Okay, GOP Leaders, It’s Game Time
President-Elect Obama is ready to drop the Powerball of Pork he’s calling a stimulus package onto Congress for passage, but first, he has to try to woo Republicans to his side or it won’t pass.
First, let me stipulate that no matter how big the stimulus package is, it won’t work. It didn’t work when FDR did it and he can’t miracle his way around the laws of economics to make it work now.
That said, he’s sure as heck going to try because his goal isn’t really economic stimulus but government control of the economy. It doesn’t matter if he creates more jobs because that’s never been his goal. How do I know? He said so.
It’s going to take bold and immediate action to confront this crisis. That’s why I’m committed to forging a new beginning from the moment I take office as President of the United States. Earlier this week, I announced my economic team. This talented and dedicated group is already hard at work crafting an Economic Recovery Plan that will create or save 2.5 million new jobs…
[Emphasis Mine]
Now, how will we know that we’ve saved 2.5 million jobs? why, President Obama’s economic team will trot out a couple studies saying how many jobs we could have lost if not for President Obama’s daft hand and don’t you know, that number will be right about 2.5 million more than however many jobs we will have lost to that point. Wonder of wonders! And if the economy turns around for any reason at all, he’ll take full credit for those jobs, too. His rhetoric makes it absolutely impossible to fail.
Of course, he’ll need to get that plan passed, which won’t happen unless some Republicans climb on board. That’s why he filled it full of tax cuts, of varying shapes and sizes because Republicans love tax cuts like Jerry loves cheese. And like Tom Cat, Barack Obama thinks Republicans are dumb enough to grab the cheese and set off his Rube Goldberg stimulus plan.
Well, he’s partially right. Some Republicans are that dumb. We’re generally ashamed of those Republicans in the way that yuo’re ashamed of that one uncle you have who can never stay sober at a family dinner and ends up getting into a fight in the front yard. Around here, we call them RINOs and they can’t resist doing something ineffably stupid in order to look good to Democrats or the MSM. Grabbing these tax cuts, which won’t be nearly as shiny and pretty as the Presient-Elect will make them seem, is going to be another of those stupid moves you can count on from RINOs.
The job of conservatives is to talk them away from the trap. In order to get the few tax cuts that will be worth having (and, believe me, most of them won’t be, because they’re devised by progressives who are physically unable to take their hands out of your pockets voluntarily), Republicans will have to accept the rest of the tarball of economic disaster. Once they do that, we can kiss anything approximating prosperity goodbye for at least the rest of Barack Obama’s term of office.
So, this one’s for the conservatives in Congress. Don’t you budge one stinking inch on this. Say no to the stimulus bill no matter how much they gussy it up nor how often the MSM calls you names. Get the real details of the bill – the amount of control we will lose of our lives – and send them out to us every day.
And for God’s sake, don’t let the RINOs wander around where Democrats can get to them!
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Category: President Barack Obama, The Economy and Your Money, The Republican Minority
