Masturbation For The Impotent

He pumped the federal fiscal pud furiously a year and a half ago, and didn't get so much as a stimulatory tingle; he's beaten the federal bishop brutally twice more this year and has nothing but bruised, dormant flaccidity to show for it.  He could allow the incendiary Bush tax cut extension Victoria's Secret model to "conduct a revival meeting," but that would be nasty and dirty and immoral.

So here comes Barack Obama's iron fist back for still another round, this time sheathed in burlap:

US President Barack Obama unveils plans Monday to spend at least fifty billion dollars to expand and renew US roads, railways and airports, in a fresh bid to fire up sluggish economic growth.

Obama, under intense pressure over November’s mid-term congressional elections in which his Democrats fear heavy losses, was set to make the announcement in a speech in Wisconsin, an official said. …

A White House official said that the “bold” infrastructure plan will be front loaded and make significant investments in the first year, in a bid to stimulate the sagging economy and boost jobs growth.

It appeared unlikely however that Obama could get the plan passed through Congress before the mid-term elections.

"Fresh"?  If that tired, wheezing, failed old fossil of a notion was any staler, it would be petrified.  It was older than the hills on Nancy's chest before Red Barry was even born, and yet somehow he's made it ancient and hoary even for his regime.  What the hell does the amount even matter?  Fifty billion, three hundred billion, seventeen bazillion and three - it's all Monopoly money to them.  Hell, that's what they're turning the dollar into.

Will the waning, fading Donk majorities pull themselves off their electoral deathbeds to pass it?  Who knows?  Ensign Ed thinks they will.  I'd like to think that Senate Republicans would filibuster it.  Either way, it won't help Dems with vote-buying because there isn't any market for what they're selling.  It's like a guy that tries to get into the prostitution business by hiring the Golden Girls to turn tricks for him.  Which makes it non-stimulative economically AND politically.

Ya gotta like Doc Zero's diagnosis, and his prescription:

In the fading days of the Democrats’ disastrous reign, we’ve come to a moment when they’re begging us to let them “create economic activity” by hiring one more team of union excavators to dig some random holes, and one more team of union construction workers to fill them right back in....

The GOP should make it clear that any further spending from this administration, including any wild schemes hatched during the lame-duck session of Congress, will be zeroed out when the new Republican Congress convenes.  It’s remarkable to note that, after two years of world-record deficits from unrestrained spending, this President has not proposed a single idea that would reduce the size or scope of our bloated government.  He needs to be sent a message that government will now be reduced. It doesn’t need to chow down on another fifty billion donuts before its crash diet begins.

"Blasphemy!!!" thunders Godbama.  And once Beltway Bob peddles his stationary bicycle long enough to generate enough "green energy," he'll cleave all those infidel Republicans in two with lightning bolts.  Shouldn't take more than two years past when he's out of office.

Maybe the NRCC should add a feature to their website pledging to gain an additional House seat for every additional ten billion dollars of proposed Hogzilla IV deficit spending, like Dick Gephardt did vis-a-vie every hundred point drop in the Dow back in 2002.  And unlike poor Dick-Les and Cap'n Limp, we'd actually have something to show for it when we were done.