My latest Townhall.com column builds on my Locker Room post from Friday. An excerpt:
It is now mid-July 2011. The latest jobs report is now out, and unemployment is not around 6.6 percent as Obama’s economists predicted. Instead it is at 9.2 percent and rising. The same economists predicted that the worst that unemployment would have gotten without the stimulus was 9 percent. With the stimulus, it not only is above that rate, but it has been above that rate since early 2009, shortly after the stimulus passed. …
“Lower tax rates and a reduction in the burden of government are the best ways of using fiscal policy to boost growth,” counseled the economists who proved to know what they were talking about. To his very core Obama resists that truth, even at this late hour with so many more of his fellow Americans out of work. Three separate wars in the Middle East but still the president’s bitterest fight is against lowering tax rates and reducing the burden of government. Witness the debt ceiling standoff in Washington right now. …