Communications

“Stimulus” is not a popular word around the White House these days, as a WSJ piece points out. Democrats are reticent to brand their new economic legislation as round two of the $787 billion giveaway that has failed to keep national unemployment below 8% and add 3.5 million jobs to the economy as promised.

Unfortunately for Democrats their push for a second stimulus coincides with an avalanche of unfavorable headlines, including this one today from the AP, “Stimulus cash doesn't create local jobs.”  The new analysis finds that billions in road stimulus in particular has had no effect on local unemployment rates. Yet Democrats are not letting the evidence of failure keep them from pushing through billions more in road spending in Stimulus Two, as the same piece notes.

While the Democrats might be successful in naming their new jobs bill something creative like the “Jobs for Main Street Act,” they seem oblivious to what everyone else seems to know by now- it is the policies which have failed them, not the name.