lost; and finally, to congratulate themselves on having done a “heckuva job” in dealing with it. The Republican leaders currently clapping themselves on the back right now over their near unanimous opposition to the stimulus bill might want to think twice about it.