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| Tigerhawk:Incredibly devious conservative counter-attack idea of the day |
| 2009-02-07 |
| A stimulus bill will be passed, and it will be loaded with massive construction projects. Now, it has become very difficult to do big projects in this country because of the labyrinth of federal and state regulation and the propensity of anti-growth and environmental activists to delay projects by litigation. This ability to prevent development has been one of the great "accomplishments" of the left of the Democratic Party in the last generation, in symbiosis with the merely self-interested trial bar. So, what if conservatives filed lawsuits to block, delay, harass, and vex every project funded by the stimulus bill? You know, use the tactics of the left to prevent the waste of taxpayer money. Bonus feature: Vexatious anti-development litigation aimed at stimulus projects would put the Democrats in a terrible position, because it would cause at least some of them to renounce, at least implicitly, the very regulation and tactics that have been promoted by their most anti-business constituents. We might even get some of these laws repealed. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 There is little construction in the $800B spending bill. The largest portion is income redistribution to buy loyal Dem party voters. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-02-07 13:13 |
| #6 I've heard that currently takes an average of 68 months to get an Environmental Impact Statement done for a transportation project. This is going to be interesting, in a twisted kind of way. |
| Posted by: Matt 2009-02-07 12:24 |
| #5 Sign me up for the Declaration. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2009-02-07 10:43 |
| #4 Similarly if the Democrats pass the "Fairness Doctrine", the right should sue NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-02-07 10:38 |
| #3 You want a counter attack, here's the nuke - A Declaration of the people of United States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We the undersign clearly and without reservation remove our consent to any obligation or bonding of ourselves, our children, and our grandchildren to the measures presently being mishandled by those claiming such authority of obligation in the series of acts referred to as economic, stimulus, or recovery within the domain commonly referred to as the District of Columbia in this year of 2009. Any holder in any bonds or obligations issued in this process are forewarned and placed on notice that when the governed have removed the governing from their position of responsibility that they have so willing abandoned for their political ends, we will not honor such debts or recognize any court or order to honor such said debts. Further, possession of property derived from the embezzlement of the nation’s wealth and fortune in this process, places such bond holders as knowing participants in the conspiracy to the act. Get a few million legit signatures on that, get it viral on the net, and those who buy the bonds are on notice that they have the value of Fannie Mae subprime loans. Think the Treasury will have no problem selling the paper? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-02-07 09:40 |
| #2 Does anyone know of a situation where a stimulus has actually worked, other than under war time conditions, where draconian controls are in force. I'm thinking about the Marshall Plan in Germany after the war. In England it set the country back thirty years as they decided to introduce a cradle to the grave welfare state with their Marshall Plan grant. |
| Posted by: tipper 2009-02-07 09:29 |
| #1 At the first sign of difficulty the funds will be redirected to midnight basketball or foodstamps. Actually, this may already be the Dems plan. Remember the redirected TARP payments to the automakers? The economy will right itself on it's own. Ben Stein and others have said they are already seeing signs of recovery on the horizon. This entire exercise is simply payoff dollars for Nov 4th and the upcoming 2012 election. The Administration must act quickly before the recovery is fully manifested, otherwise they won't be able to claim credit for it. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-02-07 04:20 |