What do you think is wrong with this political strategy? [See Details].

I’d really value your criticism of this plan. If you see holes, point them out.

It seems to me it would be a great time for the White House to submit a proposal to Congress for an aggressive jobs creation bill.

Wouldn’t this take the opposition’s main arguments away from them before the 2012 elections? Their favorite Big Lies right now are that government can’t create jobs, public sector jobs aren’t jobs anyway, and the President could magically create jobs, but just isn’t bothering to do it. Elect a Republican, and s/he will push that “Create Jobs” button on the presidential desk. This despite the number one lie that government can’t create jobs.

Just for talking purposes, let’s say the President proposes a massive public/private initiative to upgrade the nation’s power grid to an EMP/solar-flare hardened smart grid of the future. In the 21st century, why should the electricity go out every time we have a big storm, or even a brush fire? With global warming driving more storms and fires, our fragile electrical grid puts us at growing risk of massive, long-term outages. A large solar flare—something we know will happen at some point—,could cripple the US economy and leave millions pf people at risk of starvation or, in the winter, freezing. An enemy EMP from a nuclear burst in the stratosphere would take out much of the electrical infrastructure of the nation, leaving us highly vulnerable. Making the grid smart would be a vital step toward micro-generation with home-based renewable energy powering many of the nation’s homes, and with the homeowner able to get paid for excess capacity pumped into the smart grid. We could begin to transition toward renewable, sustainable energy generation with individual homeowners doing much of the needed investment. Hardening the grid would protect us from the specter of long-term outages crippling the economy.

US corporations are currently sitting on several trillion dollars in cash they are afraid to invest right now. With weak demand, they don’t want to hire and fill warehouses with goods they can’t sell. Supply side solutions, like big tax cuts for corporations, won’t do a thing to create jobs because our people, buy raw materials and problem isn’t with the supply side, it’s the demand side that’s dead in the water. So with consumer demand weak, give US corporations an investment opportunity they can be asserted of profiting from,, and many would match federal investment, supplying a good deal of the funding needed.

Let’s remember that in the mid-term elections of 2010, Republicans ran on a consistent platform of “Jobs! Bobs! Jobs!” Once in power, they have not delivered on that promise. Instead we have had a long string of culture warrior initiatives, none of which stood any chance of passing in the Senate and being signed into law by the President. The only moves they have made on jobs is to try to lay off more federal, state and local workers.

Put a real jobs bill in front to both sides in the House and make them com mitt. Republicans want the economy to be n the cellar and unemployment to be growing in 2012. Their cynical calculation is that a disastrous economy will help them get back control of all branches of government. Make them either vote for jobs now, or go on record opposing jobs now.

What do you think is wrong with that strategy.