Cartoon inaccurate in its portrayal of bipartisanship

TO THE EDITOR:

The editorial cartoon from Feb. 16 by Alex Herrington is wrong to imply that President Obama and Congressional Democrats did not seek Republican input on the stimulus bill.

Republican input was sought out but it was ultimately rejected because it was irrational and self-contradictory. Republicans claimed to oppose the bill because it would increase the national debt yet wanted the infrastructure investments replaced with supply-side tax cuts which would increase the national debt by at least the same amount.

When bipartisanship and logical consistency at odds with each other logical consistency should be chosen every time.


Noah Savage
Senior
Linguistics