Tag: Stimulus Plan 2009
Someone Is Confused
Poor Charlie Crist is under a lot of pressure by the purgers and it’s obviously making him a bit confused: “I didn’t endorse it. I didn’t even have a vote on the darned thing,” Crist told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an interview Wednesday on The Situation Room. “But I understood that it was going to […]
Radioactive Rabbit Tirds
In late September, a helicopter hovered 50 feet above the Hanford nuclear reservation, methodically hunting almost 16 square miles for radioactive poop that critters with a taste for salt spread. Nevada-based National Security Technologies did the helicopter survey for $300,000 in federal stimulus money sent to Hanford.
Okay. Mike Castle is our Next Senator. It has been decided on high.
All the signs are pointing to a Castle Senate run and I appears that the fix is in. Just check out the Newark Post coverage of the AMTRACK stimulus event:
The Amtrak Bear Car Shops took time out to celebrate the completion of the first passenger car to be rebuilt with stimulus funds.
Sen. Thomas Carper, Gov. Jack Markell and U.S. Rep. Mike Castle joined Amtrak CEO Joseph Boardman and employees at the sprawling complex off Route 40 to tour the rebuilt car that was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Mike Castle Takes Credit For Stimulus Project He Voted Against
Crack reporting by WDEL’s Jim Hilgen leaves out the fact that Mike Castle voted against funding the AMTRACK stimulus project that he is so eager to take credit for.
Brad DeLong Has A Proposal
Even though we’ve seen improvement in the overall economy, the economic recovery will be long and painful. The latest unemployment numbers showed a jump in unemployment to 9.4% (U3) and the economy still lost >300,000 jobs last week. There’s been talk in some places of a second stimulus package because the first was not large […]
Updated: Castle Under Siege: Radio Ads Are Here
AFSCME and Americans United for Change are going to run running radio ads telling Mike Castle he’s got a “second chance” to do the right thing and support President Obama’s economic stimulus package when the compromise plan comes up for a vote. Check out the script: Radio Script (60 Sec) “Second Chance” Haven’t you ever […]
Markell Rolls Out List Of Stimulus Spending Priorities
Please note that these jobs are not real jobs and the money is not real money and the stimulus is not stimulus because it does not involve granting tax breaks to wealthy Republicans. Press Release after the jump.
Wingnut Talking Points Smackdown — The Recovery Program
This edition outsourced to Tommywonk. Read the whole thing, but here is an interesting bit: Left out of that argument is the question of how we got to the largest deficit in history. Hundreds of billions spent on a six year war in a foreign country have not provided much economic benefit here at home. […]
Americans Want Infrastructure Spending
Frank Luntz, of all people, positively gushes over the results of a new poll he’s run about the concerns of Americans on infrastructure spending: Consider this: A near unanimous 94% of Americans are concerned about our nation’s infrastructure. And this concern cuts across all regions of the country and across urban, suburban and rural communities. […]
Summary of the Stimulus Plan
Democrats released a summary of the stimulus plan this AM (link takes you to Talking Points Memo who reproduce the entire document). The basics: $550B in spending and $275B in tax cuts. See a brief summary (taken directly from the Plan) after the jump, and tell us what you think.
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