Considering how often all of the stimulus programs are wrong attributed to President Obama, the Washington Post reports today that the tax plans of three of the remaining GOP presidential hopefuls simply pile on the deficit. So the closer look…
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Washington Post Releases Detailed Report on Congressional Earmarks
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The Washington Post’s Tuesday editions carry this comprehensive report on Congressional earmarks and it will report that Congressionla Representatives steered earmarks towards projects within two miles of personal property they own. The report hits both parties hard. Of the 33 members…
The Economy Turns the Corner
by Dan Chmielewski • • 3 Comments
It’s an election year and the Republicans who were counting on riding a lousy economy into the Oval Office may have skidded off the road. Two reports today — one showing robust job growth and declining unemployment from this morning…
Unintentional Hilarity
by Dan Chmielewski • • 4 Comments
Sometimes, a newspaper headline gets accidentially connected to a photo on the page that has nothing to do with the story in question. And this happened in the Washington Post of all places with the headline and photo pairing above.…
Washington Post: Most Americans Still Blame Bush for Bad Economy
by Dan Chmielewski • • 5 Comments
This post made me chuckle a bit because no matter how the stats rack up, Republicans and Conservatives still place most of the blame for the bad economy of President Obama but most Americans and, importantly, registered independent voters,…
Tea Party Tries to Occupy Congress; Advocates Cruel Spending Cuts
by Dan Chmielewski • • 6 Comments
Hat Tip to the Washington Posts’ WonkBlog for news that TeaParty has decided to launch their own version of Occupy by targeting Congress’ Supercommittee and advocate spending cuts that make Draconian sound almost generous. A branch of the TeaParty was…
US to Leave Iraq by Year’s End
by Dan Chmielewski • • 10 Comments
It’s taken a while and longer than most Americans would have preferred, but the United States will be completely withdrawing all troops from Iraq by year’s end, fulfilling a campaign promise President Obama made in 2008. From this Washington Post…
