sfgate.com - 1/27/2009
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Useful or wasteful? Supporters say key provisions of the $825 billion economic stimulus bill will help create jobs and revive the U.S. economy, but critics see some of the spending as wasteful. Here's a sampling of how some of the money would be used: $44 million for repairs at the Agriculture ...
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Column: Republicans Stand Tall on Stimulus, Tough Road Ahead
mitchellblatt.com 1/30/2009 — Welcome Instapundit readers!
The Republicans’ Iraq?
After all 177 Republicans took a stand against the budget-busting, pork-laden Democratic interest group payout (or economic recovery plan, as they want me to call it), the hardest part of their ...
Pork Package to Include "Family Planning"
moonbattery.com 1/26/2009 — Russia, China, Cambodia — the story was the same. Where you have communism, you generally have genocide. This makes it particularly alarming that as America lurches left, our next "stimulus package" (i.e., liberal pork bonanza) is to include ...
The Pork Package: The Audacity of Moonbat Greed
moonbattery.com 1/29/2009 — For the next 1,000 years, historians will look back and wonder what happened to this country that its people would turn over the government to greedy socialist pigs like Obama, Reid, and Pelosi, whose farcical "stimulus package" may literally ...
Martin Feldstein Now Skeptical of the Stimulus Package
outsidethebeltway.com 1/29/2009 — Initially Martin Feldstein was a supporter of the stimulus package. However, he is now opposed to the current pile of pork that has come out of the House of Representatives.
As a conservative economist, I might be expected to oppose a stimulus plan. ...
Republicans still dislike stimulus
washingtonmonthly.com 1/23/2009 — REPUBLICANS STILL DISLIKE STIMULUS.... Barack Obama has prioritized bipartisan support for an economic stimulus package. But as predicted, it's very difficult to pass a meaningful, effective bill that draws support from congressional Republicans. The ...
That Stimulus Bill
corner.nationalreview.com 1/26/2009 — Watching the Sunday political shows today was certainly discouraging. It is perfectly clear that essentially no economic thinking underlies the stimulus bill that will move through the House next week. It's simply seen by the Democratic leadership as ...
Any Takers For a Green Stimulus? Senate Bill Lowballs Mass Transit
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/26/2009 — We've been talking about this for a while now , but mass transit is getting woefully little attention in the economic recovery proposals released so far by Democrats.
The House's stimulus bill, which is slated for a final vote on Wednesday, ...
Maybe we can make an even better bill now
washingtonmonthly.com 1/27/2009 — MAYBE WE CAN MAKE AN EVEN BETTER BILL NOW.... I suppose President Obama deserves credit for trying. He made a good faith effort to earn support from conservative Republican House members for an economic stimulus package. Obama negotiated with them,...
1/27: A Stimulating Debate
blogometer.nationaljournal.com 1/28/2009 — Conservative bloggers were pleased to learn that Barack Obama reportedly urged Dem lawmakers to drop a controversial provision from the economic stimulus bill that provides family planning funds to low-income Americans. Righty bloggers strongly ...
The Early Word: Stimulating Reading
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 1/28/2009 — The House is expected to pass the big economic stimulus bill, but the fine print, which many have not yet read, is still subject to change.
The Point of the Stimulus
corner.nationalreview.com 1/30/2009 — Ron Brownstein writes (I think it's a temporary link):
To call the economic legislation now moving through Congress a stimulus bill obscures its full implications. The measure represents the most ambitious effort in decades to swell public spending ...
Republicans Favor Sexually Transmitted Disease
openleft.com 1/29/2009 — OMG! Flashing Red Siren! Democrats want to prevent sexually transmitted disease!
Democrats may have eliminated provisions on birth control and sod for the National Mall in the "job stimulus" -- but buried on page 147 of the bill is stimulation for ...
Dems To Leadership: Cut GOP Loose
huffingtonpost.com 1/29/2009 — Rank-and-file Congressional Democrats had been willing to give Republicans the business tax cuts and other provisions they wanted in the stimulus. That is, up until every single one GOPer voted against the bill on the House floor Wednesday.
Now, ...
Looming Protectionism
corner.nationalreview.com 1/30/2009 — It's been a bad week for trade. First, Timothy Geithner engaged in a little economic saber-rattling toward China, and now Congress is attempting to exclude foreign companies from competing for infrastructure projects in the stimulus package. The ...
Ruben Navarrette Picks His Pork —
Angry Bear
Well the true colors are beginning to show. Navarrette is a San Diego columnist whose work appears on CNN.com. His stimulus piece is called Ridiculous Items in Stimulus Plan Out of the whole plan which items stood out for our man Ruben? I'd settle for removing more of the ridiculous items that ...
Results of the Pick your Pork Wonkathon —
Angry Bear
by Bruce Webb Disappointing from the point of view of participation, yet not unexpected. Because I just don't think they have the numbers on their side. On Friday I invited AB readers, and particularly those critical of HR.1 aka the House Stimulus Bill, to dig into the numbers and develop lists ...
Stimulus for Who? —
The Hollywood Liberal
Stimulus for Who? This week the House passed an $819 billion economic stimulus package. In reality, this bill is just an escalation of a government-created economic mess. As before, a sense of urgency and impending doom is being ...
Pick Your Pork: an Open Invitation —
Angry Bear
These tables from CBO show the actual breakout by category of both spending and tax cuts in HR.1 the House version of the Stimulus Bill as introduced (some things were stripped out for passage). I'd like to invite everyone to compile their own list of what they consider to be pork or mistimed ...
A "Stimulus" Bill Without Real Stimulus —
All articles at Blogcritics
As the Congress passes the disastrous and misnamed "stimulus" bill we see the danger of one-party control of the government.
What the Congress is offering us as their solution to the current economic crisis is rather like the popular Crab Rangoon served at Chinese restaurants, where the word ...
Dems To Leadership: Cut GOP Loose —
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Rank-and-file Congressional Democrats had been willing to give Republicans the business tax cuts and other provisions they wanted in the stimulus. That is, up until every single one GOPer voted against the bill on the House floor Wednesday.
Now, in both the House and the Senate, angry ...
Will the stimulus package be a pork fest? —
Angry Bear
by Bruce Webb reader Buffpilot in comments insists the answer is clearly yes on the grounds The Dems, have NEVER, shown fiscal responsibility when in charge of the purse strings (or at least since before LBJ). So you have zero track record to back you up on thinking that the Dems will suddenly ...
Repubilcans Say No To Economic Stimulus For ACORN —
Say Anything
Even by modern political standards, it takes some serious cojones to pork up an “economic stimulus” bill with handouts for election fraud group ACORN. But I guess Obama has a lot of political payoffs to make. He paid back the anti-war left by signing an order to close ...
The GOP's Stimulus Stance —
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Josh sums it up : They want to criticize as many provisions of the bill as possible, push
for as many non-stimulus inducing tax cuts as possible at the expense
of spending on infrastructure, and then vote against the final bill en masse .
Enough —
The Reaction
By Creature Since it is now crystal clear that the GOP will oppose any, I repeat, any, stimulus bill that comes before them, it's time to write a bill that gives them no concessions and even less consideration. It's time to ram a Democratic bill through and twist one, or two, moderate GOP ...
5 of the Crazier Things in the Stumulus Bill —
Politics Daily
This $825 billion dollar economic stimulus package that we're going to be paying for for god knows how long has in it some - to put it nicely - unnecessary provisions that are clear indications some lawmakers are trying to take advantage of the country's horrible economic situation. They're ...
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