Liberal Talking Points Memo; Think, People

I'm assuming that over there in Liberal La La Land, you leftists just take whatever rolls down the pipe and you run with it. Perhaps at some point you people might want to use your heads for something other than a hat rack and think before you click away on the keyboard. Now I know that President Obama has criticized the Republicans for being the "Party of No" and doing nothing more than opposing every part of his agenda. Then, he turns around and calls them hypocrites for for having some ideas about what to do with the stimulus money that is being passed around at taxpayer expense. Here is one example of a writer who just runs with the talking points and never pauses to think about what he is writing.

According to this morning's exposé in the Washington Times, those very same Republican members of Congress who publicly condemned the 2009 stimulus bill--insisting to us all that it would neither stimulate the economy nor create jobs--privately believed just the opposite. These GOP representatives and senators were so sure that the stimulus bill would be effective, in fact, that they could not get to their desks fast enough to start peppering the federal government with requests for projects in their districts.

After using the Freedom of Information Act to acquire the congressional correspondence to just one federal agency--the Department of Agriculture--the Times discovered more than a dozen two-faced GOP members, including Rep. Joe "You Lie" Wilson, the South Carolina Republican who interrupted President Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress last year.

As the Times reported, Wilson voted against the stimulus but then "elbowed his way into the rush for federal stimulus cash" in a letter he sent to Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack.

"We know their endeavor will provide jobs and investment," Wilson said on behalf of some hometown candidates for stimulus funds.

Now first, we would have to deal with Mr. Farrell's extremely loose definition of the term "effective". Let's assume for a second that President Obama is telling the truth, and by his largest estimates, he has created 2.5 million jobs. Most people aren't going to consider spending $787 billion to create 2.5 million jobs to be "effective". For example, most people think that professional baseball players are overpaid. Yet had the stimulus plan been used to pay baseball salaries, one could have paid the payroll of the 2008 American League Champion Tampa Bay Rays 17,959 times. That would be 718,383 jobs created. In this light, 2.5 million construction and and teachers jobs doesn't come in as quite the bargain, now does it?

Yet hat having been said, let's get to the heart of the issue here. Back during the Democrat Primaries, Joe Biden was criticized by Obama and the other Democrats (yes, that was back when he was opposed to the Iraq war) for not voting to cut off the funding for the war. Ever wonder what happened to that idea now that they control everything? Anyway, Biden defended his vote. He said that he didn't want to use the troops lives to score cheap political points by delaying funding for a war that they didn't have the votes to end.

Here, the Republicans opposed the stimulus bill when it mattered. It passed anyway. Now, they don't have the votes to fund it. So while Obama is busy trying to convince the American people that the Republicans are the party of no, excuse us if we step in and play grown up here for a minute. As you kids over there on the left give tens of thousands to Universities to study the effects of smoking pot and drinking malt liquor on college students, and give tens of millions to states to build turtle tunnels, excuse us if we might have some adult ways to spend the money. We and our kids, after all, are on the hook for the money. Why not spend it the best way possible?

That having been said, there is no good way to spend the money. It is the stupid and frivolous spending one gets when they turn the checkbook over to the kids. But a rail system that will actually salvage some jobs out of this liberal wasteland of legislation is a far better idea than a laundromat in Arkansas or a tennis court in Montana. So if I could borrow a line from President Obama, we don't mind cleaning up the mess you guys made over there, but would you mind shutting up and letting us do it? I know you had fantasies of "Free Willie" turtle style, but you're supposed to be governing here, not playing house.