Wed, 2008-10-15 07:43 — lambert
What BTD said:
The Presidential race is over and after tonight's debate - the focus should shift to the Congressional races and what a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President need to do to get the country moving in the right direction. The correct answer is we need a new New Deal.
Bingo.
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“all window dressing and an election strategy,”--
on Congress and Obama's new stimulus plan that they know won't pass before the new administration gets in. This is how they operate.
They're purposely pushing things that might help only now--knowing they won't become law--and hoping that maybe later they can bring it up again next year.
"... Democrats believe merely talking now about doing a stimulus or economic recovery plan in the post-election session boosts chances for Obama and congressional Democrats at the polls by highlighting what they say are the GOP’s failures to regulate the financial markets and ambivalence toward supporting measures for the middle class.
“Do we really think that the president’s just going to sign this on his way out the door?” said one Democratic aide. “Of course not. And it would not be wise of us to hand him that gun and then let him shoot us with it.
“This is all window dressing and an election strategy,” the aide continued. ..." -- http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/firs...
A Pony in Every Pot!
Coming January, we'll need that oft-promised pony for simple sustenance. I hear that pony tastes like chicken; I guess we'll know sooner rather than later.