The president didn’t utter the word “stimulus” Thursday night — apparently it’s unsuitable for polite company — but according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the first Obama stimulus saved or created up to 3.6 million jobs and may have shaved two percentage points off the unemployment rate. (Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, 9/13/2011)
The Democrat election year answer to the moribund economy is already clear: it could be much worse! Obviously, that is just about all they can say, but it is not going to get much traction with voters. On the CBO, one thing that the Dems taught us during the Obamacare debate is that it can be gamed. It goes like this -- Dems: assume our bill will generate $100 billion in savings. Question to the CBO: how much in savings will our bill generate? CBO answer: $100 billion. Dems: see, our bill will save $100 billion!
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Precisely because they believe in both government and the marketplace, Democrats are always more ready to compromise. (E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, 9/11/2011)
A recent example of the Democrat Party's reflexive urge to compromise is Obamacare wherein they rammed through a bill that would nationalize healthcare on a party-line vote. Or is that being too harsh?
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