So. I just read this:
"This is not a stimulus plan, it's a spending plan," Nebraska's freshman senator, Mike Johanns (R), said Wednesday in a maiden floor speech full of budget-balancing orthodoxy that would have made Herbert Hoover proud. The stimulus bill, he declared, "won't create the promised jobs. It won't activate our economy."
Johanns was too busy yesterday to explain this radical departure from standard theory and practice. Where does the senator think the $800 billion will go? Down a rabbit hole? Even if the entire sum were to be stolen by federal employees and spent entirely on fast cars, fancy homes, gambling junkets and fancy clothes, it would still be an $800 billion increase in the demand for goods and services -- a pretty good working definition for economic stimulus. The only question is whether spending it on other things would create more long-term value, which it almost certainly would.
It as if all the repubs have checked their brains at the door and are now in lockstep with the evil baboon Limbaugh and his mantra of "I hope he fails." They can't see the forest for the tree (or the stimulus for the spending), and can't see that if "he" fails, we all fail.
Posted by: Ed | Saturday, February 07, 2009 at 03:15 PM
DEMS: The sky is blue.
GOP: You're wrong! It's sickening how wrong you are and we hope you fail as a result! We hope you fail and we hope America fails as a result of how wrong you are. Because unlike what you say, the sky is clearly blue!
Posted by: DT | Monday, February 09, 2009 at 10:15 AM