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Should Obama Veto His Own Bi-Curious Stimulus Package?

By Dan Markel, Ethan Leib, Rick Garnett, Matt Bodie, Paul Horwitz , Steve Vladeck, and Orly Lobel

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Monday?s Senate vote was anything but bipartisan - it was merely ?bi-curious" at best. (The House stimulus plan got zero Republican votes last month; the Senate version got just three Republican votes.) Remember, Obama really, really wanted a bipartisan plan, which made good political sense: What if the Democrat stimulus fails to stimulate the economy? The Wall Street Journal says we?ll be out of ammunition and deeper in the hole - and Democrats will shoulder all the blame.

If catastrophe truly is the result of what can be called "the Democrats? plan," then won?t Republicans gloat I-told-you-so? Won?t right wing talk radio whip up the faithless to run Obama out of office? We just might see the right wing step up and take over, ending Obama?s failed attempt at so-called socialism and maybe his presidency. Pile on to this crisis the terrorist attack Dick Cheney keeps squawking about (which will result, of course, from liberals? unwillingness to torture innocent prisoners at Guantanamo), and the Party of Obama will be over.

Please tell me why my gloom and doom is wrong:

Full post as published by Prawfs on February 10, 2009 (boomark / email).