The Obama administration is admitting failure of its Stimulus Bill today by proposing an additional $50 billion in more stimulus. The White House is claiming that this new stimulus economic package (they refuse to use the word stimulus) will go toward “shovel ready” jobs such as railroads, highways, airports, etc. Odd, because the $864 billion in last year’s Stimulus Bill was supposed to go toward that sort of thing.
Democrats have a lot to fear. New polling shows Republicans now lead Democrats by 12% in the latest Rasmussen Poll. That ties an all-time record for Republicans. Democrats and the unions are frustrated that their tactic of blaming Bush and Republicans for the failure of Obama’s and Democrats’ policies don’t seem to be working. Support from Independent voters and now Democrat voters have the establishment concerned.
In a recent AP article, they noted that Democrat Congressional candidates have been running from Pelosi, Reed, and Obama. In most cases, neither are mentioned in campaign ads. More interesting, Democrats are avoiding mentioning their own political affiliation.
Soon after the Health-care Bill was pushed through Congress and signed by Obama, Obama challenged Republicans to “run against health-care”, however, interestingly enough, it’s Democrats who are running from it. Most Democrats are failing to mention this “achievement” in any of their campaign ads recognizing that public support for the Bill is not there.
Support from the Liberals seems to be waning as evidence on the Sunday talk shows. New York Times columnist and Democrat puppet Tom Friedman on Sunday accused Barack Obama of badly misreading his Election Day mandate, and said the current White House is the worst communicating administration he’s ever seen.
Friedman blasted the President saying, “I’m for more health care. I’m glad we’ve extended it to more Americans. But the fact is there’s a real, I think, argument for the case that Obama completely over-read his mandate when he came in.”
Friedman continued, “He was elected to get rid of one man’s job, George Bush, and get the rest of us jobs. I think that was the core thing, and by starting with health care and not making his first year the year of innovation, expanding the economy and expanding jobs, you know, I think looking back, that was a political mistake.”
In reality, I don’t believe that this President or this Democrat Congress really wanted to create jobs. I believe it was their theory that with more people unemployed more people would join the unions. I can hear some of my liberal readers now, “he’s nuts”, but… on Saturday the New York Times reported that Anna Burger, chairwoman of Change to Win, a federation representing 5 million union and secretary-treasurer of the powerful Service Employees International Union is retiring out of frustration. Anna Burger is reported as saying that she is also frustrated that union membership continues to shrink even when workers should in theory be flocking into unions during this time of stagnating wages.
It’s time for Obama and the Democrats to pack up their bags and leave the work of getting this economy going again to the adults and to those who put the country and the people before the government and the unions.
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