Jay from Texas, on Jennifer Rubin:

I seem to remember Democrats always crying that Bush was scaring people with terrorist threats to get his security measures passed.

Looking at today’s headlines, “Obama warns of economic catastrophe if stimulus bill is not passed” seems as if the dems don’t quite practice what they preach.

And JEM is exactly right. If Obama thought this was so critical and so right then it would have passed. But he’s not sure so he wants as many Republicans on board as possible so he doesn’t have to take the blame.

No one has a clue how to fix this – although I for one would eliminate the payroll tax to start – but it appears that Obama wants to vote present on his own bill and let others take responsibility.