THE OBAMA BOONDOGGLES: BIGGEST WASTE EVER: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS POWER LINE AND THE GOP BY MONTHS

POWER LINE TODAY: Biggest Boondoggle in American History

We are living in a historical moment that in some ways represents uncharted territory. In other respects, however, the current moment is a return to a simpler and clearer past, when the hallmark of conservatism was opposition to extravagant spending boondoggles proposed by liberals. For a variety of reasons the fiscal battle lines have been blurred in recent years, but these days we are back to the paradigm that held sway decades ago.

Yesterday, Minority Leader John Boehner sent out an email on the House Democrats' ridiculous $825 billion "stimulus" bill. It is worth reproducing in its entirety...

... what Congressional Democrats are now planning, by way of deficit spending, dwarfs anything in our post-World War II history, as this graph illustrates; click to enlarge:


It seems inconceivable that the deficits now contemplated by the Democrats will not have adverse effects, starting with inflation. Whatever those ill effects turn out to be, the Democrats will own them, just as they will own the tax increases that seem inevitable in the wake of the current profligacy.

We appear to be returning, in short, to an era more like the one in which the modern conservative movement was born. If there was ever a time when America needed an effective conservative opposition, that time is now.

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS CALLED OBAMA'S PLANS EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE - BOONDOGGLES FOR THE LEFT - MONTHS AGO:

• DECEMBER 25: DOING THE MATH OTHER AMERICANS WON'T DO - AND PROVING OBAMA'S STIMULUS PACKAGE IS A WASTEFUL BOONDOGGLE

• DECEMBER 6: OBAMA ANNOUNCES HUGE NEW FEDERAL BOONDOGGLE: CUI BONO?

• NOVEMBER 20:
  

OBAMA THINKS WE SHOULD MANDATE AND FUND A NEW HUMUNGOUS FEDERAL BOONDOGGLE TO CREATE A "GREEN ECONOMY" BECAUSE AGW IS A THREAT TO CIVILIZATION.

AND LIBS LIKE OBAMA WANT TO CUT THE DEFENSE BUDGET AND REFRAIN FROM DEPLOYING MISSILE DEFENSE.

WHAT FREAKIN' IDIOTS. THE "NEW GREEN ECONOMY" WILL BE EVERY BIT AS EMPTY AS THE CLINTON "NEW ECONOMY."

WE SHOULD BE DOING THE OPPOSITE: UNSHACKLING OUR COAL AND OIL INDUSTRIES - TO KEEP ENERGY COSTS DOWN - AND DEPLOYING A MISSILE SHIELD ASAP.

YOU KNOW, DOING THE EXACT WRONG THING FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS IS GONNA LEAVE A MARK.

• NOVEMBER 15:
  

• [OBAMA] pointed to the need for investing 150 billion dollars to build a green energy economy that he said would create five million new jobs.

  OBAMA WANTS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO INVEST 150 BILLION OF OUR DOLLARS.
  
  NOT HIS MONEY - WHICH I COULDN'T CARE LESS HOW HE SPENT.
  
  BUT OURS.
  
  IN A WORLD THAT'S NOT WARMING ANYMORE - (AND WHOSE PREVIOUS DECADE LONG WARMING MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ANTHROPOGENIC AT ALL) - ALL THIS AMOUNTS TOO IS A COLOSSAL WASTE OF MONEY AND RESOURCES.

• IT'S A BOONDOGGLE OBAMA'S CRONIES ON THE LEFT ARE BOUND TO MAKE HUGE PROFITS ON - UNTIL THE LIBERAL "GREEN ENERGY ECONOMY" BUBBLE BURSTS JUST LIKE THE LIBERAL FANNIE MAE BUBBLE BURST.

BOONDOGGLE:

The term boondoggle, in the sense of a project that wastes time and money, first appeared during the Great Depression in the 1930s, referring to the millions of jobs given to unemployed men and women to try to get the economy moving again, as part of the New Deal. It came into common usage after a 1935 New York Times headline claimed that over $3 million had been spent teaching the jobless how to make boon doggles.^[1]

• IF OBAMA SUCCEEDS IN GETTING THIS BOONDOGGLE THROUGH CONGRESS -AND THAT IS HIGHLY LIKELY - IT'S GOING TO ACCOMPLISH ABSO-F*CKING-LUTLEY NOTHING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.

• BUPKUSS.

• ALL IT WILL DO IS MAKE A FEW PEOPLE RICH - AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE.

IT'S REALLY JUST SICKENING.

UPDATE: YOU CAN WATCH OBAMA PROMOTE THIS BOONDOGGLE HERE. REGULAR READERS KNOW THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.

WE CALLED ALL OF OBAMA'S SPENDING PLANS EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE BEFORE ANYONE ELSE.

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