Dealing with this issue is essential policy. It's also very good politics because it puts us in position to get our economic priorities straight, and deliver something our country desperately needs -- infrastructure and the jobs that come with it.
President Obama showed an investment deficit hawk streak in his SOTU speech, and this issue is right in Vice President Biden's wheelhouse. We have the ability to make this a winning contrast. If elected Democrats want a meaningful deficit to be hawkish about right now, here it is. Being an investment deficit hawk is real patriotism in action.
The main obstacle here is the same handful of weak Senate Dems responsible for watering down the recovery package.
What is it they object to?
Investing in America's future?
Basic economic competence?
Democratic majorities in Congress?
They can either make Main Street recovery issue #1, or they'll lose so bad this November that even Jon Stewart will say that they got TURBO DESTROYERIZED (hybrid of destroyed and pulverized).
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, who has been on a roll lately, shows how it's done in this documentary about our crumbling infrastructure from the History Channel.
