Backing the stimulus were governors like Jim Douglas of Vermont; M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut; Charlie Crist of Florida; and Arnold Schwarzenegger of California.
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President Obama must wish governors could vote in Congress: While just three of the 219 Republican lawmakers backed the $787 billion economic recovery plan that he is signing into law on Tuesday, that trifling total would have been several times greater if support among the 22 Republican state executives counted.
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Many of the Republicans do not want President Obama to succeed. Has anybody else noticed that some of the commentators call him “Obama or Mr. Obama instead of President Obama?”
It’s just rude.
Comment by Lee Anderson — February 17, 2009