Rush Limbaugh debuted what he dubbed the “Obama-Limbaugh Stimulus Plan 2009″ on his show yesterday (text here/audio here), and the jist of it is this:  Obama won 53% of the vote, and McCain won 46%.  Round Obama’s percentage to 54 and take the trillion dollars for the stimulus and split it 54-46:  $540 billion for Democrats to use and $460 billion for Republicans to use.

Shades of the Connecticut Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, in which the compromises were essentially to let both sides have their way.  I guess that’s why they called them compromises.

Of course, I don’t trust the Democrat definition of “bipartisanship” to resemble anything remotely bipartisan.  Does Nancy Pelosi really seem like the type to engineer a Connecticut Compromise-type situation?

Said Rush:

There is no bipartisanship in President Obama’s plan.  President Obama’s definition of bipartisanship is when Republicans cave and agree with his plan so he can then claim it’s bipartisan.  But he’s not compromising on anything here.

Mine is a genuine compromise.  So let’s look at how the vote came out, shall we?  Fifty-three percent of voters in this country — we’ll say, for the sake of this proposal, 53% of Americans — voted for Obama.  Forty-six percent voted for Senator McCain, and 1% voted for wackos.  Let’s give the remaining 1% to President Obama, so let’s say that 54% voted for President Obama and 46% voted for Senator McCain.  As a way to bring the country together and at the same time determine the most effective way to deal with recessions, under the Obama-Limbaugh Stimulus Plan of 2009, $540 billion of the one trillion will be spent on infrastructure as defined by President Obama and the Democrats.  The remaining $460 billion, or 46% that voted for Senator McCain, will be directed towards tax cuts, as determined by me.

These tax cuts will consist primarily of capital gains tax cuts and corporate tax rate cuts.  So Obama gets $540 billion to spend his way.  The other people of this country who did not vote for his way get $460 billion spent the way they would like it spent.  This is bipartisanship!

How much confidence would that restore?  Democrats would be able to laud their own “leadership” (even though it was Rush’s idea) and Republicans would be happy to get some big tax rates out of the way.

Other than that Democrats would still get money to spend, does anyone have any issues with this plan?