Losing Control

I did not vote for Obama but the man is our president . He has only been the president little over a month, Do you people expect him to get everything right . The first time he tries something ???? I feel know matter who won the election ,they would not have had no better luck. We all know why the Dem's pushed for Obama to win is so they could control him , I just hope he wakes up to that fact real soon he is the president .not Polosi or Ried . Can any of you honestly think you could do better in such a short time???

Obama accused Bush of using fear tactics- that is the ONLY thing Obama has been using since he got into power when it comes to this spending package- "We HAVE get this passed or American will fall, We HAVE rush this thru our the consequences will be irreversible"

BULL CRAP BULL CRAP BULL CRAP- the congressional budget office for the US government- said we would be better off if we do NOTHING. I love how the house and senate rushed this thru and then Obama took three days to sign it- yeah Obama a real rush eh- oh and Obama there are no earmarks in this??? Can someone please tell me how this is not a flat out LIE? What about this new age of openness and responsibility- if Obama meant you can do whatever you want and NOT be responsible for it- then yup Obama we are here!

The reason Obama and is his morons supporters of this bill needed to get it thru so fast was because the longer this bill stood in the light of day the more is criticism and the more people realized how stupid this bill was and still is. I am so glad Obama???s numbers are finally falling- America's way of life exists because of the MARKERT it has- Obama is destroying it. Obama- like FDR- will only prolong this recession with stupid business ideas like this. IT IS NOTHING BUT A PORK BILL! America needs to wake up!

Davole:
It is always interesting to observe how shallow some commentary can be. To your credit you do use relatively few words to say nothing. You could do worse.

In the main Mr. Hirsh makes some sound observations but appears to lose sight of what it takes to avoid/prevent crazy Republican kamakazi attempts to derail rational approaches to resolution of the crisis. One wonders how long before the GOP actually realizes they did in fact lose the elections. In addition it seems they remain so harmfully out of touch they are yet to understand the seriousness of our situation and its impact on the ordinary citizen of our country.

@Carl Hoover
I would be hesitant to make the stimulus package into another tax break, alot of people who have taken long hard looks at macroeconomics are questioning the long term benefits of tax cuts. So even if federal spending doesn't get us out of this recession (Some eco people are starting to think there is little we can do, this is just part of the unavoidable business cycle, its just a little worse this time because of the deregulation letting us "boom" more in the late 90's and the early years of the new millennium) at least we will have a much improved infrastructure (crosses fingers) as opposed to nothing to show for it like we would with a bunh of tax cuts.

Also, while I understand how easy it is to deride alot of these seemingly wasteful gov't expenditures, when you take a closer look, many of them are not as wasteful as we had believed before.

For instance you want to cut federal aid. I would argue that will cost us far more in the long road. I bet of we had made a sustained effort in rebuilding Afghanistan after they drove the Russians out in the 80's, the tali ban would never have emerged there. Instead of going and fighting a costly war (which is starting to go badly) we would have had a close ally, perhaps the whole geopolitical climate could have been changed. There are other examples, what happened when we cut aid to South America's domestic agriculture programs? They set up cocaine fields, now we have to fund a more robust drug enforcement program. Cutting programs has hidden costs, sometimes those costs exceed the cost of funding that program.

Cutting science endeavors has hidden costs also. After all, if we had not (partially) funded Bell Labs, they perhaps would never had discovered transistors...which led to.....basically all electronics today.

Ill finish up (whew, I am long winded today) with two quotes:

A) "In the history of everything that is useful, there was a time when it wasn't."

B)"Just because Joe the Plumber does not run across it in his everyday life, does not mean that it is not important"

Less than 40% of Americans now support the "stimulus Bill." That means more than 60% now oppose the Bill. Obama got less than 53% of the popular vote.

The question now becomes: Will Obama bring change to Washington by doing the will of the American people, or is he in fact chained to the tired old partisan politics of Pelosi, Reid, and the radical left. If the latter, he is no longer representing the majority of the American people.

Thank you, Michael Hirsh! Now get the needed anger about the cuts in the economic recovery plan in front of the public that voted for our President Barack Obama. We need the public to be angry.

We were warned:

See Wall Street Journal: A Liberal Supermajority:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122420205889842989.html

Reps are knit-picking about 1% of the bills spending, and the Dems are spending on more useless crap programs....So where is the "Change" Barry promised to bring to Washington. Oh let me guess, the darn Reps won't conform. So when Barry promised change, he meant if everyone just does what he says....Good plan Barry!!

Everywhere you look there's an article on how Obama has lost a bit of momentum, how it was a mistake to allow the House dems to write the stimulus package, blah blah... look, Obama is incredibly intelligent. He and his inner circle are master strategists. Is it POSSIBLE that he knows at the end of the day the bill will get passed, and in the mean time, by giving the repubs a little bit of stuff to complain about, in reality he's giving them just enough rope to hang themselves? Instead of Obama "losing" anything, perhaps he's just saavy enough to not only get the bill he really wants passed, but also to be able to say after the dust settles that the republican leadership tried in every way, shape, and form to prevent the bill from going through. And why shouldn't this be his strategy? After all, if the bill fails and the economy doesn't get better he's done no matter what, but if it succeeds and the economy improves (as I believe it will), then he will be cerdited with it's success and can paint any detractors as more interested in seeing the country fail in order to get themselves re-elected.

So far the critics of the recovery plan have pointed out 6 billion dollars of spending that they see as not related to a stimulus package. I say fine, cut it out of the package and deliberate on those items in a more appropriate bill. It's called compromise and it would be nice to see both Republicans and Democrats do something for the good of America rather than pandering to a drug addict, crackpot talk show hosts and limousine liberals who never worked a real job.

- There???s $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that hasn???t turned a profit in 40 years;
- $2 billion for child-care subsidies;
- $50 million for that great engine of job creation, the National Endowment for the Arts;
- $400 million for global-warming research
- Another $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects.
- There???s even $650 million on top of the billions already doled out to pay for digital TV conversion coupons.

With the exception of the conservative part, this little tune was clearly written with your mind (such as it is) in mind.

http://dmdb.org/lyrics/religion.and.politics.html

Mr. Michael Hirsh, I suggest, you please don't lose control over your patience. President Obama is walking his talk. He might tumble a few times but he will deliver. That's for sure. Remember, you Americans are solely responsible for the incredible mess that you are in. You all only decided to re-elect George W. Bush for the second term and let the rot run deeper. Give Barack Obama adequate time. He is not a magician. He will have to work methodically and swiftly which he is already doing to pull the US out of its current set of woes. Just count your stars that America got him as its 44th president in the extraordinarily tough times. Anybody else in the White House would have ensured that you guys lived in a Post American World.

All y'all loyal.obamamohammeds....fellow members of the Sect of Obama...The One needs our help.....It is time FOR CHANGE comrades........

After that first cup of Kool-Aide....and that morning "bump" of Hopium......we need to manifest our new mantra....it goes like this....

"IT'S NOT OBAMA'S FAULT"...."IT'S NOT OBAMA'S FAULT"..."IT'S NOT OBAMA'S FAULT"..."IT'S NOT OBAMA'S FAULT'..."IT'S NOT OBAMA'S FAULT"...."IT'S NOT OBAMA'S FAULT"........

Come on Kids....This is a call to action.....

Allah Akbar Comrades....

NOBAMA!!!

Those awful republicans, spoiling the president's first weeks in office over a few hundred billion dollars.