NYT’s Calmes Sees Obama’s Plan as Job Creator, Warns Stubborn GOP ‘Could Lose the House’
New York Times White House reporter Jackie Calmes and Binyamin Appelbaum reported Wednesday on Obama’s latest big-spending “stimulus” proposal, “ Bigger Economic Role for Washington ,” enthused that the chance of some of it coming law “could have a substantial effect on economic growth and unemployment….could add 100,000 to 150,000 jobs a month over the next year, according to estimates from several of the country’s best-known forecasting firms.” Calmes had consistently hyped the administration’s stream of vague, liberal spend-now-pay-later economic “plans,”only to see the proposals die in Congress. This front-page headline from her July 20 story captures her typical cheerleading tone: “ Bipartisan Plan For Budget Deal Buoys President – House Republicans Face Intensifying Pressure to Avoid Isolation .” (It has not aged well.)
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