When all else fails, do it again
So, let’s see. In 2009 President Obama asked for and got a pork fiesta $787 billion stimulus package from Congress, saying we needed it to keep unemployment from rising above 8% and to put America back to work.
Fitting: School built on toxic soil in LA named for … The Goracle
Another one from the Dept. of You Can’t Make This Up, via the LAT:
Maybe not lying, but certainly misleading
With the Democrats looking to take a shellacking in the upcoming midterms, Democrat politicians trying to save their jobs have more and more been scurrying as fast as they can away from Democratic policies that are largely unpopular: ObamaCare, the stimulus package, massive deficit spending, and the big bank bailouts of 2008-09. That last is a little unfair, since the TARP program was a bipartisan bailout, but it’s become conflated in the public’s mind with everything else the Democrats have done since Obama was inaugurated. And those bailouts have become so unpopular that some Democratic congresscritters are proudly claiming they voted against them – before they were even in office:
Labor Day Weekend Open Thread
Getting ready to go “assist” dad in the pressure washing of the house and patio – as soon as he gets here 😀 . Weather’s supposed to be nice here today and tomorrow – about 10 degrees cooler than it was earlier this week.
Reid: My “Iraq war is lost” comments are what helped turn Iraq around
Stop the spinsanity – please!
He speaks for me
At Power Line, Paul Mirengoff quotes a letter from a reader about President Obama’s refusal to give President Bush the credit he deserves for the Iraq surge, which turned a deteriorating war effort there into victory. I want to republish a portion below, because it nearly perfectly summarizes my contempt for the national Democrats and their leftist allies for their conduct during the Iraq campaign: