Stimulus Puts Obama in Tough Territory

By: Robert Bluey (Diary)  |  July 8th at 02:00 PM  | 

Is the White House’s well-oiled communications machine coming undone less than six months after President Obama took office? Based on the past few days of mounting criticism regarding Obama’s top achievement — passage of the $787 billion stimulus — it appears that cracks are beginning to form. The administration wants to avoid distractions from its quest for government-run health care, but the mismanaged stimulus, combined | Read More »

Why Won’t Biden Disclose His Earmarks?

By: Robert Bluey (Diary)  |  September 12th at 09:45 AM  | 

Listening to Barack Obama rail about earmarks, you’d think he was a Porkbuster. Far from it, in fact. Obama, who spent the week attacking Sarah Palin, is directing his criticism at the wrong vice presidential candidate. Rather than criticizing Palin for her role in canceling the Bridge to Nowhere, Obama ought to hold his own running mate to the same standards he demanded of Hillary | Read More »

Palin Is a Porkbuster, Plain and Simple

By: Robert Bluey (Diary)  |  September 3rd at 06:06 AM  | 

Few would argue that Sen. Jim DeMint is one of the Senate’s top reformers when it comes to pork-barrel spending. But even DeMint only recently kicked the habit. It was less than two years ago that the South Carolina Republican swore off earmarks after the GOP’s drubbing in November 2006. DeMint now calls himself a “recovering earmarker” who equates pork-barrel spending to a disease. My | Read More »