Category Archives: Stimulus Bills - Page 2

Hot Air : Congress buys 3 private jets for $200 million

Posted by on 8/5/2009 1 comment

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Congress buys 3 private jets for $200 million. Normally, that would be considered an earmark.  However, since Appropriations merely expanded a line item instead of creating one, it didn’t require the member to identify …

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AP IMPACT: Bad bridges passed up for stimulus cash – Yahoo! News

Posted by on 7/31/2009 2 comments

AP IMPACT: Bad bridges passed up for stimulus cash – Yahoo! News. READ THIS!

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Cash for clunkers runs out of money … after one week; Update: Feds scramble to save program

Posted by on 7/31/2009 2 comments

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Cash for clunkers runs out of money … after one week; Update: Feds scramble to save program. Unlike pretty much every other Hopenchange economic policy, not only did this one work, it worked better …

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Joltin’ Joe Spinning the stimulus … badly

Posted by on 7/26/2009 Comments Off

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Joltin’ Joe whiffs on his own curveball. After watching their stimulus package fail to stimulate and an increasing number of Americans wondering whether President Barack Obama has the first clue on economics, Vice President …

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Michelle Malkin » Video: ACORN affilates go nuts on Tea Party activists

Posted by on 7/26/2009 1 comment

Michelle Malkin » Video: ACORN affilates go nuts on Tea Party activists.

“We are now in the early stages of a depression”

Posted by on 7/22/2009 1 comment

Shouldn’t only one multi-trillion dollar failure be the limit for this vintage of Democrats?

Let’s Talk About Healthcare

Posted by on 7/20/2009 2 comments

Mayo Clinic: Yeah, About That Democratic Health Care Plan…It Won’t Work In general, the proposals under discussion are not patient focused or results oriented. Lawmakers have failed to use a fundamental lever – a change in Medicare payment policy – …

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Krauthammer: So Porkulus was a trillion-dollar Mulligan?

Posted by on 7/8/2009 2 comments

Krauthammer’s Take – NRO Staff – The Corner on National Review Online. Well, as Nina says, it’s [the stimulus package] a trillion dollar mulligan. You know, the first rule in Washington is if you’re in a hole, stop digging. And this …

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Krauthammer: So Porkulus was a trillion-dollar Mulligan?

Posted by on 7/8/2009 Comments Off

Krauthammer’s Take – NRO Staff – The Corner on National Review Online. Well, as Nina says, it’s [the stimulus package] a trillion dollar mulligan. You know, the first rule in Washington is if you’re in a hole, stop digging. And this …

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Michelle Malkin » Document drop: Porkulus One is a failure, so let’s do it again!

Posted by on 7/8/2009 Comments Off

Michelle Malkin » Document drop: Porkulus One is a failure, so let’s do it again!.

Why was Obama so wrongly optimistic on the economy? | Blogs |

Posted by on 7/1/2009 Comments Off

James Pethokoukis » Blog Archive » Why was Obama so wrongly optimistic on the economy? | Blogs |. My spin:  It’s not so much that a more negative forecast would have prevented Obama from spending large amounts of money, it’s …

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The honeymoon’s over

Posted by on 6/29/2009 4 comments

Allahpundit: It’s a laugh riot, isn’t it? Actually, they might be laughing more at Gibbs’s feeble way of ducking the question than The One’s looming broken promise, but in Gibbs’s defense, what’s he supposed to say? Obama pounded McCain for …

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Budget Bully: “It’s Time To Stand Up To The Union Bullies”

Posted by on 6/18/2009 4 comments

Hat tip to Michelle Malkin and Newsalert

Obama Seeks Tax on Wealthy to Fund Health Overhaul… Update: Goodbye, 4th Amendment

Posted by on 6/7/2009 2 comments

Obama Seeks Tax on Wealthy to Fund Health Overhaul… Tax on international air travel could fund ‘climate change’ fight… Unemployment Rate Gallops Ahead of Expectations… Big government spending programs — having opposite desired effect… Obama’s global warming bill ‘patently absurd’; …

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Why Bernanke is right to be worried

Posted by on 6/4/2009 1 comment

FT.com / Comment – Why Bernanke is right to be worried. Bernanke Warns Long-Term Budget Deficits Threaten Financial Stability…