WBUL Cartoon and Podcast

Over the past week I've also been working with WBUL- the radio station here at USF, in doing a kind of political commentary spotlight for their website, to go along with a cartoon. This is partly to ease me into radio work, and also partly to spiff up their website.

In any case, here's the cartoon, and the audio can be heard at http://wbul.usf.edu/podcasts/jeff-sheridan-depression

Partisanship

This is my response to the recent trouble with bipartisanship on capitol hill. The GOP, reeling from being the minority, and of course from losing the presidential election to Obama, met the Economic bailout bill with extremely negative sentiments.

Approved at $787 billion dollars, the stimulus calls for 64% in social programs aimed at creating 3.5 million new jobs (traditional economy-stokers such as road building and infrastructure repair) green jobs, alternative energy, and 15.9 billion goes to schools and education. 36% will go towards tax cuts.

The republican opposition to the plan says it spends too much on unnecessary programs, advocating bigger government and more debt. Perhaps they've forgotten Bush’s famed $1.35 trillion tax cut package of 2001, which begs the question- how did we get into this mess again?

Anyways, The republicans acted really weird when this bill was proposed, and went so far as threatening to draft their own version of the bill. They never did this, but at one point Rush Limbaugh went as far to say that the Republicans need to shut down Washington every vote to prove a point.

As far as I'm concerned, the only point that is being proven is that the GOP are a bunch of hotheaded idiots who can't accept defeat, so they've decided to not work with Obama. It's one thing to disagree, it's quite another to completely ignore a proposition.