Stop The Stupid

Why is it that the Republican party is taken seriously when Joe The Plumber is making trips there to advise staffers. I'm only being half snarky. I would really like an answer to that. I would love to know which congressmen sent their staffers to have lunch with Joe so he could give them pearls of wisdom. Of course this is the same party that gets advice from a strung out overweight radio host so it shouldn't be too surprising that they would seek out advice from Joe.

To me this is the clear difference between the two parties. One seeks the advice of professionals and the other seeks out radio hosts and fake plumbers. And the media treat both sets of ideas as equal. Yeah bipartisanship where bad ideas have to be included to make everybody feel all warm and fuzzy.

Bipartisanship on the stimulus bill isn't going to happen. What is going to happen is that we are going to get a bill watered down in an attempt to garner GOP support. The bill will certainly get watered down, and already has been, but the GOP support isn't going to be there.

And why is the Obama administration playing so soft with this thing. Why haven't the activated their massive mailing list from the campaign. Why aren' t they trotting out Democrat after Democrat hammering the constant lies and bullshit spread by the GOP and repeated by the chattering nitwits (talking about you Morning Joe) on my teevee. I have seen Republican representatives saying that infrastructure spending doesn't create jobs and the host not say a word back. Here is a hint talking heads...there is no such thing as the infrastructure fairy....those dudes in the orange vests at construction sites aren't working for free. I thought we saw a whole lot of stupid during the campaign, but jesus.

I really think that the Obama administration has totally misplayed this. There needs to be some sort of punishment for the childish acts from the GOP. The way the administration has played their cards there simply isn't. Were I in the brain trust at Obama HQ, Obama would be on the air tomorrow. The American public and the media need to be reminded that this is kind of a big deal. I have seen estimates that the economy is expected to lose somewhere over 1 trillion dollars a year over the next two years. This isn't some mini-recession that we can work out of if only a couple more people buy new teevees or if people do a dinner and a date more often. California is thinking about paying people with fucking IOUs! Obama, or at least somebody, needs to remind the American public and the media that we tried tax cuts as on singular economic policy and look where it got us.