Posts Tagged ‘Republicans’

Stimulative Spending

Yesterday on Hardball I saw one of the Republican bots attack a provision to spend (according to him, I haven’t checked) $650 million on government computers as not stimulative. That’s so stupid. Do those computers just appear out of the air? At any given moment in the average computer, there are components from 20-30 companies. [...]

The People & The President Vs. The GOP

Unpossible! The Rush Limbaugh led Republicans say that President Obama is losing the American people… but the facts disagree.
The American public gives President Barack Obama a strong 67% approval rating for the way in which he is handling the government’s efforts to pass an economic stimulus bill, while the Democrats and, in particular, the Republicans [...]

How The Conservative Mind Works

Black president? Ok, then let’s attack the stimulus bill as a “reparations bill“. Then feign ignorance when someone points this out. Sigh.
FLASHBACK: WSJ’s Taranto falsely suggested that Obama gave “something of an endorsement” to cash payments as reparations for slavery

Obama Vs. The GOP: Stimulus Edition

All this handwringing reminds me so much of the campaign, when in some quarters people were comparing Obama to Michael Dukakis when at that very same point in the race we now know he had it in the bag.
Look, while President Obama is the top Democrat in the nation now, he is also the leader [...]