POLL: 57% DON’T SEE STIMULUS WORKING. “Six months after President Obama launched a $787 billion plan to right the nation’s economy, a majority of Americans think the avalanche of new federal aid has cost too much and done too little to end the recession. (more)

If Barack Obama hoped to get better news on employment in order to boost his efforts on ObamaCare, the news today won’t lift his spirits. New unemployment claims jumped to 554,000 this week, above analysts’ expectations (more)

This sounds like a corny "porkulus" joke, but it is the truth. This stimulus funded purchase is recorded on the governments own recovery.gov website... (more)

A major public policy success, welfare reform in the mid-1990s led to a dramatic reduction in welfare dependency and child poverty. This successful reform, however is now in jeopardy: Little-noted provisions in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate stimulus bills actually abolish this historic reform. In addition, the stimulus bills will add nearly $800 billion in new means-tested welfare spending over the next decade. This new spending amounts to around $22,500 for every poor person in the U... (more)

On other matters, Summers said he was “surprised” by the outpouring of conservative rage on Tax Day that took the form of mock “tea parties” around the country. “You know, I don't know that much about politics, but I’ve been surprised by these tea parties a bit,” Summer said. “The President is the one proposing cutting taxes on virtually all Americans, so I'm not sure who these tea parties see as being King George." (more)

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"A half-dozen Republican governors are considering turning down some money from the federal stimulus package, a move opponents say puts conservative ideology ahead of the needs of constituents struggling with foreclosures and unemployment," the AP reports. Interesting: "Governors who reject some of the stimulus aid may find themselves overridden by their own legislatures because of language Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) included in the bill that allows lawmakers to accept the federal money even if their ... (more)

Highlighting the renewable energy components of the economic stimulus package, President Barack Obama said in Denver on Tuesday that the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was not the end of the economic downturn, but rather the beginning of the end. Obama signed the bill into law at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science where he later toured the museum’s solar-panel installation. Major energy portions of the stimulus include: A three-year extension to the tax credit for wind, which ... (more)

Sarah Palin’s advice on Porkulus will evoke laughter in the White House that pushed it through Congress, but perhaps someone there has begun listening to her on energy. Palin says Barack Obama has started coming around on the natural-gas pipeline, but may need a little more convincing on enabling increased production on the clean-burning fuel. Palin doesn’t wait for Greta to ask before getting in an argument against the Fairness Doctrine, near the end (via Conservatives for Palin): (more)

First .. remember this. This whole so-called "stimulus" bill is the largest government spending bill in the history of the U.S. Government. Would you have expected anything less from a Democrat-controlled Washington DC? The Democrats just had to have this stimulus bill passed by Friday. I still think it is because Nancy Pelosi had to make sure it was passed before she jetted off to Italy .. but the Democrat House broke a promise by voting on the bill without giving the public and the media 48 hour to ... (more)