Comments on: Stimulus fizzle has Democrats worried

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Porkulus: Delaying the inevitable

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Porkulus: Delaying the inevitable — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:40:11 +0000

[...] result in the states postponing necessary decisions on spending reductions? Oh, yeah — we did. And the GAO warned of this problem over a month ago, noting that states grabbed the lifeline [...]

By: The Homeless Leavin’ on a Jet Plane: One-Way Ticket Out of NYC to Save City Money « Frugal Café Blog Zone

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:07:33 +0000

[...] off criticism of Porkulus and Obama, the reverse Reagan and Video: The self-promotion stimulus and Stimulus fizzle has Democrats worried and Big banks saying no to California IOUs and Rasmussen “passion index” down to -8 Mere [...]

By: Washington DC Biggest Winner of Stimulus/Porkulus Bucks, Money Given to Least Needy States & Counties That Supported Obama « Frugal Café Blog Zone

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:18:09 +0000

By: Obama’s Recession: Racial Gap Growing, No End in Sight — Unemployed NYC Blacks’ Numbers Increasing at Alarming Rate « Frugal Café Blog Zone

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:25:45 +0000

By: Strong-Arming Arizona Like Chicago Thugs: Sen. Kyl Dares to Criticize Porkulus Bill, Obama Administration Threatens “Put Up or Shut Up” « Frugal Café Blog Zone

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:02:32 +0000

By: COACHEP » Blog Archive » Posts about How Unions Destroyed California as of July 12, 2009

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:34:45 +0000

[...] that the U.S. government’s response to the Honduran coup is proof positive of such change. Stimulus fizzle has Democrats worried – hotair.com 07/08/2009 And well they should. Democrats put down an $800 billion bet and locked [...]

By: Washington Just Doesn’t Get It… Throwing More Money into a Second Porkulus Bill Won’t Fix the Economy « Frugal Café Blog Zone

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:15:45 +0000

[...] It’s worked great! and Obama, the reverse Reagan and Video: The self-promotion stimulus and Stimulus fizzle has Democrats worried and Big banks saying no to California IOUs and Rasmussen “passion index” down to -8 The [...]

By: Tax Dollars Down the Dumper for Turtles: $3.4 Million of Stimulus Money Slotted for Building 1 Turtle Tunnel « Frugal Café Blog Zone

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:59:11 +0000

[...] posts: Hot Air: Obama, the reverse Reagan and Stimulus fizzle has Democrats worried and Big banks saying no to California IOUs and Aa [...]

By: DSchoen

DSchoen — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:13:53 +0000

Five months after Congress approved a massive package of spending and tax cuts aimed at reviving an ailing economy, the jobless rate is still climbing and the White House is scrambling to reassure an anxious public that President Obama’s prescription for economic recovery is on the right track.

recovery is on the right track? Loosing jobs it THE RIGHT TRACK? Who woulda thunk it? Right track to where exactly?

By: No New Porkulus … For Now. | The Great Illuminator

No New Porkulus … For Now. | The Great Illuminator — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:52:16 +0000

[...] have been considering a second stimulus package to jump start a lagging economy after the complete failure of the first one. Conservatives argued in February that spending, political giveaways and [...]

By: The Obama Limbo! How Low Can It Go… BHO’s Approval Rating Has Dropped Another 3 Points to -8 « Frugal Café Blog Zone

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:15:23 +0000

[...] Hot Air: Confidence in Obama, economy still dropping and Obama patronage worse than thought and Stimulus fizzle has Democrats worried and Honduras thug: Help me, Barack Obama, you’re my only hope and New GOP ad: The stimulus [...]

By: Daily Edition 7/7/09 « The Quantum Conservative

Daily Edition 7/7/09 « The Quantum Conservative — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:03:51 +0000

[...] *The Dems double down on a bad bet. [...]

By: entagor

entagor — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:59:56 +0000

National Dems made a stupid mistake. They called it a stimulus package

Had the Dems made a case the States were going bankrupt, and called the package an emergency measure to keep States operational, they would not be accountable for the failure

We would have known exactly which State vaporized which dollars and the State pols would have become accountable

Since the money won’t rescue the liberal free spending high taxing States from their failures, the stimulus would still be a waster but the Congress and Pres coul have passed the blame.

Dummies

They were mainly buying one more fix for a drug addict so the end result was guaranteed. The clue was the lack of infrastructure projects. That is new work and external to State payroll

By: Obama and the Economy (cartoon) « Frugal Café Blog Zone

Obama and the Economy (cartoon) « Frugal Café Blog Zone — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:36:58 +0000

[...] the retrofit police and Document drop: Porkulus One is a failure, so let’s do it again! Hot Air: Stimulus fizzle has Democrats worried and Big banks saying no to California IOUs and Schwarzenegger Plays Hardball While Democrats Debate [...]

By: Because The First Stimulus Did So Well… « Beltway Snark

Because The First Stimulus Did So Well… « Beltway Snark — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:22:16 +0000

[...] The First Stimulus Did So Well… Jump to Comments Insanity at work. Five months after Congress approved a massive package of spending and tax cuts aimed at reviving [...]

By: thuja

thuja — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:26:55 +0000

Now, Democrats want to do this all over again, saying that all they need to do is bet just a little more to erase their losses. I’d say we need to cut our losses, and the Democrats as well.

I’m going to be upset and dispirited if Collins and Snowe go along with a Stimulus II. It makes me despair for the future of moderate Republicans that they would vote for such a wrong headed economic policy. I don’t think I’m being unreasonably extreme in saying that Republicans should be basically supportive of free enterprise economics.

By: MikeA

MikeA — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:48:19 +0000

Unfortunately, by the time 2012 rolls around, I expect the Constitution to have been amended to prohibit heterosexual white males ~~from holding Federal office~~.

guntotinglibertarian on July 8, 2009 at 7:55 PM

FIFY

By: Morning blogs: Dems split on stimulus | Conservative Political Report

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:16:18 +0000

[...] Hot Air | Like any bad gambler, they want to double down on a lost hand [...]

By: Democrat Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says we need a second massive stimulus « Wintery Knight Blog

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:06:22 +0000

[...] Ed Morrissey explains: Here’s where we get into the “saved or created” dodge of the Obama administration. The Porkulus money may have “saved” jobs, but they were government jobs, not the private sector. Most government employees have union representation, primarily by the SEIU. The only jobs Porkulus may have saved were those of bureaucrats in state government, and mostly to make sure the unions stay on the side of the Democrats. [...]

By: johnnymozart

johnnymozart — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:42:53 +0000

I would like to point out that conservatives are never going to get anywhere as long as we allow democrats to get away with a boldfaced lie like “worst recession since the 1930′s”.

The worst recession since the 1930′s was in the 1970′s. STILL. When, not so coincidentally, another DEMOCRAT was President.

If none of us can rise to the occasion to even refute THAT, nothing else we say matters. It the same as agreeing with them.

By: bullseye

bullseye — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:05:51 +0000

The reason the stimulus didn’t work is because it was never intended to work.

I think they intended it to work, but like most liberals democrates they are big on talk and otherwise clueless or in denial.

Franklyn on July 8, 2009 at 7:55 PM

Two words .. I think I’m spelling the dirtballs names right

Cloward-Pliven

Couple that with dead fish’s famous quote

“Never let a crisis go to waste”

Read up on the fall of the Roman empire folks..

By: paulsur

paulsur — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:57:24 +0000

Ed, we need to start with the republicans who voted for this bill first.

By: johnnyU

johnnyU — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:42:24 +0000

heh heh. One party rule not doing so good huh? What a surprise. How about building a friggin factory which makes something China supplies us, and maybe hire some of our people and sell the product? hmmmm. I’d rather pay more for the product here than keep the product made abroad and keep an American out of work thus causing me to pay more taxes to keep him on welfare and so on and so on. Round and round we go. Break the damn loop. Its quite simple and its been going on for a long long long time. A factory at a time. Build our own cars, buy our own cars. What a concept. Instead, we’ve sold Humvee to China! What nice military vehicles they’ll have now. lovely.

Reinvent what we import !! If your gonna piss money away, make some work places with products we need.

By: Hobbes

Hobbes — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:38:47 +0000

Some of the Stimulus has been paid out to ACORN already to prepare for the Census and probably some to political allies, but the bulk is being held to be released in 2010 to influence the voters in the elections. They’ll have all those “shovel” ready jobs available then. That is, if, the Country can withstand the next 5 months without completely falling apart. Maybe, that will be the glitch in their con game. Either way, we’re the losers.

By: Count to 10

Count to 10 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:28:16 +0000

You do realize the BULK of the Stimulus won’t be spent until NEXT YEAR?!!

So much for Shovel-Ready!

EPIC FAIL.

TN Mom on July 8, 2009 at 6:22 PM

This, as it turns out, is a good thing.
Why?
Because the ‘stimulus’ does not increase the aggregate demand curve the way Keynes thought it would, it just lowers overall efficiency by moving the demand around according to political priorities, damaging both supply and demand.
The longer it takes to play out, the more of it can be cut off later, and the less damage it does now.