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White House correspondents at ABC and NBC focused on Barack Obama's talks with Congressional leaders on that fiscal boost of $825bn. "House Republicans gripe they have barely been consulted on the stimulus package," reported ABC's Jake Tapper, so they submitted a "wish list" of tax cuts to the President. When they disagreed on income tax rates, Tapper told us that the President told the GOPers: "I won. So I think on that one I trump you." Tapper asked White House press secretary Robert Gibbs whether all of the spending is "truly stimulative" and whether the House bill was really bipartisan. Gibbs answered the first question in the affirmative and ignored the second.
NBC's Savannah Guthrie publicized Republican objections to lines of spending that, they claim, will not stimulate the economy quickly. She ticked off school meals, and parks improvements, and coupons to modernize television sets, and vehicle purchases. In total those GOP items amounted to $2.2bn out of the $825bn total--closer to cavils than true complaints.
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