Eleanor Clift -- Clueless as usual

In a piece in Newsweek (remember that - it used to be a news magazine), Eleanor Clift asks whether Obama will be able to take a bold initiative and bring unemployment down. The article is actually hilarious in its idiocy. Clift comments that unemployment will decline because unemployment benefits will expire (due to the evil congress) and those people will leave the unemployment rolls. For someone who purports to be a national reporter, Clift seems actually to believe that only those on unemployment benefits count as unemployed. Next Clift wonders if Obama will be able to get a bold job creation idea through the Congress without first getting the upper hand over those evil deficit hawks. Again, another howler! This Congress has created the most massive spending and deficit increase in history, but when the appetite for still more is lessened, they become "deficit hawks". Perhaps, the most instructive part of Clift's piece is this: nowhere does Clift mention what the bold initiative would be that would cut unemployment. She is certain that it will include massive deficit spending, but she really has no clue what it will be. She mentions a TVA like authority to oversee Gulf reconstruction to deal with the effects of the oil spill (again ridiculous) but that is about it. The Gulf Coast reconstruction assumes that there has been devastation on land in that area. All that has happened is that the undeveloped wetlands and the beaches have been fouled with oil. Fishing areas at sea have been polluted. so tell me what needs to be built? Is she suggesting that the marshes be drained and developed? Will there be underwater cities? The truth is that some liberal thought that if the TVA was good for FDR, why shouldn't Obama have his own.

I do wonder why claptrap like this gets published by Newsweek. I do not think it has become a humor magazine, but it seems to be trying for that audience.