Stimulus Or Not, Brace Yourselves, People, The Depression Is On Its Way

No, I'm not being Rush Limbaugh, but I just do not see the Obama stimulus plan having any real impact. This is not because the stimulus plan is a bad idea. This is because Obama is still letting the minority party dictate the crap out of the stimulus plan.


First, despite the House passing its version, it still contained at least 25% of worthless tax cuts, and yet, ZERO Republicans voted for it, when the damn tax cuts were put in it just at their behest!


Now that the Senate is debating (and I use that word loosely) the stimulus package, it appears the tax cuts are up to 40% of the entire stimulus, AND it's been trimmed by about 100 billion dollars!


Obama ... fuck them, all of them, the Democrats and Republicans. Just put out the most proper stimulus plan (hint -- Paul Krugman -- hint, for starters), and if our stupid, self-serving representatives (again, using that word loosely) in Congress don't vote for it, you can rest assured that American voters in 2010 will be looking toward more progressive people to elect to represent them in Congress.


Don't be afraid. Just because the Congressional Republicans and a few mealy mouth wussie Democrats want you to fail, doesn't mean the American public will blame you for the depression that will happen on your watch. And, try to remember ... there may be 300 million Americans, but mass media is only read and/or watched by less than 10% of them (see earlier post of mine on that subject), and even less will be watching them/reading them because of our stupid congresscritters taking out the expansion of cable and internet from your stimulus package. Not to mention, as one tightens ones belt, cable goes! Food, cable, food, cable? Guess which one goes first!


The package passed by the House wasn't all that great, but it had a small fighting chance. The Republicans lining up in lock step and voting "nay" only showed where they stood on helping America. What is transpiring in the Senate is just a complete joke. I am embarrassed for you, Obama, and more pissed off that after the 2008 elections, the Democrats still cannot get off their asses and do something good for this country, instead of always looking out for their corporate buddies.


I'm telling you, 2010 will be a watershed election, which is probably why many in Congress are gearing up for their campaigns now instead of actually doing their work right now in Congress. That work, by the way, is to get off their asses and represent the American people and pass a stimulus bill that will get this country moving forward.

"There Will Be Four People In My Old Office" Cries Rove. Oh My!

This is just too sweet to pass up! Rove believes Obama is on the road to failure in the White House because, get this, he has too many people working in the actual White House!

It is rumored that as many as 160 people will be in the West Wing under Mr. Obama. Under President George W. Bush there were about 60. My old, modest-seized office has been carved into four cubicles. This reduces the space for ad hoc meetings in personal offices, where so much West Wing work once took place.

The space crunch comes because Mr. Obama has moved several positions that once had offices in the EEOB into the West Wing. These include public liaison, intergovernmental affairs and political affairs. This reflects the importance he places on these offices' marketing efforts.

Space is also short because the ranks of senior staff have been increased. There is a chief of staff, of course, but also two deputy chiefs, and three senior advisers. Some senior aides now have chiefs of staff of their own. That is new.

All of this matters because management structure affects decision-making and determines the range and quality of voices the president hears. That impacts policy outcomes.

Mr. Obama's changes could overload Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. As power that was once diffused to cabinet officers is centralized in the White House, Mr. Emanuel will have to make more decisions and referee more turf wars than his predecessors. This will test his skills and likely inject chaos into the policy process as he prioritizes the decisions he can reasonably make.

You have to read the rest of the "opinion" piece by Rove. It's a scream. This is the man allegedly credited with giving the power to the Bush Administration, now complaining that "ad hoc" meetings will be compromised. Ha ha. Don't you mean "secret" meetings with oil lobbyists and the like, Mr. Turd Blossom?

And they still pay men like him to write this bullshit, and tout it on television.

The American people said "hell, no" in 2006, and a bigger "HELL NO" in 2008. Keep on keeping on you Republicans. You just may drive your party into extinction, which would, as far as I am concerned, not be a bad idea in this day and age.