Chip Forrester has much love for Phil Bredesen:
Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester applauds Gov. Phil Bredesen for using federal stimulus dollars to create much-needed jobs in Lauderdale County where the unemployment rate is nearly 19 percent, the highest in the state.
“Gov. Bredesen’s unique plan to use that money [...]
After they announced their retirements:
The list of 39 House Democrats who voted against the legislation reads like a who’s who of the most vulnerable freshman and second-term members facing tough re-election campaigns next year – with many of them hailing from the fiscally-conservative Blue Dog Coalition, members who frequently [...]
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen plans to use federal stimulus money to create 175 jobs in Lauderdale County, which has the state’s highest unemployment rate.
Bredesen said Wednesday that the jobs include 50 highway maintenance worker positions within the state Transportation Department and 125 positions that will be filled [...]
This month, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) issued a “Stimulus Checkup”, which cast a critical eye on 100 projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Number One on their list? A grant worth up to $5 million for a geothermal technology demonstration project [...]
"I can't leave out my Arizona projects that have been awarded. $500,000 to Arizona State University to study the genetic makeup of ants...and then, incredibly, $450,000 to the University of Arizona to study division of labor in ant colonies...I had no idea that so much expertise concerning ants resided in'" [...]
Others aren’t so sure:
A second challenge — also geared to spending — came on a proposal by Rep. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) to force Treasury to return any unspent funds from last year’s financial rescue plan.
Democrats and Obama are eying the same pot of money — about $200 billion — [...]
From the Congressman’s blog:
I think this “jobs summit” is an admission by the President that the first stimulus hasn’t worked. Remember, he promised us that if it was immediately passed by Congress, unemployment would not go above 8%. Now economists are telling us we are in the midst of [...]
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to "spend our way out of this recession" until more Americans are back at work. -- More.
UPDATE: Sens. John McCain and Tom Coburn are singling out 100 examples of [...]
U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., a member of the Senate Banking Committee, made the following comments today in reaction to news reports that the White House is considering using the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to pay for a new stimulus bill.
“Congress authorized TARP last fall to [...]
Columbus schools tapped stimulus for room rentals
Columbus City Schools have more than 120 buildings designed for teaching.
But in a three-day effort to teach its teachers, the district is renting banquet halls, high-end hotels and conference centers — using almost $145,000 in federal grant dollars.
Teach teachers what? Didn’t they spend [...]
He says it just mucks everything up:
“What happens often with the stimulus money, it gets everything out of balance,” he said. “You get a lot of money at one time and then that changes the baselines and then the next thing you know they’re trying to cut your programs. [...]
Two very connected columns:
The Road to Recovery Begins with the End of Obamacare
Stimulus is boon for D.C. area contractors
Free spending politicians doing what they do best….spend other people’s money! Take the time to read them both, but make sure you have the duct tape ready so your head [...]
From Andy Sere, National Republican Campaign Committee spokesman:
“Lawyer-politician-professor Roy Herron’s 23-year Nashville record is a veritable smorgasbord of Obama-style liberalism. Herron has championed a state income tax, a disastrous government healthcare system, card check and the ‘stimulus’ that failed struggling Tennesseans. With his gubernatorial bid circling the drain, he’s [...]
From the Tennessee Journal:
Bredesen’s intended gift for his successor was to make the radical cuts necessary to leave the budget balanced on a recurring basis. But the federal stimulus package, while a blessing in many ways, prevented this. Bredesen still intends to leave the state’s next chief executive a [...]
Will see if this very time restrictive $400,000 "Reinvestment" bus experiment pays-off. [...]
I have listened to Jim Cooper talk about the health care plans the past several weeks. He claims to be a “Blue Dog” Democrat, based on principal and fiscal conservatism, but in the end whether it is the stimulus plan, the budget or healthcare he falls right into line and [...]
I have listened to Jim Cooper talk about the health care plans the past several weeks. He claims to be a “Blue Dog” Democrat, based on principal and fiscal conservatism, but in the end whether it is the stimulus plan, the budget or healthcare he falls right into line and [...]
