Moveon tries to save failing "stimulus" bill by planting Astroturf

The American public generally didn;t think the "hope and change" it voted for was going to include borrowing a trillion dollars from the Chinese to pay for condoms, DTV converter boxes, ACORN subsidies and building new schools next to vacant old ones. So support for Obamanomics is dropping faster than than a guy executing a HALO skydiving jump.

So, who comes to the rescue....Moveon.org.  Just a few weeks ago they were blast e-mailing members demanding a halt to the second $350 Billion TARP installment; now that Obama wants to spend almost three times as much they are gung ho to spend , spend, spend.

And to try and astroturf public opinion to promote this. Here's their latest missive.

.   Dear MoveOn member,

President Obama's economic stimulus plan is in trouble. Conservative talking points are dominating the media's coverage and there's lots of misinformation around. Here are a few things you may not have heard about it:  

1) This is a very, very good bill. As The Nation writes, "If enacted, the economic recovery plan will be one of the biggest and boldest pieces of progressive legislation in the past forty years."1  

Here are some facts about what the bill really does:  

• Creates or saves 3 million to 4 million jobs in the next two years.2

•  Averts "literally hundreds of thousands of teacher layoffs"—and doubles funding for the Department of Education.3

• Creates 500,000 green jobs and doubles our clean energy production.4

• Immediately helps unemployed folks get affordable health insurance.5

Some folks are arguing that it should be bigger, and they're probably right, but this is the best down payment on economic recovery we have seen, and it needs to be passed.   

2) The stuff that's being singled out for criticism amounts to a tiny fraction of the bill—like anti-smoking programs that make up less than one-ten-thousandth of the spending.6 They would have you believe this is the centerpiece of the bill. It is not. This kind of nit-picking is pure politics.

3) If it doesn't pass, we're in deep trouble. Even John McCain's economic adviser estimates that without the stimulus, unemployment would top 11% by 2010, the highest level since the Great Depression.7

We all urgently need to get these facts out before the public. Can you write a letter to the editor of your local paper about how the stimulus will affect real people? Our tool makes writing a letter really easy. Click here to get started:  

http://pol.moveon.org/lte?campaign_id=100&id=15490-9234983-pocSV6x&t=3

Last week alone, 100,000 people lost their jobs in this country.8 So we need to make sure the Senate takes action quickly. Nearly 200 economists from across the political spectrum wrote to Congress, agreeing:

"We do not have the luxury of a lengthy debate over the best course of action. This legislation may not be enough to solve all the economy's problems, but it is urgently needed and an important step in the right direction."9  

But with so much rhetoric and demagoguery surrounding the bill, it won't pass unless we can get the real facts out to a wide audience. And letters to the editor by local MoveOn members are one of the best ways to set the record straight.

Our tool makes it super easy. We'll provide you with talking points to use, some tips on writing your letter, and an easy way to send it in to any newspaper in your area. You can start writing your letter to the editor by clicking here:  

Now, I really don't think one is going to take The Nation seriously as to whether this bill is going to restart the free market economy.  And I might also suggest that Speaker Pelosi and the "Center for American Progress" aren;t very unbiased sources, either.

Perhaps the folks at Moveon ought to look at the words left out of their sales pitch. Hmmm.."deficit" and "debt" don;t appear anywhere.  Unlike the spinmeisters , the American public has an innate sense of when money is spent, it needs to be found somewhere.  And frankly, neither I nor most people I know think we are going to get a trillion dollars worth of bang for the trillion bucks we are going to have to borrow. 

Just to prove what craven saps these guys are, I'm sure if Obama proposed putting tens of thousands of manufacturing workers out of a job with this proposal,     they'd have a preprinted LTE ready to go to promote issuing pink slips to shipbuilders and aircraft workers. 

Perhaps there is a better way to stablize the economy than a trillion dollars of newly added permanent federal debt. And Moveon.org wants nothing of trying to figure that out. Because for them. expanding the federal government is a feature, not a bug.

The truth is setting us free. And the Left's response is to fight with....

Hey guys, think natural next time...... we are and it's working;