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COMMENTS: Stimulus Proposal Would Balloon Spending
As for the Capitol Hill debate, only CBS covered the Senate Republicans' counterproposal, what they called "a simpler more targeted stimulus bill, half the size," according to Sharyl Attkisson. Attkisson mentioned that the Democrats' plan "balloons virtually every federal agency in terms of dollars" in a tone of voice that implied that this was a problem rather than a design. Then she fell into the same trap that Tyndall Report finds so exasperating, singling out a tiny fraction of the package, some $500m assigned to discretionary spending at the Department of Health and Human Services, and calling it "huge pots of money." As Barack Obama might say, "that is less than 1% of the entire package."
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