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I run a tavern. One simple rule, whether times are good or bad, is not to badmouth your business. Success depends on appearance, presentation, and personality, as much as it does a superior product.
Therefore, at this stage in selling Obama's Stimulous Package to the world, it would be economical suicide for a business partner to badmouth the package, unless that partner (in this case, republicans) want the United States to fail.
For a beer analogy, it would be like holding up a pint, and saying to my potential customer: "this reeking can of rat poison is not worth a red cent! The proprietor doesn't know what he's doing! He's a Marxist and you guys are the marks! Wanna buy some?"
Oh, yes, and it also helps to cry "FIRE!" in a theatre. Great for customer relations.
Look, citizens know Obama is throwing mud money against Wall Street's walls, and hoping some will stick. We know we are mortgaged to the hilt, and up to our knees in mire. But it does not help to broadcast to world markets, whom we want to keep invested, that we are worthless and incompetent idiots.
If the place existed where current Republican leaders really belong (a mercantile mental institution), they would be placed on permanent suicide watch.
But what the heck. Republicans have shot themselves in the feet for eight years; they must have developed a masochistic foot fetish. Republican are like Barnum and Bailey advertising a circus without the elephants, big tent, or ringmaster. Just nuts.
Rush Limbaugh is like the crazy guy in the lifeboat. He is standing there; water up to his knees, rocking in a state of hysteria, writhing with diaper rash,while other survivors are keeping calm and afloat. Hopefully, sharks will see him for what he is: a Hunk'a Hunk'a burning LARD. Please, tell him we are all in the same boat together.
We are America. We work hard. We make good products. We are confident, and not afraid of change, and we put our money where our mouth is. There. Is that so hard?--
