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 […]

Shortly after George W. Bush proposed his first stimulus rebate check program it was about March last year, or February, with the checks beginning to arrive in June. Remember this? And what was the amount of those checks? Was it $600? Six hundred dollars for a single and $1,200 for a couple, something like that, […]

So we find ourselves in a new “era of responsibility” as articulated by President Obama. President Obama says his administration is going to be the most transparent in our nation’s history. According to the Cybercast News Service and a lot of other people now, not one senator will have read the final stimulus spending bill […]

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 […]