{"id":341582,"date":"2010-02-19T21:13:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T02:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/tweet-week-elvis-failed-stimulus-39732\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T21:13:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T02:13:59","slug":"tweet-of-the-week-on-elvis-and-the-failed-stimulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/341582","title":{"rendered":"Tweet of the Week: On Elvis and the Failed Stimulus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 02.19.10 01:30 PM posted by Brandon Stewart<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/tweetofweek.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/tweetofweek.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Representative Aaron Shock (R-IL), currently the youngest member of Congress sent out <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/repaaronschock\/status\/9239100004\" >this tweet<\/a> on Wednesday in the wake of the first anniversary of President Obama&#8217;s failed stimulus bill:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s less than [percentage] of people who think Elvis is still alive RT @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPLeader\" >GOPLeader<\/a> Only 6 percent of Americans think \u0091stimulus\u0092 has created jobs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Rep. Shock points out, while roughly 7 percent of Americans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2002\/08\/11\/opinion\/polls\/main518294.shtml\" >believe Elvis Presley is still alive<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2010\/02\/11\/politics\/politicalhotsheet\/entry6199106.shtml\" >only 6 percen<\/a>t believe this Administration&#8217;s claims that it&#8217;s policies have resulted in new jobs. President Obama and his staff spent most of this week trying to demonstrate how the stimulus . But while the Administration has begun to realize that many Americans aren&#8217;t buying their rhetoric, they <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/19\/health-care-nuclear-option-%E2%80%93-liberals-ready-to-launch\/\" >show little signs of changing pace<\/a>. As we reported in today&#8217;s Morning Bell, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/19\/health\/policy\/19health.html?ref=todayspaper\" >The New York Times<\/a> is reporting that the Obama administration is &#8230; *set to introduce their own health care bill on Monday that is specifically designed to pass the Senate through reconciliation on a strictly partisan vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If President Obama and his allies want to appear more credible to the American public, they would be wise to slow down, change course, and pursue policies that have a real chance of elevating both economic growth <i>and<\/i> public opinion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/19\/tweet-of-the-week-on-elvis-and-the-failed-stimulus\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/19\/&#8230;iled-stimulus\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 02.19.10 01:30 PM posted by Brandon Stewart Representative Aaron Shock (R-IL), currently the youngest member of Congress sent out this tweet on Wednesday in the wake of the first anniversary of President Obama&#8217;s failed stimulus bill: That&#8217;s less than [percentage] of people who think Elvis is still alive RT @GOPLeader Only 6 percent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}