Posted on 08/31/2009 3:28:51 PM PDT by RobinMasters
The Republican National Committee has released a massive, 200-point "I told you so" on President Obama's 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as the "stimulus package."
The RNC calls the report "200 Days, 200 Claims," and moves point-by-point through Democrats' pledges and promises in promoting the stimulus package. Quoting Obama, Vice President Biden and Democrats from each region of the country separately, the report cites what advocates of the stimulus package said would happen upon its passage, then lists stats and quotes the GOP claims present the "reality" of what actually happened.
"It is appropriate on the 200th day of the stimulus to look back at exactly what the stimulus has accomplished," writes RNC Chairman Michael Steele in a letter introducing the report. "The answer is very little. What it has done, however, is give the American people a $787 billion bill."
Steele continues, "In the end, the stimulus is another failed experiment by the president that Americans cannot afford. Instead of creating jobs, millions are unemployed and billions have been added to our deficit. 200 days of this stimulus are 200 days too long."
According to the report itself, "The RNC's research focuses on promises made to the American people on job creation, waste, prevention, targeted spending, transparency and how the stimulus would bring about an economic recovery. The resulting report, – '200 Days, 200 Claims' – holds Democrats accountable for their claims that the stimulus was an absolute necessity to jolt the economy.
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Great scorecard! I hope the Repubs continue to grow spines & b_lls and pound the demoRATs AND the partisan in-the-tank media with this information. They should be saturating the airwaves and take down the commie pig 0bozo!!!
sounds like its time for the GOP to do a little infomercial themselves.
This is a target rich document.
Muahahahahahaha
I agree wholeheartedly.
I would gently point out, though, that the (R)s would have a hell of a lot more credibility if they hadn’t helped Paulson and Bush deliver their own panicky, “can’t wait” near-trillion-dollar stimulus package mere months before Bambi’s. The (R) package similarly was long on promises, and woefully short on results.
What I would give for a principled conservative party...
Here’s where the GOP is losing - voters do not care about point-by-point analysis, they want emotion, and they want someone who tells it like it is. That’s why Palin’s “death panels” hit a home run. She didn’t rattle off a bunch of statistics. The GOP really need to get its butt in gear.
If the USA had a balanced print and TV media, Obama and the Rat leadeship would be impeached. In fact, they never could have been elected.
Of course they passed a stimulus when they were in charge
All but the one that said it would sink the country deeper into depression and debt?
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