Revisiting Palinophobia
Author Noemie Emery has a great piece up at the DC Examiner that revists Palinophobia and contrasts it with what’s happening now in DC:
Weds. Open Thread
I’ll be baaaack …
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].”
The outrage over the AIG “outrage”
As if your blood wasn’t boiling enough over this issue, Jim VandeHei at The Politico promises to make it rise even more with this one:
Must-read of the day
Ed Morrissey on “The futile arrogance of [Obama’s] AIG outrage”: