Jack Cafferty :Stimulus bill a sorry spectacle

[TheCoxwain]

I think Jack is overreacting a bit .


Snippet:

The biggest problem of all is the stimulus bill may not be nearly enough. And if the president has to come back asking for more, the next time might not be so easy.

So far, we have an anemic stimulus bill and some sort of vague proposal from the secretary of the Treasury to deal with the banking crisis -- a proposal that landed with a thud last week -- as the two first steps toward solving a financial crisis that is threatening to take down the country.

Obama better step up his game, or it's going to be a short four years in office.

Source : http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/17/cafferty.stimulus/index.html

[graywarrior]

1. Blah blah blah

Media should have stepped it up during the 2004 elections.

[Skink]

2. This is good. The more support for more stimulus the better.

Obama is just warming up.

[BlooInBloo]

3. ahem. Yah. A bit.

:rofl:

[billybob537]

4. Perhaps a little over dramatic.

Next time there will be no need to pander to the Party of NO.
It can be all Infrastructure and no tax cuts.

[TomClash]

5. Not nearly enough?

You'd have to go back to WW II to find as much government spending in today's dollars in one year.

[biopowertoday]

6. Krugman has been saying the same thing. I

do not what is right. I just have to trust it will be enough. But I have read lots saying this bill was only a down payment.

[TomClash]

7. I have read the same thing but

This is still a pretty damn big stimulus bill.

[bertman]

8. Couldn't agree more. The best that can be said is it DID get signed.

You can call it politics or whatever, but the mandate was there and Obama tried to be Mr. Bipartisanship, and a lot of money that should have been going to help Americans is now waiting for Stimulus II or 3 or whatever it will be.

The economists who aren't dining with the White House staff are saying that the next financial giveaway is scarily close to the first giveaway and won't do the job.

At least Jack tells the truth. We don't need cheerleaders. We need people who face the facts.

[Skittles]

9. I agree

absolutely

[Two Americas]

10. this should help, not hurt

The public knows that the Republicans opposed this. This opens up breathing space for increasing aid in the future to the people. It can only help. Saying that it wasn't enough, when the Republicans opposed it altogether, helps and does not hurt the administration in my opinion, and can only hurt the Republicans.

Saying, in effect, "go farther in the direction you are heading" is constructive criticism and should not be seen as the same as "don't go that direction at all."

And it is the direction - the opposite direction from Reaganomics - that we support, is it not, and we would want it to be made as easy as possible for the administration to move in that direction, would we not? And we see moving that direction as the thing most likely to lead to a successful administration, since the left wing approach is not merely a "belief" but is a firm resolve and a certainty that this will bring the greatest good to the greatest number, do we not?