It seems that enough Senators have agreed on an economic stimulus plan of at least $780 billion. President Obama insists that the bill will rescue the U.S. economy from sinking into an even deeper recession.
Three Republicans agreed to join Democrats who control the chamber in supporting the measure.
However, President Obama’s economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said. The result they say is so much government debt that it would actually harm the economy in the long term.
So why are we believe the Spendulus bill is good? Because Obama says it will. That’s why. And over the past two weeks we’ve seen the support for this bill eroding. And that’s why the Dems are hurrying this to a vote because they know that the faith in The One is eroding.
I think the first two weeks of Obama’s presidency have been a pretty clear vision of how the cult of personality fails when it meets a little something I like to call reality. When Obama got into office the world was supposed to bow down. Obama sent a love note to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But the lunatic in Iran didn’t well up and change his ways. Far from it. He declared victory and started calling America names.
And this week, under orders from Moscow, Kyrgyzstan’s president announced that his country will be closing the sole American air base in Central Asia. The Manas Air Base is a crucial transit point for supplies and NATO troops going to Afghanistan.
But now Obama must believe that at least the economy will bow down to him and obey. Why? Because he said so.
I’m starting to think that the further we get into Obama’s presidency, the more he’s going to seem like Kevin Bacon from Animal House.
February 7, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Matthew,
This obsession you have with this thing called “reality” (? OK, whatever) just shows that you are stuck in the same partisan politics of the failed past. Get with the program. This is a new era; don’t ask questions.
(Wait, wasn’t it the Secretary of State who said not too long ago that it is our responsibility as Americans to disagree with this administration and ANY administration? Hmm, I wonder if she would say that today… at least not under her breath?)
February 7, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Here’s a Mark Steyn quote that made me glad I wasn’t drinking coffee while reading it:
–In The Washington Post, E.J. Dionne tried to break it gently to us:
“No occupant of the White House has ever been able to walk on water.”
Yeah, sure, no previous occupant of the White House has been able to walk on water – your Eisenhowers and Roosevelts, your Chester Arthurs and Grover Clevelands and whatnot. But Barack didn’t run as just another of those squaresville losers. He was gonna heal the planet and lower the oceans. So, even if he couldn’t walk on water, he should at least be able to paddle in it. “He is a community organizer like Jesus was,” said Susan Sarandon, “and now we’re a community, and he can organize us.”
So how’s that going? Jesus took a handful of loaves and two fish and fed 5,000 people. Barack wants to take a trillion pieces of pork and feed it to a handful of Democratic Party interest groups. Jesus picked twelve disciples. Barack seems to have gone more for one of those “Dirty Dozen” caper-movie lineups, where the mission is so perilous and so audacious that only the scuzziest lowlifes recruited from every waterfront dive have any chance of pulling it off.–
February 7, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Scriptures state that the prince of darkness can appear like an angel of light. The Lord provided a lithmus test, “By there fruits you shall know them.”
February 7, 2009 at 5:25 pm
I’m really tempted to tell my liberal friends, I told you so…
February 7, 2009 at 5:33 pm
More harm to Africa from the west:(!
February 7, 2009 at 6:36 pm
I’m really tempted to tell my liberal friends, I told you so…
True. It will take a heroic effort to keep the schadenfreude down. But that’s the benefit of being in the outs–endless comedy. It’s like we’re Newman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIiplTlZNTI
February 7, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Guys, your liberal friends will never understand assign any blame to Obama for impending disaster. It’s just that he came to us too late: Bush had already destroyed the country, and evil Republicans like Rush Limbaugh wouldn’t let Obama do what he needed to do to save us. I believe that Obama actually admitted that the New Deal failed, but said the reason for its failure was that Rooselvelt lost his nerve and didn’t do enough. This will probably become a new Democratic talking point, if it hasn’t already. And if you say “I told you so” you’re being un-American. And furthermore we need the Fairness Doctrine so that Obama’s great plans for remaking America can flourish unobstructed. I just can’t wait. Kit
February 8, 2009 at 3:23 am
Mike is right – you have to get with the program. I watch the news updates on the mall tv system at work — basically, Obama is right, and anyone who doesn’t agree with him is wrong, and thwarting his plans. Duh.