Doubt

[intjonathan]

Republicans want more tax cuts. Economists argue that the problem with tax cuts is that in recessions, they are mostly saved, not spent, and so have very little stimulative effect. Republicans acknowledged that and so argued to make them permanent - essentially the policy of the Bush administration.

-Carolyn Lochhead. "Obama holds GOP-only talks on stimulus package." San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2009

It's one thing to say, I have a different point of view about the priorities of this bill. It's quite another to say, I have a different priority altogether, and will use this bill to accomplish it.

I wonder which problems these men went to Washington to solve.