The Colorado Independent | David Weigel
The day after President Obama signed the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) took to the airwaves to offer voters a different kind of new deal.
“If the American people will let the Republicans back in charge,” said Gohmert on the Feb. 19 episode of Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, “the 60 percent of this bill that won’t be spent until after the next election, we’ll cut it off and let it go to the Americans.”
The Porkulus is a train-wreck… these jobs figures are far worse than the ones the White House warned us about if we DIDN’T pass the bill- so it was passed, and then unemployment soars anyway?
Instead of creating jobs, interest rates were bumped up, the dollar slid… and it didn’t help anybody get any work. Much of this is due to the fact that Obama’s agenda has mortified almost every source of job-and-growth creation in the country.
The Dear Leader couldn’t deliver the type of “temporary, targeted, and timely” bill that he promised repeatedly. Regardless of his image in the MSM, Obama simply lacks the the political stature to control Pelosi and Reid… who hit the trough hard, while bickering like children.
And the lack of GOP co-conspirators exposed Obama politically… this legislation now looks to be a HUGE gamble. And when all this pork-n-welfare fails to generate any real economic gains, the Democrats face a bloodbath in 2010.
By the numbers, your comment is the unfortunate reality we are facing. However we must be careful not to fall into the trap that the Liberals and Progressives fell into during the beginning years of the Iraq war.
Their hope for the “epic fail” of the Bush Doctrine helped them greatly in the electoral process. But, it exposed their activists and leadership for the political swine they truly by showing informed Americans that they lusted for failure in Iraq and used the death of every troop for political gain.
As conservatives, Federalists, libertarians, and Republicans we must stay above that fray by hoping the country does well. DESPITE Obama and his failing policies. Crush them with numbers, facts, and solutions, not populism.
Thank you for your thoughts and comments.