Results for "stimulus"

My column looks at the bloated Census p.r. and education budget. GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson is asking questions. As well he should. History shows that the more the Census spends on advertising, the lower the response rate is. Best watchdog site for all the latest Census shenanigans: My Two Census.
***

The Super-Sized Census Boondoggle
by Michelle Malkin
Creators [...]

Every Senate Democrat voted to raise the debt limit to $14.3 trillion. The vote was 60-40 on straight partisan lines.
Let me repeat that — and let it be repeated loudly and often:
Every Senate Democrat voted to raise the debt limit to $14.3 trillion.
That’s $45,000 per American.
Here’s the roll call vote:

Can’t say it enough: There is [...]

Scroll for updates/liveblogging…

We’re an hour and a half away from President Obama’s Swagga Recovery Speech. He’s going to get his mojo back, we’re told, by acknowledging missteps — and then dumping the blame on lobbyists. Seriously. I know a lot of folks are organizing SOTU drinking games. But I don’t need the headache. This [...]

Over the weekend, White House operatives were all over the map with their stimulus job estimates.
(I think they were using “Mayan Math.”)
Anyway, talk show host Bill Wills in Cleveland asked White House spokesman Bill Burton about it. Burton airily dismissed criticism of the discrepancies as “petty.”
Here’s the audio:

And transcript:
WILLS: And finally Mr. Burton, on [...]

My syndicated column today torches President Obama’s fiscal freeze follies. A new CBO reports says the year-old Porkulus will now cost $75 billion more than originally estimated. Which is why the White House is scrambling to de-emphasize its spending discipline pose and talk about something else. Anything else. Like new legislation “restricting foreign corporations from [...]

It’s Return of the Crap Sandwich.
Porkulus, Jr.
Spendapalooza Redux.
Special Interest Slush Fund: The Sequel.
Whatever you call the Obama Jobs Bill, it’s more red ink, generational theft, and wealth redistribution all rolled up into another Democrat “economic recovery” intervention.
Democrat Rep. Brad Sherman admits that his leadership has told him not, not, not to use the s-word when [...]

The ballyhooed budget spending freeze that will be a feature of the State of the Union address tomorrow doesn’t cover behemoth entitlement programs.
It doesn’t cover a second stimulus.
It is limited to an electorally-timed three-year period.
The White House is already promising that favored left-wing programs in education and the environment would get a [...]

The question isn’t why Sarah Palin is helping John McCain. The question is: What are you doing to stop him from cementing his Big Government Republican legacy?
***
Conservatives: Beware of McCain Regression Syndrome
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010
Pay attention: In the afterglow of the Massachusetts Miracle, there are flickers of peril for The Right. I hate to [...]

Good morning, readers. Hope you didn’t party too hard last night. If you went to bed early (as opposed to those of us who never went to sleep!), you can catch up on all the election live-blogging fun here. My syndicated column today dissects the twin meltdowns of Bay State and Beltway Democrats. But even [...]

Grabby hands.

(Photo via R.S. McCain)

(Photo via Voting Female)

(Photo of Northeastern University rally sent in from reader Scott T.)
On Sunday night, Public Policy Polling (swing state specialists) released the latest stunning numbers in the Massachusetts Senate race. Martha Antoinette Coakley is hemorrhaging independents and the enthusiasm gap is widening as the Bay State heads into the January [...]

Three items for you about Michael Mann, ClimateGate bully/eco-con artist…
1) First, watch the news report from Pennsylvania — where Mann is under investigation by Penn State:

Background from the Commonwealth Foundation. They’ve called for an independent investigation and expose Penn State’s conflicts of interests in the matter.
2) The Foundry flags Mann’s $514,000 stimulus windfall (via Mindy [...]

Phony fruits from a phony administration.

Gird your loins.
The latest job numbers are out and they’re worse than expected.
Which means it’s time for another White House green jobs boondoggle campaign:
The White House pitched Friday’s jobless report as the start to stabilization while President Barack Obama planned to push for another $5 billion to help create much-needed jobs.
Obama planned an afternoon [...]

The Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel profiles GOP up-and-comer Sean Duffy, a 38-year-old district attorney in Wisconsin who’s taking on decrepit Democrat incumbent Rep. David Obey. He’s bringing fresh blood and energy to the fight — and he’s focused on fiscal responsibility:

Wisconsin’s Mr. Duffy describes it this way: “I’m running because this is the fight [...]

As if you needed more evidence of the boondoggle-ishness of the Green Jobs racket, two items for your file:
1) Via Inside Charm City, Maryland’s Democrat Senators dole out green job funding to an SEIU partnership…
Senators Benjamin L. Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski (both D-Md.) today announced the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act includes funding for [...]

It’s official. The Hill reports this morning that the Dems have formally agreed to bypass the formal conference committee process to ram the government health care plan through for Barack Obama: “Aides said the agreement was reached during a Tuesday evening meeting at the White House with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and [...]

My column looks at the year in Washington political bribery. And what a year it was for the Beltway’s reverse Santa Clauses, who are suspended simultaneously in mental states of denial and indignation. Democrat Sen. Mary “Louisiana Purchase” Landrieu defended her payoff while declaring that she “can’t be bought.”Democrat Sen. Tom “Iowa Bounty” Harkin dismissed [...]

The White House has named yet another unaccountable appointee to oversee information technology.
We already have shady Vivek Kundra as Federal Chief Information Officer.
Then we have Aneesh Chopra as US Chief Technology Officer.
Now, meet the new Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt:
Here’s the full-text of the announcement email sent to the White House email list by [...]

“Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.”

Welcome to the Democrat Party’s civil war
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Seems like only yesterday the Washington establishment had proclaimed the Death of the GOP. Pundits churned out public autopsy reports faster than the L.A. County Medical Examiner. Liberals gloated over the supposedly irreparable fissures between right-wing populists and Beltway Republican elites. Conservatism, we were told, [...]

Photoshop: Tennyson Hayes
Few things scream BELTWAY ARROGANCE louder than Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer.
You’ll remember his putdown of fiscally responsible Americans on the floor of the Senate earlier this year when he derided taxpayer concerns about massive pork in the stimulus bill.
So, it’s no surprise he treats flight attendants the same way he treats every other [...]

The weatherization boondoggle.

Cue up “Do the Hustle.” Looks like the extortionists of the Congressional Black Caucus got their way.
Last week, I noted the CBC’s efforts to squeeze bailout money from the Democrats’ financial “reform” package for minority-owned businesses — specifically, the failing radio/media empire of former Malcolm X lawyer and Air America/Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton/Charlie Rangel crony Percy [...]

Zzzzzz.

Turkeys of the year
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
As we gather ‘round the Thanksgiving table, bow our heads in prayer, and feast on the holiday bird, it is only fitting to take a moment to fete the unforgettable turkeys of 2009.
1. The stimulus. Back in February, I wrote that if the trillion-dollar stimulus plan were a [...]

“I have nothing against white men…but…”

Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet made weekend headlines with his noble declaration that he’ll stand by the Demcare takeover — even if it means losing his job.
Since he was already well on his way to losing his seat thanks to his reckless vote for generational theft and bogus government job inflation, where’s the sacrifice?
This isn’t called [...]

Payoffs from A to Z.

A few weeks ago, I said we needed a new metric for all the bogus jobs claimed by the Obama White House. I called it the “Stimulus Jobs Inflation Index.”
The Examiner does even better — creating a handy, interactive Stimulus Jobs Inflation Map.
More than ten percent of the jobs the Obama administration has claimed were [...]