1. he's losing credibility
2. he doesn't know what he's doing
3. he can't say exactly how much of the stimulus has been spent
4. he can't say exactly how many jobs have been created or saved
5. he can't say "created or saved"
6. he can't say "stimulus"
7. the white house has done a HORRIBLE job accounting for all this spending and supposed hiring
8. and WORSE explaining, making public, being transparent
9. why does he HAVE TO call this second stimulus a "jobs bill?"
10. why MUST he refer to the first as his "recovery act?"
11. just last summer he referred routinely to it as "the stimulus"
12. but then the hundreds of stories broke all across the country, usually printed in local newspapers, about bogus jobs bragged about which didn't really exist
13. we learned about all the TEMPORARY jobs he was claiming
14. all the pay raises he ACCOUNTED as new hires
15. all the stories about 3 or 4 jobs created/saved at the cost of some million dollars
16. EVEN BY THE PRESIDENT'S OWN RECKONING---2 MILLION JOBS---AT 260 BILLION DOLLARS, THAT'S 130K PER
17. of course, his own economic team disagrees famously and publicly on the actual number of jobs
18. there were all those phantom districts
19. and zip codes
20. on HIS OWN recovery.gov
21. cbo has adjusted the 787B to 862
22. these are all the things WE KNOW
23. IF THE FIRST STIMULUS WORKED WHY DO WE NEED A SECOND?
24. why is the second STIMULUS dying an embarrassing, bayh-busting death at the hurtful hands of vengeful harry reid?
25. bottom line: he said it would go to 8% WITHOUT a stimulus
26. we're at 10, with a 17% underemployed
27. according to nyt/cbs poll, feb 10, only SIX PERCENT believe the stimulus created significant jobs
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/poll_Obama_Congress_021110.pdf
28. in october george stephanopoulos reported that clueless christina romer testified in congress that the stimulus would have its greatest impact in the 2nd and 3rd quarters of 09 and wouldn't do much in 2010
Obama Economic Adviser: The Stimulus? Impact on Economic Growth Has Past - George's Bottom Line
29. you see, one thing's for sure---they don't know what they're doing
30. he's selling snake oil
31. which is why his entire agenda is dead
32. his big one (pre MA)---health care, cap and trade, reg reform
33. as well as his little teeny tiny one (post MA)---jobs bill, bank tax, debt commission, spending freeze
34. he really needs to shut up
35. if you truly want to create jobs, millions of em, cut payroll taxes (schumer-hatch)
36. hello
