Instead, she writes, Obama let the Democrat-controlled Congress loose on the stimulus bill, upsetting conservatives.
That venture was created in 2009, just in time to cash in on the stimulus.
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The House could vote on the stimulus bill as early as Thursday, with the Senate following Friday.
Take Japan, which was on the stimulus bandwagon for more than a decade.
Now, we increased it by a trillion dollars because of the spending that we had to make on the stimulus.
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Do you think it's just because it's almost 10 percent unemployment that the American people are so sour on the stimulus?
The Democrats claimed they have been working with Republicans on the stimulus.
That piggybacks on the stimulus program's efforts to stimulate advanced battery production.
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And then people watched this vote on the stimulus package in the House and they saw that not one Republican voted for it.
"This is the same kind of rush and spend strategy we saw on the stimulus bill, " is how Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell framed it on NBC.
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The Republican aides, however, said the vast majority of House Republicans are expected to oppose the package Wednesday but are optimistic they will secure some of the changes they want after the vote -- either through changes the Senate makes or in conference committee after the Senate votes on the stimulus.
As I said, the one concern I've got on the stimulus package in terms of the debate and listening to some of what's been said in Congress is that there seems to be a set of folks who -- I don't doubt their sincerity -- who just believe that we should do nothing.
In Maryland, tax collections in nearly every category are falling short of expectations, with dismal revenue projects putting more pressure on state legislators to balance the budget without relying on the federal stimulus package, CNN affiliate WBAL reported.
We're here on the back of stimulus, we're here on the back of no real alternatives for investors.
Japanese shares rose on the news of the stimulus with the Nikkei 225 index gaining 1.4%.
Congress has temporarily stalled on the fiscal stimulus package because of political ideologies.
The big question on the fiscal stimulus front is: What will China do?
"While the economic picture in the U.S. is getting better, the market is reliant on the knowledge that stimulus is still available if the situation were to worsen, " Mr. Taylor added.
The priority on shovel-ready projects means much of the infrastructure funding in the stimulus will be spent on the decidedly unglamorous work of fixing roofs, widening roads and repairing bridges.
How much influence the minority GOP will have on the final drafting of the stimulus plan is an open question.
In addition, there is such widespread agreement on the need for fiscal stimulus at the levels of hundreds of billions that it might, paradoxically, become politically easier to slip another large programme into the mix, especially one that benefits ordinary people rather than bankers.
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Mindful that recession may be coming, Democrats are now trying to boost spending on Medicaid, the government health scheme for the poor, by tacking on provisions to the big economic stimulus package wending its way through Congress.
On January 28th the stimulus bill passed in the House of Representatives without a single Republican vote.
President Bush today urged Republican members of Congress to act immediately on the new economic stimulus package.
Democrats made it clear that they plan to put their stamp on the massive economic stimulus bill.
Roswell has dozens of alien souvenir shops and bars selling alien beer, all capitalising on the extraterrestrial economic stimulus.
Mr Obama has been able to spend a lot of money on education through the stimulus bill of February 2009.
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The rise in borrowing costs could have a negative effect on the economy rather than the positive stimulus effect the Fed anticipated.
Will this work so that they're sort of advising him and updating him on how the first stimulus is working, what's happening out there?
Despite that glum assessment, Bernanke did not say that the Fed would embark on any new stimulus to help the economy.
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