… you’re in the middle of your first big test as President of these 57 states, with Senators and House reps from both parties duking it out over more tax cuts and big spending items in the stimulus bill you’ve said must pass in order to avoid certain catastrophe.
Those were words we heard, and heard often, during the course of Barack Obama’s campaign as he convinced a majority of the American people that Republicans had deliberately tried to “scare” people into voting for them over the last 8 years. Yet as Obama has taken office, the cries of “economic catastrophe” coming from both him and members of his administration, and members of his party in Congress, have been loud and strong.
Not only does he believe that a pork-filled “stimulus bill” will be the answer to all of our economic problems, but, as Gateway Pundit notes in two different posts, The Most Brilliant Man In America has gotten it wrong frequently – with not only statements related to the economy put into historical context, and with a recent executive order he signed limiting that “restricts bidding on federally funded construction projects to union-controlled businesses.”
The NYT expresses its undying devotion to Barack Obama via a piece written by author Judith Warner in which she discusses how she and other liberals she knows have dreamed about the Obamas (via ST reader Cump):
Forbes.com’s Peter Robinson writes this morning about how, stimulus bill or not, on the first real test of Obama’s presidency he has been a spectacular failure:
This is truly disgraceful – and disappointing. It’s one thing to be at a partisan retreat and give a rousing speech to your party, but it’s another thing to do it when you know you’re going to be on national TV.
