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Yo! Netrooters! We’ve got another Blue Dog for you to purge!

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 10th, 2009 at 11:14 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Rep. Walt Minnick from Idaho: one of the eleven Democrats from the bipartisan opposition to the Democratic debt bill – which would be bad enough, right? – but he’s also ripped apart the monstrosity you guys came up with and turned it into something that might actually work. Via Hot Air:

Blue Dog nips Obama with a better stimulus idea

While President Barack Obama goes on the road to shore up slipping popular support for the $1 trillion stimulus porkfest that he ordered up from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Walt Minnick, a freshman Democrat from Idaho, is pushing a better idea: The Strategic Targeted American Recovery and Transition Act (START).

Minnick is a member of the Blue Dog caucus of occasionally conservative Democcrats. His START plan is a $170 billion “bare bones” pure stimulus approach that would put $100 billion immediately into the pockets of low- and middle-income Americans, then use the other $70 billion for basic infrastructure projects that create jobs. START requires that all funds not spent by 2010 be returned to the Treasury. START also stops stimulus spending when the nation’s Gross Domestic Product increases in two of three previous quarters, and all START payments are required to be posted on a public website.

Can’t have that, of course; so why don’t you spend some bread and primary the dirty little traitor? Can’t have the moderates thinking that they can tell you who is who and what was what, after all. After all, surely you can afford to lose one seat, if that’s what it takes to make sure that moderates learn their proper place in your party. What is it, somewhere around a ninety seat difference?

Yeah, you can indulge yourself. You deserve to indulge yourself, in fact. It is necessary for you to indulge yourself.

Moe Lane

PS: Unless, of course, you don’t actually have the ability to do anything about Rep. Minnick…

Crossposted at Moe Lane.

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  • Brian Faughnan

    Including a video of him explaining how Democratic leaders have put together a wasteful bill that does nothing much to help the economy:

    http://www.redstate.com/brianfaughnan/2009/02/06/democrat-congressman-stimulus-is-more-than-80-waste/

  • Martin Knight

    My gob is smacked.

  • Aaron Gardner
  • Rod_Patrick

    His position reminds of the original Liberal Conservative principles in the Democratic Party as described in old political history books. In 18th and 19th Century America, many Democrats were still considered as highly pro-America and fiscally conservative like the rest of the Republicans. Walth Minnick is a such traditional Democrat.

    With the advancement of socialism inside the Democratic Party in the 20th Century, Democrats (sadly, some Rs too) have eventually forgotten the concept of fiscal conservatism.

  • gekster
  • sdan

    That’s Minnick’s bill number. You can check it out on the House of Representatives web site. It doesn’t take a year to read either. It seems to be a better bill then the other democrats are offering. I don’t think it will see the light of day as it doesn’t seem to be paying anyone off but who knows. It also a provision for business to get credit for hiring unemployed veterans and at risk kids. it also includes the e-verify clause.

  • Swamp_Yankee

    …. they ususally ran as anti-war, economic populists, but were still socially conservative. If the Dem leadership has problems with them on economic issues, just wait till they start appointing liberal judges and dealing with issues like guns, gays and abortion.

    Man, this marriage is not going to last long.

  • Praying

    I would vote for this guys plan. If one buys the premise that the country really needs a stimulus, then by all means, lets do it THIS way! It is real, direct, temporary, targeted, and I think most of the GOP and most Americans would support it. I don’t like spending money we don’t have – but it we have to spend it, I’m all for a program that in all honesty will do more for $800. I mean even better if he comes over to the GOP, but if it’s a crisis we need to fix…

  • Spartan4Life

    I’ve seen this movie.

    They talk a good game for the folks back home but at the end of the day are totally ineffective. If a vote actually gets close the libs will come in and twist their arms and get them to vote the way they want them to.

    We should be looking to get these seats back not give them credit for what they say they are for.

    My dad used to say, “Don’t tell me. Show me.”

  • Finrod

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  • bsquared

    nt

  • robmikpet

    With the blue dogs craft a bill and vote and at least have that plan actually bipartisan, beat them at their own game.

    Any Republican congressman reading ADD DEFENSE SPENDING TO THE STIMULAS!!