Don't Do It Cuz It Just Might Work

Ken Blackwell is just so full of win. I truly hope that moron is chosen to take the reigns as head of the RNC. You just can't teach the level of stupid that this guy has at his command. He is sure to take their bad situation heading into the wilderness and turn it into a nuclear meltdown of which they will never recover.

His latest foray into ass hattery comes from this post on his townhall blog. Now I know much has been made about the GOP trying to reinvent themselves online after President Elect Obama kicked their asses all over the net this election season, but evidently not everyone has been taking their correspondence courses. You see Blackwell published a manifesto about why the Republicans should oppose Obama's stimulus plan apparently unaware that ANYBODY can read it. And what is the problem with people other than Republicans being able to read his post you ask? Well its because of the reasons WHY he tells them to oppose it. The most interesting reason by far is that they should oppose it because.......wait for it......wait for it.......it just might work.

A week ago, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, mentioned Mr. Obama says his goal is for 80% of these three million jobs to be private-sector. That means, Senator McConnell continued, that 20% would be public-sector, meaning this bill would create 600,000 new federal government jobs. For comparison, Mr. McConnell noted this would be the size of the entire Postal Service workforce.

Once government creates a job, it rarely eliminates it. Government swells by nature, feeding on tax dollars taken away from private citizens and employers until it becomes a bloated, sprawling bureaucracy.

So if Mr. Obama creates 600,000 new government bureaucrats, those jobs should be expected to be kept around permanently, long after this economic crisis is resolved. After all, eliminating those jobs means laying off 600,000 people. Who wants to take responsibility for that?

But most federal employees, that are not political appointees, vote Democrat. Since Washington, DC is the seat of government, whenever new federal bureaucrats are created many live in Maryland and Virginia. In 2008, Virginia went Democrat for the first time since 1964, and Mr. Obama won it by 130,000 votes. Creating 600,000 new jobs might help cement Virginia in the Democrat column, making it harder for Republicans to retake the White House.

Now I for one don't think most Americans would be upset about 600,000 new jobs being created in the public sector because right now most people just want to have a job. That he doesn't realize this is just another example of how divorced from reality the members of the GOP really are. But that's not the best part...

What makes this particularly damaging to this authoritarian deficit-expanding coward is that on the one hand he accuses Obama of trying to create these jobs for political purposes and then in the next breath he says the GOP should oppose these new jobs being created so they can have a shot at the Presidency again in 2012. Some how I doubt that the over two million people who lost their jobs over the course of the last year will give much of a shit if the Republicans EVER get back into office if it means they will be able to get a new job and take care of their families. And unfortunately for him it is now public knowledge that he would rather deny them the dignity of work than deny his conservative cronies their shot at the ring.

At least back in the day when Bill Kristol sent his memo commanding the Rethugs to oppose kill universal healthcare because Americans would like it, he had the common damn sense to do it in secret. Of course being a black man who chooses to be a Republican pretty much shows you his level of intellect doesn't it?

Can they please stop making it this easy? Seriously. I mean damn I would like a challenge every now and then.

(h/t ThinkProgress)