Obamanation
So when the president’s budget errs in its estimation to the tune $58 billion, why is a more invasive pursuit of taxes the obvious answer? The Obama administration on Monday proposed $58 billion in additional taxes to offset budgeting errors that overstated revenues in the president’s plan to finance health care reform. The tax measures…
Justin beat me to the punch, but here’s the link to the AP story he mentioned about the budget deficit. More: The new record deficit this year — driven by the federal government’s efforts at bailing out financial institutions and automakers, the $787-billion economic stimulus act that Congress approved one month into Obama’s term and…
I don’t have time to get the link, right now, but this is jaw dropping, from the AP: The government will have to borrow nearly 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year, exploding the record federal deficit past $1.8 trillion under new White House estimates. Budget office figures released Monday would add $89…
In effect, the Obama administration insists that some of the federal money given to the states is meant to go directly to unionized public sector workers in California: The Obama administration is threatening to rescind billions of dollars in federal stimulus money if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers do not restore wage cuts to…
Multi-job-site days always disrupt my posting routine, but I was rewarded with an encouraging exchange at my second stop. Two glass guys from the cape were installing a shower door as I put trim around the large vanity mirror. When they broke out the hammer drill to put screw anchors in the marble around the…
A few days ago, Associated Press writer Liz Sidoti issued perhaps the most disturbing bit of “journalism” in recent memory: It didn’t take long for Barack Obama — for all his youth and inexperience — to get acclimated to his new role as the calming leader of a country in crisis. “I feel surprisingly comfortable…
It’s disorienting to hear folks who follow politics for a living take speeches as sincere explanations of politicians’ hopes and intentions. One would expect, as a case in point, David Brooks to understand the dangerous undercurrents of a speech by President Obama that Brooks describes as “a small masterpiece” of “explication.” His view was clear.…
I suspect this would be much less of a story without the wordplay and image building that it enables: After Lesh, who had never publicly supported a presidential candidate, threw his lot in with Obama, he was anxious to do a benefit concert for him. But he was all but done with The [Grateful] Dead,…
Following a week of tea party rallies that the president professes to have barely noticed, a couple stories in today’s Providence Journal suggest some modest attempts to puncture his big-spending image. Considering that some banks have suggested that they’d like to return bailout money to the feds, it isn’t surprising that the administration thinks more…
Does anybody doubt that President Obama’s handling of the stem-cell issue is designed as a means of avoiding political heat while disregarding the beliefs of those who hold the culling of embryonic stem cells to be a form of murder? By placing determination of the “guidelines” for expanded funding under controle of the National Institutes…