Tuesday, March 24, 2009

GOOD!

The Obama political team tried to gin up support for his budget by asking volunteers to go door-to-door. I thought this was a bad idea because none of the volunteers would know what's in the budget. The summary alone is 27 pages and the full budget is 142 pages. It would take some time to digest and acquire enough background information to intelligently discuss the budget.
Congress isn't feeling much heat from Obama's 'army'
By David Lightman and William Douglas McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's army of canvassers fanned out across the nation over the weekend to drum up support for his $3.55 trillion budget, but they had no noticeable impact on members of Congress, who on Monday said they were largely unaware of the effort.

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