Barack Fails First Test

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President Barack Hussein Obama has failed his first attempt to achieve the bipartisanship he has been promising. Divided precisely on party lines, the final vote was 244 to 188. No Republicans voted for the bill, while just 12 Democrats voted against it. The president couldn't even attain 100% of the votes from his own party.

Contradicting his promise to acheive bipartisanship after being asked whether he was confident of getting Republican support, the President replied only: "I'm confident we're going to get it passed."

In a remarkably out of touch statement the President stated, "I hope that we can continue to strengthen this plan before it gets to my desk. We must move swiftly and boldly to put Americans back to work, and that is exactly what this plan begins to do."

House Republicans, trying to protect the American people from the expansive and expensive spending bill, noted that the bill does nothing to cut taxes and put money directly back into the people’s pockets. "The underlying bill, while it has some good provisions, has a lot of wasteful provisions and slow-moving spending in it," said House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio. "We have to act -- we have to heal the ailing economy. The question is how to do it best; we think that fast-acting tax relief is the way to get it done."

At the end of the day, the president and his party will undoubtedly pass this bill with very few concessions despite the will of the American people. Change - the word the president campaigned on - remains elusive. These are the same strong-armed tactics that have dominated the oppressive Democratic Party for decades. This is business as usual.