"Words that make actions speak louder."
Yesterday on CBS’ Face The Nation, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour applauded conservative Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller for opposing federal aid to his own state. On what grounds? Because slashing state budgets in the middle of a recession is no big deal. Gov. Barbour said: “As far as talking about less money [from Washington], look, […]
The Recovery Act, often known as the stimulus, was the first major act of active government in at least decade. After the unmitigated failure of conservatism, the stimulus has likely be viewed by many voters as a test of whether active government can work and should be used more often. The evidence is in. The […]
House Minority Leader John Boehner pulled a sly move today, calling for the resignation of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and top presidential economic adviser Larry Summers. It gave the media an easy headline to write, and obscured the rest of the speech. That sad, pathetic, empty shell of speech — a chain of lies, exposing […]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is repeating lies about the Bush tax cuts for multi-millionaires. Good journalists should stop him. After McConnell defensively dodged questions from Meet The Press host David Gregory on how he could support both deficit reduction and more tax cuts for the wealthy, The Page observed that “Gregory—for second time in […]
Yesterday, I flagged the 12 Democratic Senators who, in addition to all 41 Republican Senators, have prevented Congress from using Econ 101 deficit spending to create jobs and spark a robust recovery. I’m sure some of these Senators are sincere and some are cynical. Some know full well that government needs to spend when the […]
As we try to digest another bitter morsel of economic news — higher numbers of unemployment insurance applications suggesting a return to job cutting — the White House appears handcuffed from doing anything about it. And I can give you 53 reasons why. Reuters’ Felix Salmon, following a blogger/reporter session with the Treasury Secretary, writes: […]
On Wednesday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) received his second puff profile piece from a major national newspaper this month, this time from the New York Times’ Matt Bai who surmised that the conservative congressman is tailor-made for “serious negotiation” with the President over America’s fiscal future. Why? Because “he can have strident disagreements without being […]
Dave Johnson asks the question: “Is It A Social Security OR A Deficit Commission?” And he answers: “Social. Security. Does. Not. Contribute. To. The. Deficit.” One person that would appear to agree is the White House’s deficit commission executive director Bruce Reed. He told the New York Times last week: “Some on the left are […]
The House this afternoon moved legislation to the President’s desk providing aid to fiscally distressed states that would save an estimated 319,000 jobs, including public school teachers, firefighters, police officers and private