Democrats start grumbling! Honeymoon’s over Blue Dog Democrats!
Shuler said the price tag of the stimulus package is high, and he is concerned about returning fiscal responsibility to Washington. He is a member of the fiscally conservative Democratic Blue Dog Caucus and was recently elected whip of the group.
Senator Kent Conrad, a North Dakota
Democrat, said his committee projects the plan will reduce the unemployment rate by “maybe” 1 percent, or about half of the 3 million jobs Obama has said the plan would generate.
Learned today that the $825 billion will be spent over a period of several years. I’m guessing this means that the O-team is not, after all, peddling that old time Keynesian religion, which calls for all the bucks to be spent now, if not sooner, but is instead peddling that old time FDR politics, which calls for buying off important interest groups, taking pork rationing out of Congress’ hands, and putting a dent in the budget so huge that new taxes are unavoidable. But that’s a lot of guessing on my part.
diogenes leaves and things already falling apart!
I’m sure he’s serving the president in his own way.
I will not ask!