More Administration lies: No, Mr. Biden, "everyone" did NOT "guess wrong."

.
The latest from the Vice-Moron?


Biden tells "Meet the Press" that "everyone guessed wrong" on the impact of the stimulus, economy was worse off than anyone thought.

Backs away from the estimate that the funds could create or save 3.5 million jobs, instead promises 600,000 by the end of the summer.

When this Administration becomes a footnote; sooner rather than later, one would hope; historically, it won't be the "Obama Administration." Nope. Instead, it'll be the "Liars Administration."

File me under "not everyone" as I railed against this unbelievably massive waste of money from the moment of it's inception.

Here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, among other places to be precise; I went off on this massive waste of money; this corrupt and stinking, naked power play designed purely to use OUR money so Obama could pay back his political masters on the left... including the corrupt unions that screwed us by supporting his election.

While I give the Vice-Moron credit for beginning to acknowledge the lies and deceit he and the rest of the Administration have engaged in, this spin don't pass the smell-test.

From the very beginning, the Congressional Budget Office told anyone who would listen that the Porkulus was not needed and that, if implemented, would, in fact, SLOW our recovery.

So. Am I supposed to be all warm and fuzzy inside that *I* (and millions of others) know more than the Vice-Moron? Is the Vice-Moron's pronouncement supposed to be some sort of confidence builder?

So blinded by political bias that common sense has no place at the table?

Many said all along that this WILL NOT WORK. That you and the rest of the Administration WOULD NOT LISTEN does NOT mean that "everyone guessed wrong." What it means is that you lot were too damned stupid to see it in your desire to pay off your buddies.

But now, as another famous fringe-leftist once said, THOSE chickens are COMING HOME TO ROOST.

Governor "Last October we were operating in a surplus that didn't exist" Gregoire: We'll take stimulus money

.
Recently, leftists and many in the media (Sorry, my bad... since the terms are interchangeable.) are attacking GOP governors with enough sense to at least question, if not refuse, some or all of the income redistribution that President Obama is so thrilled about; that the Congressional Budget Office says will harm our economy... because of an inescapable fact:

Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter was less optimistic. Otter, a Republican, has agreed to accept the stimulus money, but said he was concerned about expanding programs that could boost his state's costs in the future when the federal dollars disappear.

Leftists in government are addicted to money. Like any hardcore junkie, democrats have no ability to look into the future.

From the president on down, democrats in government are genetically incapable of asking, or genetically incapable of caring about "what happens next?"

At some point, the money our grateful fiscal junkies are stealing from us will end. At some point, the Federal cow will dry up.

And then what?

Governor Gregoire, mouthing the DNC talking points that all shortsighted democrat governors are telling us, blathers thus:

"I'll not only accept all the dollars coming to Washington state, but any governor who wants to reject the dollars, send 'em my way," Gregoire said Monday after meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House.

There's nothing in her quote... nothing in her mindless, short-sighted babble; that answers the question.

In the end, the hundreds of billions of dollars moronically stolen from us for this bizarre political payback/indebtedness program will stop... and who is going to pay for all the programs... the hope... the jobs... then?

Thanks a lot, governor. Just don't come to me for your next fix.





Gregoire: We'll take stimulus money
Monday, February 23 3:51 p.m.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington Governor Chris Gregoire. (File/The Columbian)

While some of her Republican colleagues try to decide whether to accept federal stimulus money, Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire of Washington state says her mind is already made up.

"I'll not only accept all the dollars coming to Washington state, but any governor who wants to reject the dollars, send 'em my way," Gregoire said Monday after meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House.

"We've got an economy that is struggling right now," Gregoire said. "These dollars represent hope. They represent jobs and services for people who can't take care of themselves. We're going to spend every dollar and we're going to do it wisely."

At Monday's meeting, Obama told the nation's governors that states could begin receiving money from the newly passed $787 billion economic stimulus program as soon as Wednesday.

Washington state could receive nearly $7 billion under the stimulus plan for projects ranging from transportation to food stamps to education. Oregon could get about $2 billion from the stimulus bill, Idaho and Alaska $1 billion each and more than $600 million for Montana. Much of the money will be designated for programs such as Medicaid and unemployment.

Obama warned against allowing politics to cloud discussion of the stimulus program and said governors must demonstrate that the stimulus money will be used to jump-start the ailing economy.

Message received, said Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer.

"People call this a stimulus bill. This is a jobs bill," Schweitzer said. "It's going to put people to work."

Schweitzer, a Democrat, said the money could create or save as many as 11,000 jobs in Montana. The bill will be a huge boost for the Northwest energy sector, he added, noting that it includes billions of dollars for new transmission lines, coal gasification and weatherizing homes and businesses.

More:

Martin at Politico Blows It: Showdown - Obama warns he's no pushover...

... except to the far left.

There's all kinds of ways to be a "push over," as, contrary to Martin's assertion, Mr. Obama has proven that he has been not only a "push-over," but the penultimate "lay down."

The problem for Mr. Obama is his perspective is so stilted, so warped, so arrogant that his insistence on, for example, carrying through with this idiotic porkulus program, a program that the Congressional Budget Office has determined to be unnecessary, that "bi-partisanship" (Defined by democrats as doing it their way) is simply not possible.

Yes, "urgency" is the reason that Mr. Obama has been engaging in the politics of terror. Unfortunately, an increasing number of his own experts claim there is not only no reason for urgency... but no reason to do this thing at all.

Mr. Martin claims

He reached out to Republicans in opening weeks and got little support in return. Monday night he instead used his prime-time platform to repeat on several occasions that he was inheriting a mess—both a huge deficit and a failing economy—and that spending some $820 billion was not his own preference for how to launch his presidency but the hand he had been dealt.

The first observation; that Mr. Obama "reached out to Republicans" early on is true, as far as it goes.

But when the only reason you reach out is to provide yourself with political cover for foisting on the American people the most horrific spending program in this Nation's history, how much support SHOULD you get?

Few statements of observation by a reporter, as accurate as they may be, are so self-serving and so blatantly arrogant.

That he "inherited" this mess is totally irrelevant. If he doesn't like the current situation with our economy... if it's too much for him to handle (and every indication so far is that certainly is the case) then he should quit.

Unfortunately, given the CBO's conclusions that no stimulus package is required since we will be leaving this recession in the second-half of this year, Mr. Obama's conclusion, related by Mr. Martin, that "....spending some $820 billion was not his own preference for how to launch his presidency..." seems, based on the facts of this matter, to be absolutely untrue.

As one reads this article, it's almost as if Mr. Martin was looking for a job in the White House, failing to use critical thinking and analysis to ask himself the questions that really matter.

Mr. Martin wrote, "To the Republicans who oppose his path, he offered a choice. They might be philosophically opposed to government intervention, even if millions are losing jobs and “most economists, almost unanimously” insist it is necessary. Or they might be partisan hypocrites, who did not mind big spending and deficits under
the last president but are prepared to let the economy “continue to tank” rather
than work constructively with this one."

The phrase "'most economists, almost unanimously' insist" this massive, pork-filled disgrace "is necessary" defies belief.

There is nothing approaching "unanimity." In fact, as I've pointed out, the CBO has indicated that not only is this package not necessary, but it also WILL be harmful to the recovery.

Mr. Obama has painted himself into a corner. He's made the mistake of losing his focus, which is to work to help ALL of the American people out of a situation our government, both democrat and Republican, helped get us into... in favor of a massive, pork-laden bill used to pay off his political buddies and supporters with a bill FILLED, contrary to Mr. Obama's assertion, with enough pork to process lunch meat for the next 1000 years.

He made that decision BEFORE the CBO came out with their conclusions that this package will ultimately only bury us in debt, a debt now, apparently, approaching $9.7 TRILLION.

Thus, my characterization of his effort as the "Generational Indebtedness Act," because, as I described it on Fox Business News with Stuart Varney, it will take untold generations to repay this bill.

And while the President has yet to discuss in any way that I can find what it's going to take and how it's going to be achieved, we WILL have to repay this, and Mr. Obama is tasking untold generations with that responsibility.

Under these circumstance, who in their right mind would come close to "supporting" this utter nonsense?

And if THAT "framing" strikes leftists as something of a stacked deck, it's one THEY may have to get used to, because unlike the president's babble on this issue, it also happens to have the benefit of being the truth.

The one critical flaw in both Mr. Martin's reasoning as well as the President's action is this:

Instead of this horrific waste of time and political capital; instead of this completely unnecessary show of brutish, arrogance-driven incompetence, the President COULD have embraced the CBO report; focused on regulatory reform and reform of the mechanism of oversight, thus allowing the market to straighten itself out... precisely like the Congressional Budget Office has concluded.

So, we must review motive as the basis for action. Clearly, the President's efforts in this matter are not based, or are only based secondarily, on assisting in the economic recovery. With the CBO conclusion out there, one need only view the beneficiaries of the President's largess with our money to see the true motives. And, inescapably, that conclusion is one of a basis of political pay off as the primary motive for his actions.

"Pushover?" With massive, if not insurmountable numerical advantage in Congress, how could it possibly BE a "pushover?"

Showdown: Obama warns he's no pushover
By JONATHAN MARTIN 2/10/09 4:19 AM EST

Yes, there will be time to change the politics of Washington and to give people wondrous examples of bipartisanship.

.

But, no, not now, President Barack Obama made clear at his first White House news conference—not if it gets in the way of passing the stimulus bill on which Obama believes the nation’s economy and his own presidency will hinge.

.

Urgency was the obvious message Obama was trying to convey to millions of Americans in the hour-long session. But to a smaller Washington audience—to both Republicans and skeptics in his own party—there seemed to be an equally unmistakable subtext: He is not a patsy or a pushover.

.

He reached out to Republicans in opening weeks and got little support in return. Monday night he instead used his prime-time platform to repeat on several occasions that he was inheriting a mess—both a huge deficit and a failing economy—and that spending some $820 billion was not his own preference for how to launch his presidency but the hand he had been dealt.

.

To the Republicans who oppose his path, he offered a choice. They might be philosophically opposed to government intervention, even if millions are losing jobs and “most economists, almost unanimously” insist it is necessary. Or they might be partisan hypocrites, who did not mind big spending and deficits under the last president but are prepared to let the economy “continue to tank” rather than work constructively with this one.

.

More:

.

It’s times like these… The political treason of Snowe, Specter and Collins and A Question for Mr. Steele.

.

Not all that long ago, I was completely wrapped up in Republican politics. I had worked for the better part of 2 decades for free to get Republicans at all levels elected, because I believed.

Locally, a member of the party executive board for my county was working full time to get a democrat elected to our county commission (Including being well-paid by that democrat) while I worked for months to get my Republican candidate elected to the same position. (Now, 4 years later, he’s been elected in one of the closest imaginable races for a 400,000 plus county)

Another allegedly Republican person, an elected Precinct Committee officer, chose to run for a utilities commissioner position.

In so doing, that PCO endorsed democrats Cantwell for Senate, Baird for Congress and the democrat for county commissioner.

I brought this to the attention of the local GOP hierarchy, expecting, at a minimum, for this board member to be tossed off the board.

I was wrong. Nothing happened. So, a few days before the election, I resigned MY position on the Board in protest at this lack of concern; this lack of commitment to party principles and this complete lack of party discipline.

With that resignation and other cave ins by Republicans at every level to democrat agendas (You ever seem to notice the frequency where GOP’ers cave in to democrats, and the rarity where the reverse takes place?) I slowly saw MY party drift away from me… to the point where three members of what used to be my party are now betraying everything we stand for… betraying these same principles… betraying these bedrock ideals that are supposed to mean something when it’s most important.

The en vogue phrase is “RINO.” This, of course, stands for Republicans In Name Only. It’s SUPPOSED to take more than a label. Being a Republican is SUPPOSED to mean that, in times like these, you cling to our principles with an obvious ferocity, because principles are SUPPOSED to mean something.

That is not to say that I don’t believe that Senators Specter, Snowe and Collins have no RIGHT to vote to put us into debt for decades, if not centuries to come. Of course they have that right.

My question is far simpler than the idea that these three traitors to everything alleged to be Republican should not have the right to vote with, act like, or take their marching orders from Harry Reid (Senate democrat Majority Leader) or democrat President Obama directly.

My question for our new RNC Chair, Mr. Steele, is this:

What will their consequences be?

When they do this thing… when they sell us out and vote like they’re Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi and that sort… what will that cost them?

I expect to hear from Mr. Steele with those consequences BEFORE this final Judas act of a vote takes place.

I tasked you, Mr. Steele, to make me believe.

Well, here’s your chance. Now’s the time to make sure first, that those selling us out know ahead of time that there’s a cost for doing that; that second; the cost is twice that of the crime (I’m a firm believer in NON-proportional response) and that there is actual follow through.

In this instance, the penalty should be expulsion from the Republican Party with commensurate termination of any support of any kind.

Some reading this might recoil at the harshness of such a penalty. But in this instance, those acting as traitors to everything Republicans and non-union Americans hold dear should suffer the ultimate political penalty for engaging in this type of political treason.

Some might ask, “What about the veto-proof majority if we expel those people from the party?” I would respond, “What about it? It seems to me the democrats have already achieved that. Party labels are worthless when they’re used by sellouts. So, who cares? What do we have to lose?” If, when we need these clowns the most, they turn their backs on everything they are supposed to stand for... then left the leftists have them… and own them, like it’s apparently clear they already do.

At this point, these political pond scum have betrayed this country and sold us all out.

And for that, they must pay the political price.

Make me believe, Mr. Steele. Make us ALL believe.

Bipartisan Deal Eases Way For Stimulus Bill in Senate
Compromise Sets Up Tough Negotiations With House

By Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, February 7, 2009; A01

Against a backdrop of rising unemployment, Senate Democrats struck a hard-won deal yesterday with a handful of Republican moderates to scale back spending in a massive economic stimulus bill, virtually guaranteeing Senate passage of the legislation but also ensuring arduous final negotiations with the House.

The compromise represented a dramatic finale to a tumultuous and frustrating week for Democrats pushing the package, as Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) saw the limitations of an expanded majority and a band of GOP centrists came to appreciate the very high price they can extract for their votes on key measures.

The bipartisan deal was cut after two days of talks and would cut more than $100 billion from the $920 billion bill, dropping its cost to about $820 billion, if amendments added on the Senate floor are retained.

Most Republicans remained strongly opposed to the compromise bill, saying it was too costly and ineffective, and Democratic leaders were counting on just three GOP votes for the plan as of last night but hoped to expand the number before a final vote.

More: