TagsTagsA new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that the American public is starting to get a mite worried about Obama’s astronomical budget deficit: Poll: Public concerned about size of deficit. Buried at the bottom of the piece, though, is even worse news for the Republican Party — an all-time low ...
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Economy, Budget, Nancy Pelosi, Congress, Auto Industry, Humor, Iowahawk
Following the ignoble defeat of every budget measure he tried to push, Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced that California’s top elected officials will get a salary cut of 18%. In ... uh ... seven months. Nice to see the Governator springing into action to handle the emergency. Schwarzenegger and other top officials ...
All of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget measures and tax increases for California were shot down in flames yesterday, and now the question is: how will California dig itself out of its fiscal hole? Federal bail-out time? Well, he may have had a grand day in D.C. schmoozing with the Democratic president ...
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Pathetic. Standing before television cameras, Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and other members — including the top Republican on the Budget Committee Paul Ryan (Wis.) — couldn’t answer specific questions about their spending plan. After weeks of promising a comprehensive alternative to ...
Economy, Finance, Business, Financial Crisis, Deficit, GOP, Budget
Barack Obama has been selling his budget on a trans-continental PR charm offensive for the last two weeks, but public support is still slipping. People who feel positively about his budget fell from 44% in late February to 39% this week. People who feel negatively about the budget increased one ...
Economy, Finance, Business, Financial Crisis, Budget, Barack Obama
Wired Science lists some of the things in Obama’s budget that are making scientists smile. A $2.7 billion increase in the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget. That’s a 35 percent increase that will push the agency’s budget to $10.5 billion. The EPA also got $7 billion in the stimulus package. The National ...