{"id":1443,"date":"2009-02-16T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2009-02-16T12:53:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T17:53:11","slug":"stimulus-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"Stimulus Round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All that&#8217;s left for the economic stimulus bill is for President Obama to sign it.\u00a0 A round-up of reaction:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/permalink.asp?artist=brookins&amp;date=090213\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stonescryout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/StimulusRoundup_9B18\/image.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" width=\"424\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/permalink.asp?artist=payne&amp;date=090213\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stonescryout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/StimulusRoundup_9B18\/image_3.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" width=\"424\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/permalink.asp?artist=stantis&amp;date=090213\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stonescryout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/StimulusRoundup_9B18\/image_4.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" width=\"424\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/california_yankee\/2009\/02\/14\/obama-the-deficit-hawk\/\">Dan Spencer at RedState<\/a> notes an Obama quote from the day before the bill passed, &#8220;We are not going to be able to perpetually finance the levels of debt that the federal government is currently carrying.&#8221;\u00a0 The accompanying graphic is the ultimate irony.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2009\/02\/13\/politics\/politico\/main4800035.shtml\">CBS news reports<\/a> that the President is going to convene a &#8220;fiscal responsibility summit&#8221; on February 23rd.\u00a0 Again with the irony.\u00a0 The left hand doesn&#8217;t know what the right hand is doing.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, satirist Scott Ott engages in some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrappleface.com\/?p=3238\">wishful thinking<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Barack Obama said today that \u201cafter a restless night\u2019s sleep\u201d he will veto the $787 billion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/13\/AR2009021303475.html\">economic stimulus<\/a> package passed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/14\/us\/politics\/14obama.html\">Democrats<\/a> in Congress on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a dream,\u201d said a visibly shaken Mr. Obama. \u201cthat my daughters, Sasha and Malia, were trapped under the 1,100-page legislation. In the dream I saw my girls as women in their forties and they were still paying for this. I woke up, and did the math, and realized that it wasn\u2019t just a dream. Has anybody read this thing yet?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing, even if Congress won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All that&#8217;s left for the economic stimulus bill is for President Obama to sign it.\u00a0 A round-up of reaction: Dan Spencer at RedState notes an Obama quote from the day before the bill passed, &#8220;We are not going to be able to perpetually finance the levels of debt that the federal government is currently carrying.&#8221;\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government","category-humor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}