Nothing But a Political Ploy

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American Spectator:

President Obama's so-called Jobs Plan has nothing to do with jobs and economics. On that score, it is already a proven failure. Rather, the plan is pure politics: a ploy to make Republicans bear the responsibility for the President's economic fiasco, with proven to fail policies he knows the Republicans were elected to stop and can't support. The political calculation is that the public is too stupid to figure out both the economic fallacies in the plan, and the dishonesties in the political attack, which accuses Republicans of the exact political cynicism in which the President is engaged.

That is a Saul Alinsky strategy: accuse your opponents of doing what you are doing. Recall that the President previously served as a tutor of Saul Alinsky political tactics.

In the present economic crisis, such cynical political manipulation is a disgraceful abdication of the responsibilities of his office. This is why Congress, rather than pass Obama's phony jobs plan, should be asking him to resign.

Answering the President

In last Saturday's weekly radio address, the President reiterated the political ploy of his jobs plan. If Republicans insist on opposing his jobs plan, Obama demanded an explanation to the public as to why. Then he taunted, if they don't support his plan, where is their plan?

This is where the assumption that the public is stupid begins. The obvious fallacies in Obama's so-called jobs plan have been reiterated over and over, and Republicans have long been advocating far better, more effective job plans.

Obama's jobs plan is about half the size of his nearly one trillion-dollar 2009 so-called stimulus plan, but otherwise contains the same policies. That 2009 stimulus didn't stimulate anything except runaway government spending, deficits, and debt. Unemployment has soared since then, and remained stubbornly high, as Obamanomics, including the so-called stimulus, has short-circuited the traditional American recovery. That recovery is now long overdue, as has been explained in this column numerous times.

Part of the jobs plan is devoted to increased government spending on supposed infrastructure. That recalls the laughable "shovel ready" jobs of Obama's 2009 stimulus. Another part is increased spending to bailout spendthrift Democrat states, which Obama calls hiring more teachers, firemen, and cops (which is a state and local government function).