Obama Stimulus
Obama's Wake-Up Call
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics
Even as unemployment hits 7.6 percent and shows no signs of slowing any time soon, the GOP is falling over itself to protect the ostentatious privileges and prerogatives of a few financial potentates.
Where is Maury the Accountant?
Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics
Why can't Obama, or even those who oppose him on his economic plan, tell us, line by line, what all is contained in the package, and why his administration says we need it!
Why the Stimulus is Needed, Part II
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 03.09.2009 | Business
Given the decreases in personal consumption expenditures and gross private domestic investment, what are the chances of the consumer spending again or business investing again?
Obama to Speak Monday Night on Stimulus While Rep. Pete Sessions Says Republicans Are the New Taliban
John Amato | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
If the media hadn't acted so irresponsibly the past two weeks and President Obama hadn't tried to be so bipartisan, he might not have had to take to the airwaves, but that's not the case anymore.
Creating Jobs Is Not "Wasteful"
Sen. Jeff Merkley | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
America voted for a change of direction last November, not more of the same. Republicans should listen to the American people and work in a bi-partisan fashion to help get our country on the road to recovery.
Democrats kill McCain's alternative stimulus plan
AP | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate has killed an alternative economic stimulus plan by Sen. John McCain that would have cut income and payroll taxes but sp...
Operation Zero Cred
Bob Cesca | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
The GOP with Joe the Plumber on the Hill this week to discuss the economy. They should be summarily shut out of this process -- whether or not the president wants them out.
The Lunatics are Running the Asylum
John W. Whitehead | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
If Congress have lost sight of what this economic crisis is about and whom the stimulus plan is supposed to be helping, perhaps the following sobering statistics will serve as a reminder.
Mr. Obama, Start Walking Your Bottom Up Talk
Rob Kall | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
Bottom up approaches work because they do something different than usual, or because they support bottom up community, cooperation, sharing and community.
Time Writer: Abe Lincoln Would Back Obama's Stimulus
Editor And Publisher | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
Coming from TIME magazine tomorrow is a major piece by Walter Isaacson on how to save newspapers. Excerpt below. Here is link online: http://www.time...
Billionaire For A Day: A More Entertaining Economic Stimulus Package
Robert Guttman | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
Let's do something to capture all Americans attention and by doing so make the economic stimulus package real to all of us: 800 Americans will each win a billion dollars.
Pulling the Wool Over Our Eyes
Rep. Lynn Woolsey | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
The American people elected President Obama in record numbers to lead our country in a new direction, if the Republicans aren't willing to join him, the least they can do is get out of his way.
Our God That Failed
David Bromwich | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
The high doctrine of Economic Correctness of the Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush years is as bankrupt as Soviet Communism. It is all but officially dead. Why then are the president's economic advisers paid to prop it up?
Stimulate Me!
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.07.2009 | Business
Experts seem relatively unified, if such a thing is possible, on the issue of direct economic stimulus to every taxpayer. They're against it.
The Stimulus Defenders Speak
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
It's been called a Christmas tree of spending, a sop to liberal priorities, and a Democratic power-grab in the guise of an economic recovery package. ...
Stimulus: Dems Don't Have The Votes To Pass
AP/Huffington Post | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
The cost of President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan is now above $900 billion after the Senate added money for medical research and tax breaks...
Obama To Meet With Moderate Senators, Aim To Cut Stimulus
ABC | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
President Obama will meet today with leaders of a bipartisan group of moderate senators working now on bringing down the overall cost of the stimulus ...
Peaceful Revolution: Investing in Our Human Infrastructure
Riane Eisler | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
The Real Wealth of our Nation is Its People Over half a million people lost their jobs last month. There's no question we need a job-creation plan. T...
EU Warns Obama Over Stimulus
Times Online | Rory Watson, Brussels | Posted 03.06.2009 | World
The European Union warned the United States today that attempts to enshrine "Buy America" conditions in the country's economic rescue package could fu...
The Truth About the Stimulus Package
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
Until other countries are willing to do their share to stimulate the global economy, the Obama administration is right to lift our boat first.
Senate Republicans: Please Help
Sally Kohn | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
While conservatives would have us think that the crisis we're in is a fluke, the reality is that we have all been standing on the curb of opportunity for far too long as prosperity passed us by.
Stimulus Spin War: Obama To Go On Media Offensive
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama is slated to sit down with the five major television news networks tomorrow, a media play that is almost certain to be part of a broader ...
Liberal Groups Profit From GOP's Resistance To Stimulus
The Plum Line | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics
Whatever you think of the politics of it, the House GOP's decision to oppose President Obama's stimulus package en masse has been awfully good for the...
Obama & Bipartisanship: It Takes Five to Tango
Lanny Davis | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics
This endless loop of partisan "we won, you lost" attitudes, exhibited by both political parties, is exactly what has alienated so much of the American electorate for such a long time.
Lee Camp | Posted 03.09.2009 | Comedy