A Leadership idea for Obama - Fix the Current Stimulus!

Scott Rasmussen released numbers today that showed for the first time people who strongly disapprove of Obama over strongly approve at an 8 percent (negative) advantage. For some time Obama has been happy to take advantage of bad times to ram legislation through in the hope that the economy would improve on its own and his "revolutionary" changes would transform American into his brave new ideal. But the facts on the ground are working against him and his stimulus (while never read by a single congressman) has proven to be completely un-stimulating.

So, instead of a second stimulus, he would be far better off rebuilding the current stimulus. Here is how he could pull it off:

1. Rescind every spending item outside the next 12 months.
2. Re-evaluate all of the stimulus proposals ignore in round one and convene a bipartisan "executive panel" to do it-not party hacks on either side. Folks like Warren Buffet could really add value here.
3. Submit a set of proposals that could be discussed and evaluated with proper review in the congress.
4. Engage in constructive debate (not "I won" but "I want to fix it")
5. Create a bill that the country has confidence in and both parties could rally around.

While this would not be popular with either the hard left of the hard right, it would be VERY popular with an electorate that it turning strongly against the President. And it would also allow him to actually have the confidence of the people when presenting his ideas for health care and other programs which will not only have bipartisan support but likely no support outside of hard core liberals and toadies. And it would seperate him from his Democratic party approval boat anchors Pelosi and Reid (about 70 percent of the country would agree that these two deserve a place under the front wheel of the bus).

Just an idea. He won't do it. But if he was really the transformational LEADER he claims to be, he would.

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2nd Stimulus? Let's repeal the first one!

President Obama told a press conference today that a second stimulus wasn't needed yet because the results of the first were not clear. I beg to differ. The promise was that the rushed stimulus was needed to avoid job losses reaching percent. Congress passsed the stimulus and we blew past that mark heading toward 10%.

Maybe this country needs the debate we didn't have with the first stiumulus. Step 1, repeal the first stimulus. Step 2, discuss what if anythign REALLY needs to be done to stimulate the economy. Step 3, pass the legislation that should have been passed the first time but couldn't get past the congressional porkfest. And the beauty of this orginal stimulus is that since it was never intended to stimulate anything, most of the spending is back loaded. There is still time to correct this if the people would make more noise about it.

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