Obama talking with Gordon Brown… OBAMA: What I’m looking at is not the day-to-day gyrations of the stock market but the long-term, uh, ability for the United States and the entire world economy, uh, to regain its footing.  Uh, and, y-y-you know, the stock market is sort of like a tracking poll in politics. It […]

Here’s Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post. ROBINSON: Obama is a winner this week because he got through a huge, complicated, almost $800 billion spending rescue bill in record time. This doesn’t happen in Washington. And — and, you know, sure, the beginning of an administration is the time when you really want to spend […]

How many promises did Obama break during the process of getting the stimulus bill passed in Congress? The number is seven. Here are the promises that were broken: “Make government open and transparent.” “Make it ‘impossible’ for congressmen to slip in pork barrel projects.” “Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the […]

The more that comes out about this bill, the less it makes sense, even The Politico, which is one of these places totally in the tank for Obama, reports the projected local job creation numbers that the White House is using to lobby for the bill simply don’t add up. The Wall Street Journal, reports […]

Peter Schiff said: As the markets drop we are not seeing the problem, we’re seeing the solution. When the markets drop we know we got a problem. The markets dropping are the beginning of the solution. And of course President Obama and Congress are trying to prevent the solution and make the problem even worse. […]