The Hill reports today on the passage of “Stimulus II”. The pressure being brought to bear to keep Democrats in line is increasing, as are the huge debt and deficits our children will inherit.
The House narrowly passed Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) $174 billion jobs bill Wednesday, only after Pelosi and other party leaders yelled, pleaded and cajoled reluctant Democrats worried over deficit spending.
The vote was 217-212. No Republicans voted for the bill, and 38 Democrats voted against it.
Had 38 Republicans broken with their party to vote for anything, the media would call it “a bipartisan effort”, but of course “bipartisan opposition to the Democrats’ spending plans”is unlikely to get mentioned by the media.
In other news, the Washington Times reports that a North Korean plane illegally carrying weapons likely destined for Iran may implicate the Chinese. Much of the plane’s flight path was over mainland China, so it’s unlikely the Chinese knew nothing of the flight.
The Obama administration brought up concerns about North Korean use of Chinese airspace for arms exports this summer – shortly after the adoption of a U.N. Security Council resolution banning such transfers – but has yet to receive a meaningful response, U.S. officials said.
Add that to the list of things the Chinese aren’t too interested in discussing with the US. The President’s recent trip to China failed to address persecution of dissidents, bloggers, and religion, and was deemed ineffectual. With North Korea blatantly flaunting UN resolutions, and China turning a seemingly blind eye, the world is made less safe by a weak response.
Worried about the billions our government is handing out to banking interests and others with little to no plan for or knowledge of where it’s going? Well to help keep you up at night, Secretary of State Clinton is now offering up billions more to developing nations to help them with climate issues.
U.S. Secretary of State of State Hillary Clinton Thursday proposed that major economies including the U.S. come up with $100 billion a year over the next decade for developing nations, in an eleventh-hour effort to break an impasse on climate change talks.
Finally, the Washington Post reports that Speaker Pelosi will make President Obama plead his own case for more Afghan troops and funding.
President Obama will have to argue his own case to House Democrats as he seeks support for a planned surge of 30,000 troops into Afghanistan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday, adding that she is finished asking her colleagues to back wars that they do not support.
So it’s good to see that money for developing nations to meet CO2 standards is more important to the Democrat leadership than keeping Americans safe at home and abroad.
