Jeffery Bader, a special assistant to the president for national security, recently said in relation to why we should engage with the junta in Burma which has imprisoned their lawfully elected Prime Minister since 1990, “One definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect a different outcome.” Clearly some coups are more equal than others, since Burma isn’t getting the Honduras treatment.
Pity that expression can’t be applied to the upcoming Congressional insanity of spending our way out of financial troubles. Believe it or not, Stimulus Momentum Builds.
“While Members are definitely concerned about spending, there also is a recognition that unemployment is over 10 percent, and Members want to be able to say they are doing something on unemployment and jobs,” one House leadership aide said.
House Democratic leaders were planning to huddle with Members on Monday night to discuss what to put in such a package.
They want to be able to say they’re doing something? Good grief, sitting in a corner and picking their noses would be an improvement over continuously spending money which we do not have. The liberal rallying cry of ‘It’s for the children!’ seems to have fallen by the wayside here. We’re amassing debt it will take generations to pay off, and there are no jobs to show for it, in spite of Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) insistence that “the Recovery Act is working.”
If the Recovery Act is working so well, why does the administration need to lie about it? ‘Unrealistic data‘ indeed. It’s beyond snortworthy, and yet another example of “if Bush did it,” the press would have it front and center, day and night, wondering why the reporting program was designed to give these patently false results. I am – as my header indicates – not a big fan of the GOP. I changed my party affiliation to Independent after the Shamnesty debacle of 2006. However, one definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect a different outcome. And allowing Democrats another chance at control, as they fight to implement policies which clearly do not work and never will, is insanity. The next two elections are crucial, but in the meantime, we need to burn up the phone lines and make sure Congress knows that this spending spree is intolerable.
