Newspapers Nationwide Join the Consensus Applauding the Recovery Act
As the Recovery Act crossed the one year mark, newspaper editorial boards across the country took a good, hard look at the program and weighed in on its impact. From the St. Petersburg Times’ evaluation that “One year later, stimulus shows results in Florida” to the Philadelphia Inquirer’s verdict that “the stimulus rescued America,” consensus [...]
Analysis: Fudging facts can sour public mindset - CNBC
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Analysis: Fudging facts can sour public mindsetCNBCPresident Barack Obama embellishes the number of jobs created by last year's stimulus bill while Republicans claim, incorrectly, that not a single job …Rep. Ron Paul berates a Democratic president not named Obama at CPACDallas Morning News (blog)Conservatives Plot Comeback With Renewed EnergyABC NewsGOP watch: Yesterday [...]
Faith-Based Economics
At The Corner, Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation adds some excellent thoughts on the administration’s claim that its “stimulus” bill saved us all from catastrophe:
On the stimulus’s first anniversary, keep in mind one number: 6.3 million.
That is the Obama jobs gap — the difference between the 3.3 million net jobs President Obama said would [...]
New GOP ad celebrating stimulus anniversary: ‘Boondoggle’
It was only a year ago that President Obama and Democrats in Washington pushed through their massive $787 billion, “must-pass,” largely unsuccessful, stimulus package, claiming that the stimulus bill was the silver bullet to fix the economy and bring back jobs. In their misguided little liberal minds they believed and claimed the best way to [...]
Bye Bayh
According to Chris Cillizza, incumbent Democratic Indiana Senator Evan Bayh will announce his retirement from the Senate. This is a stunning development following on the election of Scott Brown to succeed Edward Kennedy in Massachusetts.
Bayh is a casualty of the Obama administration’s leftward lurch abetted by the Democratic majorities in the House and [...]
Creating Jobs–In China!
The Obama administration is setting a standard of incompetence not likely to be rivaled any time soon. In the “stimulus” bill, nearly $2 billion was allocated to support wind power, thereby creating “green jobs” and contributing to energy independence. Investors Business Daily describes what happened instead:
According to the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American [...]
