Caterpillar Employees Reject Obama and his Reckless Spending Package

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  February 13th at 04:20 PM  | 

While visiting Caterpillar headquarters in Peoria, IL, yesterday, President Obama instructed employees of the construction company to tell their representative, Congressman Aaron Schock (R-IL), to support his $800 billion spending package. On the floor of the House this morning, Schock announced that not one single employee came up to him after Obama’s speech — and that, contrary to the president’s claims, every one of the | Read More »

Would $850,000,000.00 per job rescued make the “stimulus” worth it?

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  February 11th at 01:29 PM  | 

Given his penchant for “misremembering” conversations (and for apparently misreading people entirely despite years of close contact — see Exhibit A, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, for an example), we can’t be sure that President Obama is even accurately recounting what Caterpillar CEO James Owens said to him in their conversation. However, here‘s what he seems to think went on: President Barack Obama says Caterpillar’s chief executive | Read More »