Eamon Javers on Politico writes:
Since Congress passed President Barack Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus bill in February, administration officials have traveled to at least 66 events across the country to tout the massive spending program or hand out stimulus cash to grateful local officials.
But a POLITICO examination of the travel reveals a distinctly political trend line: Top officials have hosted events predominantly in states that Obama won in 2008.
What’s more, the examination revealed that Obama officials all but avoided Southern states that Obama lost.
Still, the stimulus bill has the potential to be a publicity bonanza for the Obama administration for years to come — through the 2010 midterm elections and beyond. As of mid-May, the administration had spent only 6 percent of the money Congress allotted for the program, and the White House says officials will continue to travel the country until all of the money is spent.
Or we could rephrase that. The publicity bonanza, paid for on the taxpayer’s dime, is basically a large bribe for votes in the future. For instance, Michelle Malking has some pictures of the road signs that we buy for Obama, that advertise a TARP project, but are essentially a continuation of the never ending Obama campaign for power. But just you wait, because as the “O” says, you aint seen nothin yet.
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