Reply #14: The problem is and always has been the 60 vote Senate. [View All]

[BzaDem]

As long as we need Snowe or Collins to support all bills (who wouldn't support 16 billion of FMAP funding without near-future FOOD STAMPS being cut), there will be no talk of a stimulus commensurate with the problem.

There also won't be proposals for such a stimulus, since Obama is not going to start a fight he knows he can't win. "Taking it to the polls" won't work because the election is primarily going to be driven by how the economy is now (not over future plans). As long as there is a 60 vote Senate, no one will come out and support a second stimulus.