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Porkulus or Stimulus: Congressional Offices Don’t Have the Stimulus Bill, Lobbyists Do
[Via US News] We’re receiving E-mails from Capitol Hill staffers expressing frustration that they can’t get a copy of the stimulus bill agreed to last night at a price of $789 billion. What’s more, staffers are complaining about who does have a copy: K Street lobbyists. E-mails one key Democratic staffer: “K Street has the […]
Chicago Sun Times: “Obama offers no housing fix, little hope”
The nearly $800 billion stimulus bill will be signed, sealed and delivered in a day or so. Even those of us with doubts about its priorities, its big spending and its non-stimulus agenda of liberal goals hope it will deliver a much-needed jolt to our staggering economy. We’re all in this leaky boat together.
Still, doubts […]
Trillion-dollar giveaways: Barack Obama and Tim Geithner rob Main Street of $3 trillion
[Via Daily Telegraph] “The sparkle has gone from his eyes already,” an American acquaintance said to me yesterday, referring to Barack Obama. “He doesn’t know what to do.” Obama’s performance at his press conference confirmed that impression, with the rhetoric of the campaign trail, fluent and banal as piped musak, replaced with long hesitations not […]
Your great grand children will pay for this: $3 trillion with a T! — Senate, Fed, Treasury attack crisis
[Via ABC News]. According to ABC News, the Senate approved President Barack Obama’s giant economic stimulus measure on Tuesday, part of a string of powerful government steps that could marshal close to $3 trillion in taxpayer and private money to revive the collapsing national economy. The 61-37 vote by the Senate was a key victory […]
Barack Obama is a novice - and it shows
[Via The Telegraph] After a rocky start, the new President knows he has to seize back the political agenda, says Toby Harnden. During last year’s epic election campaign, Hillary Clinton said that in the White House “there is no time for on-the-job training”. Joe Biden, too, remarked that the presidency was “not something that lends […]
Biden: 30 Percent Chance We’ll Get It Wrong
Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged Friday that Democrats could face political repercussions in 2010 for their support of the economic stimulus package, the Wall Street Journal reported.
“But when we do [approve it], I’m sure you’re going to be nailed in ads, ‘Well they voted on that’ 30 second ads,” Biden told roughly 200 members of […]
Barak Obama - Pursuing His Father’s Dreams - What are those dreams
In his published book, Dreams From My Father, Obama clearly states that he wishes to fulfill his fathers dreams. But few people are aware of what those dreams were and the political consequences upon this nation if those dreams are realized
The senior Obama, who died in an automobile accident in 1982 at the age of […]