Archive for the 'Economic recovery' Category

Obama’s First Presser + Thoughts

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Economic recovery, Media, Video

Presented here in its entirety.

So far, all I’ve been seeing are high marks for Obama’s performance. I thought he tended to be a bit long winded in places, but I don’t think many Americans will be complaining about that after 8 years of a lot of simplistic hyperbole. I know I’m certainly not.
However, the thing [...]

February 10th, 2009 | Permalink| 6 Comments »

Two polls. Two graphs. Two views. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

By mw | Related entries in Economic recovery, Economy, Legislation, Stimulus

Thhis is a bad recession. About in the middle of pack as far as recessions go. The graphic points out an interesting aspect of recessions. They all end. And, surprisingly, they didn’t all need a trillion dollar stimulus bill from the Feds to end them. In fact, all of them combined up to now did not need a trillion dollar stimulus to end.

February 9th, 2009 | Permalink| 21 Comments »

Republicans Going All In On Stimulus Opposition

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Democrats, Economic recovery, Republicans, Stimulus

The way some Republicans are talking, Obama’s plan will destroy our very way of life.
Do they really think it’s smart to put such an extreme message out there?
From CNN:
Leading Republicans warned Sunday that the Obama administration’s $800 billion-plus economic stimulus effort will lead to what one called a “financial disaster.”
“Everybody on the street in America [...]

February 9th, 2009 | Permalink| 14 Comments »

Obama’s Weekly Address For 2/7/09

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Economic recovery, Video

Stimulus?
Stimulus.

Stimulus stimulus stimulus, stimulus stimulus stimulus stimulus stimulus stimulus stimulus stimulus.
Stimulus.

February 8th, 2009 | Permalink| 3 Comments »

Claire McCaskill, Stimulus And What’s Possible

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Economic recovery, Meet The Press, Missouri

One week after I argued that my senator should be on MTP advocating for the stimulus package, well, there she is.
Coincidence?
Yes, probably.
She even tweeted about it today…as well as some thoughts on the stimulus yesterday…

McCaskill brings up a point that I’d like to address because there’s been so much ill will on this blog for [...]

February 8th, 2009 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Stimulate this.

By mw | Related entries in Bad Decisions, Bailouts, Barack, Economic recovery, Senate, Stimulus, Video, recession

Pay no attention to the content (massive pork) in the bill. Pay no attention to the fact that it will not solve the root problem and will at best delay a day of reckoning. Pay no attention that it will add a trillion dollars of debt that we do not have and will have to borrow from the Chinese or tax from Americans or devalue the currency to repay. Just pass it, because an economic fear-mongering President says it should be passed.

February 7th, 2009 | Permalink| 32 Comments »

Gallup: Indy Voter Support For Stimulus At 55%

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Economic recovery, Polls

Since Gallup has been tracking these numbers in January, this is the highest support they’ve seen. In fact, as the next graph will show, as Dem support has actually decreased, independent has increased.

You couple this with recent polling and you get a bit of a mixed bag. Rasmussen recent poll revealed that opposition was higher [...]

February 6th, 2009 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

The Republican “Insurgency”

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Dumb Things Said By Smart People, Economic recovery, Republicans

Republican Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas sure said a mouthful yesterday…
“Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban,” Sessions said during a meeting yesterday with Hotline editors. “And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person’s entire processes. And these Taliban — I’m not [...]

February 5th, 2009 | Permalink| 14 Comments »

ANP (VIDEO): Fed Lends Two Trillion Without Oversight

By American News Project | Related entries in Bad Decisions, Bailouts, Bloomberg, Congress, D.C., Dodd, Economic recovery, Economy, Film, Florida, United States, WTF?, Wall Street, Washington

If you thought $700 billion was a lot of money, well..
It is.
But $2 trillion is.. ridiculous.

This is Danielle Ivory from ANP.
Congress and the new administration have been focusing their attention on strengthening oversight for the Treasury’s TARP program, but meanwhile few are paying any attention to the Federal Reserve.
Since September, [...]

January 30th, 2009 | Permalink| No Comments »

Senate Should Strip Stimulus of Excesses

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in Congress, Economic recovery, Economy, Fiscal stimulus, Senate

A spending bill as enormous as the current stimulus package is going to include its fair share of expenditures that have nothing to do with stimulating the economy. Our representatives can’t help themselves. They’ll use any spending bill as an excuse to fund pet projects. The AP details some of the non-stimulus related projects lurking [...]

January 30th, 2009 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

“Stimulus plan” still needs more stimulus

By John Burke | Related entries in Economic recovery, Fiscal stimulus, House, Obama, Senate

I strongly support a massive fiscal stimulus to restore an atmosphere of confidence, avert a continued, severe downward spiral, and give the economy a big enough jolt to jump start a recovery.
But the $819 billion plan (really a $1.2 trillion plan including interest on the debt) adopted by the House of Representatives yesterday isn’t it. A large [...]

January 30th, 2009 | Permalink| 6 Comments »