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Originally Posted by elphenor
You claim to be non-partisan but then you make statements like this and I'm just wondering which right wing source did you pull it from
Bush did pass a bipartisan stimulus package in 08 but it was weaksauce and conservative, which is funny considering the massive check he cut Wall Street and The Banks which did nothing for us
Obama passes a stimulus package in 09 that's double the size and that finally starts to clot the bleeding
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We are talking about different things here. The stimulus package (ARRA) you are talking about for '09 was in the works prior to Obama's ascension, though a lot of cooperation with holdovers from the Bush admins. was involved since the writing of it was finished after the transition period. It didn't come out of a vacuum. It wasn't a popular move when Bush was on his way out and it wasn't popular when Obama stepped up either, but it was a decent attempt to "stem the bleeding" that built on what Bush (as you pointed out) had attempted to address. For all intents and purposes though, it was the result of some degree of bi-partisanship.