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Republicans Had Stimulus Envy

Matthew Wright — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:24:56 +0000

Bloomberg’s got it:

Alabama Republicans Jo Bonner and Robert Aderholt took to the U.S. House floor in July, denouncing the Obama administration’s stimulus plan for failing to boost employment. “Where are the jobs?” each of them asked.

Over the next three months, Bonner and Aderholt tried at least five times to steer stimulus-funded transportation grants to Alabama on grounds that the projects would help create thousands of jobs.

They joined more than 100 congressional Republicans and several Democrats who, after voting against the stimulus bill, wrote Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood seeking money from $1.5 billion the plan set aside for local road, bridge, rail and transit grants. The $862 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed last year with no Republican votes in the House and three in the Senate.

Bonner said opposing the stimulus doesn’t mean he shouldn’t help Alabama projects compete for grants. “It is my role to ensure that their request is considered by the federal agency,” he said in an e-mail.

When are more people going to figure out who the real frauds are?

About Those Lazy Democrats In 2009… This Is What I’ve Been Saying!

Matthew Wright — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:01:44 +0000

This is exactly what I said here back in December– about the Obama administration– and Congress. Ornstein nails it:

[T]his Democratic Congress is on a path to become one of the most productive since the Great Society 89th Congress in 1965-66, and Obama already has the most legislative success of any modern president — and that includes Ronald Reagan and Lyndon Johnson. The deep dysfunction of our politics may have produced public disdain, but it has also delivered record accomplishment.

The productivity began with the stimulus package, which was far more than an injection of $787 billion in government spending to jump-start the ailing economy. More than one-third of it — $288 billion — came in the form of tax cuts, making it one of the largest tax cuts in history, with sizable credits for energy conservation and renewable-energy production as well as home-buying and college tuition. The stimulus also promised $19 billion for the critical policy arena of health-information technology, and more than $1 billion to advance research on the effectiveness of health-care treatments.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan has leveraged some of the stimulus money to encourage wide-ranging reform in school districts across the country. There were also massive investments in green technologies, clean water and a smart grid for electricity, while the $70 billion or more in energy and environmental programs was perhaps the most ambitious advancement in these areas in modern times. As a bonus, more than $7 billion was allotted to expand broadband and wireless Internet access, a step toward the goal of universal access.

Any Congress that passed all these items separately would be considered enormously productive. Instead, this Congress did it in one bill.

Seeing the forest through the trees man. If you cleave through the bullshit layers of socialist speak– and ignore all of the Godless pagans determined to drive the U.S. straight off the capitalist cliff– you might notice that some vital work was actually accomplished.

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Sunday morning show round-up

Matthew Wright — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:58:44 +0000

The latest news from the major network morning programs:

This Week with George Stephanopoulos

Senators John Kyl (R-A.Z.) and Dick Durbin (D-I.L.) discuss the legality of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s secret counterterrorism programs.

Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace

The Fox News panel discuss secret CIA prgrams, health care reform and the stimulus. The panel includes Laura Ingraham, Bill Kristol, Juan Williams and Mara Laisson.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer

Senators Jeff Sessions (R-A.L.) and Patrick Leahy (D-V.T.) discuss the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings, CIA special programs and the attorney general investigating torture.

Meet the Press with David Gregory

Senator John McCain (R-A.Z.) discusses Sarah Palin’s resignation and the investigation of Bush administration officials in the torture debate. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) discusses the stimulus.

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