Ms. Noonan is right. America needs it's politicians to recognize that times have changed and the old ways can not and should not be tolerated. President Obama left the crafting of his stimulus package to Congressional Demwitocrats who seemingly just could not resist the temptation to burden the package and taxpayers with amazing amounts of pork. The WSJ's analysis of the package can only justify about 12 percent of porkage as something that can actually stimulate the economy.
President Obama promised change but what he actually delivered was more of the same old partisanship by abdicating his role as consensus builder to the Goldmansachs Head (GSH - coined by Ms. Noonan in her article) suffering Speaker Pelosi and her merry band of pokers. Worse, because President Obama is still the darling of main stream media Republican disapproval was "reported" as Rush Limbaugh vitriol. Remarkably Speaker Pelosi came to the rescue by placing her GSH on display by attmpting to defend her pet condom project as "cost cutting" stimulus.
Americans need to wake up and realize the impact of the numbers being tossed around. Glen Beck's Inconvenient Debt puts our economic troubles in frightening perspective. We simply cannot afford the massive amounts of spending contained in President Obama's Stimulus Package. We need stimulus, but nothing is better than the Speaker Pelosi's GSH based porkage.
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