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Whatever you do, don't call it a stimulus...

Several weeks ago, I wrote about a Rasmussen poll that showed how unpopular a new Obama stimulus plan is . In that piece, I linked...

By John Hanlon | 10-21-2009

Poll of the Week: American People reject the idea of Obama Stimulus 2.0

As our leaders on Capitol Hill debate health care and the implications of Senator Baucus' health care reform bill, our nation's...

By John Hanlon | 10-09-2009

Fact Check: Does Obama really believe in the urgent need for health care reform?

Health care reform is vitally important for this country, President Barack Obama has repeatedly reminded the American people during...

By John Hanlon | 09-08-2009

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Third Stimulus? Thanks, But You've Done Enough Damage Already

I was reading the news recently when I opened the Drudge Report and saw his banner headline, "Dems Plot Second Stimulus." I thought to myself, "That headline is wrong." It wasn't wrong because the Democrats are not considering...

Published 10-12-2009 12:01 AM by Duane Lester

Filed under: stimulus
Trusting Fictitious Stimulus Numbers

Conservative politicians trying to control spending over the past few decades have become all too familiar with a tactic used by their opponents to confuse the public. Any time a politician votes to fund a program at any amount less than what their opponents...

Published 10-01-2009 1:01 AM by Lorie Byrd

Filed under: stimulus, jobs
BARONE: Job-Killing Policies Could Doom Democrat Hopes

"The level of unemployment is unacceptably high. And will, by all forecasts, remain unacceptably high for a number of years." Who do you suppose said that? A Republican political operative? A Fox News political analyst? One of those several...

Published 09-17-2009 9:17 AM by Michael Barone

Filed under: taxes, unemployment, stimulus, employment, democrats
Is the Recession Over?

Obama wants you to think so. And so do his top economists. In the past few weeks, it seems it has been nothing but uplifting news coming from Obama’s economists. Just today, Lawrence Summers, the director of the White House's National Economic...

Published 07-20-2009 12:05 AM by Kirsten Wright

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, economic recovery
SAMUELSON: The Squandered Stimulus

WASHINGTON -- It's not surprising that the much-ballyhooed "economic stimulus" hasn't done much stimulating. President Obama and his aides argue that it's too early to expect startling results. They have a point. A $14 trillion economy...

Published 07-20-2009 12:05 AM by Robert Samuelson

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, government spending, CBO
Obama, The Car Salesman

Have you ever had to buy a new car? It's one of the worst purchases you ever have to make. Everyone dreads that day. Oh, you look forward to getting the car. You pick the one you want, you take it for a test drive. You can't wait to drive it home...

Published 07-20-2009 12:05 AM by Cassy Fiano

Filed under: stimulus, health care, cap and trade, government spending
June Job Losses Causing July Heat Stress in D.C.

They say that heat stress makes you dizzy and heat exhaustion brings on a cold sweat. But, after the latest unemployment figures were released for June, the Obama Administration is starting to show signs of heat stroke. It's getting hot in Washington...

Published 07-14-2009 12:05 AM by Jim Hoft

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, GDP
Obama's Stimulus Failure

Obama has clearly started to realize that public support for his stimulus package is waning. He’s begun defending it more vigorously than ever. In the Washington Post, Obama even took to writing an essay to let us know exactly why the stimulus package...

Published 07-13-2009 10:47 AM by Cassy Fiano

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, bailouts, government spending
Once, Twice, Three Times a Failure

Ever watch a really good illusionist? They are the masters of misdirection and succeed by getting you looking the direction they need you to look, in order to disguise the trick. The best illusionist can honestly make you believe what they are doing is...

Published 07-13-2009 10:36 AM by Duane Lester

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, wasteful spending, bailouts
WILL: Higher Taxes, Anyone?

WASHINGTON -- Economic policy, which became startling when Washington began buying automobile companies, has become surreal now that disappointment with the results of the second stimulus is stirring talk about the need for a ... second stimulus. Elsewhere...

Published 07-12-2009 12:05 AM by George F. Will

Filed under: taxes, unemployment, stimulus, health care
A Second Stimulus? No Way. Cancel the First One.

Back in February, President Obama signed his stimulus bill into law. At the time, he declared that the $787 billion boondoggle was absolutely necessary to prevent the U.S. economy from going over the edge and into the abyss and becoming a catastrophe...

Published 07-10-2009 12:05 AM by Kim Priestap

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, wasteful spending, bailouts
The Only Thing Stimulated In a Government Stimulus

A new GAO review of the $787 billion stimulus package tells us what we should have known all along. When government spends money themselves to stimulate the economy rather than let citizens have their own money to spend, the only part of the economy that...

Published 07-09-2009 11:03 AM by Edward Morrissey

Filed under: stimulus, big government, wasteful spending
BARONE: We Need a Systemic Risk Advisor, Not a Regulator

One policy of the Obama administration that has understandably attracted little public attention is its proposal to make the Federal Reserve a "systemic risk regulator." It's a well-intentioned attempt to prevent the kind of financial crisis...

Published 07-06-2009 12:24 PM by Michael Barone

Filed under: free market, stimulus, economic recovery
Giving the U.S. Worker the Ole One-Two Punch

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may...

Published 07-06-2009 8:14 AM by Duane Lester

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, green jobs, minimum wage
Independence Day

Tomorrow we celebrate Independence Day. It is the 233rd anniversary of our country's founding when we told the king of England that we were no longer interested in living under his oppressive thumb and decided it was time for us to create our own...

Published 07-03-2009 12:05 AM by Kim Priestap

Filed under: taxes, stimulus, big government, limited government