Sam Donaldson on This Week tells us that the democrats have a plan in case we are in a deep recession near the November elections.  He didn't indicate what it might be.  Didn't indicate if he even knew there was one.  But he felt confident that there was one.  Nice to know that those Democrats who are worried about the economy will be voting on the basis of these non-existent plans.

Of course when talking about these selfsame Democrats who are worried about the economy, the sole reason why these people were voting for Hillary was the Clinton surname.  They remember some economic success during the 90's and they long to have those back.  Somehow, Billary would return us to those glory years of the 90's when the economy was happy and gay.

Of course the only way we will get back to those gay nineties is for Al Gore to invent another internet.  I don't see any new internet popping up anytime soon (IPv6 notwithstanding).

As the George W Bush engineered recovery was taking hold, my liberal colleagues (a redundancy if I ever heard one) we complaining that, though the economy may be recovering, we didn't have the jobs we had during Clinton.  Of course, this mystery was soon explained by some computer science graduate students that we talked to.  They were asked if they were worried about going into the computer field (and by extension, whether we should be pushing students into the computer field) if the job prospects were so poor.  During the heady 90's, we were told by these students, any company who stood to profit from the internet was getting all of the venture capital that they wanted.  They did need to show the had the staff to be a player in that environment.  These companies were hiring left and right to fill out their rosters.  They were hiring programmers that couldn't program.  When the tech bubble burst, these companies (the ones that survived, at least) got rid of the people that they really didn't need and that they really didn't want.

If Billary could engineer another tech bubble, we might have the carefree nineties again.  The problem is they can't.  The problem is bubbles tend to burst.  The slow growth (Goldilocks) economy produces sustainable prosperity.  The democrats don't want slow growth.  The don't want to produce an economic environment that will promote slow growth.  They don't want to encourage business economies.  They want to tax and spend.  They want to discourage precisely the kind of economic activity that will slow or reverse any kind of recession we may be headed for.

Which leads me to what I call liberal denial.  They seem to be pro worker.  But what do workers need?  They need good jobs.  How will they get good jobs if the big bad guys from the economic world are big businees.  If they make sure those big bad companies don't get those obscenely big profits, how will the workers get the really nice jobs all these liberals want?  If you want to be pro-worker, you have to be pro business.

If you're reading this, it is probably basic stuff to you.  Most of the country (more than 50% plus McCain) doesn't get it.

I take back the McCain crack.  He is My Man McCain, after all.