Enough With the Malaise Already

The Wall Street Journal has the hard facts and figures to explain why the President's continual economic "fearmongering may be good politics, but it is bad history and bad economics."

I'm getting awfully tired of waking up each day to hear that the world's going to end if the government doesn't spend trillions of dollars. It's bad enough that the ninnies here in the California State legislature can't see that the solution to our budget crisis is to roll back the humongous spending increases of the last handful of years, instead of levying thousands of dollars of new taxes on each family.

Besides, the President has clearly demonstrated it's not nearly the immediate crisis Congress led us to believe...what was the rush to pass the bill before anyone read it? (That's a rhetorical question, of course.)

Bonus link: Can you imagine the reaction by the press and liberal punditry if President Bush had to have a teleprompter installed in his podium in order to handle press conferences?

Tuesday Update: Be sure to read Byron York's thoughts on showmanship over sunlight.

If I were Senator Sherrod Brown, I'd feel badly abused for having been forced to fly back to Washington to vote on the bill late at night, in between his mother's wake and funeral. Why couldn't the vote have waited, if it wasn't going to be signed until today anyway? (Again, that's a rhetorical question...it's clear those who voted for the bill didn't want to allow more time for the public to examine the bill's contents.)