Hush, hush
Andrew Malcolm reports on a weird “rule” the Obama admin has set for an upcoming press award ceremony (via Memeo):
Sen. John Cornyn blasts Obama, Treasury, Dem leaders over AIG drama
On the floor of the Senate today, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, blasted President Obama and the Treasury for the mess it finds itself in over the revelation that taxpayer dollars will be used to pay “bailout bonuses” to AIG. Click here or below to watch.
AP employs soaring rhetoric in description of Obama vs. GOP
But As For Me reports on AP reporter Charle’s Babington’s characterizations of the GOP and Obama in a piece Babington wrote today on how Obama’s trying to woo certain GOP governors to his side:
Too late to read the damn thing now
But As For Me notes that the guarantee of bonuses to AIG was specifically (thanks to Chris Dodd) written into the stimulus bill, you know, the one Congress had to immediately rush through to “keep the economy from collapsing” (via Jim Geraghty).
Remember Caterpillar?
Last month on a campaign stimulus package promotion stop in East Peoria, Illinios, President Obama – while standing alongside Caterpiller CEO Jim Owens – claimed that “if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.” Unfortunately for him, Owens contradicted Obama when he left, as when he was asked whether or not Obama’s stimulus plan would stop the estimated 22,000 layoffs at Caterpillar, Owens admitted, “I think realistically no. The truth is we’re going to have more layoffs before we start hiring again …It is going to take some time before that stimulus bill [will mean we can rehire].”