Mr. President, you have yet to provide us with one shred of evidence to support your position, that this massive and horrific waste of our precious financial resources will accomplish ANYTHING you say.
I've already offered you the way to make us believe your empty and baseless promises: Put your job and those of your chief shillers on the line, so that when this thing fails (note I said "WHEN," not "if" in regards to the impending failure of both this package AND your Administration) you'll resign and we can begin the painful process of picking up the pieces of the shattered economy that YOU will have left behind.
So, now that we're WAY past your "Rooseveltian" rip off of having nothing to fear but fear itself, you insist on browbeating us in that slick, casket salesman way of yours.
Clearly, there is no lie you will not tell; no exaggeration you won't engage in to get your own way. And if this plan of yours wasn't so terrible in it's dimension of damage it would inflict on my country, I'd just sit by and let you play out enough rope to hang yourself in the midterms and sending you packing in 12... which will happen anyway, assuming you manage to avoid indictment that long.
And now you stand there and lie. And lie. And lie some more, all to get your package passed.
So, when you come out and stand there under the mantle of the President of the United states and lie AGAIN, I have to wonder.
You say the "stimulus vital to avoid 'catastrophe?'"
I say that your bizarre ideas of payoffs and waste will BE a 'catastrophe.'
You tell us that "The plan is not perfect," (In the lying understatement of the year) but this plan is so far away from "perfect" that WHATEVER it is and perfect don't even inhabit the same universe.
When you say: "So my bottom line when it comes to the recovery package is: send me a bill that creates or saves 4 million jobs," Your job figure is as inflated as your blimp-sized ego.
We've heard all about how many jobs this massive waste will "create," yet few, if any, of your lackeys will commit to the creation of a SINGLE JOB.
And when you first started talking about how many jobs this astoundingly expensive program (Let's see... 4,000,000 jobs divided into $820,000,000,000 is how much per job?") It would only "create or save (whatever the hell THAT means) 1.5 million. And then, sure enough, as more and more people wised up to your pathetic lies, the number kept climbing up.
And now? Voila'! Four million jobs! Like a rabbit out of your hat!
I'd go through the rest of your despicable song and dance, but why bother. You inhabit some parallel universe where up is down and left is right. With every word, you've portrayed yourself as the consummate con artist.
But you had better, by God, be right.
The most sickening aspect of all of this, however... is that we both know that you won't be... much like we both know that you don't care, because your ego won't allow it.
Originally published Monday, February 9, 2009 at 6:30 PM
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President Barack Obama, pressuring lawmakers to urgently approve a massive economic recovery bill, criticized Republicans who have balked at the legislation Monday night and said, "I can't afford to see Congress play the usual political games." Obama used the first prime-time news conference of his presidency to warn that a failure to act swiftly and boldly "could turn a crisis into a catastrophe."
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President Barack Obama, pressuring lawmakers to urgently approve a massive economic recovery bill, criticized Republicans who have balked at the legislation Monday night and said, "I can't afford to see Congress play the usual political games." Obama used the first prime-time news conference of his presidency to warn that a failure to act swiftly and boldly "could turn a crisis into a catastrophe."
With the nation falling deeper into a long and painful recession, Obama defended his program against Republican criticism that it is loaded with pork-barrel spending and will not create jobs.
"The plan is not perfect," the president said. "No plan is. I can't tell you for sure that everything in this plan will work exactly as we hope, but I can tell you with complete confidence that a failure to act will only deepen this crisis as well as the pain felt by millions of Americans."
Obama addressed the nation from the East Room of the White House in a news conference that lasted almost exactly one hour. He hit repeatedly at the themes he has emphasized in recent weeks, including at a town hall meeting to promote his plan earlier in the day in Elkhart, Ind.
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