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more about #stimulus more comments → DavidWatts: Government money should only be given to rich people for free, because they are our betters, and waste money .. . better. Surely the plight of our na... more » HurtsSoGood: Well, yeah. People who own their own homes are more likely to vote Republican, and their property taxes are high because Albany is irretrievably FUBA... more » ___: The BEST use of the stimulus package would be to buy every man, woman and child (over the age of 10) in America a Suzanne Somers Bodyrow XL 200 Exerci... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: if they're dead they won't need healthcare drudge is a tool more » goetz: To be fair, if you don't read this stuff you can't be expected to know it. more » miss_msry: Does Gov. Perry think we'll get a better deal from Mexico? more » lobstr: Kay Bailey to the rescue... more » Tara Incognita: Austinites know Limbaugh is as dumb as a box of hammers, thankyouverymuch. We don't cotton to that nonsense. more » Lizawithazee: Careful, remember what happened to the last idiot Republican Texas Governor. (One of) the irony(ies) is that the Texas Governor doesn't even have much... more » Kirth: .. He's like a bi-sexual. He wants it BOTH WAYS but will only admit to ONE. .. more » PaisleyPajamas: ... rather than just blowing it on bribing Rush Limbaugh to move to Austin or whatever. Dude needs to take the effing money and rebuild the burned out... more » Big_Noise_From_Winnetka: Some of us in Texas DO loathe Gov. Goodhair -- and look who's running against him in the primary? The Breck Girl (Kay Bailey Hutchison). They'll proba... more » Gregoire: Isn't this basically veiled succession talk? And does anybody outside of Texas care one way or the other? more » Hydroceph: If the imagined loss of sovereignty bothers him so much, i'd be willing to let Texas go. more » contradicto: I'm sorry. We're really not all nuts. more » -
#economics
Stimulus Outrage: Money For Poor Kids
As we learned during the Bush administration, the only legitimate role the federal government can play in stimulating the economy is sending everyone in America a check. That's always fiscally responsible, too. So why do Democrats hate simple economics? More » -
#porkbarrels
Matt Drudge Is Mad at the Stimulus Bill for Not Keeping Kosher
Matt Drudge is pointing out that the stimulus package actually went to purchase pork and other crazy things like food by linking to some contracts on the Recovery.gov web site. We spent $5.7 million on "process cheese"? Crazy! Why? More » -
#constitution
Rick Perry, 10th Amendment Champion
Texas Governor Rick Perry is furious that Texas is losing its sovereignty, because of the Stimulus Bill, and so he is striking back with strongly worded statements about how much he hates the feds. More » -
#stimulus
Obama, Biden At Stimulus Signing/Hippie Be-In: "Namaste"
Obama chose the perfect face for his "signing the stimulus" party: a blonde, clean-cut young yuppie fellow who owns a small business. A small hippie business. More » -
#shoutingheads
Cable News Anchors Are Incredibly Stimulated
The Stimulus Package: Obama signs it tomorrow and oh my freaking god, the cable networks will totally talk about it. CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC each have their own promo; they grow increasingly insane: More » -
#howthingswork
Bills Too Complicated, Hard to Read, Lawmakers Complain
The Stimulus Bill is really long! And it's full of "numbers" and stuff! This is why no one is going to vote for it. More » -
#recessionomics
Hey, We Get a Stimulus This Week
Now we get the "Obama won and is back on top" pieces, right? Because the stimulus looks like it'll sail through the joint committee. But the bill is—oh no!—smaller. More » -
#salesmanship
Barack Obama Is America's New Billy Mays
Barack Obama is going to cost the TV networks literally millions of dollars, because he has to appear on prime time TV three times this month to sell his stimulus bill that no one likes. More » -
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#stimulus
Liveblogging Obama's Guilt Trip to Unemployment Town
Barack Obama is in Elkhart, Indiana, one of those towns where there aren't any jobs left, to shame the Senate into passing his damn stimulus bill already. More » -
#publicrelations
Obama Don't Need No Stinking Speeches to Stimulate America
The Senate votes today on the economic stimulus package which will (temporarily?) stave off utter doom. If it doesn't pass by a huge margin, Obama's "work together" agenda is a total failure! Time to panic! More » -
#politics
How Faux Filibusters Are Ruining the Economy
Oh boy, the stimulus won't pass the Senate because it doesn't have that magic 60 votes! We're all screwed, because of imaginary filibusters! More » -
#stimulus
Rush Limbaugh Stimulates the Newsmedia
When did the stimulus debate become about Rush Limbaugh? Seriously? This is a failure on everyone's part. More » -
#rant
Squabbles Over Bankers' Bonuses and 'Wasteful' Spending Will Doom Us All
Washington views life as a zero-sum game: If you win, then I lose. Our leaders, in pursuing partisan passions, forget that the whole point of economic stimulus is to make the pie larger. More » -
#culturewars
Obama So Far Stimulating Decades-Old Arguments
Guys have you heard about this stimulus bill? It is made up entirely of $1 trillion dollars spent on sex, filthy unreproductive sex! More » -
#politics
President Change's Jobs Speech Decoded
Barack Obama's YouTube presidency is off to a silky-smooth start in his first weekly video address of 2009. But whats this he's saying about "American recovery and reinvestment? -
#andrewkeen
Poor people don't deserve broadband, says Internet-hating madman
Imagine Father Coughlin, the hateful radio demagogue of the 1930s, spewing vitriol on YouTube. That's why poor people can't be trusted with the Internet, says Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur.
