For more than a month, President Obama and other liberals have
been uncivilly attacking Republicans for not supporting his new
$447 billion stimulus plan.
Dear Editor,
For more than a month, President Obama and other liberals have been uncivilly attacking Republicans for not supporting his new $447 billion stimulus plan. They would be wise to start by cleaning up the mess in their own house – and getting some Democrats, any Democrats, to back the president’s proposal.
On Oct. 4th, Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell attempted to call up President Obama’s jobs plan for an immediate vote in the upper chamber, according to “The Hill” publication.
However, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blocked the vote using a procedural maneuver. If the president’s plan is such a great one, why doesn’t Reid want a vote? And here’s another question or two: How many Democrats in the Senate have signed on as co-sponsors of the Obama jobs bill? As of Oct. 4, zero. How many Democrats in the House have agreed to become co-sponsors of the Obama jobs bill? As of Oct. 4, the number is the same – zero.
That’s the same number of jobs (zero) that the Obama economy created in August of this year, something that happened for the first time since 1945. The first $800 billion Obama stimulus – dubbed “Porkulus I” – was supposed to prevent unemployment from rising above 8 percent. It’s now been above 9 percent for 27 of the last 29 months.
The American people, victimized by the Obama economic policies, higher taxes on small businesses, and choking regulations, are mad as hell. And Democrats are running from this president like scalded junkyard dogs. Do you blame them?
Elizabeth Best, Tracy
