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What if I told you that everything Republicans have told you about Solyndra is dangerously and embarrassingly wrong? You’d certainly be less than shocked. Mike Grunwald — who wrote the book on Stimulus — has been trying to explain why we need more Solyndras for years now. The failed loan that became the code word for smearing the Obama administration’s […]

If a Republican had nearly doubled the Dow and gotten bin Laden and Qaddafi, he’d already be on the dime The good news is: The people who still propagandize against the Stimulus are only doing so because their paycheck or their sanity depends upon it. The fact is: The Stimulus has had the singularly most impressive positive effect on the […]

Steve Benen has a piece out today that debunks the absurd notion that “The Stimulus didn’t work!” In terms of metrics, keep in mind, when these jobless claims fall below the 400,000 threshold, it’s considered evidence of an improving jobs landscape. When the number drops below 370,000, it suggests jobs are actually being created rather quickly. The jobless claims number […]

Newt is such a charmer, isn’t he? I love that, when he appears in the GOP primary debates, he spends 3½ of his alotted 4 minutes deriding the question and the questioner and castigating the media as a whole. There’s no better way to garner positive press than treat the members of the press as pariahs and sociopaths, is there? […]

Yesterday afternoon, there was a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new facility at the Veterans Administration Ann Arbor Medical Center. The VA Ann Arbor Medical Center will hold an open house for its Hematology-Oncology Infusion Center on Monday. […] Infusion therapy is a type of treatment in which medications or other treatment agents are delivered directly into the body via a […]

Cross-posted at Daily Kos. It’s true. I heard it on the Rec List at Daily Kos. Wikileaks is now releasing scads of documents proving that Netflix is being sexually groped by Comcast-funded TSA agents after being sterilized by PornoScanTM radiation. The worst part: President Obama hasn’t said a word about it. Not only is he failing to message this insanity […]

Yup, the ole stimulus package is an utter failure. Just look at how it’s failing in Michigan: Washington — A light rail plan along Woodward to connect downtown Detroit with the New Center area will get a $25 million infusion of federal money, officials briefed on the matter told The Detroit News. The federal funds — to be announced today […]