Tag: Stimulus

Liar Liar Pants On Fire

Filed in National by on February 20, 2010 101 Comments

Mike Castle has been on the defensive lately. He’s become the posterboy for Republican hypocrisy, especially the “trash and grab” strategy of trashing the stimulus while showing up to take credit for projects created by the stimulus. He comes off as quite defensive in this WHYY interview: Castle also defended himself against accusations that, while […]

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Castling

Filed in Delaware, National by on February 17, 2010 10 Comments

[Ed. note – cassandra_m contributed considerably to this post.] 2009 presented quite a dilemma for Mike Castle. The Republican party required obedience from all its members for their policy of no to succeed, but Mike Castle needed to keep his moderate credentials for his voters in Delaware, a blue state. Mike Castle knew what he […]

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Rachel Maddow Takes On Congressman On Stimulus Hypocrisy

Filed in National by on February 15, 2010 7 Comments

Rachel Maddow is rapidly becoming must-see TV. Sunday she was on Meet the Press and took on Rep. Aaron Shock (R-IL). Also notice how David Brooks at the end whines about the televised health care summit. Transcript: MR. GREGORY: Congressman Schock, where are the Republicans going to be on this? REP. SCHOCK: Well, look, I […]

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American Enterprise Institute: Stimulus Worked!

Filed in National by on January 7, 2010 13 Comments

Republican politician have been running around bashing Obama’s stimulus plan for a while now. Meanwhile, the economy has slowly been recovering from Bush’s FUBAR economic policies. Even the conservative American Enterprise Institute agrees that the stimulus worked: AEI has its economic outlook, by John Makin. Notice anything strange here? We can expect 2010 to be […]

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Weekend Video Roundup

Filed in National by on December 6, 2009 15 Comments

Commenter anon points us to this video that Charlie Copeland highlighted at Resolute Determination apparently approvingly: Copeland adds: There is nothing that I could add. Indeed. Sarah Palin speaks for God: ABC actually does a decent job explaining the stimulus: Harry Reid shows a bit of backbone and lets loose on Aetna.

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