As the economy starts to tank and visions of a Republican Congress start materializing, Democrats are starting to press for a stimulus which, they hope, might keep the economy afloat until after election day – from The Hill:
…In letters, interviews, and public statements, President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other senior Democrats are now raising red flags that the economy could falter without additional stimulus efforts.
Obama urged congressional leaders in mid-June to pass an extension of tax breaks and unemployment benefits, and up to $50 billion in aid for states and local governments. Without Congress acting, Obama said the economy could “slide backwards.” …
It is already sliding backwards, its just that it’ll be two or three months before the slide shows up in the GDP numbers. The money for the States and local governments is to keep government employees on the job – all I can see tells me that the Democrats biggest fear is an unemployment rate of more than 10% come election day. As it stands right now, quite a lot of government employees are going to get the boot from our bankrupt States…unless Obama Claus slides down the chimney with magical federal money.
All is to be subordinated to keeping Pelosi in the Speaker’s chair and some Democrat as Majority leader (they are already getting ready to write off Reid, I’m sure). The liberals are deathly afraid of both having their agenda derailed and Republicans in charge of government oversight – too many crooked deals have happened too recently. They don’t want them looked in to by anyone who would want to find the truth.
Our job, as Republicans, is to block them at every turn – no amount of stimulus will fix what wasn’t fixed by the previous, much larger stimulus and, indeed, any attempt to do so will just make matters worse. We daren’t allow Democrats to further mortgage our future just to try and save their political hides. Fight them out toe to toe, and let the voters decide in November.
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