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President Barack Obama is deploying his Cabinet across the nation in an effort to calm the public as Democrats head into midterm elections.

A weeklong push to highlight the stimulus program’s first year was beginning with a trip yesterday by Vice President Joe Biden to visit Michigan to tour a jobs training program and a solar factory that both received Recovery Act dollars.  Biden is expected to urge Congress to pass a jobs bill to aid some of the 8.4M people who have lost their jobs.

Obama’s Democrat colleagues planned to support programs employing people under the $787B spending bill.  Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was touring a medical center in Georgia on Tuesday; Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was advocating stimulus projects in Virgina and Texas.

In all, senior administration officials are supposed to visit 35 communities before Friday to counter GOP claims the program has failed.  Obama plans to surround himself in Washington today with people who are employed due to the plan, then move on to Colorado and Nevada.

Obama’s political team is convinced that the projects across the nation could help Democrats ward off encouraged Republicans and their efforts to reclaim majorities in Congress.  Although voters have soured on the spending, individual components have bipartisan fans.

The tax cuts Democrats included in their bill have the backing of 70% of the public, according to a CNN poll in January.  Another 80% support the infrastructure investments, such as the water projects Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson plans to promote in Ohio tomorrow.

Notwithstanding, 56% of the public opposes the basic plan, according to the poll.

Biden is expected to give Obama a report Wednesday assessing the stimulus’ effects.

cf http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100216/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_stimulus_defense

Swearing to America that “this is only the beginning,” President Barack Obama announced over $8B in federal loan guarantees Tuesday for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in the nation in nearly thirty years.

Obama called this both essential and politically advantageous as he tries to put more charge into his energy agenda.  Obama called for comprehensive energy law that assigns a cost to the pollution of fuels, giving utility companies more incentive to switch to nuclear power.

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While most of Washington is still snowed in, the Senate is briefly in session.

In fact, Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Chuck Grassley, R-IA, have released a draft for a bipartisan jobs bill.

The total cost is $85B and its long-term prospects, both with rank and file Republicans and later on with House liberals, are unclear.  But it is bipartisan and aimed at stimulating job creation.

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When President Obama appeared at the House GOP retreat recently, he singled out Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the raking Republican on the House Budget Committee, as a Republican with serious ideas, although he disagrees with many of them.

Ryan asked the president if he could support a proposal he’s worked on with Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisc., for a line item veto.

Their proposal would be constitutional, Ryan said, keeping the “power of the purse” with Congress but giving the president the tool to pull out pork from legislation.

“It’s not going to solve our entire fiscal problem, but it kind of goes at the culture of spending, and it embarrasses a lot of the pork out of the budget,” Ryan said.  “If (Nebraska Democratic Sen.) Ben Nelson knew that the “Cornhusker Kickback” that he got for his state and only his state might have to be voted on independently later by his peers, he might not ask for it in the first place.  And, so that’s kind of the chilling effect on a lot of the waste and a lot of the deal cutting that’s going on around here that we think our deal will achieve.”

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After President Obama delivered his first State of the Union address, administration members broadcasted the president’s top priority:  unemployment.

However, the administration is not ignoring health care despite the president’s failure to mention the restructuring until nearly halfway into his speech, Vice President Joe Biden told “Good Morning America (GMA)”.

“The beginning of the speech was to remind everybody not to blame, but to remind everybody what we had to do the first year,” Biden said.  “We inherited an awful lot, and the president basically said, ‘Look, we had a lot to do and now that we got things stabilized, now is the time to focus on jobs.’”

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Why would Sarah Palin back a moderate like McCain when he is running against a strong conservative in J.D. Hayworth in the Arizona Senate race?  I don’t know the answer but I’m not happy about it!  I have always been a Palin supporter but never a McCain fan.    He’s to moderate for my liking.    J.D.  Hayworth however is strong on Border control and is backed by sheriff Joe Arpaio, which is good enough for me.

President Obama returns to Ohio, to Lorain, a small town he visited a couple of years ago.

He spoke at the National Gypsum plant, a drywall company, promoting an employment package that “must be done in a responsible way, without adding to the already obscene debt that has grown by $4Trillion under George Bush.”

He said he would “pay for every part of this job-creation agenda – by ending this war in Iraq that’s costing us billions, closing tax loopholes for corporations, putting a price on carbon pollution, and ending George Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.”

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Calling out “deadbeat companies” that are being given government contracts while owing taxes, President Obama signed a memo today to halt these corporations from collecting government contracts while they are “gaming the system.”

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Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

You and I have just witnessed one of the most corrupt legislative
sessions in American history.  Now we have learned that one of
the key “experts” pushing ObamaCare was also bought and paid for!
Please read below-  Mat
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