Republicans are winning the messaging war on health care reform, and the tide is turning on the national debt. However, The President’s approval numbers remain much higher than those of his policies. The man is either in an extended honeymoon or just too darn likeable. Many rightly assumed he would remain bulletproof for some time with his oh so dreamy ways, though there are signs of slippage. Until we can define the man as misguided and attack his policies more easily, Republicans ought to attempt to define the administration itself as inept through the dumbassery of one Joe Biden.

If Democrats could portray Bush as an evil warmonger through the gruff caricature of Dick Cheney, then the GOP could certainly appropriately label the ham-handed distribution of stimulus funds through the visage of the current VP. Mr. Biden is currently travelling the country announcing Recovery Act projects and talking about how they will create jobs down the line, as in a road work project causing bulldozer-builders to see an increase in sales, which causes bulldozer engine parts suppliers to see an uptick and thus tool and die shops experience an era of milk and honey, etc. But one-time expenditures don’t result in capital investments – why would Caterpillar buy a new fleet of bulldozers because I-70 added a lane outside of Kansas City one time? Nothing happens to stimulate the economy except a temporary reprieve for the work crew that actually tackles the specific project. They’ll be in exactly the same situation once the work is done, making the Recovery Act a sort of opiate of the struggling.

Sustainable jobs come through targeted tax breaks to small businesses currently squeezed out by state taxes and employment caps. We ought to use a trillion dollars worth of budgetary flexibility to reduce the federal income and allow businesses to pop up where mismanaged ones fail, instead of taxing growth to pay for short-term fudging of the numbers – but now I’m just preaching to the choir.

Besides the sustainability questions, the whole issue of jobs created versus jobs saved deserves more scrutiny in the MSM than it receives. When the administration puts the nation’s credit rating, federal reserves and the strength of its currency at risk for a debatable program, defended with made up numbers, the public ought to have some questions. Instead, we ignore the CBO’s repeated warnings that the administration is pushing every important decision onto the next President, lying over and over again to pass whatever they like.

Whenever questioned, Biden shifts the blame, even though he is the quasi-czar of this massive boondoggle. If he can’t answer the serious questions that abound, then no one can and we’re all in a lot of trouble. This is important stuff and it’s time we handled it appropriately.

Grass-roots activists are questioning the explanations, but we need to get a coordinated attack from the RNC as we’ve seen with the costs of health care reform. As much as activists would like to bypass party officials, the reach they have with the vast majority of the electorate through the MSM is crucial and needs to be utilized. Without it, the majority of the public (the part that doesn’t crunch federal budget numbers) is going to go on happily hoping that they get a job soon, while instead nothing improves and the future falls apart around them. Joe Biden, and President Untouchable, are the ones tearing it down, and we need to stop allowing them to do it in shadow.

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