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[CS natureboy]

Former Obama ally and Dem congressman Davis switches to GOP

Published May 31, 2012
FoxNews.com

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Former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis is switching sides, abandoning his former ally President Obama to become a Republican -- lamenting that the country has "gone backward" since Obama took office.
Davis is making the announcement in the run-up to a possible congressional comeback in Virginia, though he says he has not yet made up his mind whether he'll challenge Democratic incumbent Rep. Gerry Connolly. He used to represent Alabama.
In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Davis explained the rationale behind his switch. He said he "took inventory" and decided "what we're doing is not working."
Davis said the government's policies are "counterproductive," suggested businesses were hurting and described economic growth as stagnant.
"Every time we think we're beginning to move forward, we fall backward," he said.
He also sounded a note of disenchantment with Obama.
"I supported President Obama four years ago because I wanted to see this country come together. I want us to change the way we talk to each other ... Unfortunately, we've gone backward on both fronts over the last several years."
He said Obama's "main offer" was that he could bring the country together, "and we've gone backward."
Democrats have blamed Republicans, particularly those in the House, for the persistently coarse political tone in Washington.
Davis left public office after losing in the Democratic primary in the 2010 race for Alabama governor.





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[CS natureboy]

U.S. Jobs Data Confirm Worst Fears: Employers Not Hiring Much

By David Schepp , Posted Jun 1st 2012 @ 10:10AM
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If you're thinking the labor market feels lousy, just released data from the federal government will bolster your suspicions.
The Labor Department said Friday that data from the nation's employers showed that they added only 69,000 jobs in May, far fewer than the 150,000 that analysts had expected, while a separate survey showed the U.S. unemployment rate ticked up a tenth of percent to 8.2 percent.
Worse, the government revised downward the number of jobs added in both April and March, meaning that the rosy expectations some analysts had for a robust year of employment growth have yet to develop.
The news likely has many job-seekers and labor-market watchers feeling like it's deja vu all over again. That's because the same phenomenon hit the U.S. economy in the months leading up to the last two summers.
That led New York Times Washington Bureau Chief David Leonhardt to opine via Twitter shortly after the report's release: "This is the jobs report that economists -- and the White House -- feared. For 3rd straight year, the spring slowdown has arrived."
The downward tick couldn't come at a worse time for the long-term unemployed -- those who've been out of work for 6 months or more.

http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/06...6pLid%3D166081

[RandyKnight]

Originally Posted by CS natureboy

Former Obama ally and Dem congressman Davis switches to GOP

Published May 31, 2012
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Is this guy the Black Real Life Dilbert?

[RandyKnight]

Originally Posted by CS natureboy

U.S. Jobs Data Confirm Worst Fears: Employers Not Hiring Much

By David Schepp , Posted Jun 1st 2012 @ 10:10AM
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If you're thinking the labor market feels lousy, just released data from the federal government will bolster your suspicions.
The Labor Department said Friday that data from the nation's employers showed that they added only 69,000 jobs in May, far fewer than the 150,000 that analysts had expected, while a separate survey showed the U.S. unemployment rate ticked up a tenth of percent to 8.2 percent.
Worse, the government revised downward the number of jobs added in both April and March, meaning that the rosy expectations some analysts had for a robust year of employment growth have yet to develop.
The news likely has many job-seekers and labor-market watchers feeling like it's deja vu all over again. That's because the same phenomenon hit the U.S. economy in the months leading up to the last two summers.
That led New York Times Washington Bureau Chief David Leonhardt to opine via Twitter shortly after the report's release: "This is the jobs report that economists -- and the White House -- feared. For 3rd straight year, the spring slowdown has arrived."
The downward tick couldn't come at a worse time for the long-term unemployed -- those who've been out of work for 6 months or more.

http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/06...6pLid%3D166081

So what's the problem....looks like from your picture only black folks are out of work.....and I guess all those others with no skills or education....


Hey look at the good side....oil is down to 80 bucks a barrel....

[stumbler]

Originally Posted by RandyKnight

Is this guy the Black Real Life Dilbert?

No he's just a defeated politician willing to do or say anything to get elected again

Originally Posted by RandyKnight

So what's the problem....looks like from your picture only black folks are out of work.....and I guess all those others with no skills or education....


Hey look at the good side....oil is down to 80 bucks a barrel....

Actually I think president Obama and the democrats are going to make political hay over it because the obstructionist conservative/Republican/Tea Baggers have blocked all their job creation proposals.

That's after they lied and ran on job creation two years ago. They just need to re-run some of those bullshit ads to get the point across.

[CS natureboy]

2012 State of the Union Lies


Just because there isn’t much fresh content doesn’t mean that their wasn’t any 2012 State of the Union Lies. Here’s a GOP recap of Obama’s Rhetoric this year compared to the promises of yesteryear:

In reality most of Obama’s promises have just resulted in Obama Failures or a failure for the country. So although Obama talks a good game about the future of America he’s failed over and over in the past. Obama talked about energy independence but failed to approve the keystone pipeline. Obama scolded colleges for their high tuition rates but approves the government subsidies of college tuition. Obama praises the military while his policies will be firing thousands of them. Obama speaks of how he wants to work with business owners to help create new jobs but then recommends a new tax to double the amount that millionaire business owners would pay that could have been used to create jobs. Obama must have been referring to working with business owners to create government jobs.
And Obama wasn’t shy about how much he likes government Jobs. He touted the success of Government Motors (GM) although Ford is thriving without being subsidized by a bailout and Toyota had a literal Tsunami to deal with this year. Although he hasn’t taken over all of the private sector he decided last night to take credit for all of the job increases saying that losses occurred, “before our policies were in full effect.”
One stat that wasn’t mentioned was how Obama’s managed to have more people on food stamps than ever before – an actual stat that you can attribute to the government as they actually put out ads encouraging people to use food stamps.

http://obamalies.net/2012-state-of-the-union-lies.html

[CS natureboy]

Obama Lies About Ohio Bridge Repairs For a Second Time

May 4, 2012 | Filed under 2012 Presidential Race,Barack Obama,Big government,corruption,Culture Of Corruption,Democrats,Economics,Liberals,Media,Obama Regime | Posted by Warner Todd Huston
Apparently Obama and his administration operate under that old, underhanded adage that if you tell a lie long enough and loud enough it becomes “truth” because Obama has done it again by lying about how his jobs bill was to have been instrumental in the repairs of bridges that span the Ohio River.
Back in September President Obama had another one of his campaign rallies disguised as a press conference in downtown Cincinnati in front of the Brent Spence Bridge, a span that connects Ohio and Kentucky. At that time he claimed that his jobs bill and stimulus money was to pay for much needed repairs on the bridge. Afterward, newspaper fact-checkers in Cincy as well as Washington DC noted that Obama’s claims were simply untrue, no stimulus money was going to any of the bridges over the Ohio river, much less the Brent Spence.
The scolding of the media doesn’t seem to have deterred Obama, however, for this week he’s done it again. Lied about how his stimulus money and jobs bill cash was to go to repair bridges across the river.
Back in September, the Washington Post’s Fact Checker blog gave Obama its Three Pinocchios rating for his false claims. Today the WaPo has upped the ante giving Obama’s claims four Pinocchios for his newest assertions, this time campaign rhetoric that Republicans are making the bridges unsafe by blocking his big spending plans.
On April 30 in remarks made at a D.C. conference of the AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades Department, Obama made the direct claim that Republicans “said no” to his jobs bill and this, he said, was making the bridges across the Ohio unsafe. At the conference he said:

I sent them a jobs bill that would have put hundreds of thousands of construction workers back to work repairing our roads, our bridges, schools, transit systems, along with saving the jobs of cops and teachers and firefighters, creating a new tax cut for businesses. They said no. I went to the Speaker’s hometown, stood under a bridge that was crumbling. Everybody acknowledges it needs to be rebuilt. Maybe he doesn’t drive anymore. Maybe he doesn’t notice how messed up it was. They still said no. There are bridges between Kentucky and Ohio where some of the key Republican leadership come from, where folks are having to do detours an extra hour, hour-and-a-half drive every day on their commute because these bridges don’t work. They still said no.”

But is any of this true? The WaPo says no. The Post fact-checker said he understood the need for symbolism but that need “does not give a president license to stretch the facts.”
Obama’s lies this time were even more egregious than those of last September. Last time Obama simply made vague claims that he was going to fix the Brent Spence Bridge — claims that were not true as his federal money outlays were not going to that bridge in the first place.
But this time he’s gone full-on liar-liar with his campaign rhetoric that the Republicans have actually blocked funding that was to go to bridge repairs.
In his remarks to the union thugs, Obama alluded to a bridge that “won’t work” implying that it has been shut down. The only bridge across the Ohio that fits this description is the Sherman Milton Bridge that connects Indiana and Kentucky near Louisville. A crack was discovered in that bridge last year but, as it happens, it was discovered that this crack had been there since 1962. Further, the bridge was quickly repaired and none of Obama’s jobs bill money or stimulus cash was used.
As the WaPo notes, “While Obama claimed ‘these bridges don’t work,’ the Sherman Milton Bridge has already been repaired, ahead of schedule, and motorists are driving over it again.”
Finally, Obama’s claim that it was only Republicans that blocked his jobs bill is also simply untrue. The bill he was touting at the time had bipartisan opposition and couldn’t even get past his Democrat controlled Senate.
The WaPo concludes:

Calling out the Republicans at the Brent Spence bridge was bad enough, given the bipartisan support for its reconstruction. But pointing to the Sherman Milton Bridge, which already has been repaired without funding from the president’s jobs bill, is ridiculous.
Perhaps the president was using outdated talking points, but that’s little excuse. Given that the president earned Three Pinocchios before, we have little choice but to up the ante this time.

Once again we see a president that makes outright false claims over and over again imagining that if he just says the lies enough people won’t notice that he’s lying any more. Still, Obama does know one thing. He knows that most news outlets will uncritically report his words as “news” without noting where he is lying and voters will hear his fantasy “facts” and imagine that he is telling them the truth.
In that case, he’s right. All he has to do is tell any lie he wants and most of the time his words will be taken as fact whether they are or not. Bloomberg, for one, never noted that Obama lied in its report. Neither did ABC News. And neither did the National Journal which happily noted Obama’s attacks on Republicans but didn’t note his lies. In fact, only the WaPo Fact-Checker noted his outright lies at the union event. Many other followed suit reporting Obama’s words as if his claims were legitimate political points.
As Obama’s preceding ideological father once said, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
http://wizbangblog.com/2012/05/04/ob...a-second-time/

[CS natureboy]

Economic Dread Rocks Wall Street; Dow Surrenders 2012 Advance

By Adam Samson
Published June 01, 2012
FOXBusiness

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Market participants bolted out of risky equity and commodity markets on Friday amid fresh evidence that many of the world’s biggest economies are losing momentum at a dramatic pace. The blue chips erased their 2012 rally and the broader S&P 500 tumbled to the brink of correction territory.
Today's Markets
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 275 points, or 2.2%, to 12119, the S&P 500 tumbled 32.3 points, or 2.5%, to 1278 and the Nasdaq Composite sold off by 79.9 points, or 2.8%, to 2747.
The selling was quite broad on the day, with every Dow component and S&P 500 sector closing in the red. There were close to 13 trades in declining shares for each one in an advancing share. Meanwhile, volatility lurched higher by nearly 11%. Commodities weren't spared from the intense selling, with oil plunging close to 4% in its worst day since earlier this month.
Traders took shelter in only the safest asset classes, such as U.S. Treasury bonds. The yield on the 10-year plummeted 0.113-percentage point to 1.467%.
The U.S. economy added 69,000 jobs in May, the least in a year, and far less than the 150,000 economists expected. The job growth for April was also revised down to 77,000 from 115,000.Meanwhile, the unemployment rate unexpectedly climbed to 8.2% from 8.1% the month before. Digging into the report, the private sector tacked on 82,000 jobs, far short of the 160,000 expected, while the government shed 13,000 jobs.
"There is virtually nothing positive in this report if you are trying to build a case for an economy that is supposed to be in 'recovery' mode and gaining momentum," Tom Porcelli, chief U.S. economist at RBC Capital Markets wrote in a note to clients.
A report from the Institute for Supply Management showed the expansion in the U.S. manufacturing sector slowing down in May from April. The PMI gauge came in at 53.5 from 54.8. The index was expected to drop to 53.9. A separate report from the Commerce Department showed construction spending rose 0.3% in April on a month-to-month basis, slightly shy of the 0.4% that was expected.
Every major sector was to the downside, but financials were taking the biggest thrashing. The S&P 500 fell beneath its 200-day moving average, a key technical support level, for the first time since December.
Adding to the gloomy sentiment, the manufacturing sector in the eurozone contracted at the swiftest pace in nearly three years, according to a closely-watched survey by Markit in London.
Of particular concern to many market participants was that Germany, Europe's biggest economy, which has been generally resilient to headwinds from the debt crisis, saw its biggest deterioration in manufacturing since June 2009. That is an indication, analysts say, that the debt debacle is bleeding into core economies. A separate report from Eurostat showed the unemployment rate across the eurozone was steady at 11%, a record high, in April.
"Eurozone manufacturers reported a deepening downturn in May, indicating that the damage to the real economy caused by the region’s financial and political crises continues to spread across the region," Markit chief economist Chris Williamson said in a statement accompanying the report.
China's official gauge of its manufacturing sector deteriorated sharply in May from April. A slowdown for the world's second-biggest economy also failed to inspire confidence among market participants.
The Euro Stoxx 50 dropped 2.3% and Germany's DAX plunged 3.1%.
Commodities markets were sharply lower. The benchmark crude oil contract traded in New York slid $3.30, or 3.8%, to $83.23 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline dropped 2.4% to $2.66 a gallon.
In metals, gold soared $57.90, or 3.7%, to $1,622 a troy ounce.
Foreign Markets
The Euro Stoxx 50 dropped 2.3%, the English FTSE 100 slid 1.2% to 5258 and the German DAX plunged 3.1% to 6071.
In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei 225 sold off by 1.2% to 8440 and the Chinese Hang Seng dipped 0.38% to 18558.





Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2...#ixzz1waA7m5JH

[stumbler]

Obama, Democrats Blame ‘Do-Nothing Congress’ For Job Woes

President Obama and his supporters are well aware that Friday’s jobs report is an ugly mess. But they’re trying to gain the high ground by shifting attention to Congress, highlighting a number of White House jobs proposals that have languished under the GOP-controlled House of Representatives.

In a trip to a Honeywell factory in Minnesota Friday, Obama responded to the dismal news with a speech demanding Congress take action on a variety of measures, including infrastructure investments and aid to state and local governments to prevent teachers, firefighters and police from being laid off, that Republicans have thus far opposed. He also announced a new initiative to encourage private employers to hire returning veterans.

“We’ve got responsibilities that are bigger than an election,” Obama said. “We’ve got responsibilities to you. So my message to Congress is: Now is not the time to play politics, now is not the time to sit on your hands, the American people expect their leaders to work hard no matter what year it is.”

While “the economy still isn’t where it needs to be,” Obama said that enacting his proposals “can make a difference right now.” He also added that, even if the economy perks up, they could provide a “buffer” if things worsen in Europe.

“Look, we can’t fully control everything that happens in other parts of the world — disturbances in the Middle East, what’s going on in Europe,” Obama said, “but there are plenty of things we can control here at home. There are plenty of steps we can take right now to help create jobs and grow this economy.”

[ace's n 8's]

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No he's just a defeated politician willing to do or say anything to get elected again

Just like Romney.........

Actually I think president Obama and the democrats are going to make political hay over it because the obstructionist conservative/Republican/Tea Baggers have blocked all their job creation proposals.

Did the Republicans block the ''STIMULUS PACKAGE''??,,as I recall,Obama's stimulus was to create millions of jobs, keep the unemployment rate below 8%,,,,,,,,,,seems like the proposal didn't work real well for Obama and his henchmen/women.......

That's after they lied and ran on job creation two years ago. They just need to re-run some of those bullshit ads to get the point across.

The Senate has totally stalled and tabled all of the republicans job creating proposals, along with that,,the left has not even passed a budget, let alone a budget that will slow spending, create a prosperous economy and gain the trust of the people,,which they desperately need.

[ace's n 8's]

Originally Posted by stumbler

Obama, Democrats Blame ‘Do-Nothing Congress’ For Job Woes

More leftist horseshit, lies, and blame everyone else............

The left is in trouble,,and the best thing about that,,,,,,,is,, the leftists know it...........

[stumbler]

Originally Posted by ace's n 8's

Just like Romney.........

You said it and I agree.

Originally Posted by ace's n 8's

Did the Republicans block the ''STIMULUS PACKAGE''??,,as I recall,Obama's stimulus was to create millions of jobs, keep the unemployment rate below 8%,,,,,,,,,,seems like the proposal didn't work real well for Obama and his henchmen/women.......

Ace why do you insist on telling the same old tired worn out lies over and over and over again.

CBO: Stimulus added up to 3.3M jobs

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68965.html

President Obama pushed through the stimulus "based on the promise of keeping unemployment under 8 percent."

Our ruling

Cantor said Obama’s stimulus was passed with the "promise" of keeping the unemployment rate below 8 percent.

The majority leader says the vow was made in a January 2009 report issued by the incoming administration. But the study did not guarantee specific results from the stimulus, it offered economic projections that contained disclaimers saying the estimates had "significant margins of error" and a high degree of uncertainty due to a recession that was "unusual both in its fundamental causes and severity."

Clearly, the Obama administration can be faulted for estimating the stimulus would hold unemployment just below 8 percent. But contrary to Cantor’s claim, Obama never promised that outcome, nor did his administration.

Again, we rate the statement Mostly False.

http://www.politifact.com/virginia/s...ould-keep-une/

Originally Posted by ace's n 8's

The Senate has totally stalled and tabled all of the republicans job creating proposals, along with that,,the left has not even passed a budget, let alone a budget that will slow spending, create a prosperous economy and gain the trust of the people,,which they desperately need.

That's because the conservative/Republican/Tea Baggers in congress are too busy thumping their bibles and conducting their war on women to come up with any REAL job creation proposals.

And despite one disappointing jobs report President Obama has already created millions more jobs than President Bush did.

CHART: Bush Vs. Obama On Private And Public Sector Job Creation

Even with today’s disappointing and troubling jobs report, private sector job creation under President Obama has far exceeded private sector job creation under President Bush. 40 months into his presidential term, there are currently more private sector jobs in the economy than when Obama came into office. At the same point in President Bush’s term, the total number of private sector jobs was still down 1.7 percent from where it began.


The numbers are even starker when measuring each president’s record from the moment job creation returned. Private sector job creation returned in February of 2010, the 13th month of President Obama’s term. Since then, the economy has added 4.3 million private sector jobs, a 4 percent increase.


Under President Bush, the economy stopped shedding private sector jobs in July of 2003, fully 30 months into his administration. From that point until May of 2004, the economy added just 1.5 million private sector jobs, an increase of only 1.4 percent.


But there is one area of job creation where President Bush clearly outshines President Obama: the public sector. Public sector employment is now down 608,000 workers since January 2009, a 2.7 percent decline. At the same point in President Bush’s term, public sector employment was up 3.7 percent. If, over the past 40 months, public sector employment had grown at the same pace as it did in President Bush’s first term, there would be 1.4 million additional people at work right now. That’d be enough to bring the unemployment rate down by nearly a full percentage point.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...h-jobs-record/

Originally Posted by ace's n 8's

More leftist horseshit, lies, and blame everyone else............

The left is in trouble,,and the best thing about that,,,,,,,is,, the leftists know it...........

You are the only one telling lies here Ace as I just proved.

[ace's n 8's]

[QUOTE=stumbler;5111168]

You said it and I agree.

I'm not afraid to share the love towards that flip flopping RINO.

Ace why do you insist on telling the same old tired worn out lies over and over and over again.

CBO: Stimulus added up to 3.3M jobs

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68965.html

President Obama pushed through the stimulus "based on the promise of keeping unemployment under 8 percent."

C'mon now fella,,let's tell the actual truth;

Buried within the Congressional Budget Office's most recent report on the progress of President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was a surprising admission: the CBO now estimates the stimulus might have been only half as effective as previously thought.

You wouldn't know it from the headlines. "Stimulus added up to 3.3M jobs," reads a representative piece from Politico reporting on the November CBO report. This headline is accurate for the high-end estimate. That estimate, however, is essentially unchanged from previous reports. In the past, the CBO's low estimate for jobs "created or saved" was 1.2 million which, in this report, has dropped to only 600,000.

A particularly unusual requirement in the stimulus was that the CBO issue regular reports on its estimates of the legislation's economic effectiveness. Standard neo-Keynesian macroeconomics, to which the CBO has long seemed to subscribe in its economic modeling, posits that government spending creates a "multiplier effect" that ripples throughout the economy and creates more growth than it would normally appear to. The CBO's newest report cuts one of their estimates in half, validating conservative criticism that they've been overestimating the effect of the stimulus.

If the debate about the law was shaped by the possibility that a $825 billion spending law would yield only six hundred thousand jobs, the debate may have been a lot different. Over $1.3 million dollars per job "created or saved?" That's not a number that Democrats are eager to be touting on Capitol Hill.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities put together a chart representing the CBO's revised estimates:

It might be difficult to find those who would argue that the stimulus was worth it if the CBO's new low-end estimate of jobs "created or saved" is accurate. The left will always have Paul Krugman and similar ideologically-aligned colleagues arguing that the CBO is wrong, that the economic multipliers are higher, and that the CBO is actually underestimating the growth that comes from a massive injection of government money into the economy. The problem for Krugman et. al is that the economics on such undertakings are far from settled.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2820286/posts

That's because the conservative/Republican/Tea Baggers in congress are too busy thumping their bibles and conducting their war on women to come up with any REAL job creation proposals.

And despite one disappointing jobs report President Obama has already created millions more jobs than President Bush did.

CHART: Bush Vs. Obama On Private And Public Sector Job Creation

Throughout all the distortions that the administration and the leftists media claim are 'facts',,unemployment remains at an embarrassingly high rate for Obama.

In May, the private sector added a paltry 82,000 jobs in the twenty-seventh consecutive month of private sector job growth. This development is somewhat negative news. The country had a net employment gain of only 69,000 total jobs (private and public). Unfortunately, 69,000 is below the 125,000 jobs needed each month just to keep pace with the growth of the working-age population, which is discouraging news.

In other words, the unemployment rate in all 41 months of Obama’s presidency has been higher than that of any single month in President Bush’s 8 years in office.

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined from 8.5% to 8.3% — the second lowest month of unemployment during the Obama presidency. This number remains 1.0 percentage points worse than President Bush’s last full month in office in December 2008. It also marks 36 consecutive months in which the unemployment rate has been 8% or higher in the 37th month of the Obama presidency.

http://reflectionsofarationalrepubli...012-jobs-data/

You are the only one telling lies here Ace as I just proved.

OH FUCK ME,,,,,,,,,,,,,,you think using the thinkprogress.org website is making me out to be a lying conniving conservative??,,,as usual,, the the contrary is typically and generally proven,,,you leftists are the ones that are telling the lies, along with cherry picking the 'facts'.

[stumbler]

Originally Posted by ace's n 8's

I'm not afraid to share the love towards that flip flopping RINO.

C'mon now fella,,let's tell the actual truth;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2820286/posts

All you did here is prove you were lying by your own admission. Even by the cherry picked figures from the free republic the stimulus created more than a million jobs and again the CBO says over 3 million.

And no one in the Obama Administration promised the stimulus would hold unemployment below 8%.

Originally Posted by ace's n 8's

Throughout all the distortions that the administration and the leftists media claim are 'facts',,unemployment remains at an embarrassingly high rate for Obama.



http://reflectionsofarationalrepubli...012-jobs-data/

Yes it does because the obstructionist conservative/Republican/Tea Baggers in congress are doing everything in their power to make the nation fail and the people suffer just so President Obama and the Democrats don't succeed.

And I'm not the only saying that:

Congressional scholars: Republican Party ‘has veered off the tracks’

Congressional scholars Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein have a new book out that flies in the face of the conventional media narrative by blaming the Republicans for the lion’s share of Washington gridlock and blasting what they call “asymmetrical polarization.”


The book describes the Republican Party as “an insurgent outlier … ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”


The authors of It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism, who have found themselves ostracized by the Sunday morning shows where they had always previously been welcome, appeared Sunday on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes to discuss the book.


Mann explained that the separation of powers provided for by our Constitution deliberately creates a situation in which that Congressional majorities are unable to act without some degree of cooperation with the other party. Now that “one of those political parties has veered off the tracks” and become “aggressively oppositional,” it has many tools available to prevent legislation from being passed or enforced.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/0...ff-the-tracks/

Originally Posted by ace's n 8's

OH FUCK ME,,,,,,,,,,,,,,you think using the thinkprogress.org website is making me out to be a lying conniving conservative??,,,as usual,, the the contrary is typically and generally proven,,,you leftists are the ones that are telling the lies, along with cherry picking the 'facts'.

No actually you've proven yourself to be a liar telling the same old worn out conservative lies Ace. I didn't to that to you you did it too yourself. And besides that no one quoting the Rational Republican and the Free Republic has a reason to bitch about the left wing sources I use which you have failed to prove wrong Ace.

[stumbler]

Mitt Romney is Running for Bush's Third Term

http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/m...shs-third-term


Nuff said.

[thikdik]

SCOTT WALKER IS KICKING ASS IN WISCOSIN, NOW THAT IS HALARIOUS.

[thikdik]

Congratulations Wisconsin.

[stumbler]

Originally Posted by thikdik

SCOTT WALKER IS KICKING ASS IN WISCOSIN, NOW THAT IS HALARIOUS.

Originally Posted by thikdik

Congratulations Wisconsin.

Congratulations to you as well. Money wins again.

[thikdik]

Originally Posted by stumbler

Congratulations to you as well. Money wins again.

A page out of the Obama playbook.

[CS natureboy]

Looks like the loser Democrats got their ass kicked again in Wisconsin!

[thikdik]

and they are crying like babies.

[CS natureboy]

Originally Posted by thikdik

and they are crying like babies.

They will really be crying when we the people kick Obama out of office this November!

[stumbler]

Harry Reid Accuses Eric Cantor Of Economic Sabotage

If economic growth continues to slow ahead of the election, Democrats’ pitch to voters may have to sharpen as the party’s odds of victory in the presidential and congressional elections would likely worsen.


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) floated one possible trial balloon Tuesday afternoon when he accused House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) of deliberately sabotaging the economy for partisan gain.


“You have heard, as I’ve heard, that there’s a battle going on between Cantor and [House Speaker John] Boehner as to whether or not there should be a [highway] bill,” Reid told reporters. “Cantor, of course — I’m told by others that he wants to not do a bill to make the economy worse, because he feels that’s better for them. I hope that’s not true.”


It’s a theory that progressives have grown sympathetic to as Republicans make it ever-more difficult for President Obama to govern and thwart initiatives in Congress to stimulate the economy. Democratic operatives have loosely floated the claim in broad ways by suggesting the GOP is hoping for economic failure, but Reid’s pointed accusation took it to a new level.


And it provoked a speedy, incredulous response from Cantor’s office.
“Leader Reid’s claims are ridiculous and patently false,” said Cantor’s spokeswoman Laena Fallon via email. “Rather than making up stories that have no basis in reality, Leader Reid should follow the House’s example and focus on pro-growth measures that will get the economy going and get people back to work.”


Nor was Boehner’s office about to let Reid’s remark slide. “That’s bullshit,” said his spokesman Michael Steel. “House Republicans are united in our desire to get a sensible, reform-minded transportation bill done, including job-creating energy initiatives like Keystone.”


Faced with grim economic news, the White House is experimenting with a similar theory.


“It’s not okay to simply root for failure and hope it pays off politically,” spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Monday, when asked why Congress isn’t passing Obama’s stimulus measures.


Reid’s remarks were nominally about the highway bill that passed the Senate in March on an unusually bipartisan vote of 77-24, seeking to keep alive major transportation projects. But House Republicans have refused to accept it, and forced a short-term, scaled back measure that expires at the end of June. Disputes have since lingered on how to proceed.


Fallon pointed out that last Friday, Cantor said he was “hopeful” that the House and Senate could resolve their differences on the legislation. “But, again, very mindful we don’t want to allow for any shutdown of any program at the end of this month,” he said.


Reid reminded reporters Tuesday that “millions of jobs” are at stake.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2...ref=fpnewsfeed

[xnxxbob]

Gotta love this.........

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1572069.html

[stumbler]

Originally Posted by xnxxbob

Gotta love this.........

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1572069.html

Too bad for you Clinton is not the president.

Obama: Bush Tax Cuts For Wealthy Will Not Be Extended, Period

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1574165.html

And besides Clinton is now clarifying his remarks.

As Clinton’s comments reverberated around the country, the former president’s office issued this statement late Tuesday:


“Two questions have been raised regarding President Clinton’s interview on CNBC today. First, on extending the Bush tax cuts, as President Clinton has said many times before, he supported extending all of the cuts in 2010 as part of the budget agreement, but does not believe the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans should be extended again.


“In the interview, he simply said that he doubted that a long-term agreement on spending cuts and revenues would be reached until after the election. Second, on the current condition of the economy, he said at the top of the interview that the main goal for those in Washington was ‘to keep the expansion going.’


“Later, in the interview, he said government spending levels were higher and revenues were lower than they would normally be because there was a recession and we’re still living with the aftermath of it. It’s obvious since we’ve had 4.3 million new private sector jobs in the last 27 months that we’re not in a recession, even though we’d all like growth to be higher.”

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_...bush_tax_cuts/

[CS natureboy]

Can you say one term Obama?

[CS natureboy]

Fast & Furious amnesia hits Attorney General Eric Holder during House testimony

Published June 07, 2012
FoxNews.com

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  April 2, 2012: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at a forum in Washington. (AP)
  

Attorney General Eric Holder frustrated his most fierce Capitol Hill accuser and other GOP lawmakers Thursday when asked about the Justice Department’s Fast and Furious weapons sting and which high-ranking Obama administration officials knew about the botched operation.
Holder sidestepped questions by GOP Rep. Darrell Issa about whether he or other Justice Department officials had even started to pull together Fast and Furious documents requested in an October 2011 subpoena Issa sent the agency.
“Nothing has come from your department, not a shred of paper” Issa said tersely during a House Judiciary Committee meeting.
Issa, R-Calif., is a member of the committee. He also is the chairman of the chamber’s Committee on Oversight and Government Affairs, from which he issued the subpoena. The requests were largely related to an ill-conceived and executed Fast and Furious tactic known as “gunwalking,” which has been linked to the 2010 death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
“You are not a good witness,” Issa said in frustration, after Holder essentially repeated his questions.
When admonished for not letting Holder answer questions and taking a sharp tone, Issa replied, “I applaud there was hostility,” frustrated he had only five minutes to ask questions.
Issa has vowed to hold Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to respond to the subpoena. Holder has testified has said he has given congressional investigators the requisite information.
On Monday, Issa released information about six wiretap applications that he says proves high-ranking Justice Department officials knew about the gunwaking tactic.
Issa says the applications were signed by Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, Holder’s second in command.
The Obama administration has repeated said high-level Justice Department officials had no specific knowledge of the gunwalking tactic.
Holder has testified at least seven times before Congress on Fast and Furious and has acknowledged the program’s failures.
“We now know … inappropriate tactics were used in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal guns across the Southwest border,” he said Thursday in opening remarks. “Although these law enforcement operations … were focused on the laudable goal of dismantling illegal gun trafficking networks, they were flawed in both concept and execution.”
The Justice Department responded to Issa’s interpretation of the wiretap applications in a letter saying the agency disagrees with his assertion but is “legally prohibited from commenting on the content of sealed court documents."
The gunwalking tactic had the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Arizona stage gun sales across the Mexico border with alleged arms dealers, with the hope that the thousands of weapons would lead to organizers of drug cartels. However, the gun purportedly were used in street crimes, and one was allegedly found after a shootout in which U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed.
In another tense exchange Thursday, GOP Rep. Lamar Smith asked Holder whether he or anybody else told the White House about so-called “gunwalking tactic” after it appeared to contribute to the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, Holder replied “I don’t know.”
The exchanged occurred during a hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee, on which Smith is the chairman.
“When was anyone in the White House informed of the tactics used under Operation Fast and Furious?” asked Smith, R-Texas.
Holder replied: “I don't know.”
When Smith asked Holder if he personally told the White House, Holder replied: “There was contact between staff. .. I don't myself remember any direct contact.”





Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz1x7tVI2Rd

[stumbler]

Originally Posted by CS natureboy

Fast & Furious amnesia hits Attorney General Eric Holder during House testimony

Published June 07, 2012
FoxNews.com

• 
  April 2, 2012: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at a forum in Washington. (AP)

Attorney General Eric Holder frustrated his most fierce Capitol Hill accuser and other GOP lawmakers Thursday when asked about the Justice Department’s Fast and Furious weapons sting and which high-ranking Obama administration officials knew about the botched operation.
Holder sidestepped questions by GOP Rep. Darrell Issa about whether he or other Justice Department officials had even started to pull together Fast and Furious documents requested in an October 2011 subpoena Issa sent the agency.
“Nothing has come from your department, not a shred of paper” Issa said tersely during a House Judiciary Committee meeting.
Issa, R-Calif., is a member of the committee. He also is the chairman of the chamber’s Committee on Oversight and Government Affairs, from which he issued the subpoena. The requests were largely related to an ill-conceived and executed Fast and Furious tactic known as “gunwalking,” which has been linked to the 2010 death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
“You are not a good witness,” Issa said in frustration, after Holder essentially repeated his questions.
When admonished for not letting Holder answer questions and taking a sharp tone, Issa replied, “I applaud there was hostility,” frustrated he had only five minutes to ask questions.
Issa has vowed to hold Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to respond to the subpoena. Holder has testified has said he has given congressional investigators the requisite information.
On Monday, Issa released information about six wiretap applications that he says proves high-ranking Justice Department officials knew about the gunwaking tactic.
Issa says the applications were signed by Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, Holder’s second in command.
The Obama administration has repeated said high-level Justice Department officials had no specific knowledge of the gunwalking tactic.
Holder has testified at least seven times before Congress on Fast and Furious and has acknowledged the program’s failures.
“We now know … inappropriate tactics were used in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal guns across the Southwest border,” he said Thursday in opening remarks. “Although these law enforcement operations … were focused on the laudable goal of dismantling illegal gun trafficking networks, they were flawed in both concept and execution.”
The Justice Department responded to Issa’s interpretation of the wiretap applications in a letter saying the agency disagrees with his assertion but is “legally prohibited from commenting on the content of sealed court documents."
The gunwalking tactic had the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Arizona stage gun sales across the Mexico border with alleged arms dealers, with the hope that the thousands of weapons would lead to organizers of drug cartels. However, the gun purportedly were used in street crimes, and one was allegedly found after a shootout in which U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed.
In another tense exchange Thursday, GOP Rep. Lamar Smith asked Holder whether he or anybody else told the White House about so-called “gunwalking tactic” after it appeared to contribute to the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, Holder replied “I don’t know.”
The exchanged occurred during a hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee, on which Smith is the chairman.
“When was anyone in the White House informed of the tactics used under Operation Fast and Furious?” asked Smith, R-Texas.
Holder replied: “I don't know.”
When Smith asked Holder if he personally told the White House, Holder replied: “There was contact between staff. .. I don't myself remember any direct contact.”





Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz1x7tVI2Rd

Witch Hunt: Right-Winger Issa Plans Hundreds of Partisan Investigations of White House


Rep. Darrell Issa (R), the right-wing Californian, has been chomping at the bit for two years to become the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and in the new year, he'll get his chance.


But before he takes the gavel, Issa appears to be launching "an apparent charm offensive," hoping to convince the political establishment that he's really not as crazy as he's appeared. Remember when he compared the White House job offer to Joe Sestak to "Watergate"? Issa says he no longer intends to look into it. Remember when he told Rush Limbaugh that President Obama is "one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times"? Issa says he no longer believes that.


So we should expect a kinder, gentler Darrel Issa in 2011? Don't count on it.

California Rep. Darrell Issa is already eyeing a massive expansion of oversight for next year, including hundreds of hearings; creating new subcommittees; and launching fresh investigations into the bank bailout, the stimulus and, potentially, health care reform.


Issa told POLITICO in an interview that he wants each of his seven subcommittees to hold "one or two hearings each week."
"I want seven hearings a week, times 40 weeks," Issa said.
Issa is also targeting some ambitious up-and-comers like Reps. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, Patrick McHenry of North Carolina and Jim Jordan of Ohio -- all aggressive partisans -- to chair some of his subcommittees.


He also wants to organize aggressive oversight beyond his committee and plans to refer inquiries to other House panels, drawing even more incoming GOP chairmen to the cause of investigating the executive branch.

It's the equivalent of a full-employment plan for D.C. lawyers. Issa will be handing out subpoenas like he's handing out candy on Halloween. When former President Bill Clinton, who knows a little something about GOP witch hunts, said in September Republicans would pursue "two years of unrelenting investigations," he knew what he was talking about.


To put it in perspective, the outgoing chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), was pretty aggressive towards the end of the Bush/Cheney administration, holding 203 oversight hearings in two years. Issa intends to hold 280 oversight hearings in 2011 alone.


This would be less disconcerting if Issa were more responsible, but he's not. Just yesterday, the far-right Californian told ABC that the Obama administration "received $700 billion worth of walking around money in the stimulus and used it just that way.... I think his administration has a lot of explaining where the $700 billion went."


Of course, this is pretty nonsensical. The Recovery Act has been entirely transparent, with unprecedented levels of accountability -- there's even a website to account for every dollar spent. Despite its size, the stimulus has "strikingly few claims of fraud or abuse" precisely because the administration has been so assiduous on this. Issa makes it sound like no one knows where the money went -- but that's backwards.


Worse, this notion that the Recovery Act was made up of "walking around money" suggests Issa doesn't even pay attention to the subjects he claims to care about -- stimulus money is spent, not at the discretion of administration officials, but by a publicly available merit-based formula.


The problem isn't that Issa wants to hold the administration accountable; the problem is that Issa doesn't seem to realize the difference between legitimate areas of inquiry and partisan nonsense.

http://www.alternet.org/rss/1/325704...f_white_house/

[ace's n 8's]

[QUOTE=stumbler;5117906]

All you did here is prove you were lying by your own admission. Even by the cherry picked figures from the free republic the stimulus created more than a million jobs and again the CBO says over 3 million.

New Gov’t Report: Tester-Obama Stimulus Failed To Create Promised Jobs

Posted: Friday, February 17th Filed in: Press Releases

Tester & Obama Claimed Stimulus Would Create “Millions Of New Jobs,” Hold Unemployment Below 8%

MISSOULA, Mont. — On the third anniversary of their $800 billion “stimulus” spending binge, a new government report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reminds Montanans yet again of President Barack Obama and Senator Jon Tester’s failure to create the jobs they promised while they drove our national debt to a record-high $15.3 trillion.
As the CBO reported yesterday:

The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. Moreover, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014.

Notably, Tester claimed the Obama stimulus would create “millions of new jobs,” and told Montanans “I think you're going to see job creation out of this bill within 90 days,” while his allies in the Obama Administration predicted the spending bill would hold unemployment below 8 percent.
But since Obama took office and Tester began supporting his agenda 95 percent of the time, America has instead lost 1.1 million jobs, and the country is in its 36th consecutive month of above-8-percent unemployment.
“Senator Tester and President Obama promised Montanans their $800 billion 'stimulus' spending binge would create 'millions of jobs,' but instead America has lost more than a million jobs since Obama took office and the country is in its 36th consecutive month of above-8-percent unemployment,” said Rehberg spokesman Chris Bond. “It's a powerful example of Senator Tester and President Obama's broken promises and costly, failed economic agenda in Washington.”

http://dennyrehberg.com/news-and-eve...promised-jobs/

And no one in the Obama Administration promised the stimulus would hold unemployment below 8%.

The Obama Adminstration Predicted The "Stimulus" Would Keep Unemployment Below Eight Percent. (Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein, “The Job Impact Of The American Recovery And Reinvestment Plan,” 1/9/09)
Tester & Obama's $800 Billion "Stimulus" Failed To Live Up To Their Promises:
Obama and Tester’s $825 Billion Stimulus Failed To Keep The Unemployment Rate Below 8 Percent. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 2/6/12; Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein, “The Job Impact Of The American Recovery And Reinvestment Plan,”1/9/09; Congressional Budget Office, 5/25/11)

• The Unemployment Rate Has Remained Above Eight Percent For A Record 36 Straight Months Since The Stimulus Was Passed. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 2/6/12)

America Has Lost 1.1 Million Jobs Since Obama Took Office And Tester Began Supporting His Agenda. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 2/6/12)
WALL STREET JOURNAL: The Economy Remains In “By Far The Worst Jobs Recovery Since The Great Depression.” “Even with the recent gains, this is also by far the worst jobs recovery since the Great Depression, and the U.S. still has about 5.5 million fewer jobs than it did before the recession began in December 2007.” (Editorial, “The January Jobs Thaw,” The Wall Street Journal, 2/4/12)
President Barack Obama's Average Approval Rating In Montana Was Just 33.8% In 2011, According To Gallup's Daily Tracking Average. (Gallup, 1/31/12)

http://dennyrehberg.com/news-and-eve...promised-jobs/

No actually you've proven yourself to be a liar telling the same old worn out conservative lies Ace. I didn't to that to you you did it too yourself. And besides that no one quoting the Rational Republican and the Free Republic has a reason to bitch about the left wing sources I use which you have failed to prove wrong Ace.

It doesn't take too much for me to prove that you and your cherished administration, along with your political party,,,,is totally fucked up.

The 2010 mid term elections, the Walker re-call and the polling numbers for the leftists are nothing less than proof positive that the leftists are in trouble, so you and the leftist media are all in the same bag of shit,,getting shook up hard,,,,the 2012 election is going to be very hard on you,and for your fellow dictating/socialist/communist/government-knows-best/ politicians..........

[stumbler]

Originally Posted by ace's n 8's

http://dennyrehberg.com/news-and-eve...promised-jobs/


http://dennyrehberg.com/news-and-eve...promised-jobs/


It doesn't take too much for me to prove that you and your cherished administration, along with your political party,,,,is totally fucked up.

The 2010 mid term elections, the Walker re-call and the polling numbers for the leftists are nothing less than proof positive that the leftists are in trouble, so you and the leftist media are all in the same bag of shit,,getting shook up hard,,,,the 2012 election is going to be very hard on you,and for your fellow dictating/socialist/communist/government-knows-best/ politicians..........

Ace it does not matter how many times you try to tell these tired old lies they are still lies pure and simple. The Stimulus package did create "millions" of jobs. That's well documented.

No one in the Obama Administration promised you a rose garden or an employment rate 8% or below.

And we lost way more than a million jobs Ace because once again the lie of conservatism as it is preached and practiced in this nation. Where the private sector was allowed to look the world economy to the tune of more than $13 Trillion and then went running to the government to get bailed out while George W. Bush was still in office.

We lost all that because of you lying conservatives Ace and not even you can deny that.

[stumbler]

Yeah right with a glut of natural gas with near record low prices, and gasoline, diesel fuel, and jet fuel being our biggest exports we really need to be drilling in our national parks.

Romney Energy Plan Includes Drilling ‘Virtually Every Part’ Of U.S., With No Protections Even For National Parks

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...ational-parks/

[shootersa]

Shooter had to chuckle listening to the pundits after the Wisconsin results were in;
1) We lost because we were outspent
2) We lost because the other side played dirty
3) We lost because our brothers in arms didn't understand what was at stake.

I mean, cmon folks. Maybe...........just maybe............it could be because the party line isn't being bought. You just gotta change your pitch.

And stop whining.

[RandyKnight]

Originally Posted by stumbler

Yeah right with a glut of natural gas with near record low prices, and gasoline, diesel fuel, and jet fuel being our biggest exports we really need to be drilling in our national parks.

Romney Energy Plan Includes Drilling ‘Virtually Every Part’ Of U.S., With No Protections Even For National Parks

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...ational-parks/

We are headed for one more big bubble bust and this time it could really be the tipping point when even ATMs stop spitting out money.

Romney is just the guy to get us there.......

[ace's n 8's]

[QUOTE=stumbler;5132818]

Ace it does not matter how many times you try to tell these tired old lies they are still lies pure and simple. The Stimulus package did create "millions" of jobs. That's well documented.

Horseshit,,,,,,you can continue to fall in line with the lies that the leftists and the leftist media attempt to generate on a daily basis, if you wish,,,the voters will and do see the truth,,and you will finally see the truth as it actually is,, just about 14 hours after election day.

No one in the Obama Administration promised you a rose garden or an employment rate 8% or below.

HORSESHIT again,,,,,Ive provided factual evidence that states the contrary.

And we lost way more than a million jobs Ace because once again the lie of conservatism as it is preached and practiced in this nation. Where the private sector was allowed to look the world economy to the tune of more than $13 Trillion and then went running to the government to get bailed out while George W. Bush was still in office.

You're still in denial, I see,,,,,,,,both parties and several administrations have contributed to this economical downfall this country is experiencing.
Along with Obama and his gangsters compounding the problem, with no end of spending in sight.

We lost all that because of you lying conservatives Ace and not even you can deny that.

Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, are definately not conservatives,,,Greenspan did not see what was coming,,he admitted that he was wrong,,,Frank and Dodd are and were incapable of admitting they were wrong, because they were getting their own pockets lined from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Now,,tell everyone that, that is a lie,,I double dog dare you........

[ace's n 8's]

Originally Posted by stumbler

Yeah right with a glut of natural gas with near record low prices, and gasoline, diesel fuel, and jet fuel being our biggest exports we really need to be drilling in our national parks.

Romney Energy Plan Includes Drilling ‘Virtually Every Part’ Of U.S., With No Protections Even For National Parks

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...ational-parks/

DRILL BABY DRILL..........

Stop providing the middle east with more funding for the terrorists....

[stumbler]

Originally Posted by ace's n 8's

Horseshit,,,,,,you can continue to fall in line with the lies that the leftists and the leftist media attempt to generate on a daily basis, if you wish,,,the voters will and do see the truth,,and you will finally see the truth as it actually is,, just about 14 hours after election day.

http://cdn.front.moveon.org/wp-conte...growth-500.png

"In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005."

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...ths-best-annu/

Originally Posted by ace's n 8's

HORSESHIT again,,,,,Ive provided factual evidence that states the contrary.

Bullshit Ace. Here it is again.

John Boehner says Obama promised the stimulus would keep unemployment below 8 percent

We think it's a big stretch to call an economic projection a "promise." The administration never characterized it that way and included plenty of disclaimers saying the predictions had "significant margins of error" and a higher degree of uncertainty due to a recession that is "unusual both in its fundamental causes and its severity."

Those are critical facts that the speaker’s claim ignores.

As we have ruled for others who have made this claim, we rate Boehner’s statement Mostly False.

http://www.politifact.com/ohio/state...ulus-would-ke/

Originally Posted by ace's n 8's

You're still in denial, I see,,,,,,,,both parties and several administrations have contributed to this economical downfall this country is experiencing.

Nope that's another lie Ace. The damage was done in the first six years the conservative/Republican/Tea Baggers controlled the presidency and both houses of congress.

Originally Posted by ace's n 8's

Along with Obama and his gangsters compounding the problem, with no end of spending in sight.

No its the conservative/Republican/Tea Baggers making the nation fail and the people suffer just so president Obama and the Democrats don't succeed.

Originally Posted by ace's n 8's

Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, are definately not conservatives,,,

And they did not cause the problem it was the greed and corruption of the private sector.

Originally Posted by ace's n 8's

Greenspan did not see what was coming,,he admitted that he was wrong,,

Greenspan admitted to the lie of conservatism and the mistake of believing Ayn Rand.

Originally Posted by ace's n 8's

,Frank and Dodd are and were incapable of admitting they were wrong, because they were getting their own pockets lined from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

More lies Ace:
Is There an Antidote to the Republican Amnesia?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-ba..._b_176538.html

Originally Posted by ace's n 8's

Now,,tell everyone that, that is a lie,,I double dog dare you........

I just did Ace and so now you're telling double dog lies.

Originally Posted by ace's n 8's

DRILL BABY DRILL..........

Stop providing the middle east with more funding for the terrorists....

There you go bullshitting yourself about stuff you don't even know. Even at current rates of production the best we can supply domestically is about 40% of our oil consumption. We're not going to drill the other 60% here you poor brainwashed fool and if we do it will just be to export it while we pay $3,$4, $5 or more per gallon.

FACT CHECK: More US drilling didn't drop gas price

WASHINGTON -- It's the political cure-all for high gas prices: Drill here, drill now. But more U.S. drilling has not changed how deeply the gas pump drills into your wallet, math and history show.



A statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic oil production by The Associated Press shows no statistical correlation between how much oil comes out of U.S. wells and the price at the pump.


If more domestic oil drilling worked as politicians say, you'd now be paying about $2 a gallon for gasoline. Instead, you're paying the highest prices ever for March.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sec...ics&id=8590280

[stumbler]

Mitt Romney Been Busted: President Obama Did Not ‘Tout’ Government Layoffs In May

In an attempt to project their candidate’s habit of flip-flopping onto President Obama, the Mitt Romney campaign released an ad on Monday accusing the President of “touting” government layoffs in May, only to bemoan them last Friday. On Anderson Cooper 360 Monday night, however, host Anderson Cooper tried his hand at Keeping Them Honest by revealing that in that May speech, the President was actually scolding Congress for allowing public sector job losses to weaken the recovery.


The President has been taking a lot of political heat for his phrasing of the idea that it is the public sector that’s hampering our recovery from the recession, and not the private sector, which has gained 4.3 million jobs in the last 27 months. Not content with the points that the President’s “the private sector is doing fine” gaffe awarded them, Mitt Romney stepped in it himself while responding to the remark, deriding the President for wanting to put police, firefighters, and teachers back to work.


Romney’s campaign then released an ad claiming the President “said the real weakness in the economy was state and local government employment – yet a month earlier, he touted the fact that government employment had fallen on his watch.”


The ad relied on a 15-second clip from a May 8 speech in Albany, NY, in which the President said “The only time government employment has gone down during a recession has been under me. So I make that point just so you don’t buy into this whole bloated government argument that you hear.”


But as Cooper pointed out last night, the subsequent 10 seconds or so make clear that this wasn’t a boast, it was an attempt to demonstrate the folly of Republican refusal to support public sector jobs during a recession, even though they had done so for every previous, non-Obama president:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/mitt-romn...ayoffs-in-may/

[CS natureboy]

Senator calls for Holder's resignation amid challenges over leak probe, Fast and Furious

Published June 12, 2012
FoxNews.com

• 
  June 11, 2012: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the League of Women Voters National Convention in Washington. (AP)
  

Lawmakers' frustration with Attorney General Eric Holder over an ongoing security leak probe and the botched Fast and Furious gunrunning operation boiled over Tuesday, with a top Republican lawmaker calling on Holder to resign.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, made the call for Holder's resignation during a Senate hearing late Tuesday morning. It came in the context of GOP concerns about Holder's decision to appoint two lawyers from within his department to handle the politically sensitive leak probe -- as well as concerns about Fast and Furious.
"I would say that you leave me no alternative but to join those that call upon you to resign your office," Cornyn said. "Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability. You've proven time and time again, sadly, that you're unwilling to do so."
Holder in response accused Republicans of playing politics, and specifically accused Cornyn of "breathtaking" inaccuracies.
"I don't have any intention of resigning," he said.
Holder was enduring another rough day on Capitol Hill -- one day after a House panel announced it would schedule a vote next week on contempt proceedings.
Cornyn, in an interview with Fox News, said Tuesday he was frustrated with Holder's "culmination of stonewalling." He also accused Holder of trying to provide "political cover" for the administration in the leak investigation.
Cornyn's statements coincided with a move by two other senators to push legislation demanding a special prosecutor in the leak probe. Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., unveiled the measure on the Senate floor, claiming the U.S. attorneys appointed by Holder do not have the necessary professional distance to probe Obama administration leaks.
McCain is also standing by his assertion that the leaks were politically motivated, a charge the White House strongly denies.
The resolution is sure to divide lawmakers, despite a growing sense of bipartisan outrage over the leaks themselves.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Tuesday that she would oppose the resolution -- defending the professionalism and independence of the attorneys Holder selected.
Holder, testifying Tuesday morning before the Senate Judiciary Committee, defended his handling of the case and said the attorneys he assigned to the leak case are up to the job.
"These U.S. attorneys are fully authorized to consult with members of the intelligence community, to follow all appropriate leads wherever they do lead, and ultimately to prosecute any criminal violations to the fullest extent of the law," he said. "They will do an independent and thorough job."
Holder said unauthorized leaks of classified information could jeopardize security and "will not be tolerated." Holder said the allegations "are of great concern to me personally."
Recent leaks have contributed to several recent news stories about secretive programs, including two New York Times stories -- one on President Obama's involvement in shaping the list of terror targets for U.S.-led drone strikes, the other on the cyber-campaign to disrupt Iran's nuclear program.
The leaks, and the subsequent investigation announcement, have prompted a political firestorm on Capitol Hill. Republicans have charged that top officials in the Obama administration cleared the leaks in order to furnish information to reporters that would help make the president look strong in an election year.
"It was obvious from reading the stories that the administration is trying to give the president glory," Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told Fox News on Monday.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney called that idea "wrong and absurd."
Ahead of Holder's testimony Tuesday, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, challenged the attorney general on his assigning of "political appointees" to the case. He, too, called for an independent special prosecutor.
"Despite attempts to package this as a special prosecutor, the attorney general's decision treats the grave national security matter like a regular criminal investigation," Grassley said.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., though, supported Holder's decision, describing the investigators as "tough, honest prosecutors."
Holder said he has "great faith" in them, and said he's charged them to follow leads wherever they go, even into the Executive Branch.





Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz1xbQTkor6

[stumbler]

Originally Posted by CS natureboy

Senator calls for Holder's resignation amid challenges over leak probe, Fast and Furious

Published June 12, 2012
FoxNews.com

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  June 11, 2012: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the League of Women Voters National Convention in Washington. (AP)

Lawmakers' frustration with Attorney General Eric Holder over an ongoing security leak probe and the botched Fast and Furious gunrunning operation boiled over Tuesday, with a top Republican lawmaker calling on Holder to resign.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, made the call for Holder's resignation during a Senate hearing late Tuesday morning. It came in the context of GOP concerns about Holder's decision to appoint two lawyers from within his department to handle the politically sensitive leak probe -- as well as concerns about Fast and Furious.
"I would say that you leave me no alternative but to join those that call upon you to resign your office," Cornyn said. "Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability. You've proven time and time again, sadly, that you're unwilling to do so."
Holder in response accused Republicans of playing politics, and specifically accused Cornyn of "breathtaking" inaccuracies.
"I don't have any intention of resigning," he said.
Holder was enduring another rough day on Capitol Hill -- one day after a House panel announced it would schedule a vote next week on contempt proceedings.
Cornyn, in an interview with Fox News, said Tuesday he was frustrated with Holder's "culmination of stonewalling." He also accused Holder of trying to provide "political cover" for the administration in the leak investigation.
Cornyn's statements coincided with a move by two other senators to push legislation demanding a special prosecutor in the leak probe. Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., unveiled the measure on the Senate floor, claiming the U.S. attorneys appointed by Holder do not have the necessary professional distance to probe Obama administration leaks.
McCain is also standing by his assertion that the leaks were politically motivated, a charge the White House strongly denies.
The resolution is sure to divide lawmakers, despite a growing sense of bipartisan outrage over the leaks themselves.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Tuesday that she would oppose the resolution -- defending the professionalism and independence of the attorneys Holder selected.
Holder, testifying Tuesday morning before the Senate Judiciary Committee, defended his handling of the case and said the attorneys he assigned to the leak case are up to the job.
"These U.S. attorneys are fully authorized to consult with members of the intelligence community, to follow all appropriate leads wherever they do lead, and ultimately to prosecute any criminal violations to the fullest extent of the law," he said. "They will do an independent and thorough job."
Holder said unauthorized leaks of classified information could jeopardize security and "will not be tolerated." Holder said the allegations "are of great concern to me personally."
Recent leaks have contributed to several recent news stories about secretive programs, including two New York Times stories -- one on President Obama's involvement in shaping the list of terror targets for U.S.-led drone strikes, the other on the cyber-campaign to disrupt Iran's nuclear program.
The leaks, and the subsequent investigation announcement, have prompted a political firestorm on Capitol Hill. Republicans have charged that top officials in the Obama administration cleared the leaks in order to furnish information to reporters that would help make the president look strong in an election year.
"It was obvious from reading the stories that the administration is trying to give the president glory," Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told Fox News on Monday.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney called that idea "wrong and absurd."
Ahead of Holder's testimony Tuesday, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, challenged the attorney general on his assigning of "political appointees" to the case. He, too, called for an independent special prosecutor.
"Despite attempts to package this as a special prosecutor, the attorney general's decision treats the grave national security matter like a regular criminal investigation," Grassley said.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., though, supported Holder's decision, describing the investigators as "tough, honest prosecutors."
Holder said he has "great faith" in them, and said he's charged them to follow leads wherever they go, even into the Executive Branch.





Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz1xbQTkor6

They've been screaming for Holder to resign for nearly a year now and it hasn't happened yet.

By the way parrot why didn't you mention that Issa and the Republicans are going to vote on charging Holder with contempt of congress on June 20th. That would be a very big deal wouldn't it?

Is that going to happen do you think?

[stumbler]

Whoops: RNC Latino Site Uses Picture Of Asian Children

In an effort to court Latino voters, the RNC’s Spanish-language outreach website installed a prominent photo of adorable Latino children as its main image. Or at least that’s what the RNC thought the photo depicted. It turns out the kids aren’t Latino at all.



In an embarrassing mix-up, US News and World Report discovered that RNCLatinos.com used a stock photo apparently depicting Asian children on the site. The image they chose is tagged by its creators with such terms as “asian,” “thailand,” “japanese” and “interracial,” as are dozens of related photos by the same source featuring Asian preschoolers playing in parks.


RNC spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski told TPM that “an outside vendor developed the site and it is being corrected immediately.” The image has since been taken down, replaced with a text banner in English that says “HISPANIC LATINO STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS.”

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/20...ref=fpnewsfeed

[RandyKnight]

Originally Posted by stumbler

Whoops: RNC Latino Site Uses Picture Of Asian Children




http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/20...ref=fpnewsfeed

That is too funny...can't make up stuff like that...

[CS natureboy]

Dems: Obama Could Lose, Donors Better Get Moving

WASHINGTON -- A growing chorus of once-confident Democrats now say President Barack Obama could lose the November election.
The hand-wringing reflects real worries among Democrats about Obama's ability to beat Republican rival Mitt Romney, who has proven to be a stronger candidate than many expected. But it's also a political strategy aimed at rallying major donors who may have become complacent.
Interviews with a dozen Democratic strategists and fundraisers across the country show an increased sense of urgency among Obama backers. It follows a difficult two weeks for the president, including a dismal report on the nation's unemployment picture, a Democratic defeat in the Wisconsin governor recall election and an impressive fundraising month for Romney and Republicans.
"We've all got to get in the same boat and start paddling in the same direction, or we're going to have some problems," said Debbie Dingell, a Democratic National Committee member and the wife of Michigan Rep. John Dingell.
"We can't take this for granted," said Peter Burling, a DNC member from New Hampshire. "I intend to be running scared from now until November."
These worries have also prompted some second-guessing of an Obama campaign operation once perceived as run by disciplined message specialists. Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg and former Clinton adviser James Carville this week wrote that Obama's efforts to convince voters that economic conditions are moving in the right direction aren't swaying people.
"We will face an impossible head wind in November if we do not move to a new narrative," the strategists wrote.
Former Democratic Party chairman Don Fowler faulted the Obama camp for not laying more blame on Republicans for the slow economic recovery.
"The Obama campaign should make it clear whose fundamental fault the economic problems are, and they've chosen not to do that," he said, echoing an argument made by other Democrats. "Not doing that, they forfeit an argument, a strategy, a technique toward making the Republicans bear responsibility for these problems."

Some Democrats hope the deepening concern among some party faithful could lead to an increase in fundraising.
The mighty Obama and DNC fundraising operation fell behind Romney and Republicans in May, with the GOP team raising $76 million compared to the $60 million haul for the president and Democrats. And the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action has lagged far behind Republican-leaning outside groups, in part because of what senior strategist Bill Burton said was a sense of complacency among Democratic donors.
"Democrats have to know that the president is up against a well-financed opponent in a tough political environment," said Burton, a former White House aide. "If everyone doesn't join the fight, he could be defeated."
The Obama campaign itself has also been sounding the alarm.
"If there's anyone still out there acting like we have this thing in the bag, do me a favor and tell them they're dead wrong," Ann Marie Habershaw, the campaign's chief operating officer, wrote in a blog post last week.
And campaign manager Jim Messina warned that GOP success in the Wisconsin recall, aided by independent group spending, confirmed that "all the outside money that's poured into elections this cycle can and will change their outcome."
"And it's exactly what could happen on the national stage unless we can close the gap between special interests and ordinary people," he said.
In 2004, it was the Democrats who had the big money operation on their side. Groups like America Coming Together and the Media Fund raised about $200 million to help John Kerry's presidential campaign with grass-roots organizing and advertising. But the donors who helped that effort – financier George Soros, film producer and donor to liberal causes Steve Bing and billionaire Peter Lewis -- have vastly reduced their political participation or stayed away all together this time.
Democratic operatives say the long and combative Republican primary left some in their own party overconfident. Obama supporters expected Romney to emerge from the GOP contest bruised by attacks from his party and pigeonholed by his attempts to placate conservatives by shifting to the right on everything from immigration to foreign policy.
But five months from Election Day, several national polls show Obama and Romney locked in a tight race, as voters vent their frustrations over the nation's economic woes. May figures showed that employers created a meager 69,000 jobs and the jobless rate ticked up to 8.2 percent. And this week, the Federal Reserve released data showing that median family net worth shrank in 2010 to levels not seen since 1992 after adjusting for inflation.
Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said the president's team "always anticipated this would be a close and competitive election."
But some strategists worry that time is running short. While many Democrats believe party loyalists will get more engaged as the election draws closer, other operatives say the terms of the election will be set over the next two months.
"This can't wait until September," said Steve Rosenthal, president of the Organizing Group, a Democratic-leaning consulting firm
Rosenthal issued his own warning on Obama's re-election prospects in an online column headlined "President Obama Can Lose: Now is the Time for Democratic Donors to Step Up in a Big Way."
In an interview Wednesday, Rosenthal said Obama's populist State of the Union address and Romney's initial troubles securing the Republican nomination created a false sense of euphoria among Democrats. But he said that sentiment ignored the fact that the country is still evenly divided, that the president does not hold a lead in all battleground states and that Obama this time does not have the 2-1 edge in money that he had over John McCain in 2008.
"They have such a huge financial advantage and with the economy teetering, it's frightening," Rosenthal said of Republicans. "I hate to say it comes down to money, but it does."
Don Peebles, a New York-based real estate developer and Obama fundraiser, said that while Democratic complacency has been hard to shake this cycle, he expects more urgency this summer.
"There's definitely a sense among the financial supporters of the president that we need to get more engaged and redouble our efforts to make sure that he has the resources he needs," Peebles said.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...6pLid%3D169812

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Americans say Bush still more to blame than Obama for economy

More than two-thirds of Americans — including half of Republicans — still blame former president George W. Bush for the country's economic ills, according to a new Gallup poll released on Thursday, hours before President Barack Obama was to deliver a high-stakes speech defending his handling of the weak economy.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/...9#.T9tbvcVKXV8

[stumbler]

This isn't a matter of opinion

Dear media:
This paragraph from today's New York Times editorial isn't opinion, it's fact...

Mr. Romney’s entire campaign rests on a foundation of short, utterly false sound bites. The stimulus failed. (Three million employed people beg to differ.) The auto bailout was a mistake. (Another million jobs.) Spending is out of control. (Spending growth is actually lower than under all modern Republican presidents.) He says these kinds of things so often that millions of Americans believe them to be the truth.

...and it's okay for journalists to report on Romney's lies as if they were news.

Because they are.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/0...ter-of-opinion

[Forum guy]

No one on either side is accountable for there words on actions. Election time reminds me of linsening to my parents argue from the other room. Just think how accountable a man- woman that makes 60 k a year would be if he- she could run. He- she-would have to talk to the people. Not at them.

[NoOneFamous]

Originally Posted by CS natureboy

They will really be crying when we the people kick Obama out of office this November!

In 2006 Karl Rove predicted the 2006 would be a GOP landslide, I will rate your prediction as equal to his.

[Distant Lover]

Originally Posted by NoOneFamous

In 2006 Karl Rove predicted the 2006 would be a GOP landslide, I will rate your prediction as equal to his.

Business Insider May 11, 2012

Karl Rove is out with another electoral map this week, and it shows an even better-looking picture for Barack Obama than Rove's first map.

There are two big differences here for Obama. They come in the swing states of Iowa and Colorado. Colorado is now a lean Obama state, whereas Iowa has moved into the definites. Meanwhile, Romney lost his stranglehold on Montana. So that makes it a complete wash as far as definite states go.

What looks even better for Obama? Arizona is now a toss-up state. This is notable because Democrats have been pushing the idea that they can win the state for the first time since 1996.

All told, with the leans, Obama gained a bit on Romney from the last map: He now leads 290 to 172, up six electoral votes from last time. There are 87 toss-ups, an increase from 82 last time.
http://articles.businessinsider.com/...#ixzz1xtfWBihC

[stumbler]

Ron Paul: I take Social Security checks but will eliminate it for others

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/2...it-for-others/

[CS natureboy]

[Hurzey]

American politics are such a bullshit. The democratic idea is better than, the republican, but all in all republicans AND democratics are just conservative as hell. It's just too bad for your country, that the health-care reforms failed. If you would know the german health-care system for example you would know why.