Move On Tries to Out "Number" Pelosi

One heartbeat and one aneurysm away from the Oval Office!

Remember Nancy Pelosi's "500 million jobs a month" lost if we don't pass the Stimulus/Pork/Intergenerational Wealth Transfer Act of 2009? Here's some more breathless fear mongering from Moove On:

Dear MoveOn member,

President Obama's economic stimulus plan is in trouble. Conservative talking points are dominating the media's coverage and there's lots of misinformation around. Here are a few things you may not have heard about it:

1) This is a very, very good bill. As The Nation* writes, "If enacted, the economic recovery plan will be one of the biggest and boldest pieces of progressive legislation in the past forty years."¹

Here are some facts about what the bill really does:

• Creates or saves 3 million to 4 million jobs in the next two years.²
• Averts "literally hundreds of thousands of teacher layoffs"—and doubles funding for the Department of Education.³
• Creates 500,000 green jobs and doubles our clean energy production.⁴
• Immediately helps unemployed folks get affordable health insurance.⁵
  

Some folks are arguing that it should be bigger, and they're probably right, (Yikes!) but this is the best down payment on economic recovery we have seen, and it needs to be passed.

Literally hundreds of thousands of teacher layoffs? Literally??? The footnote for #3 is a NYT story which quotes Education Secretary Arne Duncan

Obama administration officials, teachers unions and associations representing school boards, colleges and other institutions in American education said the aid would bring crucial financial relief to the nation’s 15,000 school districts and to thousands of campuses otherwise threatened with severe cutbacks.

“This is going to avert literally hundreds of thousands of teacher layoffs,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday.

So, with 15,000 school districts, each is looking at hundreds or thousands of teachers being laid off? Maybe our new education secretary has trouble with the English word "literally"? Or was he just Pelosi-poor at math?

And what about the judgment of Move On?

Some folks are arguing that it should be bigger, and they're probably right,

A trillion dollars in pork isn't enough to bankrupt the country quickly enough for these people?

Move On is obviously just the Extreme Left Wing of the Democrat Party. It is instructive to note where they would take their party and the country if given half a chance!

*Looking to a far Leftist rag like The Nation for impartial judgment is like looking to Michael Moore for dieting tips! Heh.

Cross posted at Say Anything