Posted on 09/02/2010 5:00:11 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
White House considering emergency economic stimuli
By: Glenn Thrush September 2, 2010 07:04 PM EDT
The Obama administration is mulling a raft of emergency fixes to stimulate the economy before the midterms, including an extension of the research and development tax credit and new infrastructure spending, according to several people familiar with the situation.
Administration officials have been huddling almost continuously during the past week, brainstorming for ideas that would boost employment without hiking the massive federal deficit – with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner rushing to the West Wing for further consultations late Thursday.
The White House press office on Thursday refused to say how much a financial package might be, other than to say it won’t be a “second stimulus.” But the administration will have a tough time selling nearly any package to terrified, Obama-phobic Hill Democrats who increasingly blame the president – and his ambitious, expensive legislative agenda – for their dismal prospects this November.
The meetings, which had Obama huddling with his economic advisers twice in the last seven days, have yielded no specific proposals. But he’s given the team a priority: find ways to pay for as many of the ideas, mostly tax breaks, as possible without a deficit increase, an administration official told POLITICO.
The R-and-D tax cut, which Congressional Democrats have already considered would, for example, be paid for by closing overseas corporate loopholes.
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That’ll keep things afloat until 2012, huh?
0bama will never intentionally do anything good for America because anything good goes against his grain.
..............Clueless idiots.
I don’t think there is time to do anything to significantly improve the economy b4 November.
Because Porkulus was such a success.
No mention of making the Bush tax cuts permanent across the board, huh?
}:-)4
Baraq, it’s a bit late to influence the econ stats.
Going on tv and resigning might work better........
Have you ever seen a novice or poor salesman, sensing he is losing the sale, start stuttering and rambling on like a scared moron. This is the political equivalent.
Oh, who’m I kidding, I wouldn't vote for one of your cretins if they were running against the Red Army.
Slowly, their election fate is dawning on them...they can’t run on their record of increasing taxes, regulations, and failing to properly handle the containment and cleanup of the Gulf oil spill.
0bamacare is a failure. Letting the Bush tax cuts expire is a failure. 0bama’s stimulus was a failure. 0bama’s bailouts of banks, GM, and Chrysler are failures.
Now, the Dems are desperately seeking to accomplish something that they can run on in their 2010 campaigns.
...they haven’t found it yet, either.
He’s killin’ us softly with his words...and willful intentions.
Oh good grief.
Go back on vacation and stay there until 2012.
Step away from the taxpayers purse....why throw good money after bad when they have no idea what they are doing.
Like their past efforts have worked..........
This administration is nothing but one crisis after another with the solutionss being worse than the problems that they decide to solve.
The most 'no nothing' bunch we've ever had in the White House.
And I can tell you what they should say
DRILL BABY DRILL.
BUILD MORE REFINERIES.
BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AND GENERATORS.
Tell them to stop helping us. Tell them to stop paying off the unions, buying GM,
It’s too late!
You cannot turn around a paralyzed economy in 2 months! even the Coolidge and Reagan tax cuts didn’t just magically work in a few weeks.
Stick a fork in ya, Barry. In fact, go take a vacation.
Quick - where's the KY jelly?
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