I did this Photoshop a couple of years ago, sad how it is still applicable today.
Please enjoy this article provided by guest blogger Derek Clark from Geek Politics.
Harry Reid has done a wonderful job of showing exactly what is wrong with Washington lately. He is playing politics when we need leaders to guide us through this recession. Last week Sens. Max Baucus and Charles Grassley had a bipartisan jobs plan all set to go that even had the blessing of the White House. At that Reid decided to kill the $85 billion dollar bill in favor of a more focused $15 billion dollar bill of his own.
His reason for killing the bill? Has Harry turned over a new leaf and become a fiscal conservative? Nah that can’t be it. Try this:
One of Reid’s allies said that the Baucus-Grassley bill would have only received three or four Republican votes and that the GOP would have used the bloated initiative to “beat the living s**t out of us” — although Democrats have not had any problem hailing their legislation as bipartisan with as few as three Republican votes.
Harry apparently just figured out he’s going to lose his seat in the Senate this November. He wants to continue painting the Republicans as the “party of no” and allowing this to go through would have stopped that talk. This will have some interesting consequences for him and the Democrats though:
Reid’s decision takes the second stimulus package cost down from $85 billion to $15 billion. That may please fiscal conservatives, but it sets up an embarrassing problem for Barack Obama. No one believes that his $787 billion Porkulus package, now repriced to $862 billion, worked to create jobs, but the Left wing of Democrats thinks it didn’t work because the Democrats didn’t spend enough money.
What this means is that this bill is pretty much a joke from every angle, which means it should pass easily. I don’t think the Republicans will waste time filibustering this pathetic attempt at job creation, but they won’t vote for it either. Harry and the Democrats can continue to paint Republicans as the “party of no”, but I don’t think it is going to matter come November. They’ve accomplished so little while spending so much, Americans are looking for a change. Again. Funny how that works when the change you bring is socialism.
I suspect this will end any chance of Republicans working with Reid and the Democrats this year. This is a little frustrating to me in that everyone will continue playing politics like this. On the bright side, the bill Baucus and Grassley put out was really awful. I guess wasting less money to not create jobs is technically better. Let me know what you think of Reid’s political move in the comments below.
Derek Clark blogs about conservative politics at Geek Politics. You can also follow him on Twitter @clarky07.
I wish I had the resources to do this research on my own. Does anyone out there inthe blogiverse know how many pork projects (Democrat or Republican) have already received stimulus money? I am curious to know if politicians are able to get the funds to their porky pet projects quickly while actual ‘supposed’ stimulus dollars lie in wait somewhere.
Anyone? Beuller?
I hate that phrase. Obama inserted it into his campaign speeches late in the game and I remember hearing it for the first time. My head turned like a dog hearing a bag of chips being opened. For those of you in management you should recognize that the concept of “jobs saved” is the exact opposite of a real goal. A real goal must be specific, attainable, and measurable. There’s no way to measure an event that doesn’t happen. Sure, you can say “my company would have fired these ten people if we didn’t get our Obama handout,” but unless every credited source provides this sort of data, it’s all just a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
“Jobs Created or Saved” is about as definitive a number as “Pounds lost or potentially lost.”
Calling all moderate Americans. WAKE UP! I can’t save or even influence the far lefties that have no clue about reality, but I can try to those of you in the middle ground.
Look back over the “failed eight years” that the left and Obama loved to whine about. Make a list of the accusations pointed at Bush and Cheney. What was he accused of? EVEN IF, for the sake of argument, you take the truther side and agree with their crazy assertions, what Obama is doing is exponentially worse, more restrictive, more invasive and more dangerous than ANYTHING that the Bush administration was accused of.
The Obama Administration has now expressed the need to restrict free speech, not only of lobbyists and insiders, but of “anyone else exerting influence on the process. We concluded this was necessary under the unique circumstances of the stimulus program.” Who wrote that quote? Norman Eisen, who works for Barack Obama as Special Counsel to the President on Ethics and Government Reform. Ed Morrissey had this to say:
Remember when the Left took to the streets to declare dissent “patriotic” during wartime? I didn’t have a problem with dissent then, but apparently the Left has a curious definition of “patriotism”. Now, suddenly, the federal government can silence their critics at will, not to protect critical national-security programs or keep from undermining a war effort, but to protect a Democratic president intent on seizing control of private industry across a wide swath of the nation. Suddenly, that kind of dissent threatens America.
Seriously speaking, when will the media and moderates that voted for Obama wake up and realize that this man is truly dangerous for America? Once upon a time liberals stood up for free speech. Remember the 1960s? What the hell has happened to the Left?Let me leave you chewing on this:
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberalism,” they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948
