Tea party backed Republican candidates — indeed most Republican candidates — base their campaigns largely on opposition to President Obama’s agenda, and an imprecise pledge to reduce the federal deficit. Perhaps no single issue encapsulates that pledge better than the Democrats’ stimulus bill — one of the President’s signature initiatives that is, by design, a big deficit booster. Government can’t create jobs, they say, the stimulus wasted tax payer dollars, and simply bloated the federal government.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=120712