Topic: Contradictions

January 24, 2010

Three top White House officials appeared on TV, and each one gave a different figure when describing the number of jobs "created" by the 2009 stimulus package.

Top advisers confused on jobs created numbers

Is it standard policy to make things up as they go?

December 9, 2009

Geithner announces TARP extension … the day after Obama said he would wind it down

One day after President Obama told the Brookings Institution that he planned to “wind down” the Troubled Asset Relief Program, his Treasury secretary told Congress the administration plans to extend the program into next fall.

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