Biden Fires Back At Stimulus Critics

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Biden Fires Back At Stimulus Critics
Administration Says Act Is Working


Vice President Biden took the administration's message straight to the home turf of an outspoken critic of the stimulus act, Republican Rep. Eric Cantor.

By Michael D. Shear and Alexi Mostrous
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, July 17, 2009


The debate over the effectiveness of the government's massive stimulus act hit a fever pitch yesterday, as Vice President Biden took the White House message straight to the district of Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), a leading critic of the president's economic policies.

Without naming Cantor, the vice president, whom President Obama has dubbed the "sheriff" of the stimulus plan, trained his rhetoric squarely at the Richmond lawmaker, who has helped hone one of the GOP's most effective lines of attack on the president: that the $787 billion stimulus package has not produced jobs.

"To those who say that our economic decisions haven't saved jobs, it simply hasn't worked, I say, 'Look around you,' " Biden said in his appearance at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Cantor's Richmond area district.

"I say, 'Don't let your opposition to the Recovery Act blind you to the results. Come see what I see.' Look, workers rehired, factories reopened, cops on the street, teachers in the classroom, progress toward getting our economy back on the move."

Cantor swung back even before the vice president had begun speaking, hammering Obama and congressional Democrats for what he called a failed economic policy that had done little to create the jobs they promised. In a conference call yesterday afternoon, he implied that Biden and Obama were not listening to their constituents in Virginia.


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[LiberalAndProud]

1. Cantor has a political stake in the failure of the stimulus.

And it seems to me, that's a politically treacherous path to be on.

[Jennicut]

2. Cantor and Boner both put down the stimulus bill when money went to their states

The governors of those states seem to want to spend the money.

[PatSeg]

3. Petty little people

who care more about saving face than the well being of their constituents. They would gleefully watch this country go down the drain just to prove that they are right and the Democrats are wrong.