Obama Was For "Shovel Ready" Before He Was Against It

From Michelle Malkin:

Obama Was For ‘Shovel Ready’ Before He Was Against It


By Doug Powers • October 13, 2010 02:27 PM **Written by Doug Powers



From the New York Times, January 2009:



On “Meet the Press,” fill-in host Tom Brokaw wants to know how quickly Barack Obama can create jobs, and the president-elect promises to move fast. After all, he says, he’s met with a bunch of governors “and all of them have projects that are shovel-ready.”



Announcing his energy team, Obama beams about “shovel-ready projects all across the country.” Unveiling his choice for education secretary, Obama plugs his plans “to start helping states and local governments with shovel-ready projects.”



So many shovels.



All of them, apparently, quite ready.

Fast forward the tape of Progress to today (by way of Gateway Pundit):



In the magazine article, Mr. Obama reflects on his presidency, admitting that he let himself look too much like “the same old tax-and-spend Democrat,” realized too late that “there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects” and perhaps should have “let the Republicans insist on the tax cuts” in the stimulus.

I can think of one shovel ready project, and I’m hoping it’s going to start on November 2nd.



Here’s a bonus chuckle from the same article:



“The mythology has emerged somehow that we ran this flawless campaign, I never made a mistake, that we were master communicators, everything worked in lockstep. And somehow now, as president, things are messy and they don’t always work as planned and people are mad at us,” Mr. Obama said.

Jeez, you tell folks that you can control the ocean levels and all of a sudden they start expecting miracles.



In a previous post, I mentioned the Ford Edsel. Here’s part of the reason the Edsel was a failure:



It was the first victim of Madison Avenue hyper-hype. Ford’s marketing mavens had led the public to expect some plutonium-powered, pancake-making wondercar; what they got was a Mercury.

Sound familiar? Except this Mercury costs trillions, only starts for union bosses and golfs a lot.



**Written by Doug Powers