Back in December, I posed this question:As an American citizen, is there a patriotic duty to spend hard earned money to help the economy out of its mess? My answer is NO. David Leonhardt opines in To Spend or Save? Trick Question: "It’s your fault. Part of it is, anyway. You, the American consumer...

Chuck Schumer is calling bullshit on these Republican Governors who are grandstanding on the stimulus bill. According to Talking Points Memo Schumer has written a letter to the White House saying the stimulus bill does not include any provision allowing Governors to pick and choose which parts of th...

The Obama "Stimulus" Package is most like: A. A piece of pecan pie with whipped cream. B. A crap sandwich, hold the bread. C. Neither A or B, but any opposition whatsoever to the plan is a conspiracy by Dick Cheney and the Evil Republicans to hurt poor people and kill labor unions. Oh, and have I me...

It was an on again, off again stimulus deal, but it now appears that there is a final compromise. And President Obama weighs in, via a White House press release : I want to thank the Democrats and Republicans in Congress who came together around a hard-fought compromise that will save or create more...

Is there a deal or not? The Democratic leadership from the House and Senate are meeting in the Speaker’s office, trying to salvage the deal that had been announced earlier. There were hard feelings by some House members that an agreement on the economic stimulus had been announced before they ...

Here is a PDF of a statement, signed by hundreds of economists including Nobel laureates and other prominent scholars, calling Obama out on his assertion that economists agree with this stimulus package. (H/T MM) Video of Obama's first press conference below, courtesy of LA Times, Top of the Ticket ...

Today the Senate should vote on the economic stimulus package.  The bill isn’t close to everything that we need but it is something.  I wrote the following for a local journal. ———- As I was growing up, in Texas, I began taking tennis lessons that a local tennis court.  I ...

    Barack Obama is doing his ’presidential thing’ today. He’s out there selling himself, his party and his recovery and reinvestment plan.  Remember it’s no longer the economic stimulus package . They’ve dropped that loser name for a more uplifting one- recovery ...

The Senate did not get to that promised vote on the stimulus bill that house Democrats jammed through and will be trying again today. As the Senate inched toward a final vote on the $900 billion economic stimulus package, tempers flared on the Senate floor: Republicans said bipartisanship had evapor...

BAILING THE FAILING Tom McLaughlin Similarities between federal government “helping” the economy and “helping” public education haunt me. Government bails out failing businesses now the same way it’s been bailing out failing students and failing schools. Will Democrat B...