Stimulus Reboot

If the stimulus is really this bad, if everything good has been sucked out of it, and now only a soulless, vampire of a bill remains behind, perhaps this is time for Obama to man up and just veto his own stimulus bill if it passes.
Popular opinion of Obama has not slipped nearly as much as popular opinion of the stimulus package. It would be a bold move, but a very potent one, if tonight on network TV Obama uses his scheduled spot to say "this got out of hand, we're going to start over."
If everyone hates this bill, there's no reason to still pass it just because we worked on it.

In building engineering, we occasionally come across a tough project where nothing seems to be going well, and as the building evolves, the mechanical and electrical systems continue to become more complicated and expensive. There comes a point where you have invested so much time in the project you don't want to start over, but the best thing to do is trash the whole thing and start over. You end up with more work, but every time you do this, the project is better, and you're better for having learned from your mistakes.


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