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ezkcdude
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2009-02-06, 20:29

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Originally Posted by Moogs View Post
And Ezk: not a question of getting over ourselves and looking bad WRT to lobbying. It's a question of making sure that a group of congressional leaders hear the same evidence and the same time of what's needed, and compare that to the other requests being made, in the same context. All this meeting privately crap and promising secret favors and the rest has to go. There's no room in Washington for back scratching any longer.
Frankly, I don't give a damn about how the deals get done - as long as the bills produced help the American people. This one certainly will, so by hook or by crook, I'm thankful that two honorable Republicans could step across party lines to back the stimulus. I think the 39 Republicans who aren't voting for it will be reminded of that in the next election cycle.
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