President (Jimmy Carter) Obama was in Ohio yesterday, attempting to claim that his economic program is producing results. But the numbers show that the $862 billion stimulus package hasn’t improved the economy and the latest polls show Americans don’t agree with Obama’s sunny economic portrait. It was 18 months ago when Vice President Joe […]

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Eighteen months ago yesterday, President Obama signed the $862 billion stimulus bill into law. The bill expanded the deficit to record levels and adds over a trillion dollars to the national debt, when expensive interest payments are factored in. At the time of the bill’s signing, Vice President Joe Biden said, “This is a monumental […]

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Photo credit: missourinet “I don’t think we’re going to get a second round of stimulus dollars. I think the first round did a sufficient job in cushioning the blow, but we don’t see anything that’s going to get us back up off the ground any time soon.” —Leonard Toenjes, President of Associated General Contractors of […]

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President Obama visited a Wisconsin battery manufacturer yesterday that’s taking part in a $1.3 million “Recovery Act State Energy Program loan;” in other words, it’s being funded by money from the President’s $862 billion stimulus bill. Though Obama will be touting it as “saving or creating” jobs, the stimulus has continually fallen short of the […]

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Gallup wrote last week, “Americans of all political persuasions say the economy and jobs are the most important problems facing the country today. These concerns easily outpace all others, thus providing politicians seeking office in this fall’s midterm elections with clear marching orders from their constituents: Fix the economy. . . . In the Aug. […]

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  Two new polls released yesterday show just how frustrated the public is with the agenda of the Obama administration and Democrats in Washington, whose solution to every problem seems to involve higher taxes, ever more spending, and growing the size of government. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll again shows more disapprove of […]

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  After hurrying to Washington to approve Democrat leaders’ $26 billion bailout for states and teachers’ unions, House Democrats scattered back to their districts yesterday to explain their votes to their constituents. But as The Wall Street Journal editorializes today, it seems that Democrats had one constituency above all others in mind with their votes […]

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Tommy says in this Politico piece that he voted for Proposition C last Tuesday. Yeah right! We’re to believe that a guy that has fundraisers in Washington D.C. gay bars with noted liberals like Howard Dean and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey voted against Obamacare???? Isn’t it amazing how rightward Tommy’s campaign has drifted since the […]

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Just three days after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner declared in a New York Times op-ed, “Welcome to the Recovery,” The Wall Street Journal reports on another dismal monthly employment report: “The U.S. economy shed more jobs than expected in July while the unemployment rate held steady at 9.5%, a further sign the economic recovery may […]

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Recently, President Obama’s political strategy on policies that are problematic or controversial has been to double down instead of reevaluating or changing course. When polls showed the overwhelming majority of Americans disapproved of the massive health care bill during the winter and Massachusetts voters sent an unmistakable message by electing Sen. Scott Brown, who campaigned […]

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