Joe Biden hit the airwaves on Sunday to try to damp down the growing feeling that Americans have that their president is not Barack Obama, but Bernie Madoff. Sold a bill of goods that the urgently needed stimulus package of $787 billion would cap unemployment at 8% and prevent it from reaching 9% in the absence of said stimulus, the American people are realizing they were fleeced. Here’s Joe:
“Vice President Joe Biden said on a Monday conference call with reporters that it was “above [his] pay grade” to explain in detail the methodology the White House uses to estimate the number of jobs created or saved by the economic stimulus legislation, but stressed that there had been no “reasonable” challenges to the estimates.”
Biden used the same coy formulation as his boss used to answer the question concerning abortion and when life begins, i.e., “above my pay grade.” Well, then let’s wheel in the person in the next pay grade up to explain it to you, Joe. This is the guy who Obama put in charge of watching how the stimulus money is spent. So as to really put you at ease, Joe added this gem:
“I’m sorry I’m not an economist,” Biden said as he was describing the methodology. “My background is foreign policy and the constitution.”
Just when you thought it was safe to believe that on the job training for President Obama might be working, his sidekick lets go with that thigh slapper. So who’s watching foreign policy and the constitution? This president insists that $787 billion of your tax dollars are needed to boost the economy and it is left in the hands of a man who admittedly doesn’t know what he’s doing.
You Have to Spin It to Win It
45% of the American people, according to a Rasmussen poll, believe the remainder of the stimulus package should be cancelled. Uh-oh, start the spin machine. So Joe Biden says,
“Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday that “everyone guessed wrong” on the impact of the economic stimulus, but he defended the administration’s spending designed to combat rising joblessness.”
Everyone, Joe? If I’m not mistaken every Republican Congressman voted against that odious bill and only three Republican senators, including Arlen Specter, who has moved over to your team. So, Joe, you should modify that to “every Democrat guessed wrong, while the Republicans were spot on.” And if that’s not bad enough, Rasmussen tells us that 48% of Americans do not believe new stimulus spending will create more jobs. So membership in your “everyone club” is getting mighty lean.
Rubbing Salt in the Wound
If that’s not bad enough for Joe and his team, consider this: a new Rasmussen poll says that 51% of Americans favor an across-the-board tax cut for ALL Americans to stimulate the economy. So much for soak the rich and class warfare. Most Americans know that we are all in this together and we all need to pitch in to get out. Tax cuts work. Spending doesn’t.
