stimulus

SurveyUSA has the results of an ugly round of South Carolina polling:
Based on what you know, should Gov. Mark Sanford remain in office?
Remain in office – 34 percent
Resign – 60 percent
Not sure – 5 percent
Strikingly, the gap between white and black opinion is larger than the gap between female and male opinion. Fifty-six percent of [...]

In February, TWI’s Daphne Eviatar called attention to the weak protections in the federal economic stimulus bill for whistleblowers who expose contracting fraud. At the time, Daphne wrote:
[T]he stimulus bill fails to adequately protect employees of government contractors, who are in the best position to blow the whistle on fraud and abuse of taxpayer money. [...]

Josh Kraushaar reports that the National Republican Senatorial Committee will go back on its word from last week and endorse Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) when he announces his bid for the U.S. Senate. It’s one of several Senate races where the party has drafted or is trying to draft a moderate Republican to shove aside [...]

More economic pessimism from Paul Krugman, whose skeptical views have a growing following: The United States risks losing an entire decade of growth and enduring Japanese-style stagnation if it doesn’t move more aggressively to deal with ailing banks and to stimulate the economy.
Krugman made those remarks at a speech in China today. He’s previously warned [...]

As we mentioned earlier, the recent swine flu outbreak is causing some liberals to go back to the stimulus debate of earlier this year to point out that the Democrats’ push to include hundreds of millions of dollars in pandemic research and mitigation funding was thwarted by Republicans, led by Sen. Susan Collins (Maine). Now [...]

As the swine flu has caused the United States to declare a health emergency and the European Union to warn against travel to the U.S. and Mexico, The Nation’s John Nichols reminds us that there’s a political side to this story. Namely, that efforts from Democrats like Rep. David Obey (Wis.) to stick hundreds of [...]

I admire former Republican National Committee spokesman Alex Conant’s ability to push a meme, but this is sort of ridiculous.
With the 100-day anniversary just one week away, it’s notable that almost all of Obama’s accomplishments so far have been rhetorical, rather than policy-based.
Let’s see … there was the passage of the stimulus bill, the passage [...]

The push to retool Detroit as a center of green manufacturing got a small but significant boost today with the announcement of a new wind turbine plant that will initially create 250 jobs.
The Detroit News reports that Global Wind Systems will open the facility in Novi, Mich., about thirty miles outside of Detroit, and will [...]

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said today that Iowa has “been fortunate” that emergency funding for highways is soon to arrive, while additional funds for teachers and low-income health programs will likewise prevent imminent job losses within the state. He forgot to mention that voted against the stimulus package that will provide that money.
In Iowa [...]

The notorious Amity Shlaes, the Bloomberg scribe  who drives liberals around the bend with her thinly sourced argument that the New Deal was a failure, has come out boldly in favor of at least one form government stimulus spending. In a jaunty column today, “Sin City on the Potomac Wounds Nevada’s Bordellos,” Shlaes faults President Obama [...]