Oh, no worries, Obama – I’ll be sure to give you AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaLL the credit you so right;y deserve for sending us into a debt blackhole we may not see our way out of except through massive tax hikes. Cheerio! (I figured I should start talking British since we’re all socialists now. Maybe I can get linguistic lessons from Madonna).

Click here to check out citizens speaking something our government lacks – common sense.

Funny how quickly things didn’t go according to plan.  How much you want to bet it is Bush’s fault TOO that Obama doesn’t know how to keep his own campaign promises.

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“You, the public, will have five days to review any bill online and find out what’s in it before I sign it. So that you know what your government is doing.”

So riddle me this Messiah, if the porkulus bill goes up on Friday evening and you sign it into law on Tuesday morning (as proposed), how many full days is that exactly??? Are you telling me that this is NOT the era of Hope n’ Change that many (not including my kool-aid sober self) were led to believe in??? Gaaaaaaaaaaaasp! LOL.

“No more secrecy” my ass. HotAir also calls him out on this for the S-CHIP bill when he forgot about the timeframe for citizen review. But isn’t this the “people’s president,” as I so often heard him referred to as. Luckily, I never bought it – politicians say whatever they’ve got to in order to get your vote. Remember – Always! Be! Closing! Every politician does it – that’s why as voters we need to understand this and review voting records as well as past positions on issues. Not slap on a “Obama is My Homeboy” t-shirt, replay CNN clips 50 times, and drink yourself silly into a voting euphoria with a gallon of Kickin-Kiwi-Lime before going to the voting booth.

Here’s the vid to see what Barry is doing the back peddling on.

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As some of you may not know, I’m a native of Peoria, IL.  Yesterday our Prophet President (saaaaave me, Obama, saaaaaaaaaave me!) made a stop at the Caterpillar plant to help close the deal on the U.S.Stinker knows as the porkulus. Now growing up in Peoria, you soon realize that literally everyone and their dad AND uncle works for Caterpillar. So the company’s dealings are a pretty big deal in P-town and people take it seriously.  Outside of my grandfather, I think my family is like one of 20 that doesn’t have a direction connection to the company. 

So here’s the scoop (via Black & Right). Obama gets up and gives his speech to the factory works…no worries, the preacher voice was in tow. Here’s what he says -

President Obama today repeated the claim we asked about yesterday at the press briefing that Jim Owens, the CEO of Caterpillar, Inc., “said that if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.” Caterpillar announced 22,000 layoffs last month.

And theeeeeeeeen, cue the CEO of Caterpillar.

Well, apparently, Obama IS the only one who thinks so. Oooops – that’s a fucking understatement.  What an embarrassment – but during the circus start of this administration I’m not really surprised.

Oh, where are you going, folks? Where aaaaaaare you going? I didn’t say the fun stopped. Oh no.

Turns out Obama also tried to invoke some bipartisanship play some bully politics with the freshman Congressman Aaron Schock  (who represents the Peoria district). I guess things didn’t go according to plan (via HotAir).  During Obama’s grandstanding in Peoria, the President said the following:

“Aaron’s still trying to make up his mind about our recover package,” Obama said to the employees in the crowd. “And so we know that all of you are going to talk to him after our event, because he’s a very talented young man.  I’ve got great confidence in him to do the right thing for the people of Peoria.”

Congressman Schock showed his “appreciation” today on the House floor.

Today Rep. Schock said on the House floor that “I found it very interesting that after the president finished his speech and I stayed around, not one employee at that facility approached me and asked me to vote for this bill.”  In fact, said Schock, “I have received over 1,400 phone calls, e-mails and letters from employees alone asking me to oppose this legislation.”  Why!? Because, Schock said, “They know that this bill is not stimulus. They know that this bill will not do anything to create long-term, sustained economic growth. This bill is too big to get it wrong.”

There’s more in the video. Classic. P-town is calling out the President! Represent! (Okay, I’m officially a dork.)

I think that what I’ve said is what other economists have said across the political spectrum, which is that if you delay acting on an economy of this severity, then you potentially create a negative spiral that becomes much more difficult for us to get out of.

We saw this happen in Japan in the 1990s, where they did not act boldly and swiftly enough, and as a consequence they suffered what was called the “lost decade,” where essentially for the entire ’90s, they did not see any significant economic growth.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-!

Countered straight from his advocacy newsletter, The New York Times:

Economists tend to divide into two camps on the question of Japan’s infrastructure spending: those, many of them Americans like Mr. Geithner, who think it did not go far enough; and those, many of them Japanese, who think it was a colossal waste.

Among ordinary Japanese, the spending is widely disparaged for having turned the nation into a public-works-based welfare state and making regional economies dependent on Tokyo for jobs. Much of the blame has fallen on the Liberal Democratic Party, which has long used government spending to grease rural vote-buying machines that help keep the party in power.

So I may not have a crystal ball, but let me take a wild guess that if that same situation plays out here like it did in Japan, geeeee, which party is going to be ousted they way my dad would through our cat out if it peed on the carpet???  Secretary (ehhh, shudder) Geithner, who said this kind of massive spending would work while failing to pay his fair share in avoiding, err, cheating his taxes.  Or will the actual citizens be right? You know,  like the ones who have to live through the failures of these policies, like in Japan, who probably are still cursing those politicians who turned their economy into a “welfare state.”  

Office pool question: Does Geitner get ousted in 2010 or 2011?

Side question: Does this qualify Obama for a Governance FAIL on the fail blog? Probably not but a girl can dream.

It’s like I work in marketing so if I sense that people are catching on to the fact I cannot do my job effectively, as I promised when they hired me, then I’m going to stop trying to work harder getting the job done. I’m now going to spend more time in my boss’ office kissing ass and throwing up smoke and mirrors to convince her I’m doing a good job or what is “necessary” for our dept. to be successful in the company. Ed at HotAir.com has the scoop.

During the campaign, critics and opponents noted that the only real track record Obama had built in thirteen years of politics was campaigning for something else.  Three weeks into his new administration, he’s found governing to be difficult, especially when trying to shove a partisan porkfest down the throats of an increasingly skeptical public.  Time to go back to campaign mode!  It apparently beats pulling the bill back for a chance to offer Republicans some input to get a bill that would generate easy support and passage.

I can’t get over this. Scratch that – YES We Can! We can believe that our president would do this because he is an inexperienced political leader who’s main experience has been campaigning and not standing up to make decisions in the name of bipartisanship. I’m growing tired of these speeches. It seems more like a pathetic attempt to try and convince people you’re doing the right thing instead going back to work with Congress to actually DO the right thing.

And since we’re talking about campaigning, let’s take a minute to remember what our president promised:

SCHIEFFER: But you’re going to have to cut some of these programs, certainly.

OBAMA: Absolutely. So let me get to that. What I want to emphasize, though, is that I have been a strong proponent of pay-as- you-go. Every dollar that I’ve proposed, I’ve proposed an additional cut so that it matches…We need to eliminate a whole host of programs that don’t work. And I want to go through the federal budget line by line, page by page, programs that don’t work, we should cut. Programs that we need, we should make them work better.

You read that right – “pay as you go” “programs that don’t work, we should cut.” Umm – can someone explain to me how the proposed porkulus is “pay as you go” or how $160 million for “volunteers” at the Corp. for National and Community Service is “a program we need” OR why are we giving $850 million for Amtrak, a failing program???  I thought if programs don’t work under President Obama we would cut them, not reward bad management with $850 million of taxpayer’s money during a time when they may need it. But why am I getting caught up in facts and stuff – we’ve got mortgages and gas bills to pay, right:

UPDATE: Press conference just got done – big surprise no real questions were answered, just the same old talking points. Like why can no top ranking Democrat or the President answer how do can you justify spending $600,000 per job created with this bill? Or what measures will be put in place to make sure the stimulus is actually creating jobs? Will there be incremental measurements that will make Congress retreat on the bill’s spending if jobs are not being created at the rate originally projected?

Honestly, if you’re going to spend so much time supposedly answering the questions of the American people, then get around to actually answering the questions folks have. Otherwise, you’re just putting on a charade, insulting everyone’s intelligence and wasting people’s time. Hope ‘n Change!