This is what happens when you elect someone to the highest job in the land who has no real political experience, no real world experience, who has never created a job or run a business. The only business Obama has ever been interested in is Obama, Inc.
First Judd Gregg, his latest Commerce nominee, withdrew because of the sour taste left by the stimulus and his principled opposition to Obama’s audacious plan to move the 2010 census from the Commerce Dept. to the control of the White House. Can you imagine if Bush tried to politicize the census? Just imagine the howls from the fourth estate! When Obama does it, virtual silence.
Onto the push to pass the stimulus. For the past two days, Obama has toured the country making this claim about his magic stimulus bill,
“..if Congress passes our plan, this company (Caterpillar) will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.”
Well, not so much apparently,
when asked today if the stimulus could do that, (Caterpillar CEO) Owens said, “I think, realistically, no. The honest reality is we’re probably going to have more layoffs before we start hiring again.”