stimulate me!

With the country bleeding jobs, credit markets still in turmoil, millions of homeowners behind or underwater on their mortgages, but Senate Republicans continue to insist that tax cuts are the solution. And not just any tax cuts, apparently (though it’s difficult to find the legislative text, particularly after the various amendments they’ve been voting on) there’s a tax break for people buying new cars. That’ll certainly help the 600,000 Americans who lost their jobs last month. I’m sure they were wondering how they were going to afford that new SUV.

Why Democrats aren’t just yelling “if you don’t have a job, a tax cut doesn’t help,” every time a Republican says “tax cut,” I don’t understand. But then Democratic strategy has for so long to bend over but to ask for lube first. They don’t get it, but hey, at least they asked.