Wandering around Georgetown yesterday for this video, I found that in this ritzy neighborhood, the sandwich business stands to gain from the president's payroll tax cut ($13 a week for the average worker).
New York Times | RON LIEBER | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business
All the talk the last couple of days about the stimulus bill was about compromise and slimming down. What is left, though, is a huge spending bill, wi...
AP | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — The Rev. Al Sharpton criticized Democrats on Wednesday for "diluting" education portions of the economic stimulus bill in orde...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
EAST PEORIA, Ill. — President Barack Obama on Thursday pitched his economic plan at a Caterpillar Inc. plant reeling from layoffs, his message b...
Washington Independent | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
Among the many provisions of the $800-plus billion stimulus bill hotly debated and horse-traded behind closed doors, one that remained largely under t...
Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte | Posted 03.14.2009 | Green
Why is the government investing potentially as much as $50 billion in loans toward the nuclear power industry, while investing only half of that towards solar and wind power?
Sahil Kapur | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
Here's your Republican Party in a nutshell: controlled by Rush Limbaugh, seeking wisdom from Joe the Plumber and eager to extol Sarah Palin as their next commanding officer.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration has made its first serious misstep. No, it wasn't the wooing of ingrate Republicans, or the dining with clueless reactionary pundits. It is much more significant.
ProPublica | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
Some highlights: The House version would spend $60 billion more on education -- the Senate version adds more than $100 billion for tax cuts to individuals and families.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
Republicans stand near-united to fight the President of the United States out of one side of their mouths - and cry for bi-partisanship out of the other.
Zachary Karabell | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business
As muddled as this economic stage may be -- and all major measures taken in crisis usually are -- it is born of the drive to reconstruct and not profiteer, and that alone is progress to applaud.
Ian Welsh | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics
The only people in this debacle who acted in the interests of ordinary Americans are House Democrats, but in the end they're going to be forced to choose between no bill and a fatally compromised bill.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics
When Galileo became convinced of the truth about how the solar system works, he didn't decide to just split the difference with the Pope so he could get a few nice editorials about "common ground" and "working together." Obama needs to stop trying to appease the bipartisanship fetishists. READ MORE Why is Obama Reluctant to Kill the Zombie Banks Threatening Our Economy? The plan laid out -- or, more accurately, sketched out -- by Tim Geithner makes it very clear that he is on the wrong side of the issue, more worried about the banking industry than the American people. Like Hank Paulson before him, Geithner appears more concerned about saving particular banks than saving the banking system. READ MORE
William Bradley | Posted 03.12.2009 | Media
Where Obama may have made a mistake is in being too substantively accommodating with people who are basically not going to support him except in the event of an extraterrestrial invasion.
Chicago Sun-Times | Maureen O'Donnell | Posted 03.12.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Daley on Monday outlined projects he would like to complete if funding is made available through President Obama's economic stimulation package....
Mitchell Bard | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics
If you look closely at what the Republicans are saying, this isn't a debate on the merits of this stimulus legislation, but rather another round of policy battles fought during last year's campaign.
John Amato | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics
Um, are McCain's feelings after losing an election the big question on people's minds in the nation? I think the stimulus package is the focus of the country right now, don't you?
Think Progress | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics
Today in his town hall address in Elkhart, IN, President Obama criticized heavy cuts to education funding in the Senate's economic recovery package cr...
Marty Kaplan | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics
Imagine if the Democrats had not pre-capitulated to the Republicans on the stimulus bill. Imagine if they had forced the Republicans to actually mount a filibuster.
AP | Posted 03.12.2009 | Chicago
ELKHART, Ind. - President Barack Obama's efforts to promote his economic stimulus plan will include a stop in central Illinois. Obama visited Indiana...
Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business
The claim that we should reject infrastructure spending is disastrously wrongheaded. We need a buildup of serious high-return public investments, and we can and should start now.
Bill Scher | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics
If representatives know that's what their constituents want, they will be both more inclined to keep that critical public investment from the House bill, and act with the speed.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics
Robert Gibbs told reporters Monday that President Obama is adding a stop to his stimulus trip on Thursday in Peoria to visit Caterpillar. As for this ...
DC Examiner | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics
You see it all over Capitol Hill, in the hallways, the hearing rooms, the gathering spots. Republicans, coming off a devastating, across-the-board ele...
Drew Westen | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics
The problem with a message of bipartisanship is that it makes it very difficult to tell the story of why things are so bad that we need dramatic change.
Craig Crawford | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics