OPINION:
For more than a month, President Obama and other liberals have been uncivilly attacking Republicans for not supporting the 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 Tuesday Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, attempted to call up President Obama’s jobs plan for an immediate vote in the upper chamber. However, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, blocked the vote, using a procedural maneuver. If the president’s plan is such a great one, why doesn’t Mr. Reid want a vote?
Here are a few additional questions: How many Democrats in the entire Senate have signed on as co-sponsors of the Obama jobs bill? As of Tuesday, there were zero. How many Democrats in the House have agreed to become co-sponsors of the Obama jobs bill? As of Tuesday, the number was the same: zero.
That’s the number of jobs the Obama administration created in August, something that hasn’t happened since 1945. The first $825 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 past 29 months.
The American people, victimized by the Obama economic policies of Obamacare, higher taxes on small businesses and choking regulations, are mad as hell. And Democrats are running from this president like scalded junkyard dogs. Can you really blame them?
ELIZABETH BEST
Tracy, Calif.
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