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“President Obama’s Deeply Unpopular Stimulus Plan”
“President Obama’s Deeply Unpopular Stimulus Plan”
Now that it's submerged to Bush/Iraq War depths in polling, whosoever of ye first espies that white whale of a phrase in the reportage, please let me know. via Surber, who likes the Daschle-Geithner-Ishmael plan. Related, not so different. Michael Graham reports that Barney Frank has developed ...
Instead of stimulus, do nothing – seriously
csmonitor.com — Stimulus is unconstitutional. And history shows that the economy can recover strongly on its own, if politicians... stay out of the way. (more) Instead of stimulus, do nothing – seriously
How the stimulus plan will work
theanchoressonline.com — A little levity from reader Stan: Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the... White House. One is from Chicago, another is from Tennessee, and the third is from Minnesota. All three go with a White House official to examine the ... (more) How the stimulus plan will work
Barack Obama's Stimulus Plan Will Get Little Value for Money
Barack Obama's Stimulus Plan Will Get Little Value for Money
online.wsj.com — President Obama has started to play the "catastrophe" card to sell his economic stimulus plan, using yesterday's... terrible January jobs report to predict doom unless Congress acts. No doubt he'll get his way, but the tragedy of this first great effort ... (more) Barack Obama's Stimulus Plan Will Get Little Value ...
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Whoa: Generic Congressional Ballot Preference Narrows to 4% Difference
Ace of Spades HQ — ... in basic governing ideology -- they think the public is clamoring for spending and socialism, and don't give a crap about the details. They're badly wrong as recent polling suggests. The public really didn't change its basic center-right take. They just want better management of that center-right philosophy. Heh: Now that the Spendulus Bill has dropped in popularity to the level of the war in Iraq, do you think reporters will begin referring to it (as they did with the war) as "the President's deeply unpopular spending package?" Just curious. Well, not really. Thanks ...

The Stimulus = More Than $1 Million Every Day Since Christ's Birth (Video)
Gateway Pundit — Dem Stimulus = Over $1 million each day since Jesus Christ's birth No wonder this sucker is sinking. Jim Geraghty reported this on the Generational Theft Bill today: Twice today, CNN has done short segments on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's declaration that To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective, "if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then, you still wouldn’t have spent $1 ...

How the stimulus plan will work - UPDATED
The Anchoress — ... Seems to me that if Barney Frank is so interested in earnings caps, though, he really should write an earnings cap for congressional creatures who mismanage our funds and our banking policies and are otherwise miserable failures. Why should they get rich when they leave office, when they’ve done lousy jobs? (Or even while their still in office?) ...

A LOOK AT “President Obama’s Deeply Unpopular Stimulus Plan.”…
Instapundit — A LOOK AT “President Obama’s Deeply Unpopular Stimulus Plan.”

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Maggie's Farm — ... It is clear now that your president, on the verge of bollixing his first major initiative … aside from the ones about letting jihadis go and making kissy face with mullahs, also some environmental nonsense, your money for abortions in other countries, and a bunch of tax cheats for high office and, there’s probably more but I’m having trouble keeping track … needs you, the American people, to weigh in. Judging by the polls, that might not work out too well. I hope he stuck this thing on YouTube and Twittered it and didn’t just leave it in the Washington Post, because I ...

Prince Obama the Unready
The Wide Awake Cafe — ... it’s beginning to unfold. A scary time made even more scary by our Horror Story Teller in Chief, Scary Barry. I’ve always been skeptical of the pushy car salesmen who insist that a car I am mildly interested in must be purchased immediately because there are so many buyers in line, there are no more like it, the price will go up tomorrow, etc…. but this is what we have been getting from Empire Obama re the Stimulus Plan. If the rotting fish/lard/pork bill is not passed with all its earmarks and goodies the seas will ...

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Obama warns of turning a 'crisis into a catastrophe'CNN Political Ticker 2/4/2009
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