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Dear Obama Friends,
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See you there,
Simone, your italian friend
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CONGRESS_STIMULUS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-02-13-13-30-56
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/business/economy/13insolvent.html?hp
By ARIEL HART
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The head of the largest roadwork company in Georgia said the federal stimulus might provide hundreds of jobs in his company alone.
Bill Hammack, president of C.W. Matthews Contracting Co., said he did not yet know the details of the final plan, but he was “cautiously optimistic” about the stimulus bill’s likely impact on the state’s transportation industry. “I hope it’s very positive for the transportation industry in Georgia and will let us re-employ several hundred people that we’ve had to lay off,” Hammack said. He said his company had laid off more than 500 full-time workers over the past year or so because of accounting and financial troubles at the Georgia Department of Transportation. “All of that has had a severe impact on the transportation industry in Georgia,” Hammack said.
In the end, his company’s work from the stimulus bill could depend on a number of factors, including what it could win in the bidding process, he added, but “obviously we welcome anything at this point.”
“The biggest thing I think we all are waiting to see is just how fast Congress can implement the process, start the flow of funds,” Hammack said. “And then these different governmental agencies that manage it, in our case the Georgia DOT, how fast they can react to reducing it from the money received to asphalt.”
Hammack acknowledged that the stimulus was a one-time shot in the arm, and said in the long term Georgia needed additional transportation funding like that being discussed in the General Assembly.
The White House projects the compromise bill will create 107,000 jobs in Georgia, according to an analysis it released Thursday.
Gov. Charlie Crist takes heat from Republicans for supporting stimulus package
By Adam C. Smith, Times Political Editor In Print: Friday, February 13, 2009
President Obama, left, is introduced by Gov. Charlie Crist at a meeting on Tuesday in Fort Myers. Many Republicans are unhappy Crist appeared with Obama.
[Associated Press]
Charlie Crist: statesman or sellout?
Democrats may be lavishing praise on Florida's Republican governor for enthusiastically supporting the Democrats' economic stimulus package, but Republicans are questioning whether Crist damaged his future in national politics.
"I don't think he's helped any national Republican ambitions he may have by stepping up to the plate and batting for the other team. … There's a difference between working in a bipartisan way for the common good and switching sides and putting on the other team's jersey," said veteran Republican consultant Alex Castellanos. "At the one moment when we've finally found our voice and remember who we are as Republicans, Charlie Crist forgets. It's stunning."
Crist's full-throated support evoked a rare rebuke from one of his closest political allies, Florida Sen. Mel Martinez, who said on the Senate floor that Crist didn't get it.
"I don't know that my governor understands all the details of this package — that there will be nothing here to help with Florida's housing economy," Martinez said stressing the need for more tax cuts.
Crist acknowledged that he hasn't seen all the details, but said Florida needs federal help, period.
Still, he is way out of the Republican mainstream in supporting the $789 billion stimulus package that won just three Republican votes in the Senate and zero in the House. Even moderate Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire withdrew his nomination as President Obama's commerce secretary Thursday because he could not support the stimulus package.
"It certainly hurts Charlie Crist with the Republican base. … There's a lot of energy among Republicans across the country in opposition to this. The fury that I have seen directed against Arlen Specter and the two Maine ladies is amazing," Pat Toomey, president of the conservative Club for Growth, said, referring to the three Republican senators who voted for the package.
Not a single Florida Republican in Congress supported it, but their public opposition is potentially tricky with Florida's most popular politician, Crist, all over TV lately touting his support. Crist was side by side with Obama in Fort Myers on Tuesday stressing how much help the package could be to Floridians in the midst of an economic crisis.
"They may not be saying it outright, but the Republican delegation is very angry. If they got Charlie Crist in a dark alley, all you'd have left is a tuft of white hair," said Ana Navarro, a Republican consultant from Miami, suggesting Crist has dampened enthusiasm for a potential Senate run in 2010.
"I've gotten about four or five calls from national Republican donors saying, 'What is this guy doing? Is he really thinking of running for Senate?' " Navarro said. "We're going to spend 30 to 40 million dollars to get a Republican elected to that Senate seat, and we could end up with a guy who's going to be the 60th vote for Democrats."
Recent polls show Crist remains enormously popular in Florida, with roughly two-thirds of voters approving of his job performance. He is especially popular among crucial independent voters, and almost nobody doubts his ability to easily win re-election as governor.
But some Republicans question whether GOP anger over the stimulus package could damage Crist's standing for a future presidential campaign or a 2010 U.S. Senate bid — Crist says he'll decide about the Senate after the legislative session ends in May — and many Republicans are seething about Crist joining Obama in Fort Myers.
"Every Republican in the state of Florida is wondering where his mind is. He's cooking his own goose," said Broward County Republican state committeeman Ed Kennedy. "I worked for him, campaigned for him, raised money for him. Now we're sitting back and saying, 'My God, what do we have here?' "
Just up the coast, at a Palm Beach County Republican Party meeting Wednesday night, one activist unsuccessfully pushed for a vote to censure Crist, according to the Palm Beach Post, which reported that his censure motion drew applause before being blocked on procedural grounds.
"You still have the same division in our party between the base who are extreme and the moderates who are interested in getting something done," said Republican operative and Crist supporter Roger Stone of Miami. "The extremists love purity. And they love losing elections."
Stone said the governor, reading the poll numbers, is betting that his position will continue to prove wildly popular with the average voter. Crist needs the federal money to roll into the state to help stave off unpopular budget cuts and even less popular tax increases.
Grover Norquist, the influential conservative leader of Americans for Tax Reform, said Crist should have been wary about embracing an 800-page bill he probably had not read and stands to be loaded with unpopular spending provisions that will surface over coming weeks and months.
"This is the bill that the Republican Party will be running against in 2010 and 2012 and 2014," Norquist predicted.
Presumably Crist won't be among those running against that bill. But if the governor has any misgivings about the politics of appearing with Obama, he sure isn't showing it.
"My concern is not about what's best for one party or the other. My concern is what's best for the state and what's best for the people of Florida," he said Thursday, when he invited a mostly Democratic group of African-American legislators to the Governor's Mansion to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the NAACP and the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
"This is our president, and I wanted to show support for what he's trying to do, to help our students in the classroom, the most vulnerable in our society who deserve health care and the infrastructure benefit that this will bring about," Crist said.
Times/Herald writers Steve Bousquet and Marc Caputo contributed to this report. Adam C. Smith can be reached at asmith@sptimes.com or (727)893-8241.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/12/15-stimulus-expenditures_n_166493.html
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Your italian friend,
Simone
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7825902.stm
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/the_chance_for_a_new_world_ord.html
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1863062_1863058,00.html
There is nothing in the United States Constitution that allows the U. S. Senate the clear-cut capacity to deny Roland Burris the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama. Indeed, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich seemed to be thumbing his nose at all of Illinois, if not all of the United States, by appointing Burris. As best we can tell, Burris has a clean political record and has done nothing wrong. Yet Blagojevich seems well on his way to being convicted of attempting to sell Barack Obama’s former Senate seat to the highest bidder.
After Burris was denied access to the Senate chambers on Tuesday January 6, 2009, black pundits of every ilk came out of the woodwork to claim that denying Burris his Senate seat was a blatant attempt to prevent an African-American from becoming a member of the United States Senate. I watched former Georgia State Senator, a founder of SNCC, and former chair of the NAACP Julian Bond attempt to make a case for racism. This was one of his least convincing arguments. For a moment, I wanted to cry.
Bond likened the blockade of Burris to the U. S. Senate to the one Bond received in the state of Georgia back in 1966. I was in kindergarten when a very young and dashing Julian Bond was denied admittance and acceptance to the Georgia State Senate because he had dared to speak out against the Vietnam War. He was bold, defiant; and he was right. Later in 1966 the Supreme Court ruled that the Georgia House of Representatives had denied Bond his right to freedom of speech, and further ordered Georgia’s House of Representatives to seat him. He took his seat in Georgia's House of Representatives in early 1967. Everyone in the state of Georgia and America were the better for it. Today Bond suggested that House Democrats surely must have considered that it might look racist to deny Burris entry to the Senate. I wanted to scream.
There is no evidence that Roland Burris is anything other than an upstanding and highly experienced public servant. What no one, including Julian Bond, seems to want to ask is why Burris would accept an appointment from a governor that has so clearly and blatantly violated the public trust? Why would Burris accept such an appointment from a governor who has refused to step down when propriety and decency demands that the people of Illinois would be best served if he did so? Burris cannot be ignorant of the evidence stacked against Blagojevich, even if Blagojevich has yet to be tried and convicted of his crimes.
It appears that some compromise between Burris and House Democrats has been reached. It appears he will be seated. However, he was not initially denied entry to the Senate because he is black; he was chosen by Blagojevich precisely because he was black and a member of a dying breed of black politician. In vulgar arrogance, Blagojevich knew he could count on old-guard black politicians to yell racism should Burris’ appointment be questioned; this is why he chose a 71-year-old Burris, rather than a younger, less-Illinois-politics-tethered individual to fill Obama’s vacant Senate seat. Many members of the black old-guard are proud of Obama. Yet far too many of them are scrambling for political capital and social relevancy as many of them erroneously hitched their political wagons to a Clinton nomination and presidency in the mistaken belief that a person with African ancestry could never occupy the highest office in the land. The old guard clings to an era that has passed and arguments that have long since lost any semblance of validity.
I fondly remember a young Julian Bond winning election to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1965. He was finally seated in 1966. I was proud of his actions then. Racism was blatant and visceral then; it is real, visceral, but often more inconspicuous now. An Obama presidency will not eliminate racism; he cannot make racism less severe. Yet Obama’s election will make confronting issues of race, racism, and race-baiting more complex; this is precisely why it is important to remember the lessons of the mid-1960s without confusing them with the lessons of 2009.
Copyright © 2009 by Leslye J Allen
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