Texas Republicans assail Obama stimulus plan

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Source: Houston Chronicle

After President Barack Obama’s back-to-back meetings with GOP lawmakers Tuesday to discuss his $825 billion economic package, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs praised the “very cordial” tone of the gatherings and effused: “I think we will have Republican support for this bill.”

He obviously hadn’t talked to any Texas Republicans. The GOP’s Houston-area lawmakers emerged from their closed-door session with Obama impressed with his sincerity and his outreach attempt but uniformly unimpressed with the costly plan designed to jump-start the stalled American economy.

“Redistributing hard-earned tax dollars will do far more to expand the power of the federal government than it will to stimulate the economy,” said Rep. John Culberson, R-Houston. “This legislation is a Trojan horse that liberals are using to ultimately turn America into France because it contains massive expansion of multiple federal programs that are utterly unrelated to stimulating the economy.

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Rep. Ted Poe assailed “a mind set in Washington that the bureaucrats know how to better spend our money than the people do,” while Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands, said spending on programs such as education, health care and museums “do not boost the economy. “I can’t find an economist anywhere who will admit that contraceptives, zoo exhibits and repairs to the Jefferson Memorial are serious economic boosts,” Brady said. He predicted that support for the stimulus package would not reach double-digit strength among the 178 House Republicans.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6233699.html

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Anyone still think that these sorts of folks will deal in good faith with Obama and the Democrats in Congress?

Aside from being unrepentant and dishonest ideologues, one seriously has to question whether they're playing with a full deck....