Well, the Biden Show has come and gone. According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Vice President “praised Rep. Steve Driehaus for his support of last year’s economic stimulus package.” How Biden can, with a straight face, continue to try to push the line that that huge $787 billion waste of our tax dollars has been a success is amazing. The only thing that bloated bill stimulated was bigger government, not jobs in the private sector. Eventually the economy will turn around, but when it does, it will be in spite of the so-called economic stimulus package, not because of it.
When Biden was last in town back in July of 2009, he was pushing the same line – that the stimulus package would be a great success – and create lots of jobs. He even held his press conference back then with the American Can Building in Northside as his backdrop, claiming that at least 100 people would be working there soon thanks to stimulus package money. That was 8 months ago. What’s been accomplished? Nothing. Where are those 100 jobs? Not there.
According to a Cincinnati Enquirer article about the American Can Building project that appeared just last Saturday, “financing remains uncertain.” An interesting sidebar is that even though financing is still up in the air, and no one is working at the site, apparently someone in the Democrat-controlled city hall bureaucracy realized that all this might be somewhat embarrassing to Joe Biden (and to Steve Driehaus who’s been joined at the hip to Biden when he’s in town), so they issued a building permit for the project – three days before Biden comes to town! (Is politics great or what?)
Of course the 800 pound elephant (donkey) in the room at the Biden fundraiser was how would Driehaus vote on the latest version of the Democrats’ so-called healthcare reform bill. He voted for the House version already (which was a terrible, hugely expensive bill), but he’s being cagey about where he’ll be the second time around (and as the election draws closer). He wants the Obama/Pelosi/Biden money, but he’s afraid he’s being too closely identified with them (and their horrible policies). Well, it’s a little late for that when you consider that he’s voted with this liberal crew a shocking 94% of the time!
Let me conclude by thanking all of you who responded so generously by contributing to my campaign to offset the Biden-cash raised as a result of the Vice President’s visit here. If you have not yet responded, it’s not too late, and you can do so by clicking here.
And just remember, no matter how many arms are twisted by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, no matter how many corrupt deals are struck behind closed doors, no matter how many bills go unread, no matter how many procedural shenanigans are tried (deeming), no matter how many rules are broken to ram through bad legislation, the people will have the final word come this November. And they WILL be heard.