Is That it for Post-Partisanship? *Updated X 2

The Economic Stimulus bill has just passed the House 244-188, mainly along partisan lines. When the Internet stops being stubborn, I'm going to pull out who the cross-overs were and take a look at it.*

Although this is just my opinion, I do believe that the final version of the bill (after the Senate passes their version and conference) will have much more Republican support. There are two reasons for this:

a. It's going to be substantially revised in the Senate/Is going to pass with a much broader coalition in the senate. Moderate Senate Republicans in states where Obama won in 08' are going to face enormous pressure to vote for the bill.

b. It is not in the Republican parties political interest to be against the stimulus. This is particularly true for those republicans in places like Ohio or Michigan. Should they vote overwhelmingly against the final version of the bill, which the public (by large portions) wants to pass, and if the stimulus actually does improve things by the 2010 midterms, the Republicans are going to pay once more if they are the anti-stimulus party. (At the same time, I recognize that it is in some republicans interest to vote against the bill no matter what. My point is simply that there will be much more bipartisanship in the house in the final version of the bill comparative to this initial vote).


*Thomas.gov does not have the vote up yet, so it's not my research skills. Will update again when it goes up.
*As Per Politico: "It appears that not a single Republican votes "yes," and only ten Dems voted "no.""

-JRo