Which is to say they are lying, of course.
"Cabinet members talk up stimulus; 35-stop tour aims to counter GOP claims of failure" by Philip Elliott, Associated Press | February 17, 2010
WASHINGTON - President Obama, defending his economic stimulus plan on its first anniversary, is dispatching members of his Cabinet across the country in a weeklong push to highlight the stimulus program, and to try to calm an anxious public as Democrats head into potentially devastating midterm elections....
Vice President Joe Biden, who has led efforts to implement the stimulus plan, is expected to again push Congress to pass a jobs bill to help some of the 8.4 million people who have lost their jobs since the recession began.
At least they got the number correct this time, readers.
Obama’s fellow Democrats planned to promote programs putting people back to work under the $787 billion spending bill.
Something just doesn't jibe between those last two sentences, Cap'n.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was touring a medical center in Atlanta, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was promoting stimulus projects in Virginia and Texas.
Why is Homeland Security out pimping stimuloot instead of worrying about.... Homeland Security?
In all, senior administration officials are scheduled to visit 35 communities before Friday to counter Republican claims that the massive deficit-spending program has failed.
What is the carbon footprint on all that?
Obama plans to surround himself at the White House today with people who have jobs because of the stimulus plan, then travel to Colorado and Nevada.
He really is out of touch, and so soon into his term.
Obama’s political team believes bricks-and-mortar projects across the country could help Democrats stave off emboldened Republicans and their attempts to reclaim majorities in Congress. Although voters have soured on the stimulus spending, individual components have fans across party lines.
The tax cuts Democrats included in their bill have the backing of 70 percent of the public, according to a CNN poll last month. Another 80 percent support the infrastructure investments, such as the water projects that the Environmental Protection Agency’s chief, Lisa Jackson, plans to highlight in Columbus, Ohio, tomorrow.
Even so, 56 percent of those surveyed opposed the broad plan, according to the CNN poll....
Yeah, how is that when we allegedly think it is so great, CNN?
Man, am I ever tired of skewed polls serving the MSM agenda.
And I really expected better out of the man after what we have had for eight years prior, America.
"Obama says stimulus bill averted deeper economic crisis; A year later, he repudiates GOP criticism" by Michael D. Shear and Alec MacGillis, Washington Post | February 18, 2010
WASHINGTON - President Obama’s remarks capped an extensive push by the administration and its Democratic allies to rehabilitate the public perception of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which critics say has been costly and ineffective.
Sir, we are TIRED OF BEING LIED TO!!!!
Can't you understand that?
“No large expenditure is ever that popular, particularly at a time when we are also facing a massive deficit,’’ the president said. “.... but.... the American people are rebuilding a better future....’’
Yeah, I thought we got rid of the cheer-leading, too.
The president ridiculed Republican members of Congress who voted against the legislation last year but have been eager to accept stimulus spending on behalf of their own constituents. He accused them of playing politics by calling the bill a failure “even as many of them show up at ribbon cuttings at projects in their district.’’
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The president’s remarks followed an op-ed article in USA Today by Vice President Joe Biden and an aggressive effort by the Democratic National Committee to paint GOP members of Congress as hypocrites.
Republicans refused to give ground. House minority whip Eric Cantor of Virginia said in a statement that, “In the year since the Democrats’ ‘stimulus’ program was enacted, over 3 million jobs have been lost, billions of dollars have been wasted, and an unprecedented debt has been passed on to our children - these are not the results that America hoped for.’’
Of course, the Repugs are silent when it comes to the war and bank loot tossed down the drain.
But Obama insisted that the program had been run “cleanly, smoothly, transparently,’’ and he said the administration will do “everything in our power to turn this economy around.’’
Meaning nothing.
And he has to be kidding about transparency after all the made-up figures, etc.
Although most economists agreed on the need for the stimulus, the package was politically fraught from the outset. Republicans charged the White House with letting Democrats lard the bill with pet priorities.
Well, that is what they did.
Liberals contended that the package was not big enough, especially given that $70 billion went toward a temporary patch for the alternative minimum tax, which was not seen as a stimulus to the economy.
The White House maintains that the bill passed was the most politically feasible one. The measure got no Republican votes in the House and squeezed through the Senate with three GOP votes.
Independent analysts such as the Congressional Budget Office generally agree that it helped end the recession, added several percentage points to gross domestic product growth, and created or saved at least 2 million jobs.
By what measurement? You see that link at the top of this post?
But with job losses far deeper in 2009 than the administration expected, the stimulus has not kept unemployment from climbing to 10 percent.
Then the stimuloot failed unless you got some.
Republicans have seized on job-creation tallies reported by the recipients of stimulus money, questioning their reliability.
As WELL THEY SHOULD! A piece of equipment is not a person!
And here is confirmation that it did:
A fact: Stimulus created jobs
If the Boston Globe claims it, the opposite must be true.
We all know how loose they are with the facts. The war lies have proved that.
Opponents often motivated by strictly ideological or political concerns....
Oh, THEY are a FINE ONE to TALK!!!!
Pfffffffffft!
