Still Not Stimulating
Unemployment rose to 9.8% in September. Innocent Bystanders has been tracking the unemployment rate against the Obama administration’s projections. In order to persuade Congress to pass the “stimulus” bill, the administration predicted what unemployment would be with and without the alleged impact of the stimulus. The reality has turned out to be [...]
How’s That Stimulus Bill Doing?
Another month has gone by, so it’s time to check up on how the “stimulus” bill is doing. Innocent Bystanders has updated its invaluable chart, which shows the actual unemployment rate compared with the rates projected by the Obama administration, with and without passage of the “stimulus” bill; click to enlarge:
On Thursday, Joe Biden [...]
A good time to be a jihadist, Part Three
The biggest non-scandal of the summer has got to be the revelation last month of a Bush-administration plan to kill key al-Qaeda figures. The CIA did not tell Congress about the program, which was never implemented. Leon Panetta duly canceled the program, such as it was.
If there is a scandal here, it’s the [...]
A Miserable Failure
That’s the Obama administration’s “stimulus” plan, which mainly stimulated Democratic constituencies with great gobs of pork. The web site Innocent Bystanders has done a service by plotting the actual unemployment rate against the Obama administration’s prediction of what would happen with and without the “stimulus.” Here is the latest, updated through June; click [...]
