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Today in The Nation: Strengthening the Stimulus
The Nation: Top Stories —
After the Senate passed a stimulus bill that key members of Congress now say "recklessly" shed much of the stimulus spending endorsed by the House, the Obama White House is reportedly prodding members of the conference committee that will reconcile two very different proposals to restore funding for schools, health insurance and aid for struggling states. "To make room for added spending, the White House, joined by House Democratic leaders, is pressing to scale back certain Senate-passed tax breaks," according to the Wall Street Journal. This is a dramatic step in the ...
Canada Knows What We Have to Look Forward To
Moonbattery —
... With the help of the unforgivable traitors Specter, Collins, and Snowe, the Senate has passed the pork-laden socialist power play the media complicitly calls a "stimulus package." Predictably, the stock market has reacted by going into freefall. ...
Stimulus Package: The Negotiations Begin
Calculated Risk —
The House and Senate stimulus bills are significantly different, and finding a compromise will probably be difficult. From the WSJ: Obama Seeks to Restore Spending to Stimulus Plan The White House is seeking to restore funding cut by the Senate for schools, health insurance and computerizing health records as the economic-stimulus plan heads for a final round of negotiations in Congress this week. ... To make room for added spending, the White House, joined by House Democratic leaders, is pressing to scale back certain Senate-passed tax breaks, including ...
Feb 2008, $170 bil Bush stimulus… Feb 2009, $800+ bil Obama/Pelosi/Reid stimulus… let the games begin
Flopping Aces —
... Wrong… Now comes the real battle and the real agenda. And if Wall Street Journal’s Greg Hitt and Jonathan Weisman are correct, you’re about to see where “just words” start wildly reverberating into ear piercing feedback in the political echo chamber. ...
More Stimulus Spending to Come!
The Corner on National Review Online —
[image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] Wednesday, February 11, 2009 [image] More Stimulus Spending to Come! [ Kathryn Jean Lopez ] 02/11 05:35 AM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2009. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us
WSJ's False Reporting On The Stimulus
TalkLeft —
The Wall Street Journal "reports:" [T]op lawmakers struggl[ed] to bring the price of the two-year package down to $800 billion. That would be well below the $838.2 billion plan approved Tuesday by the Senate on a 61-37 vote, but would reflect pressure from influential moderates in the Senate to hold down costs. (Emphasis supplied.) This is false reporting by the Wall Street Journal. The "Senate moderates" (read Nelson, Collins, Specter and Snowe) were perfectly willing not to cut the costs of the biggest pieces of pork proposed in ...
Comparing the House and Senate Stimulus Bills
Open Left - Front Page —
... said they are going to dig in and fight to restore the worst cuts in the Senate bill. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that the White House is also going to try to restore some of the cuts (specifically to education), although ...
White House to Reneg on Senate Deal?
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... The Wall Street Journal says that Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, and Arlen Specter may have been snookered. Now that the Senate has passed a slimmed-down porked up version of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi debt spending plan, the White House is pushing to add back many of the items that it cut out to get their support: ...
Progressive Breakfast: Thinking Big
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... bill come back virtually intact including, but not limited to, overall spending, the current ratio of tax cuts to spending, and the $110 billion in cuts," Specter said in a statement released Monday night.
Asked if Specter's statement meant that the House had no choice but to accept the Senate bill, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) shot back: "Nobody's said that, and I don't think that's the case, and I certainly hope that's not the case."
WSJ sees the White House weighing in:
The White House is seeking to restore funding ...
