California Conservative

Wednesday night, President Obama met his match. In a speech that was touted as President Obama’s pivot to the center, President Obama delivered a ’stay the course’ message that sounded like a ‘I told you so’ speech. Instead of admitting the failure of his stimulus bill, he bragged about how the bill saved jobs even though there’s no way of verifying the accuracy of the statistics. Here’s what he said in talking up the ’successes’ of the stimulus:

Because of the steps we took, there are about 2 million Americans working right now who would otherwise be unemployed. Two-hundred-thousand work in construction and clean energy. Three-hundred-thousand are teachers and other education workers. Tens of thousands are cops, firefighters, correctional officers, and first responders. And we are on track to add another one and a half million jobs to this total by the end of the year.

Rather than changing his condescending tone, he’s returned to insulting America’s intelligence. Let’s remember that Recovery.gov’s statistics includes money spent in 440 non-existent House districts. Now we’re supposed to trust President Obama’s recitation of information that’s both unverifiable and self-serving? I’ll pass on that.

Compare that recitation of public jobs theoretically saved with Gov. McDonnell’s statement of the conservative gospel on how to create jobs:

Good government policy should spur economic growth, and strengthen the private sector’s ability to create new jobs. We must enact policies that promote entrepreneurship and innovation, so America can better compete with the world. What government should not do is pile on more taxation, regulation, and litigation that kill jobs and hurt the middle class.

When people compare President Obama’s strategy for creating jobs with Gov. McDonnell’s perscription, I’m betting that more people will agree with Gov. McDonnell than with President Obama. Frankly, I’ll bet that, if it was polled on that specific question, Gov. McDonnell would win by a 2:1 margin, if not by a bigger margin.

Here was another part of President Obama’s speech that didn’t fit with reality: (more…)