Yes it is: Unions and liberal groups have dismissed Sen. Harry Reid’s $15 billion jobs bill as “puny” while calling for larger stimulus measures. More than two dozen organizations, including the AFL-CIO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples (NAACP) and National Council of La Raza, warned Democratic leaders in Congress to avoid tackling […]
John Boehner has constantly ignored stimulus projects happening here in Ohio, even when some of them are just a few miles from his own house. Now we have a big stimulus project coming to Ohio and I can bet that he will ignore this one also: Ohio is getting about $400 million in federal stimulus […]
Now that the American people have bailed out the banking system and our leaders are looking at ways to recoup the hundreds of billions of tax dollars we have spent, Wall Street is starting to look at ways to get out of paying us back. According to an article in today’s New York Times, the […]
From TPM: “As I look back it was a waste of time dealing with [Snowe],” Reid is quoted as saying about the White House in a forthcoming New York Times Magazine piece, “because she had no intention of ever working anything out.” I really wonder if Harry Reid actually knows how politics work. Arlen Specter […]
It looks like John Boehner has a problem with accurately filing paperwork required under the FEC: Since 1996, Boehner’s congressional campaign committee has received 63 letters from the Federal Election Commission requesting “additional information” to correct seeming errors in reports the committee submitted. That total surpasses similar FEC requests to Ohio’s 17 other representatives. Rep. […]
It always amazes me when the right goes on about how charities should take care of social needs. The problem is when people start losing money the first thing that gets cut is their charitable donations, which then results in things like this: The holiday project is a group of nine nonprofit agencies that rely […]
Rick Perry was one of the heroes of that whole “Tea Party” crap, speaking out against the stimulus and rejecting part of it. Now governor secession wants federal money to cover – well the stuff that would have been covered by the rejected stimulus funds: Now that the state is dire straits, however, Perry is […]
The detail of Sanford’s little lover’s rendezvous in Argentina keep emerging. The latest round shows that Sanford’s office truly didn’t know where he was and couldn’t contact him: Gov. Mark Sanford’s chief of staff, Scott English, called the governor’s cell phones 15 times during the governor’s secret trip to Argentina to visit his lover last […]
Following Boehner’s having to walk back remarks he made this weekend about stimulus money not being spent in Ohio the DNC has launched a new ad: The most disturbing thing is that the local media isn’t covering this. If you relied upon the news in Boehner’s own district you wouldn’t hear about it. Its this […]
Here is John Boehner on Sunday claiming no stimulus is being spent in Ohio: But there’s a problem. Ohio has been spending stimulus funds, and now John Boehner has been called out on his lie and had to issue a “clarification”: When U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner told a newscaster Sunday that not a […]