What a difference two years can make.  Remember how excited all the Dems, Libs, Progressives, and Jack Black lookalike Nutroot Bloggers living in their Moms’ basements were about their new messiah?

Their political acumen was astonishing!

I mean, it’s not like Scooter himself spoke in messianic terms during the campaign , or sumpin’:

It was a perfect storm.  Uninformed voters, wanting mo’ money and, basically, wanting their day-to-day existence to improve, latched on to this unknown individual offering a vague promise of Hope and Change:

But, where was all this money coming from?  They didn’t know.  They didn’t care:

Obama’s entire first half of his term has consisted of  him, his handlers, and the Far left Wing of the Democrat Party pushing their socialist ideological agenda down America’s throat.  We can’t say that Scooter didn’t warn us:

We wound up with an ineffectual exercise in Governmental fiscal irresponsibility known as the Stimulus Bill.  Americans were told, if it was passed, that unemployment would stay at 8 %.  Last month’s unemployment numbers reached 9.8 %.

Almost two years later, we have found out that the total cost of the Stimulus was 862 billion dollars, 75 billion more than expected.  Americans have also found out that it is a miserable failure.  Here is a breakdown by the numbers, courtesy of gop.com:

3.5 MILLION: Jobs Obama Promised Stimulus Would Create By End Of 2010.

3.3 MILLION: Jobs Lost Since Obama Made That Promise.

  

6.8 MILLION: Jobs Obama Must Now Create To Keep Promise By End Of 2010.

  

1.1 MILLION: Jobs Obama’s Economists Project Will Be Created By End Of 2010.

  

5.7 MILLION: Jobs By Which Obama’s Economists’ Projection Leaves Him Short In Keeping Promise. 

  

6 PERCENT: Not Surprisingly, Number Of Americans That Say Obama’s Stimulus Created Jobs. 

 

7.7 PERCENT: Unemployment Rate When Obama Was Selling Stimulus In January 2009.

 

8 PERCENT: Unemployment Rate Obama Pledged Stimulus Would Prevent Us From Reaching.

 

9.7 PERCENT: Current Unemployment Rate.

 

16.5 PERCENT: Current Unemployment Rate When Underemployed And Discouraged Workers Are Included.

 

334,000: Americans That Have Given Up Looking For A Job Since Stimulus Was Signed.

 

47: States That Have Lost Jobs Since Stimulus Was Signed. 

 

10: States That Moved From Single-Digit To Double-Digit Unemployment Rate Since Stimulus Was Signed. 

 

$862 BILLION: Updated Cost Of Stimulus, $75 Billion Increase From Last Year’s Cost Estimate.

 

440: Number Of Nonexistent Congressional Districts That Received Stimulus Funds.

 

$6.4 BILLION: Amount Of Stimulus Funds That Went To Nonexistent Congressional Districts.

 

$18 MILLION: Cost Of Stimulus Website, Recovery.gov.

Apollo Alliance exerts a powerful influence on the views and policies of the Obama administration. AA helped craft portions of the $787 billion “stimulus” legislation (officially called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) that President Obama signed into law in early 2009. Specifically, AA had a hand in writing the “clean energy and green-collar jobs provisions” of the bill, for which $86 billion was earmarked. This included funds “to build new transit and high speed rail lines, weatherize homes, develop next generation batteries for clean vehicles, scale up wind and solar power, build a modern electric grid, and train a new generation of green-collar workers.” AA recommended that the stimulus bill allocate $11 billion for the development of a so-called “Smart Grid,” which would use digital technology to deliver electricity from suppliers to consumers; ultimately the bill allocated precisely that amount to Smart Grid-related projects, including a $100 million provision for job training related to Smart Grid technology.

Confirming the magnitude of AA’s role in shaping the stimulus bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in mid-2009: “The Apollo Alliance has been an important factor in helping us [the U.S. Senate] develop and execute a strategy that makes great progress on these goals and in motivating the public to support them.”

And, of course, there was Obamacare.  The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has concluded that ObamaCare will cost at least $115 billion more than it originally estimated.    This brings the total cost to over 1 trillion dollars, not less than 1 trillion, as was promised by Obama and the administration before the bill was passed.

Last week was a circus which accomplished nothing for the Dems, except to make them look ridiculous.  In fact, the highlight of the week was Obama giving up the podium at an impromptu press conference to Former President Bill Clinton, because he had to attend a party. 

What Washington needs is adult supervision.