Obama: “Stimulus” wasn’t really supposed to “stimulate” the economy!
Dude…talk about polishing a turd! This is spin like I’ve never seen it. From ABC News:
Turns out the $787 billion “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” (AARA) was not designed for full economic recovery, but rather to “stabilize” the downturn. That’s the word from White House officials today, who held off-camera briefings with reporters on how the AARA is working so far.
“This legislation was designed to cushion the downturn,” said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. “That’s why we have always talked about this as one function of economic recovery.”
When pressed about the change in terminology, Gibbs said he was not trying to temper expectations after the fact. “I can probably find 15 or 20 occasions when I said this in the lead up,” Gibbs said, explaining that he had always defined the AARA as part of a “multi-legged stool.”
So Gibbs never used the term “stimulus” in the “lead up” to today’s press briefings? If, by “never used”, you mean “yesterday and the day before“, then yeah…”never”!
Remember when Oprompter sold us this bill of goods in January?
That is why I have moved quickly to work with my economic team and leaders of both parties on an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan that will immediately jumpstart job creation (near 10% unemployment…nice job – Ed.) and long-term growth…
Why, if I didn’t know any better, I would swear that he thinks the “stimulus” has failed and he needs to sandbag expectations by revising history. As Slublog asks on his Twitter page: “If the stimulus wasn’t meant to stimulate economic recovery, why is the website called recovery.gov?”
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Next the dems will be saying that the Depression back in the 30′s never happened either. They’re trying to rewrite the history books now with a pencil.
Comment by tnjack | July 17, 2009