Joe Tries to Spin, But Ends Up Twisting in the Wind « Innocent Bystanders
Vice President Joe Biden says “everyone guessed wrong” on the impact of the economic stimulus.Really. Let’s look back about 4 months and try to remember who was guessing what:
* Obama reminds GOP in stimulus meeting: “I won” (Hot Air): 1/23/09
* House passes stimulus plan, but with no Republican votes (McClatchy): 1/28/09
* Pence Opposes Democrat Stimulus Bill: “It Won’t Work”: 1/28/09
* Economists say stimulus won’t work (St. Louis Post-Dispatch): 1/29/09
* Analysis: Stimulus Won’t Jump-start Economy (AP): 2/13/2009
* Sen. Cornyn: Stimulus Won’t Work (Fox): 2/13/09
* Republican Governors Step Up Attacks on Obama Economic Policies (Bloomberg): 2/23/09And among the highlights to the opposition to the bill, we had 200 economists taking out an ad in the New York Times saying it wouldn’t work, all GOP representatives voting against the bill, and all but 3 GOP senators voting against the bill. [And as Joey Buzz points out in the comments, I’d forgotten to mention the Tea Paries, which involved hundreds of thousands of American citizens of all political affiliations.]
geoff immolates Biden’s lame attempts at playing the “Who Could Possibly Have Imagined?” card. (via AoSH).
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Every time Joe Biden opens his mouth, someone should ask him “How we be sure that you’re not ‘guessing wrong’ this time?”
Of course, now that we know “everyone guessed wrong” on the effects of the stimulus, we can cancel the 95% of the stimulus funds that have not yet been spent.
Right? Right?
Best comment in the Ace thread:
They haven’t spent the stimulus money? How do we have a trillion dollar deficit fiscal year to date, headed for 2 trillion for the full year, with much of the 787 bn stimulus money not spent. Even if we cancel the remainder of the stimulus spending, we’re still heading for a trillion dollar deficit!
This is out of control.
Who’da thunk it?