Rachel Maddow is furious about knee-jerk Republican opposition to anything the Obama administration proposes, but she is equally frustrated by "the futility of Democrats ... trying to persuade Republicans to go along with them on policies that are good for the country."
Maddow summed up the current Republican position as one of "Screw policy. Screw what even they believe is good for the country. Screw what even they believe is good for their own districts."
"They are not voting 'Yes' for even things that they agree with," Maddow explained. Her primary example of Republican hypocrisy was the Obama administration's economic stimulus program, which "passed despite every single Republican in the House voting 'No' on it."
"Since then, the consensus among economists is that the stimulus has worked," Maddow commented. But "if there's one thing Republicans agree on now, it's that the stimulus is a bad, bad policy. It's a bad idea that does bad things. It's a bad president's bad way of making a bad economy more bad -- because he's bad."
Maddow pointed out, however, that "the same Republicans who have trashed the stimulus as a bad, bad thing" have also been showing up "in their home districts taking credit for all the good things the stimulus has done."
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