Bob Herbert's column in the New York Times this morning makes it pretty clear. Although our nation's 76 million baby boomers are known collectively as the children of the feel good post World War II era, that's just about where the comparison ends, and the distinctions begin.
For example, let's take the individual cases of three boomers: our baby boomer president, and those of two baby boomer United States senators.
Herbert on Senator Lindsey Graham, (boomer birth date of July 9, 1955):
“This bill is stinking up the place,” said Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina who not only opposed the legislation but wanted to make sure that no one would mistake him for a class act.
Herbert on Senator Bob Corker, (boomer birth date August 24, 1952):
Even as the report of an agreement was being circulated, Senator Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, was bad-mouthing the package on CNN. “This bill is a disaster,” he said.
Herbert on John McCain, a non-boomer, whose comments on the stimulus package served up a hanging curve ball for our boomer president:
Senator John McCain echoed many of his Republican colleagues on Friday when he indignantly asserted, “This is not a stimulus bill; it is a spending bill.”
It was an objection that had been addressed by an incredulous President Obama on Thursday night. “What do you think a stimulus is?” the president asked, his voice rising. Spending, he said — to laughter from his audience — “is the whole point.”
That ball is still in flight.
Who speaks for you?
Not sure what's in the stimulus bill? Take a look: The Stimulus Break Down
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