Jim Cramer, “Greatest wealth destruction by a president.”
Robert Gibbs responds (giggling).
Cramer responds to Gibbs Here.
GOP Sen. John McCain’s amendment to strip the omni-pork package of an estimated 8,500 earmarks worth roughly $8 billion was defeated yesterday afternoon.
See yeas and nays Here.
Some of the same republicans voting against this, Snowe, Collins, Specter, among others.
Rewind:
“”During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidates Barack Obama and John McCain fought vigorously over who would be toughest on congressional earmarks.
“We need earmark reform,” Obama said in September during a presidential debate in Oxford, Miss. “And when I’m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.””
Dow up 149 points today closing at 6876.
Dow was 9000+ in January.
Posted: 03.04.09
