Comments on: Obama's WPA

By: 20 Great WPA Posters | Listicles

20 Great WPA Posters | Listicles — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:43:15 +0000

[...] we’re still vague on what President-elect Barack Obama’s WPA (Works Projects/Progress Administration) will end up doing, we sure like the images conjured by [...]

By: jcorrigan

jcorrigan — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:15:07 +0000

Is anyone at all irked that nowhere was public transit mentioned? Yes, let's fix the highways and make it easier to pollute. One word: Foresight!

By: ironmouth

ironmouth — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:14:57 +0000

I think the IT will actually be the hardest. No Blue Dog will utter a peep about the school buildings or roads. They will all eagerly support and head for the front of the line. It is their districts which are going to get the money. These days there's a such thing as women voters. Please GOP, attack children. Really. Seriously, queencersei hits it when she says that people won't see it as "costly social programs." He's going to drain any resentment out of the equation by saying that first, we must have buildings which keep our children safe and educate them. What constituency of any size is against that? Although I believe the term "post-politics" in reality is still "politics," he's aiming to drain the resentment swamp and rebrand the Democrats as the party of competence and judgment. Transfer programs will remain where they are right now, other than healthcare. This make it harder for the Right to fight against, because they thrive on images of welfare queens to stoke resentment. Seriously, how does the GOP fight back against a road building measure cast as a saftey question? The theme will be "safe for families" and play up images of women buckling children into safety seats and bridge collapses for the men to contemplate. What's the GOP gonna do, run on an anti-saftey program? They will have to go along with really low income-tax rates for the poor. They cannot oppose a tax cut for any class or group. That leaves welfare reform as the only gun they've got.

By: queencersei

queencersei — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:47:00 +0000

I don't think most people will see building crumbling schools or highways as costly social programs. At this point I am willing to be that most people would rather we had been spending money on that then Iraq. Talk about your costly social programs!
As for the Republican minority, I think that by being soundly thumped two elections in a row, they may just take the approach of sitting in the back of the class for a while and not raising their hands. Hope the teacher doesn't call on them by pretending to be invisible.

By: Paul-no not that one

Paul-no not that one — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:11:28 +0000

How many voted for the Bush tax cuts? That many aren't fiscal conservatives. As if such an animal exists.

By: trifecta

trifecta — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:29:47 +0000

I reject the fiscal conservative label for the Bush dog democrats. They are against costly social programs.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:40:50 +0000

(Because she's already a repressive economic wasteland collapsing under her own weight, you see.)

By: Cliff

Cliff — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:31:29 +0000

Is there anything that the thoroughly unqualified, terrorist fraternizing, community organizer won't attempt to model after a Soviet five-year plan?
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Your mom?

By: Paul-no not that one

Paul-no not that one — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:31:04 +0000

Thanks for the info JNS but I guess I am not going to accept any more excuses.
Blue Dogs like say Peterson from Minn 7 will not go back to his district and brag about voting against infrastructure investments.
Or Harman because she voted against schools.
They aren't a bloc and even conservative districts understand we need jobs.
There are some, to be sure, but this isn't 1995.

By: Jay Newton-Small

Jay Newton-Small — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:13:24 +0000

PNNTO: True that there are only 48, but that's because they are limited by their own rules of only accepting a certain percentage of the caucus. There's a mile-long waiting list to get in. And if you think of the last two elections the net gain of 50 seats are mostly from conservative districts and many if not most of those members are fiscal conservatives. The bloc, therefore, is rather larger and more powerful than it looks on paper and keeping them in line will be a challenge. JNS