Dear Leader really does think we’re stupid!
ByAccording to President Obama Porkulus is working as intended. He wasn’t even joking, he was serious! He also said we’re headed in the right direction.
President Barack Obama said his $787 billion stimulus bill “has worked as intended” as he pushed back against Republican criticism that his recovery program has failed to rescue the economy.
“It has already extended unemployment insurance and health insurance to those who have lost their jobs in this recession,” Obama, who is traveling today in Ghana, said in his weekly Saturday radio and Web address. “It has delivered $43 billion in tax relief to American working families and business.”
Obama spoke after stocks fell for a fourth week on concern that an economic recovery will be delayed. A government report last week showed that employers cut 467,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate rose to 9.5 percent, the highest since 1983.
The weakening labor market is taking a toll on Obama’s popularity. A survey by Hamden, Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University released July 7 showed 49 percent of Ohio voters approved of Obama’s job performance, down from 62 percent in a May 6 poll. The disapproval figure for Obama was 44 percent, up from 31 percent in May.
Other than Obamabot Kool Aid drinkers, who does this man think he’s fooling? Eric Cantor issued the GOP response to Obama’s laughable claim. “The plain truth is that President Obama’s economic decisions have not produced jobs, have not produced prosperity, and have not worked.” I’ll say. He also refutes the claims that the Republican Party hasn’t offered any alternatives. They have, but the GOP alternatives don’t involve an all out assault on small business and the middle class. Simply because the GOP wouldn’t sign on to the democrats’ irresponsible, job destroying policies doesn’t mean they didn’t have a plan.
On a related note, Democrats are still running against George W. Bush, who has been out of office for 6 months.
Vice President Joe Biden was standing by Jon Corzine’s side when the New Jersey governor kicked off his reelection campaign last month, but it was hard to tell from Corzine’s remarks that there was a new administration in Washington.
“America doesn’t need to be Bushwhacked again,” Corzine declared, jabbing his index finger and drawing loud cheers. “New Jersey cannot afford to be Bushwhacked again.”
A week later and hundreds of miles to the south, Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds accepted the Democratic nomination for governor with a similar message.
“Tonight, Virginia, we move into the general election where there’s a stark choice: of whether Virginia continues to move forward in the tradition of Mark Warner and Tim Kaine or whether we move backwards with the disastrous economic and social agenda of [GOP gubernatorial nominee] Bob McDonnell and George W. Bush.”
They may want to start running against Dear Leader instead of George Bush. Bush’s record is far better than Obama’s. Gateway Pundit was kind enough to dig up the evidence. President Bush inherited a recession, yet we saw growth of 23.8% in six months. In the six months since Obama took office we’ve seen growth of -5.2%. Who’s record is better? The man who cut taxes for all Americans and didn’t play the class warfare game, that’s who.
Recessions happen, it’s the response to the recession that matters. Obama’s response has all but assured that this recession is going to be a long, painful one. He promised change, and change he delivered. Lucky us.
Popularity: 4% [?]
Glenn Beck routinely make jokes about things being such that upon hearing about them “blood will squirt out of your eyes.”
The day this actually happens is getting closer and closer……….
To put it simply, you shouldn’t expect to unwind 25 years of out-of-balance financial malarky in 2. It will probably take 4-6. So we are a good third, or even further, of the way thru. Banks are recovering, but a lot are simply sitting on the money as prospects for investing right now don’t look so profitable in the near term. The loss of jobs has hurt state revenues so they are sitting on the stimulus money right now rather than just going out and burning it. Houses are still too expensive and salaries and wages are for most Americans still too low. The people at the top are still getting well compensated for the most part. Only some things have changed, but not our need for instant gratification or our dependency on the credit driven consumer culture. I would suggest that the obama stimulus provides aholding pattern for us to gather our thoughts and to seriously consider what will be the wisest investments for the future, then we will have to go back to building things again.
Am I the only one getting adds that take up the entire page just after opening Lonelyconcervative??
I’ll check into that tomorrow. I haven’t seen it but I think I know where it may be coming from.
Brian,
What you say is reasoned and makes sense.
However, I CANNOT see the current level of spending and gov’t intervention being justified by “the last 25 years” of whatever.
I take that back. If our public schools, institutions of higher learning and the MSM didn’t put such drizzle in people’s heads we would be here in the first place.
I used to say I’d like to shake the hand of whomever invented spandex that’s been changed to I’d like to slap the snot out whomever dreamed up political correctness.
That’s: would NOT be here in the first place.
LC: can we get an edit feature going?
Sam, I don’t know how I could do that. Unless you want to be a contributor.
For starters, I completely disagree with Brian, but that’s just my opinion.
If we forget that Dems were in control for two years before Obama, and if we forget that Bush desperately needed their help to make the war work and so vetoed nothing, and if we forget that we would not have had a housing bubble had the Dems not corrupted Fannie and Freddie…then maybe I can agree.
But we cannot forget the housing bubble because that is the root of the problem. Nothing in TARP or the Stimulus is working…nothing.
Without housing, the banking meltdown would perhaps not have happened.