What are the odds?

Republicans went on the Sunday talk shows to say they don't plan to vote for the stimulus package.

Fine. No problem. Democrats have solid majorities in both chambers of Congress and don't need a single Republican vote for it to pass. I wonder if we will hear the following speech from President Obama:

"The nation is facing the most dire economic crisis it has faced since the Great Depression. I tried hard to get Republicans votes by including tax cuts that they would like. Most economists said those tax cuts wouldn't help the economy much but I included them to make the Republicans happy.

Well, it didn't work. Republicans are taking their cue from Rush Limbaugh and putting party before country. Therefore, I have decided to come up with an entirely new stimulus package. I have asked Nobel economist Paul Krugman to design it..."

Krugman has been persuasively arguing that the current plan is too little and misdirected. His suggestion of a new New Deal is probably what the country needs and would send Republicans into fits of rage.

We won't hear this from President Obama because, 1. It goes against his "Can't we all get along" governing style, and 2. Well, there is no 2.

And 1. is pretty weak.