It has been said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different esults. In the natural sciences, a consistency of results is desired to substantiate or discredit a hypothesis. Thus undertaking the same task repeatedly while seeking a different outcome each time is counterproductive.
Posts Tagged ‘stimulus’
The Obama-Biden Administration
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 [...]
An Open Forum: Dealing with the Republican Defectors
As you surely know by now, three Republican Senators (Specter, Collins, and Snowe) defected and voted for the stimulus bill, allowing it to pass the Senate. This keeps reminding me of the Penguins vs. Red Wings game I attended last weekend, where all of the Pittsburgh fans (fairly or not) booed Marian Hossa and repeatedly [...]
Despite Worsening Perceptions of the Economy, Support for the Stimulus Drops
Take a look at this chart: the blue line depicts the historic percentage of respondents who give a negative rating to current economic conditions (source: Gallup), while the red line depicts the historic percentage of respondents who support the economic recovery package proposed by Barack Obama and the Congressional Democrats (source: Rasmussen). Although the polling [...]
Attacking Obama: Does Lindsey Graham Have It Right?
One of the more prevalent notions that I have read lately is that Republicans should focus on criticizing Democrats in Congress instead of President Obama due to the President’s sky high approval ratings. Conventional wisdom suggests that Republican attacks on an enormously popular Obama would likely backfire and instead hurt Republicans, while Democrats in an [...]
Public Opinion on the Stimulus Package Contradicts the Idea of a Massive Ideological Swing
The latest Gallup poll shows substantial skepticism about the stimulus package: although 75% of Americans want Congress to pass some sort of stimulus plan, only 38% support the current stimulus package. A nearly identical number, 37%, want major changes to the bill, and 17% outright reject it. Despite a desire by the left to make [...]