Program to Rescue Banks Could Expand to Carmakers By Steven Mufson Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, December 13, 2008; Page A01 The Bush administration yesterday moved to pull Detroit’s automakers back from the brink, saying it would drop its opposition to tapping the $700 billion financial industry rescue package to help General Motors and Chrysler [...]
Archive for December 13th, 2008
13 Dec
How to Spend $350 Billion in a First Year of Stimulus and Recovery
Center for American Progress Roberto La Rosa, right, fills out a temporary job application as Frank Piccolo, branch manager of Active Staffing Services, looks on in Hialeah, Florida on November 7, 2008. Total job losses in 2008 have hit over 1.9 million, but well-designed recovery programs could restore lost jobs. SOURCE: AP/Alan Diaz By Will [...]
13 Dec
A Playbook to Change
By Eugene Robinson Friday, December 12, 2008; Page A27 In handling questions about the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich — for allegedly trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama’s former Senate seat to the highest bidder — Obama has gone strictly by the book. His statements have been cautious and precise, careful not to get [...]
13 Dec
Rejected GOP Rejects Bush
By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonpost.com Thursday, December 11, 2008; 1:08 PM Lame as he is, President Bush is still being treated with extraordinary deference by Congressional Democrats, who caved to White House demands over a proposed $14 billion auto industry bailout. Senate Republicans, by contrast, are barely on speaking terms with the man. Rudderless [...]
13 Dec
A Return To Science
ENERGY A Return To Science According to the annual Climate Change Performance Index published yesterday, the United States has third-worst record on tackling greenhouse gas emissions, just beating Saudi Arabia. Annual greenhouse emissions are now 17 percent higher than they were in 1990. The Bush environmental record will be remembered as one that placed politics over science, neutered [...]
13 Dec
A 21st Century Veterans Affairs
VETERANS A 21st Century Veterans Affairs Yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama named ret. Army Gen. Eric Shinseki as his Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), promising “the kind of VA that will serve our veterans as well as they have served us.” Shinseki will face one of the country’s most daunting tasks: managing an institution already plagued [...]
