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Analysis: Jobs report is bad news for Democrats
Post Date: 2010-10-08 14:50:48 by Rudgear
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Analysis: Jobs report is bad news for Democrats By TOM RAUM (AP) – 4 hours ago WASHINGTON — The die is cast, and it's grim news for the Democrats. There's nothing now that Congress or President Barack Obama can do to before the November midterm elections to jolt the nation's stagnant economy. Friday's government report — the last major economic news before the midterm elections — showed the nation continued to lose jobs last month, reinforcing the bleak reality that it probably will be years — not months — before employment returns to pre-recession levels below 6 percent. That tightens the pressure on Democrats ahead of the Nov. 2 elections. ...
Are you better off than you were four years ago?
Post Date: 2010-10-08 14:17:00 by no gnu taxes
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In October of 2006, just prior to the Democrat takeover of Congress, unemployment was 4.4%. Ask yourself, are you better off than you were four years ago?
U.S. Payroll Drop Tops Forecast on Teacher Firings
Post Date: 2010-10-08 13:58:16 by go65
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The U.S. lost more jobs than forecast in September as local governments fired teachers and other workers in response to declining tax revenue. Payrolls fell by 95,000 workers after a revised 57,000 decrease in August, Labor Department figures in Washington showed today. Private employers added 64,000 jobs, less than forecast. Wages and the workweek stagnated. Treasuries rose and the dollar weakened as the report bolstered speculation the Federal Reserve will embark on a renewed round of large-scale asset purchases to spur growth. New York Fed President William Dudley said last week that further action is “likely to be warranted” unless the labor market improves. “The ...
Analysis: Jobs report is bleak news for Democrats (The Obama, Pelosi, Reid Depression)
Post Date: 2010-10-08 13:03:35 by no gnu taxes
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The die is cast, and it's grim news for the Democrats. There's nothing now that Congress or President Barack Obama can do to before the November midterm elections to jolt the nation's stagnant economy. Friday's government report — the last major economic news before the midterm elections — showed the nation continued to lose jobs last month, reinforcing the bleak reality that it probably will be years — not months — before employment returns to pre-recession levels below 6 percent. That tightens the pressure on Democrats ahead of the Nov. 2 elections. And it also casts a dark shadow well into the 2012 election season and beyond. "We won't see ...
Obama to help out Coons
Post Date: 2010-10-08 11:48:06 by no gnu taxes
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are heading to Delaware next week to try and keep Biden's old Senate seat in Democratic party hands. Obama and Biden will team up with New Castle County executive Chris Coons, the party's Senate nominee at a fundraiser in Wilmington on Friday, October 15, according to the Coons campaign. Next week's trip will be Biden's third visit to his home state to help Coon's bid. Of course. Who else would he be helping Click for Full Text!
Time’s running out for job growth
Post Date: 2010-10-08 11:10:58 by go65
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There57;s absolutely nothing to get excited about in the September payrolls report. America has substantially fewer jobs than it did a month ago, in what is meant to be a growing economy. Even the uptick in private-sector employment (+64,000) is pretty pathetic: it57;s not enough even to keep up with population growth, let alone to make a dent in the unemployment rate, which stays at 9.6%. Meanwhile, as the school year begins, we have this: Employment in local government decreased by 76,000 in September with job losses in both education and noneducation. As states and municipalities around the nation start running out of money, they57;re going to fire people; this is only the beginning. And ...
The Affordable Care Act's Medicare cuts in one graph
Post Date: 2010-10-08 10:59:17 by go65
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That's from Igor Volsky and the Center for American Progress team. Conservatives will look at that graph and say, sure, it might be nice, but those cuts will never be implemented, and if they are implemented, they'll never work, and in any case, we're going to repeal them. It is of course true that for cuts to work, they have to be implemented, and not repealed. And it is also true that Republicans want to repeal not just the Affordable Care Act, but the Medicare cost controls in particular. And at this point, the Republican Party has not agreed on any package of reforms that would slow Medicare spending by an equivalent amount, and that they would be willing to implement. If ...
Face it Dims: Obama is an effin hypocrite
Post Date: 2010-10-08 09:55:57 by no gnu taxes
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In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let’s resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Let’s remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity. Those are values that we all share. And while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress. As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, we are not ...
Even MSNBC.com wants distance from MSNBC
Post Date: 2010-10-08 04:03:24 by WhiteSands
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How bad has MSNBC’s brand become? Even the website which serves as its platform wants a name change: NBC Universal and Microsoft, the parents of MSNBC.com, are holding high-level talks about a name change, something that could be a risky endeavor for the third most popular news Web site in the United States. The two parents have determined that the brand of MSNBC.com, a strictly objective news Web site, is widely confused with MSNBC, the cable channel that has taken a strongly liberal bent in recent years, according to internal memorandums obtained by The New York Times this week. Charlie Tillinghast, MSNBC.com’s president, wrote in a memo last March, “Both strategies are ...
May Yells "You're A Liar" at Obama during Liberal gathering
Post Date: 2010-10-07 19:52:18 by A K A Stone
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2010 deficit near $1.3 trillion
Post Date: 2010-10-07 19:52:14 by WhiteSands
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The federal government ran a deficit of nearly $1.3 trillion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, according to preliminary estimates released Thursday by the Congressional Budget Office. The Treasury Department will deliver the official deficit numbers later this month. According to CBO, the fiscal year 2010 deficit came in $125 billion below last year -- the worst on record since World War II. The gap narrowed slightly because tax receipts were higher and spending lower than last year. On the tax front, corporate revenue rose by $53 billion, or 39%, from 2009. Stronger corporate profits were the result of improved economic conditions and more generous ...
President Falls Far Short of Expectations, Poll Says
Post Date: 2010-10-07 19:22:30 by WhiteSands
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A CBS News poll out today suggests widespread disappointment with President Obama, as two-thirds of Americans say he has been an average or poor president, far below their expectations. Mr. Obama entered office amid broad optimism for his presidency, but the poll underscores the large gap that now exists between those expectations and the public’s tepid assessment 21 months later. In January 2009, just before Mr. Obama took office, nearly 7 in 10 Americans in a New York Times/CBS News poll said they thought he would be a very good or good president. Only 2 in 10 said they thought he would turn out to be an average president, and a mere 4 percent said he would be a poor one. When ...
U.S. Chamber pledges to take Obama policies to court
Post Date: 2010-10-07 19:17:30 by WhiteSands
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is mounting a new legal attack on the Obama administration's regulatory policies just weeks ahead of congressional elections, telling voters that Democrat-driven regulation is hurting the economic recovery. Thomas Donohue, the chamber's president and chief executive, said on Thursday the nation's largest business lobby is beefing up its staff so it can fight health care and financial regulation reform in court. "Litigation is one of our most powerful tools for making sure that federal agencies follow the law and are held accountable," Donohue said in remarks prepared to be delivered in Des Moines, Iowa. ...
Study: Expiration of Bush tax cuts will hit poorest hardest
Post Date: 2010-10-07 19:09:30 by WhiteSands
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Low-income workers stand to lose the most if lawmakers fail to reach a consensus on the Bush-era tax cuts, according to a new report from the Tax Foundation. The report states that on Jan. 1 the doubling of the child tax credit, increased standard deductions and income credits and the creation of the 10 percent tax bracket — all of which primarily aimed at non-wealthy taxpayers — will vanish if gridlock persists in Washington. While wealthier taxpayers pay more in taxes and stand to lose more money if the tax cuts expire, the impact on low-income taxpayers will be far greater because they live on slimmer margins. Democratic leaders have repeatedly vowed that tax cuts benefiting ...
Polls And Surveys.
Post Date: 2010-10-07 18:29:37 by Skip MacLure
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The usual pre-election flurry of facts, figures, statistics and predictions are being hurled at us from all directions. From demographic and racial groups’ preferences to the likelihood of hamster owners voting Republican or Democrat… most angles are covered in some way or another. I pity the campaign organizers who have to dissect all this information in order to target the areas and groups where they have less support. Let’s see… we need to concentrate on mixed-race, Lexus owning, Mac using, CSI viewers with a subscription to ‘Gardener’s Weekly’. Well, I exaggerate a little, perhaps. Pollsters remind me of the addicted gambler, who regularly boasts ...
Recite pledge [of allegiance] or go to jail? Lawyer sent to lockup
Post Date: 2010-10-07 18:24:04 by Ferret Mike
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TUPELO, Miss. — When a Mississippi judge entered a courtroom and asked everyone to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, an attorney with a reputation for fighting free speech battles stayed silent as everyone else recited the patriotic oath. The lawyer was jailed. Attorney Danny Lampley spent about five hours behind bars Wednesday before Judge Talmadge Littlejohn set him free so that the lawyer could work on another case. Lampley told The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal he respected the judge but wasn't going to back down. "I don't have to say it because I'm an American," Lampley told the newspaper. The Supreme Court ruled nearly 70 years ago that ...
RNC circulates study that shows Dem tax plan is better for poor than GOP one
Post Date: 2010-10-07 16:54:04 by go65
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Okay, this is a bit in the weeds. But it's worth it. This morning the Republican National Committee blasted out a story from The Hill about a new nonpartisan study finding that the poor will be hit hardest if all the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire. An RNC spokesman, taking a shot at the Dems' failure to extend the tax cuts, rhetorically asked: "What excuse will the Democrats use now?" Here's the funny thing, though. While that study does indeed find that letting all the tax cuts expire does disproportionately hurt the poor, it also finds that the plan Dems have actually proposed on the Bush tax cuts is better for the poor than the Republican one. The study, by ...
Having to listen to Obama makes people sick (literally)
Post Date: 2010-10-07 16:12:55 by no gnu taxes
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About two dozen people have been treated for illness during a rally featuring President Obama at Bowie State University. Prince George's County Fire and EMS spokesman Mark Brady tells WTOP numerous ambulances have been sent to the rally after people started fainting and became dizzy. The problems could be related to warmer temperatures today. Brady says crowds at the rally were outside and packed shoulder to shoulder. Two people have been taken to the hospital so far, Brady says. The rest have been treated at the scene. Officials have set up a triage area inside the gymnasium at Bowie State. Obama was scheduled to appear in an effort to rally Maryland Democrats for incumbent Gov. ...
Gop catches Dims in race for controlof the Senate
Post Date: 2010-10-07 15:56:57 by no gnu taxes
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Current projections suggest that the Democrats would hold 48 seats after Election Day while the Republicans would hold 48. Four states are in the Toss-Up category (California, Illinois, Nevada, and Washington). All four Toss-Ups are seats currently held by Democrats. Republicans have the edge in six Democratic-held Senate seats--Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Wisconsin. At the moment, no Republican-held seats appear headed for the Democratic column.
NRA May Shoot Down Republican Dreams To Win Back House
Post Date: 2010-10-07 11:41:41 by Brian S
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As the Democratic Party struggles to find an electoral path which will enable it to avoid losing control of the House of Representatives in November, one surprising source of hope is the National Rifle Association. Although generally seen as a close ally of the Republicans, the group is actually willing to support any candidate who favors gun rights. According to the Washington Post, the NRA "has endorsed 58 incumbent House Democrats, including more than a dozen in seats that both parties view as critical to winning a majority." "The endorsements aren't the result of a sudden love for a party with which the NRA is often at odds," the Post notes. "Rather, the ...
Government Withholding Key Data On Gulf Seafood Testing, Scientists Say
Post Date: 2010-10-07 11:14:30 by Brian S
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and FDA officials maintain they've provided results of ongoing Gulf seafood safety tests with the utmost transparency. But outside scientists, eager to perform independent evaluations of the government's findings, complain the information released contains far too many unknown variables that preclude peer review. In recent interviews, FDA and NOAA officials told Raw Story that they've been completely transparent in sharing ongoing Gulf seafood testing data, protocol and methodologies. Whenever we reopened [waters], we'd post the data that we used and the FDA certified it as good enough to reopen," said NOAA ...
Ohio GOPer Uses Actor To Portray Disgruntled Worker In GOV Ad
Post Date: 2010-10-07 10:40:09 by go65
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Democrats in Ohio say that Republican gubernatorial nominee John Kasich can't find a single steelworker to back up his claim that blue collar-workers are upset at Gov. Ted Strickland's (D) administration. Yesterday, a C-list actor helped them make their case. Meet Chip Redden, 818,906 on IMDB's STARmeter: journeyman actor, strip club aficionado and, apparently, the best approximation of a hard-hat wearing Ohio worker Kasich's money could buy. Here's the ad Kasich is running, entitled "400,000" (a reference to the number of jobs supposedly lost under Strickland's first term as governor of the Buckeye State): That is one convincingly upset worker, right? ...
Talent agency for GOP ad called for 'hicky blue collar look' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-10-07 10:14:31 by go65
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(CNN) – An ad out this week that's financed by National Republicans portrays three West Virginia voters in a rustic-looking diner declaring that Gov. Joe Manchin, the Democrat's Senate nominee, should stay "right here in West Virginia." But there is one caveat: The ad was shot at least 250 miles east of the state, in Philadelphia, and features not actual West Virginians, but paid actors instead. And to look the part of a West Virginian, the talent agency in charge of casting for the spot sent out a call for a "'Hicky' Blue Collar look." "These characters are from West Virginia so think coal miner/trucker looks," the casting call read, ...
Jobless claims fall below 450,000
Post Date: 2010-10-07 09:35:52 by go65
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W YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Initial filings for unemployment insurance fell to the lowest level in nearly three months last week, an encouraging sign ahead of the government's highly anticipated monthly jobs report due Friday. The number of first-time filers for unemployment benefits fell to 445,000 in the week ended Oct. 2, down 11,000 from the week before, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The number was lower than economists' forecasts of 455,000, according to consensus estimates by Briefing.com, but it still fell in a range that analysts say points to weakness in the job market. "It's a good data point for the week," said T.C. Robillard, a senior research ...
Soldier Killed Saving Comrades Is Awarded the Medal of Honor
Post Date: 2010-10-07 07:58:09 by war
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WASHINGTON — President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously on Wednesday to a Green Beret who died to save his fellow soldiers in a pitched battle with insurgents in Afghanistan last year, the latest in a series of such tributes at a time of domestic debate about the war. Staff Sgt. Robert J. Miller’s unit was ambushed on Jan. 25, 2008, during a predawn reconnaissance mission in Gowardesh by enemy fighters who assaulted them from above. Under withering fire, Sergeant Miller charged forward and drew fire away from his fellow soldiers. Even after he was shot, he continued returning fire to allow his team to pull back. Ultimately, according to a Pentagon account of the ...
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