One stimulus – no earmarks, but still pork … and fearmongering

In an AP story that will be a burr to the MSLBers, Obama’s stimulus bill gets a fine-toothed comb.

And, yes, something like a clean slightly less dirty coal plant in…. why, Illinois of all places, fits the definition of pork in my book.

That said, the AP story is craptacular later in the same paragraph. The Coast Guard needs, needs badly, new icebreakers; that’s not pork. Neither is federal R&D for better hybrid batteries.

But, the AP then gets it VERY right on the severity of the current problem vs. the Carter-Reagan recession.

Folks, we are more than 3 percentage points below the 10.8 percent unemployment rate of November and December 1982.

Stop your fearmongering.

Speaking of fearmongering, the AP catches BO claiming that Iran is building a nuclear weapon.

Oh, effing shit.

When you’ve already been critiqued from a more liberal point of view for being tardy on taking charge, it seems to me that adding even more cooks to the broth is a risk proposition.