Perkins’ Perspective: Icing on the Stimulus Cake
by Tony Perkins
January 29, 2009
As the ice melted off my computer yesterday morning in D.C., I was able to find an email from Chicken Little–disguised as Al Gore. He’s the Chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection. Mr. Gore was reaching out to the UFO crowd and others about how the “entrenched interests in Washington will be working hard to weaken” President Obama’s stimulus bill.
The closer one looks at the so-called stimulus bill, the more you see that is a pork-laden political payoff which includes billions of dollars to those “entrenched interests in Washington” which Mr. Gore speaks of, most of whom have been at the public trough for years. They include groups like Planned Parenthood and the controversial and corrupt ACORN. Because this measure–which is now estimated to cost taxpayers $1.1 trillion–is so big, there are billions to be passed out to all kinds of left wing groups. Near the top of this list is the green lobby that Al Gore and his global warming alarmists are a part of.
By the way, in a recent Pew Research Center Poll of what Americans said were their public policy priorities – Al Gore was left out in the cold – global warming ranked dead last.
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Comments
I’m sure the ice on your computer was a result of the icy reception republicans gave the stimulus package.
God cared about people that were hurting, too bad the republicans would rather obstruct and complain, even when many of their concerns were addressed in the bill (including removing several objectionable items).
I think the democrats should go back to the original bill, they can’t get any fewer republican votes, and we may actually get rid of some of these rich tax cuts that are costing us billions.
I am never suprised by the way liberals thank. In a time when billions are going to be blown on pork, and yes under the banner of for the people, lets just go along with it some one some day will pay for it. If you really honestly look at this bill it is nothing more than pay back time in washington. “CHANGE WE CAN LIVE WITH.” Please where is the real change for the people. I am one of those independents that have left the two party system and now look at things from a real world view. Problem is most americans dont really care about real change.
Tony got it right…the economic down-turn has been the golden opportunity for the liberals to push a so-called stimulus package that is really all about two non-economic objectives long on the leftist-whackos wish-list: 1) They now have the votes and circumstances to fund every single liberal agenda item of the last 40 years. Everything from abortion to victimhood of every type, imaginable or unimaginable. 2) Not only can they now fill (not just contribute) the coffers with unheard of sums of money of all their traditional political constituencies but they are creating new constituencies that will be in their political favor and debt for a very long time. The money used by the recipients will go in part to slick media propaganda in new efforts to organize and recruit new followers and to lobby Congress to enact legislation to silence the opposition. That will ensure majorities vote for Democrats as far as the eye can see. One grim result of that long run will be the liberal judges that will pack the judiciary and forever change America into a secular bastion of anti-Christianism. They will use the coercive powers of government to silence any protestations to their imperial neo-nazi righteous cause.
Who do we have to blame for giving the Democrats license to slaughter the innocents, corrupt not only the government but now the private sector as well, and push the most anti-God agenda never envisioned by the Founding Fathers? 1) George W. Bush and the Republicans who had majorities in the Congress for 6 years and could never find their voice to make the case for the conservative agenda so decided it was better to look and act like Democrats. 2) John McCain who preferred to preserve his image as serving a cause greater than himself all the while ignoring the aspects of his opponent that would ensure that the cause he espoused would never see the light of day. 3) All those that voted for Obama knowing how radical and risky he was but were willing to ignore the man’s extremism to get their share of “bread and circuses”.
It is now a lost cause and all the remonstrance to the contrary by FRC and other like-minded organizations will not change that.
By: DaJuan Hayes | January 29, 2009 at 3:58 pm
It should come as a surprise to NO ONE that the economy is the #1 issue according to the Pew Research Center Poll. People will always vote according to their pocketbooks in such tough economic times as these.
But I also find it interesting that the Family Research Council’s pet issue, Gay marriage, isn’t even on the list!