Proving yet again that style is far more important that substance Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign has launched Recovery.gov. President Obama has a nice little video that celebrates the launch of this pointless site. Obama says “the size and scale of this plan demand unprecedented efforts to root out waste, inefficiency, and unnecessary spending.” The best way to root out waste, inefficiency, and unnecessary spending would be to repeal the bill. It seems like Team Obama spent more time developing a website than actually participating in good legislation. While Team Obama created a lovely little graph (that supposedly represents a bill almost no one has read) Democrats in Congress passed the bill behind closed doors. Here’s what a former Demcorat Senator who was frustrated by the majority wrote about bipartisanship just a few years ago.
“Genuine bipartisanship, assumes an honest process of give-and-take, and that the quality of the compromise is measured by how well it serves some agreed-upon goal, whether better schools or lower deficits. This in turn assumes that the majority will be constrained — by an exacting press corps and ultimately an informed electorate — to negotiate in good faith.“If these conditions do not hold — if nobody outside Washington is really paying attention to the substance of the bill, if the true costs . . . are buried in phony accounting and understated by a trillion dollars or so — the majority party can begin every negotiation by asking for 100% of what it wants, go on to concede 10%, and then accuse any member of the minority party who fails to support this ‘compromise’ of being ‘obstructionist.’
Emphasis added. That former Democrat Senator is none other that President Obama. Obama is betrayed by his own Jeremiah Wright inspired titled book the Audacity of Hope. Recovery.gov is a well designed site. It communicates the dream of a fantastic piece of legislation, but it’s basically just a beautiful dress on a dirty pig. Unfortunately a nice looking dress is enough to get by with an American public that’s too apathetic to demand real change.
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