Encountering stiff resistance from Congressional Republicans, the Obamessiah will take his case for a $900 billion economic “stimulus” package to familiar turf today – the national media.
Which isn’t at all surprising, considering they’re his bitches.
Anyway, from USA Today:
President Obama planned Tuesday to blanket U.S. television with the message that Congress must approve hundreds of billions of dollars to fight off economic collapse … Obama’s plan (is) to grant interviews to every national television network.
Hmmm … haven’t we heard this whole “economic collapse” thing before?
Oh right, it was just before the government (with Obama’s vote) approved the last bailout – which has totally and completely not worked.
But hey, let’s just ignore all that and get inspired by the mellifluous tones of Barry-O!
By BC February 3, 2009 at 2:17 pm
While your statement is certainly true, let us not forget who was steering the ship into the iceberg at the time. The Congress can only act on passing laws that will benefit the people in such circumstances once the administration has presented the facts and rallied his political troops in the legislative trenches. The push for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was proposed by former Sect’y of the Treasury Henry Paulson and immediately backed by former President Bush. It is his administration that Paulson was apart of that failed to lay out the facts and install provisions on the regulatory end to insure the use of funds and release of credit.