Posted on 09/16/2011 4:19:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
The president has taken to the campaign trail to promote his "American Jobs Act." That's a good name for it: an act.
"Pass this bill now!" he declared 24 times at a stop in Raleigh, N.C., and another 18 in Columbus, Ohio, and the act is sufficiently effective that, three years into the Vapidity of Hope, the president can still find crowds of true believers willing to chant along with him: "Pass this bill now!"
Not all supporters are content merely to sing along with the prompter-in-chief. In North Carolina, a still devoted hopeychanger cried out, "I love you!"
"I love you, too," said the president. "But ... ."
Oh, no, here it comes: conditional love. "But, if you love me, you've got to help me pass this bill!" You'd be surprised how effective this line is: I tried it on Darlene in the back of my Ford Edsel when I was 17, and we didn't get home till two in the morning.
Pass this bill now, or I'll say "Pass this bill now!" another two dozen times! With this latest inspiration, Obama has taken the post-modern phase of democratic politics to a whole new level. "Pass this jobs bill"?
Simply as a matter of humdrum reality, there is no bill, it won't "create" any jobs and it will be paid for with money we don't have. But the smartest president in history has calculated that, if he says the same four monosyllables over and over, a nonexistent bill to create nonexistent jobs with nonexistent money will be yet another legislative triumph in the grand tradition of his first stimulus (the original "Dumb And Dumber" to the sequel's "Stimulus And Stimuluser").
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Allow me to ask a silly question: As of today, has Obama’s staff produced a bill that can be voted on in the House?
Nice!
How I long for the days of...Jimmy Carter.
So, we could hire the entire country of Greece for the cost of this bill? Or just buy it? It would be a better deal.
The cost of the jobs bill is also equal to 1/3 of US annual receipts from income tax on individuals.
We'd definitely get better looking monuments, that's for sure.
I'm not much on Ouzo but I'll take a discount on olives and grape leaves any day.
Of course we have 29 times the population of Greece and a 48 times larger GDP.
America has the lowest employment since the early '80s, the lowest property ownership since the mid-'60s, the highest deficit-to-GDP ratio since the Second World War, the worst long-term unemployment since the Great Depression, the highest government dependency rate of all time and the biggest debt mountain in the history of the planet.
And yet he's still beloved by millions and stands a better than even chance of a second term.
In the House? No.
There are signs Reid introduced it to the Senate as S.1549 but even that was still pending on the official site as of a few hours ago.
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