Clearly Time Is Up

GOP House Minority Whip Eric Cantor has grown bored with the whole waiting five months for the stimulus to work thing and instead has gone straight to offering ideas now that the stimulus has so clearly and completely failed:

Americans now agree that the stimulus package signed into law earlier this year has not achieved its intended effects, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) claimed Monday.

Pushing back against a possible second stimulus bill, Cantor asserted that the Obama administration-backed first $787 billion stimulus has not worked, and insisted that characterization has now become consensus.

"I think we all need to recognize that the first attempt of the stimulus bill did not stimulate the economy," Cantor said in a conference call sponsored by the Republican National Committee (RNC). "I think we all agree on that now."

Thoughts:

1) How quickly forgotten has Bush's stimulus package in 2008 become? Remember your tax refund this time last year, and how Bush said it would fix everything because Americans would then spend it on plasma TVs and cappuccino makers and power tools and trips to Vegas? Didn't that stimulus fail too by Cantor's logic?

2) Have the Republicans been right on anything economically in the last thirty years? Reaganomics? The cost of the various wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Tax cuts for the rich? The need to eliminate as much regulation as possible so that the free market would flourish and grow? The Greenspan Bubble? Anything at all?

3) Guess what Eric Cantor wants to do now?

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said that Republicans would work with President Obama on a second stimulus bill, as long as it's like the tax cut-heavy package the GOP proposed earlier.

TAXEN CUTTEN UBER ALLES!

4) Nobody takes House Republicans seriously anymore for a reason. That reason is they honestly believe America still thinks they should be in charge despite the fact that America overwhelmingly put the Democrats in charge less than a year ago.

There's no reason for the Democrats to bother with them anymore. They are irrelevant, and it's high time the Dems treated them as such.