Why Isn’t President Obama Signing the Stimulus Bill Until Tuesday?

Cross posted on Grizzly Groundswell

 President Obama has been using the politics of fear to pass his massive welfare program (AKA the stimulus bill) since before he even took the oath of office. He claimed that to delay the bill would be disastrous and a catastrophe would ensue, he also made the statement, and I paraphrase here, that every day that passes without a stimulus bill more Americans lose there jobs. He tried to frighten the American people into supporting this bill and he tried to frighten congress into passing it.

 He succeeded in rushing the congress into passing this disastrous piece of legislation. So much so that none of the representatives or senators even had a chance to read the bill before they signed it. To me that is the most egregious aspect, and there are many, of this whole issue. The fact that a senator or congressman would put a positive vote forth on a bill without knowing what was actually in the bill is beyond irresponsible. I think that it is criminal. I think that it should be impeachable. Anyone who votes for a bill without knowing what is in it should be removed from office. Anyone who signed this bill without reading it should be removed from office by the voters when they come up for re-election. They are doing a disservice to the people whom they are supposed to be representing.

 The president claimed that all delays in getting the stimulus bill passed were unacceptable, that  the time for playing politics was over and it was time to pass the bill because a catastrophy would be the result of inaction and debate. Now that the bill is ready for his signature where is dear leader? On vacation. President Obama decided to take a three day holiday weekend before he returns on Tuesday to sign this bill, the same bill that there could be no delay on.

 Why the three day delay? Doesn’t the president care that more Americans are going to lose their jobs over the next three days because of his delay? If this bill was so damned important than shouldn’t he have postponed his long weekend and shouldn’t he have signed the bill first and then gone on vacation?

 The truth is that there was no hurry to pass this bill other than the artificial time-line that he put on the bill so that he could have the appearance of taking fast action on a desperate situation. He doesn’t care about Americans losing their jobs, the intent of this bill isn’t to stimulate the economy. The intent of this bill was to get as many people as possible dependent on government while at the same time growing the government and funding far left organizations and programs such as the corrupt ACORN.

 The artificial time-line that was given by Obama was just a disguise so the bill would be passed before the American people could see what was in it. There was no immediate looming catastrophe. (Other than the bill itself.) As word began to leak out about some of the more preposterous funding, pork-barrel projects that were in the bill, the louder the opposition became from the public. The louder the public outcry became, the more dire dear leader made delay on the bill sound. Obama got more determined to pass the bill quickly as the public learned what was in the bill. He needed it passed before the pressure from the public grew too loud for the congress to ignore. And he succeeded. That is why he was in a hurry to pass this bill.

 Now that the bill is passed and the American people can’t stop it he can take his little vacation and the bill will still be there when he returns. More Americans will have lost there jobs since Obama went on vacation, but if you thought that he cared about that, and if you thought that this bill was designed to help stimulate the economy, his inaction to sign the legislation before he went on vacation should prove otherwise.

 Obama achieved his goal and now that the bill has passed there is no hurry to sign it. The bill will be there when he returns from vacation on Tuesday and he will sign it. There is nothing that you or I can do to stop it, that is why there is no hurry to sign the bill anymore. That is why he can wait until Tuesday to sign the bill.