You may have heard that the U.S. economy is in a bit of a pickle, hemorrhaging millions of jobs under the protracted Bush recession, with millions more on the line if nothing is done. Most Americans and most elected officials in Washington have deemed this pickle severe enough to warrant an economic recovery plan of unprecedented boldness. But some in Washington insist on viewing the worst recession since the Great Depression through the same partisan lens as they always have, devoid of any sense of urgency and coming to the table with nothing but the same old ideas that got us in this mess to begin with.
In December, then President Elect Barack Obama wasted no time after the election outlining a major jobs and economic recovery plan that will create or save three to four million jobs, strengthen our middle class, and improve the economy in the near and long term by making sound investments in state fiscal relief, health care, energy efficiency, transportation and schools. And the Democratic leadership has been working every since to set the plan into motion.
And then there's the Congressional Republicans, still stuck in the past and in their well worn, special interest driven ideology. They're not about to let two electoral defeats in a row and the worst economic crisis in our lifetimes spur any sort of reevaluation of their failed conservative economic philosophies of corporate protectionism and 'trickle-down' economics. Hey, if it ain't broke...well. They see the worst economic crisis in more than 70 years as a ripe opportunity to promote the same old, discredited policies which got us into this crisis in the first place:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-woodhouse/gop-see-economic-crisis-a_b_159944.html
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