Two weeks ago, Pres Obama was telling Congress to draft a bill and put it on his desk as soon as possible.
Frankly, I thought that they would.
After all, shouldn't a new president with a congressional majority get something done?
Today, the bill is dead in the water at the US Senate:
Memo to Pelosi, Obama and Reid: Don't let us read your proposals.
Of course, the Dems have only themselves to blame.
This is not a stimulus bill. This is a horrible bill.
How did Pres Obama let the House Dems write this thing? Worse than that, how did he allow the House Dems write a bill in his name?
This is Pres Obama's bill! He owns it big time!
"Less than 10% of the bill could be considered true stimulus, if one assumes tax credits and infrastructure spending will jolt the economy.
The other 90% of the bill represents one of the most egregious acts of generational theft in our nation's history, with taxpayer money going to special-interest earmarks, an ill-conceived bailout to states, and permanent spending increases that expand government's reach in areas like health care and education."
P.S. Professor VD Hanson has a very good post today.
It won't make the "yes we can" screamers happy.
In fact, they will probably blame it on Bush or Fox News.
However, you have to worry when you see a president get off to such a sloppy start:
"Some of us have been warning that it was not healthy for the U.S. media to have deified rather than questioned Obama, especially given that they tore apart Bush, ridiculed Palin, and caricatured Hillary.
And now we can see the results of their two years of advocacy rather than scrutiny.
We are quite literally after two weeks teetering on an Obama implosion—and with no Dick Morris to bail him out—brought on by messianic delusions of grandeur, hubris, and a strange naivete that soaring rhetoric and a multiracial profile can add requisite cover to good old-fashioned Chicago politicking."
That's right.
Where was the media during the election? They were doing the "hope and change" and committing journalistic malpractice.
