Neo-Hooverite McConnell also Obstructionist
Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader, and first rate wanker, is looking to prolong the economic downturn as long as it means providing money to actual Americans through jobs:
“As of right now, Americans are left with more questions than answers about this unprecedented government spending, and I believe the taxpayers deserve to know a lot more about where it will be spent before we consider passing it.”
Nice of you to think of that now, Mitch. You didn’t seem to think that was all that important when bailing out the banks, who are getting billions in public money with no oversight, but now you want to stick it to the citizens who are unemployed or underemployed and would be helped directly by an infrastructure-based stimulus plan.
It’s brazen, I’ll give him that. It’s also stupid. You have an incoming president-elect with approval numbers in the upper ionosphere, promoting a popular idea that would put people back to work, and you decide that this is your Little Bighorn. There is no political way to win this from that position. If it doesn’t pass, you’ll have won the battle but lost the war, as the Republican Obstructionist brand takes hold. If it does pass, you’ll have lost anyway and will be seen as utterly ineffective. Just from a political standpoint it seems like McConnell should be supporting anything Obama says on the economy right now.
And, on the other hand, if this is a position based on deeply held convictions, we will finally have the man’s soul laid bare, alas a few months late to vote him out of office.
(h/t Political Wire)
Tags: Economy, infrastructure, mitch mcconnell, senate
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