Posts tagged “stimulus”
From the Ridiculous To The Sublimely Ridiculous
Trying to sell a Senate seat for personal gain is an impeachable offense, as we all know. How about shamelessly sacrificing the welfare of your state for your own selfish political aspirations? South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has probably set a new record for reckless disregard of his duty to his constituents: South Carolina Gov. [...]
Chuck Schumer Lionized For Ox-crap
Close friends who I dearly love regard Chuck Schumer as one of the sleaziest Democrats in the Senate. So I tend to regard everything he says and does with a certain amount of healthy skepticism. Take, for instance, his argument that Republican governors who are unconscionably indifferent to the plight of some of their constituents [...]
Michael’s Steele’s Brilliant Vision For GOP Rebirth
The man is a visionary, thinking way outside the box: On Fox News, Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele said he was open to withholding RNC funds from the three GOP Senators who backed President Obama’s stimulus package… Speaking of Senators Arlen Specter, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, Steele said that the Senators were likely [...]
Change Is A Many-Splendored Thing
In his prime-time press conference on February 9, Barack Obama made it clear that tax cuts were included in the stimulus bill not just to woo Republican support, but because Obama himself wanted them there. As far as Obama was concerned, we needed tax cuts in addition to spending. Yesterday brought news that Obama also [...]
Depends On The Definition Of “Take Credit”
Michael Falcone is a journalist employed, presumably in good faith, by The New York Times. They should probably send him to a good Remedial English program before they allow him to write any more stories for them. On Thursday, he produced a story with this lede: Republican lawmakers nearly unanimously resisted supporting the president’s $787 [...]
Trifecta Of Resounding Victories Over Truth
These days the Republican party — adrift without any real leadership, bereft of any real ideas — will take its victories wherever it can find them. And increasingly, the only victories it’s finding are imaginary ones. That’s why Republicans are so delighted with their stimulus bill performance. Over the last week or so, the bill [...]
Cao Grows A Conscience; Will GOP Have A Cow?
When Republican Anh “Joseph” Cao won a surprise victory last December in his House race against disgraced Democrat William “Freezer” Jefferson, no less a luminary than House Minority Leader John Boehner sent a giddy memo to Republicans entitled “The Future is Cao”. Cao didn’t sound too impressed at the time: “I’m a little bit mad [...]
What’s the Opposite of Journalism?
Stimulus fight gives Obama lessons early – USA Today (2/11/09): When the first big priority of his presidency was at risk of unraveling last week, Barack Obama went back to the fundamentals that enabled him to win a historic victory in the presidential election. Under fire in Washington, he scheduled campaign-style town-hall meetings to make [...]
Stimulus Bill Job Creation Factoids (And A Fictionoid)
The House version of the stimulus bill will cost $820 billion and is estimated to create or save 3.7 million jobs over two years. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Ben Nelson, Susan Collins et al to improve this legislation, the Senate version of the stimulus bill will cost $827 billion and is estimated to [...]
Treason Most Foul
So have you committed treason yet today? Here’s Nachama Soloveichik, communications director for the right-wing PAC, Club For Growth, offering a carefully nuanced perspective on Alan Specter‘s support of the stimulus bill: “Grassroots Republicans are infuriated. They’re fed up. They’ve had it,” Soloveichik said, even going so far as to add that for many, “this [...]