Don’t expect too much from the big jobs speech this Thursday. It will be just a cheap repackaging of all the previously failed ideas. In short detail, Obama will urge more deficit spending and toss in a few short-term tax gimmicks. But why would anyone actually believe that it’s going to work this time around? What happened to all those shovel-ready jobs from the last time around? Or how about all those green jobs?
Throwing more taxpayer dollars (or borrowed dollars from China, take your pick) at the unemployment crisis isn’t going to change a thing. And Obama must know this too or else he wouldn’t have waited a month or so to tell us about his great new plan.
Maybe this speech isn’t really about jobs at all. Maybe it’s a way to pin the blame on Republicans next November. Think about it. If the Republicans block his great plan, then he can accuse them of blocking the recovery. If the Republicans go along with it, then they’ll have to share the misery with him next year.
From Sen. Jim DeMint (SC):
“He’s going to put some things out there and dare Republicans to block it,” DeMint predicts. “If we agree with it, then we own it with him. If we block it, then he can blame us when the economy doesn’t get better. So he’s playing a game with this. And he’s going to try to radicalize Republicans by calling us tea-party Republicans.”
“That’s going to be his strategy,” DeMint says. “He can’t run on his record. So it’s got to be psychological warfare, demonizing the Tea Party, creating a boogeyman.”
Neil Rosekrans is a founder and partner of StateBrief.com. He has been a guest political commentator for the Arizona Law Channel, NBC's Sunday Square Off and The Terry Gilberg Show on KFYI. Neil earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and earned his MBA and Masters in Public Policy, with an emphasis in International Relations, from Pepperdine University.
Neil and his wife, Beth, live in Scottsdale, Arizona. 
