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• Surprise! Reichert wrong on stimulus

  —HorsesAss.Org

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  Over at Publicola, Erica documents Rep. Dave Reichert’s many public statements in opposition to President Obama’s economic stimulus package, which, drawing upon his vast expertise as an economist sheriff, Reichert has repeatedly predicted would fail at its primary goal: creating jobs.

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  This week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 12:05pm EST
  by Goldy

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• Obama's Slush Fund

  —Sound Politics

  Rush Limbaugh (sorry Rush Haters but he's right on this one) made a jaw dropping point on his radio show today. About half to three quarters of the $787,000,000,000 (that's seven hundred eighty seven billion dollars) stimulus package money is... [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:49pm EST
  

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• What is Christine Gregoire doing?

  —Sound Politics

  Washington's current budget was "stimulated" by Obama's 2009 stimulus package. Its huge gap was plugged by a generous $3.3 billion in money from people in other states. So we were in a hole and got a one-time shot. The revenue... [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:37am EST
  

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• Who's at the throttle of high-speed rail?

  —The Daily Score

  Interest in high-speed rail was lukewarm until President Obama packed $8 billion for it into the stimulus package. Now, standing-room-only crowds show up when rail is on the agenda, and some high-speed-rail advocates are not sure anymore about who's at the throttle and who's in the caboose. [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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• Costello: Obama Now Owns Economy

  —Huckleberries Online

  

  What too many people fail to recall, and in many cases I consider this willful amnesia, is that Obama's sales pitch for the first stimulus package included a promise that, if passed, unemployment would rise no higher than 8 percent. Without the stimulus package, Obama's economic team (which includes Romer), predicted' [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:04am EST
  

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