Organizing For America’s Mitch Stewart is touting yesterday’s $26 billion federal bailout of impoverished states:

Subject: 5,900 teachers in Pennsylvania
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Mitch Stewart, BarackObama.com wrote:
Friend — I want to thank the OFA supporters who stood with House Democrats as they raced back to Washington this week to cast a vote on a state assistance bill. I’m proud to say they passed the bill yesterday and the President immediately signed it into law.
And, because of it, hundreds of thousands of jobs will be saved — including an estimated 5,900 public school teachers across Pennsylvania.
Republicans called this bill a “bailout” and a “handout.” They called the police officers, firefighters, and teachers whose jobs were on the line “special interests.” And nearly every House Republican voted no.
But Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats did the right thing, reminding us again of what we’re fighting for in the upcoming elections.

A few questions arise:

1. Why did House Democrats have to go “racing back” to fix a problem that’s been on the horizon for months?

2. “Thousands of jobs will be saved” — temporarily, with borrowed money, until that federal aid runs out a few months from now.

3. “Republicans called this bill a bailout.” And what would Mr. Stewart call it?

4. “Nancy Pelosi … did the right thing … reminding us again of what we’re fighting for…” And what is that? The maintenance of jobs today with a tax on tomorrow, courtesy of foreign treasuries?

What Organizing for America avoids discussing is that those “5,900 teachers in Pennsylvania” needed this latest federal stimulus thanks to years of budgetary mismanagement from Harrisburg.

And now, $26 billion is being spent nationwide to close capitol gaps. As President Clinton posed rhetorically yesterday in Scranton while campaigning for Joe Sestak, “What’s the first thing you do when you’re in a hole?”

Stop digging.