‘It’s the checking account versus the credit card’
That’s a good line about federal spending, and it comes courtesy of Sen. Scott Brown (R., Mass.) in the debate over extending unemployment insurance. From a Politico report: Just two Republicans, Maine...
View ArticleJobs forecast not the only ‘dumb’ thing about stimulus (video)
Agreeing with Barney Frank twice in two months? Don’t worry, the Massachusetts Democrat wasn’t right about everything in his interview with Fox Business Network yesterday. But he did finally...
View ArticleA GOP 2012 dark horse’s ‘emergency economic reform’
Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana, is on a short list of possible Republican contenders in 2012 who intrigue me. His fiscal record as a two-term governor is very impressive, giving him the track...
View ArticleGuess what? Yours truly has a ‘green job’
Let’s see: I was hired by the AJC a few months after the stimulus was signed into law, and I’m a journalist. According to the Obama administration, that means I have a “green job”! Back in June, I...
View ArticleObama’s stimulus produces temp-jobs ‘recovery’
So says economist John Lott, writing at FoxNews.com: Our current “recovery” might be in its seventeenth month, but the few new private sector jobs have come from companies temporarily hiring staff on a...
View ArticleObama gives a speech we can’t take seriously
How do you take seriously a speech in which the president says we will spend more money on educating students, rebuilding our infrastructure and funding research for innovation in alternative energy...
View ArticleOn Fannie Mae and the failure of our elites
David Brooks has an important column today about Fannie Mae, and what he calls “the most important political scandal since Watergate”: It helped sink the American economy. It has cost taxpayers about...
View ArticleAfter bipartisan rejection of Obama’s latest stimulus, what’s next?
Look on the bright side, Mr. President: At least this time the defeat wasn’t 97-0. From the Hill: President Obama received a slap from members of his own party Tuesday as the Senate voted 50-49 to...
View ArticleHarry Reid: Hey, bureaucrats are the ones hurting (video)
Sharron Angle giveth, Sharron Angle taketh away. On the one hand, the Nevada Republican’s awful campaign last year against incumbent Harry Reid helped Democrats avoid an embarrassing electoral defeat...
View ArticleAbout the idea that Obama’s spending has been tame
You’ve heard of lies, damned lies, and statistics? Well, here’s Exhibit A: a column at MarketWatch by Rex Nutting. Nutting’s column, titled “Obama spending binge never happened,” has caused a lot of...
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