Where is Your Proof, Mr. President?

The Associated Press does another soft take-down of President Obama's latest "repackaging" of old stimulus promises and more or less comes to the conclusion that the Obama Economic Team doesn't know how to find its own posterior.

This would be fun to watch were it not for all the pain and misery suffered by those who are losing jobs and those whose lives are being "transformed" as The One attempts to redesign our nation's economics and political system.

Toward the end of a rather long report, they quote Mr. Obama defending himself against his critics. I reprint them here:

Without naming names, Obama shot back at skeptics during the Cabinet meeting.

"Now, I know that there's some who, despite all evidence to the contrary, still don't believe in the necessity and promise of this recovery act."

"And I would suggest to them that they talk to the companies who, because of this plan, scrapped the idea of laying off employees and, in fact, decided to hire employees. Tell that to the Americans who received that unexpected call saying, 'Come back to work.'"

No, sir, Mr. President. This is pure baloney. How dare you raise up another false argument without providing proof!

The first sentence: "I know that there's some who, despite all evidence to the contrary, still don't believe in the necessity and promise of this recovery act."

Yes, there are plenty of people who do not believe in the necessity of the "recovery act," i.e., the stimulus -- porkulus -- package. That part is true.

But "all evidence to the contrary" means, exactly, what? Give us the evidence that the stimulus is working. You can't; furthermore, you don't even try because you know it isn't possible. If all you mean is that we are in dire straits economically, that is not evidence. That is simply restating the problem. It proves nothing.

The same goes for believing in the "promise" of the recovery act. They were your promises. They aren't coming true. You seem to think that it is our unbelief in your promises that is the problem, not the plain and obvious reality that they are not coming true.

Next portion, and this is where the bull manure gets really deep: "And I would suggest to them that they talk to the companies who, because of this plan, scrapped the idea of laying off employees and, in fact, decided to hire employees."

Which are these companies? How many employees were "saved." Even your own people admit that they have no evidence to prove this, and yet this is your argument? Spare us your fantasies, O exalted One! Give us proof. Every other previous administration has done this in spades, and a fawning media is at your beck and call anxious to please you in this.

Next you say "Tell that to the Americans who received that unexpected call, saying, 'Come back to work.'"

Okay, we'll bite. Who are those Americans? What are there names? Why don't you know? Don't you have legions of willing Obamatons desirous of proving that you, sir, are the Great and Infallible One?

I know this is "irreverent", but I am just one of millions who are sick and tired of the mealy-mouthed marlarkey you regularly serve up as your version of rational argument.

Facts are facts. If you got 'em, give 'em. If not, maybe you should consider the fact that your brilliant stimulus plan is, in fact, a disaster of Titanic proportions, borne of equal parts economic ignorance and hubris in high places. You came into office full of piss and vinegar intent on proving that you are smarter than the rest of us Constitution-loving yokels. In fact, you seem to think you are smarter than history itself, which has shown that no nation has ever cured the disease of economic malaise brought on by massive debt by incurring new and record levels of massive debt.

One would almost believe that you are trying to destroy our economy, rather than save it.