Republicans are throwing nails?

The commentary by Derrick Z. Jackson, The Boston Globe, on the Repulican's behavior towards Obama's stimulus bill is an extremely biased perspective on the partisanship of politics today. Obama's stimulus bill was designed to help pull the people who had lost their jobs out of economic stagnancy, in theory. The effectiveness of such a bill is still to be seen, but there are different views taken by the Republican and the Democratic party. The Republicans, who generally view the economy as the people's responsibility, preferring free market over government involvement, take a very negative view on the bill. The Democrats, who are much more supportive of government financial assistance, are very much in favor of the bill. Jackson, in his commentary, talked about the Repulicans as almost inhuman for their total lack of support for the bill:

Not even the stimulus bill stimulated the Republican Party into any human feeling. It heard not the screams of 4 million people losing their jobs in the last year, not the slamming doors of shuttering factories, not the shrieks at kitchen tables from Saco, Maine, to Sacramento, Calif., as working Americans open their mail to see they've lost 40 percent and more on their 401(k)s. With the collective livelihood of America at stake, only three of 219 Republicans in the House and the Senate voted for the $787 billion economic recovery package, and the three who did — Maine's Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, and Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter — slashed what they could before passage in the Senate.

It seems like Jackson is targeting the general public of America, but he also seems to be targeting a Democratic audience judging by his sheer contempt for the Republican party. His argument (If he has one, it's a little hard to see past his bigotry) is essentially that the Republcians in office, despite all their efforts are not slowing down Obama, and if anything are going to help him with his goals by causing voters to kick them out of office for their obstinacy. He makes this argument with approval and support ratings from various polls and the fact that only 3 of the 219 Republicans in the House and Senate voted for the bill and it still passed, and he's right. I think that because of the Bush administration, the Republican part has lost power in our government. It will be interesting to see how these approval ratings change over the course of the Obama administration.

Check it out the commentary by Jackson! What do you think about it?