It’s The Stupid, Economy

ABC News is calling bull on the White House geniuses who managed to conjure up 440 additional congressional districts above and beyond the real 435 districts. In fact, they are pointing out that Obama has a huge credibility gap because of the monumentally stupid way the “best and brightest” have managed the entire “stimulus” fiasco:

Any chance that creating job creation can count as a created job?

The stimulus package, that early presidential victory that’s cost so much, has provided President Obama with its own set of headaches at every step along the way.

There was the way it was enacted. Then the speed with which it’s been implemented. Later came the projects that were never going to really fit comfortably under the stimulus umbrella.

The problem again this week is salesmanship — and how the administration can get the public to trust its numbers when some of them are so laughably, horribly wrong.

It’s not just an exercise in spin: This debate rages while talk starts on Capitol Hill of another stimulus measure — except it can’t be called a “stimulus” this time. (If you have to ask why, you aren’t paying attention.)

Do go read it all, the hits just keep coming. Especially entertaining is the slam (and it is a slam) on Joe “Ever Smaller” Biden:

“We have now, of that Recovery Act, we’ve been in business seven, eight months. The one thing you haven’t seen is that old thing about the dog that hasn’t barked. You haven’t seen these big, wasteful projects. No one’s come up with anything where we’ve gone out there and spent $2 million on something that didn’t exist,” Biden said, per ABC’s Steven Portnoy.

For now, congressional districts that don’t exist — there are more of them cited at Recovery.gov than the genuine article — will suffice.

Thus far genius Joe and the munchkins who couldn’t shoot straight have bragged about spending $6.4 billion in districts that don’t actually exist. They also have invented or imagined some 30,000 jobs in those nonexistent places.

The only reason Joe’s dog hasn’t barked is because the dog doesn’t actually exist (although Fido probably has a great, high paying “stimulus” job somewhere in the Recovery.gov database). But then, Joe’s credibility doesn’t either. And his stature is shrinking from munchkin to lilliputian.

And we get to watch the stupid run the economy.

Side note: I even heard NPR taking shots at the claims today as they pointed out that pay raises given with “stimulus” funds were counted as jobs created. Very inventive, if wholly imaginative.

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  By feeblemind, November 19, 2009 @ 9:54 am

  I wonder if Lake Woebegone received any stimulus money?

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