January 29, 2010
No earmarks in the Recovery Act? Please.
The president is — and has been for a year — playing semantics. The projects are earmarks.
January 28, 2010
President forgets date of last recession
President Obama says a “big chunk” of people have never seen a recession. They must all be under 10-years-old.
January 27, 2010
Spending cap flip flop: From a scalpel to a hatchet
President swaps his precise instrument for a blunt tool.
Still not true: All economists did not support the stimulus
There is no consensus.
Deficit commission just ‘one of those Washington gimmicks’
The president’s executive order (like the one to close Gitmo within a year) will have not teeth.
More fuzzy math on jobs numbers
Still fudging the stimulus stats.
January 24, 2010
Top advisers confused on jobs created numbers
Is it standard policy to make things up as they go?
January 11, 2010
‘Shovel ready’ was a load of … well, you know
No effect on jobs, created or saved.
December 13, 2009
Economics advisers: ‘Recession is over,’ but ‘of course’ it isn’t
So which definition is the administration using?
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.
December 3, 2009
Claiming reporters didn’t ask about economy … when they did
The president says reporters covering his Asia trip didn’t ask him about the economy or about Asia. At least three of them did.
February: Only government can end unemployment. Today: Only the private sector can end unemployment
Today the president said that economic recovery will “only” come from the private sector. That’s not what he said nine months ago.
August 14, 2009
Gaffe in Montana: ‘We were losing about 700 jobs each month’
President Obama misspoke today during his town hall meeting in Montana, accidentally downplaying the size and scope of the recession.
August 7, 2009
Claiming job loss of a quarter million is ‘marked improvement’
According to President Obama, shrinking the GDP and unemployment heading to 10 percent are signs of a strengthening economy.
August 4, 2009
Biden: Now the stimulus is working … really!
In the course of about two months, Veep Joe Biden has gone from saying the stimulus package was working, to saying it wasn’t meant to “jolt” the economy and back to saying it’s working.