With the President set to present his job creation plan to a joint session of Congress tonight – he’s already getting some bad news from economists. Early reports indicate the job’s plan will cost between $300 and $400 billion – with less than half going to actually rebuilding our infrastructure – and the rest devoted to tax cuts and an extension of unemployment benefits. But economists are warning the President that his plan will likely do very little to turn the economy around.

The labor economist at the Brooking Institute – Gary Burtless – said, “If we’re talking about whether the package is big enough to…start making a dent, it’s probably going to fall short of that goal.” And Nigel Gault – the chief economist as HIS Global Insight said about the President’s plan, “The kick to growth is going to be pretty small. It will add substantially less than 1% GDP growth in 2012.” Now that they know it will do very little to improve the economy – expect Republicans to suddenly throw their support behind the President’s job plan.

That way they can keep up the illusion they care about jobs – while actually doing nothing to improve the economy before the 2012 election. And it will make it impossible for him to pull a Harry Truman and run against a "do-nothing Congress."

-Thom

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The Daily Stack

Hour One: GOP debate analysis Bill Press, The Bill Press Show

Transcript: "The Republican Debate at the Reagan Library", September 7, 2011.

Article: "Rick Perry stands by calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme" by Stephanie Condon.

Crazy alert: "Man Dressed as Gumby Attempts to Rob 7-11, Ends Up Giving Clerk 27 Cents".

Article: "Ron Paul: Abolish minimum wage to ‘help poor people’" by David Edwards.

Event: "Fighting Bob Fest", September 17. Thom will be there.

Hour Two: Why do some conservatives think that "Registering the Poor to Vote is UnAmerican?" Matthew Vadum, author of the new book "Subversion, Inc."

Book: "Subversion, Inc.: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers" by Matthew Vadum.

Article: "Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American" by Matthew Vadum.

Article: "Cloward–Piven strategy".

Article: "The Mad Tea Party" by Richard Kim.

Article: "Richard Kim of the Nation magazine: Clueless, useful idiot, or coverup leader?" by Matthew Vadum, May 8, 2011.

Article: "UN trade body says spending cuts threaten economic recovery" by Mark Tran.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann.

Talk Radio News Segment: Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Article: "Report: White House Wants $300 Billion For Jobs" by TRNS.

Article: "Jobs Plan Aimed At Passing" by TRNS.

Article: "Obama Heading To Attack Sites For 9/11 Anniversary" by TRNS.

Article: "LeRoy Homer, Jr.".

Site: "The LeRoy W. Homer Jr. Foundation".

Article: "Fourth Circuit rules against Va. AG in ObamaCare challenge" by John O'Brien.

Article: "Boehner Bringing Business Leaders To Jobs Speech " by Justin Duckham.

Article: "Trinidad extends state of emergency by 3 months" By Richard Lord.

Article: "New York Sen. Chuck Schumer: Politicians must come together in spirit of post-9/11 bi-partisanship" by Alison Gendar.

Article: "GOP Senators Expect More "Hopeless" Policies From Jobs Speech" by Benny Martinez.

Article: "Boehner encourages all members to attend Obama's jobs speech" by Russell Berman.

Hour Three: the headline reads "Oil exploration under Arctic ice could cause an 'uncontrollable' natural disaster" Cambridge University's Professor Peter Wadhams.

Article: "Oil exploration under Arctic ice could cause 'uncontrollable' natural disaster" by Michael McCarthy.

Geeky Science alert: "From guts to brains – eating probiotic bacteria changes behaviour in mice" by Ed Yong.

The good: "Nine Nobel Peace Laureates Urge Obama to Reject Keystone XL".

The bad: "Senate votes force Vitter to skip football party, attend Obama speech" by Justin Sink and Peter Sullivan.

The very, very ugly: "Grieving Widow Hounded 48 Times A Day By Bank Of America Debt Collectors" by Robert Johnson.

Article: "B-School dean Hubbard to advise Romney campaign" by Leah Greenbaum.

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

Site: "Free Speech TV". Please sign their petition.

Article: "White House: Obama to finish Sept. 8 speech before Packers kickoff" by Jay Sorgi.

Article: "Time to Brace for the Next 9/11" by Christopher Dickey.

Article: "Destroying the Postal Service in Order to Save It?" by Chuck Zlatkin.

Article: "Obama stimulus plan: Will it work?" by Charles Riley.

Article: "Jon Huntsman: GOP "can't run from science"" by Stephanie Condon.

Article: "Out Of Step With Rest Of Nation, Only One In Three Tea Partiers Think Global Warming Is Real" by Marie Diamond and Brad Johnson.

Article: "Economic bill sees growing opposition" by Rudi Keller.

Article: "Medical Marijuana Inc. announces possible cure for Alzheimers" by Scot Kersgaard.

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