If you watched recent tv news coverage of the passage of the Omnibus spending bill, you would learn that this “massive” bill was “loaded with pork” — a monument to irresponsible, wasteful spending. That was tonight’s message from “reporting” on PBS’s News Hour and Judy Woodruff’s interview with Norm Ornstein from AEI. But it was false.
PBS Distorts Omnibus Spending Bill, Repeats GOP Nonsense on Earmarks |
| By: Scarecrow Wednesday March 11, 2009 4:58 pm |
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Jobs & Economy Tanking, Feldstein Calls for Second Stimulus; So Republicans Obstruct Spending Bill |
| By: Scarecrow Friday March 6, 2009 5:43 am |
Republican economist Martin Feldstein, the conservative economist Republicans quoted during the stimulus bill debate, is calling for another large spending/stimulus bill. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans held up the Ominibus Budget Bill yesterday because . . . it had too much spending for near-term projects.
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