House Republicans voted unanimously against the $825 billion (and counting) stimulus package. That was the only way they could go. If any of them had voted for it, their conservative credentials would have been shot. 11 Democrats also voted against it.
I was interested to see this paragraph in The Daily Beast. Maybe, just maybe, there is a Republican in Washington that has some backbone and some philosophical integrity. It will take more rants like this to overcome the debacle of last year's "rescue package," but it's a start.
The day before the crucial vote in the House, Minority Leader John Boehner told his troops that the Republican Party is no longer a bureaucracy. "He took us by the throat and told us, ‘You're no longer the majority, stop acting like it,’" a senior Republican told me about the run up to the vote. “‘If you've got an idea, get it on MSNBC. This is an entrepreneurial insurgency.’ He was kicking the ball around. He wants everyone involved. If there's an amendment, he told us to offer it. If you have 48 seconds for YouTube, get it up there. Get busy and resist in every instance.”
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