August 02, 2011
— Gabriel Malor Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. *wipes tear*
No, really, they mean it this time. Having done all that America requires of them on spending cuts and debt reduction, it's gonna be all jobs, all the time. Which in true Democratic form requires spending bills...
This is via Politico's Playbook, a morning news email that provides pretty good intel on what the other guys are up to.
Dems want to change the subject fast, and polls show the need to talk more about jobs. Party officials say jobs will be their key message in August, followed by Hill action after Labor Day. Many Democrats fear the budget fights of this year have distracted from the issue that will be central to voters in the fall of 2012 - and officials want to get Paul Krugman off their backs.[...]
A Senate Democratic official tells Playbook: "There is nothing stimulative or jobs-based in this final deal that got struck. That's unfortunate, but it also gives us an opening in September that we can say, 'We've met you halfway and passed a huge, historic debt-reduction measure. Now it's time to do something for jobs.
Newsflash for Senate Democratic officials: restraining the Obama Administration's over-regulation of businesses, large and small, will allow them to create jobs. Continuing to let the President regulate the life out of job creators will continue to net you the historic unemployment rates that have become a hallmark of progressive governance.
The July jobs report will be out Friday...
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Posted by: Tom In Korea at August 02, 2011 03:40 AM (OXB7R)
Posted by: Tom In Korea at August 02, 2011 03:41 AM (OXB7R)
Posted by: Tom In Korea at August 02, 2011 03:42 AM (OXB7R)
Posted by: Tom In Korea at August 02, 2011 03:43 AM (OXB7R)
Posted by: mark c at August 02, 2011 03:44 AM (SBIko)
Posted by: nickless at August 02, 2011 03:45 AM (MMC8r)
Fuck, they trotted out America's favorite vegetable (Gabrielle Giffords) for the house vote on the debt ceiling. Is that not the height of pandering and message over substance?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 02, 2011 03:47 AM (LH6ir)
Am I the only one who read this as them wanting to do another 'stimulus'?
Posted by: Dave C at August 02, 2011 03:50 AM (rus4r)
Fuck, they trotted out America's favorite vegetable ...
Harsh, but ultimately on point.
I keep trying to tell myself they can get no lower, but this is the same bunch of scum that used Ted Kennedy's brain cancer to rally support for medi-facism.
Posted by: Chariots of Toast at August 02, 2011 03:52 AM (tk5O7)
It is about time we got serious about gun control. Those NRA types have turned our cities into virtual bloodbaths, what with their AK-47s and all. Going after people with FFLs that sell guns illegally should really help make us all safer, and it will mean I have to hire even more second tier government lawyers--presto more jobs (that's not counting the lawyers I have already hired to shred documents and erase disk drives one step ahead of Rep Issa'a toothless committee)!
Posted by: Eric the Black not Eric the Red at August 02, 2011 03:53 AM (yrGif)
Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at August 02, 2011 03:55 AM (GTbGH)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 02, 2011 03:58 AM (Wm4Mf)
Excellent point. Most illegal gun purchases go through legally licensed dealers. The number of illegal gun transactions between criminals is trivial.
Posted by: Progressive on the short bus at August 02, 2011 03:58 AM (LH6ir)
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 02, 2011 03:59 AM (ENKCw)
-Roll back egregious regulations that are killing businesses like EPA Regulations Democrats have put in place that are stifling jobs in that sector
- Repeal Obamacare which is killing the ability for small businesses, our growth engine, to hire and expand
- Repeal most of the Democrats Dodd-Frank Bill which is killing the financial sector
- Lower the business tax rate which is one of the highest around
That's just for starters.
Posted by: Marcus at August 02, 2011 04:00 AM (CHrmZ)
Posted by: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Elusional) at August 02, 2011 04:01 AM (agD4m)
Posted by: mark c at August 02, 2011 04:04 AM (SBIko)
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 02, 2011 07:59 AM (ENKCw)
I think you are on to something. I will be issuing an Executive order that requires all employers to have 51 employees. Presto--more jobs, and more people with Øbamacare. Twofer!
Posted by: Barky O-Master of the Universe at August 02, 2011 04:05 AM (yrGif)
Posted by: Mr Pink at August 02, 2011 04:08 AM (SFPgT)
Posted by: Shirley Jacks On Lee at August 02, 2011 04:09 AM (d4vjp)
Sure it is.. the talking points have gone out..
1. This deal hits women and children and the elderly hardest (although it doesn't even make any real cuts for years!)
2. This fight has distracted us from the real problem - making jobs for America! (which they are totally unable to do)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 02, 2011 04:10 AM (Wm4Mf)
Posted by: Mr Pink at August 02, 2011 04:11 AM (SFPgT)
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at August 02, 2011 04:13 AM (sVk8z)
You know what would bother me the most?
The echo.
Posted by: nickless at August 02, 2011 04:18 AM (MMC8r)
... and the cut of their jib...
... and the crease of their pants.
Did I leave anything out?
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 02, 2011 04:19 AM (jx2j9)
Posted by: Chi-Town Barry at August 02, 2011 04:19 AM (+Kxpv)
I think I'd rather be Rosie O'Donnell's gynecologist ...
Make sure you have a 10 x10 strapped across your ass and a strong man on belay.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 02, 2011 04:20 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at August 02, 2011 04:20 AM (cbyrC)
since when did the middle class start getting gov handouts?
Since Medicare A,B,and D and Social Security to name just a couple.
Posted by: mark c at August 02, 2011 04:21 AM (SBIko)
The answer to our recession/depression is Obama et al. out of office and government. American business will not exhale a moment sooner.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at August 02, 2011 04:21 AM (r4t7/)
Government does not create jobs. Government creates a fertile field in which the private sector creates jobs based upon the laws of supply and demand.
Every time a democrat says "we need to create jobs" it only serves to remind us that they have no idea what they are talking about. If $800 billion in stimulus did not create private sector jobs, why should more stimulus now? CEO's will not expand their payrolls based upon temporary stimulus - period.
Posted by: Bill Mitchell at August 02, 2011 04:23 AM (uVlA4)
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at August 02, 2011 04:23 AM (sVk8z)
Posted by: Bill Mitchell at August 02, 2011 04:24 AM (uVlA4)
Posted by: Bill Mitchell at August 02, 2011 04:24 AM (uVlA4)
and a space suit and a power washer.
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at August 02, 2011 08:23 AM (sVk8z)
I understand that the full HAZMAT decon during GYN appointments is covered under Rosie's insurance. She'll probably lose that under Obamacare.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 02, 2011 04:25 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Case at August 02, 2011 04:25 AM (0K+Kw)
If you nail both their feet and clamp something around their neck they'll be a pivot.
Then if you club them so hard they pull some of the floor up they're a divot.
Posted by: Anger Management, AARRGGHH!! at August 02, 2011 04:26 AM (pnDL7)
Posted by: Case at August 02, 2011 04:28 AM (0K+Kw)
I didn't work.
I was actually laughing out loud in my office reading how the author tried to say that Obama felt the plans and strategies for getting UBL were aggressive enough. Sure thing there Mr Community Organizer, now military expert.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahah. HeHehe. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Posted by: Marcus at August 02, 2011 04:29 AM (CHrmZ)
Posted by: Miss Marple at August 02, 2011 04:30 AM (Fo83G)
Posted by: nickless at August 02, 2011 04:30 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2011 04:31 AM (i6RpT)
We have a front row ticket to the end of the Democratice party and the doom of Barky's 2nd term.
Vhy don't you admit it? He's too much of man for you. I know. You're going to need an army to beat him! You're finished. Fertig! Verfallen! Verlumpt! Verblunget! Verkackt!
Posted by: Lilly Von Shtupp at August 02, 2011 04:33 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at August 02, 2011 04:35 AM (cbyrC)
"There is nothing stimulative or jobs-based in this final deal that got struck. That's unfortunate, but it also gives us an opening in September that we can say, 'We've met you halfway and passed a huge, historic debt-reduction measure. Now it's time to do something for jobs get rid of all that BS and spend some money."
FIFY
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 02, 2011 04:35 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 02, 2011 04:35 AM (jx2j9)
Posted by: Case at August 02, 2011 04:37 AM (0K+Kw)
Posted by: blaster at August 02, 2011 04:37 AM (Fw2Gg)
Government does not create jobs. Government creates a fertile field in which the private sector creates jobs based upon the laws of supply and demand.
Every time a democrat says "we need to create jobs" it only serves to remind us that they have no idea what they are talking about.
Absolutely correct, Mr. Mitchell. Top notch work.
Posted by: Chariots of Toast at August 02, 2011 04:37 AM (tk5O7)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 02, 2011 04:40 AM (jx2j9)
Comrades, all is well according to Bloomberg.com:
Confidence in ObamaÂ’s Economy Rising for Frustrated Employees
Frustrated employees are voluntarily quitting their jobs at the highest level in almost three years as confidence they will find another stabilizes, even with unemployment at about 9 percent for more than two years.
Almost 2 million Americans quit their jobs in May, a 35 percent rise from the lowest level in January 2010, according to the Department of Labor. An increase in employees switching jobs is a signal of increased confidence in the labor market and the overall economy, according to Scott Brown, chief economist at Raymond James & Associates Inc., a brokerage firm in St. Petersburg, Florida.
“When the economy is rebounding, workers are more likely to quit their jobs to take another,” Brown said, commenting after last week’s report that the U.S. economy grew less than forecast in the second quarter.
Everything is just soooooo dandy that people are quitting their jobs. All hail Barry the Magnificent and his wonderful economy!! And if I were Scott Brown's boss, I'd fire his sorry stupid ass in a second
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 02, 2011 04:42 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at August 02, 2011 08:35 AM (cbyrC)
I thought that we had gone past earmarky type things!
Boehner might have gotten his Pell grants, but all I got was this lousy shaft!
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 02, 2011 04:42 AM (yrGif)
Posted by: weew at August 02, 2011 04:43 AM (7RbIF)
Posted by: Bob Saget, teabagging debt zombies from Mordor at August 02, 2011 04:48 AM (F/4zf)
How do we know they were "frustrated?"
Posted by: Miss Marple at August 02, 2011 04:48 AM (Fo83G)
Posted by: Fritz at August 02, 2011 04:50 AM (/ZZCn)
To whit: "Debt Deal Puts US on Austerity Path...."
Bahahaha...that there is some painful austerity!
Posted by: Lizbth at August 02, 2011 04:50 AM (JZBti)
Green Shoots!
Posted by: desperate liberal pundit at August 02, 2011 04:54 AM (sOXQX)
Posted by: mastour at August 02, 2011 04:54 AM (kTTiP)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at August 02, 2011 04:55 AM (cbyrC)
Posted by: Always a Witch AudioBook at August 02, 2011 04:56 AM (Q9YsD)
Posted by: Clowns and Mimes DC Local #101 at August 02, 2011 04:56 AM (/ZZCn)
So is it safe to say they'll follow Obama's lead and focus like a laser on the issue?
[/sarc]
It amazes me that gubmint types can't grasp the simple fact that TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT is to blame for lack of jobs, not the other way around.
Oh wait, did I say that amazes me? I meant it doesn't amaze me at all.
Posted by: MWR, proud Tea Party Hobbit at August 02, 2011 04:58 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Navin's Dad at August 02, 2011 05:00 AM (sVk8z)
Posted by: Marcus at August 02, 2011 08:29 AM (CHrmZ)
Before the President returned to Washington, he posed for photographs with each team member and spoke with many of them, but he left one thing unsaid. He never asked who fired the kill shot, and the SEALs never volunteered to tell him.
Because they all knew who pulled the trigger - twas Barky himself.
And his line was badly misquoted; here's the true transcript:
“For Allah God and country—Me, Me, Me Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo.”
Posted by: No Whining at August 02, 2011 05:00 AM (YAJZH)
Here's more good and unexpected news from Bloomberg.com:
Consumer spending in the U.S. unexpectedly dropped in June for the first time in almost two years as a slump in hiring caused households to retrench.
Purchases decreased 0.2 percent, after a 0.1 percent gain the prior month, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington. The median estimate of 77 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News called for a 0.1 percent increase. Incomes grew at the slowest pace since November and the savings rate climbed.
The lack of jobs combined with wage gains that have failed to keep pace with inflation raise the risk of further cuts in consumer spending
So in one article the genuises tell us that the economy is doing so well that people are voluntarily quitting their jobs and in the next consumer spending is down because of a "slump" in hiring and wage stagnation.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 02, 2011 05:02 AM (1Jaio)
He who fights and runs away lives to run another day.
Posted by: pragmatic socialist republican at August 02, 2011 05:02 AM (sOXQX)
Posted by: Always a Witch AudioBook at August 02, 2011 08:56 AM (Q9YsD)
Look, everybody! It's 'curious', and she's a witch!
Posted by: No Whining at August 02, 2011 05:02 AM (YAJZH)
was thinking, just based of recent news, that we could come up with a number for job losses on our own.
Posted by: curious at August 02, 2011 05:03 AM (k1rwm)
Posted by: A. Weiner at August 02, 2011 05:03 AM (hbAPu)
O/T - Was on a techsite and the issue of Asian influence over gaming came up and someone responded "sounds like a Nazi comment" a guy responded "it was a joke give it up gramps" and noone else chimed in..... yep the left has smothered the race issue.
Just like they when ever someone (even Whoopie) hears "sex offender" or "rapist" they try to quantify if it means the real monster those words used to mean or the overdone hyperbole of the modern left. Oh well..... hey its just the innocent actual victims that get ignored right? so why should the instutional left give a shit when they are about to finish a century long project to yoke America with a statist government a Marxist economy and a culture of ignorance and self shame. Those rape/racism/ victims can take one for team marx!
http://twitter.com/#!/ShiggzKenobi
Posted by: Shiggz at August 02, 2011 05:05 AM (v8Pb8)
Posted by: rockmom at August 02, 2011 05:05 AM (lSyyU)
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at August 02, 2011 05:06 AM (sVk8z)
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at August 02, 2011 08:13 AM (sVk8z)
True dat.
Posted by: No Whining at August 02, 2011 05:06 AM (YAJZH)
I've learned a little something about running a business working with the county. We have given up. The government wants too much and does not trust the individual to run a business anymore.
Listening to democrats talk about jobs - they don't get it. They want more money in teacher union coffers. Democrats hate competition and vouchers, school choice because it frees poorer kids from bad public schools. The left love their bad public schools and insist we simply pay more for the same crap. See Atlanta schools for details.
The left don't understand jobs or freedom or providing something. They only understand graft.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 02, 2011 05:07 AM (0fzsA)
Violent rhetoric?
Posted by: Jane D'oh, Tea Party terrorist, and proud of it at August 02, 2011 05:08 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: obvious at August 02, 2011 05:09 AM (9c5/H)
Posted by: Shiggz at August 02, 2011 05:10 AM (v8Pb8)
Posted by: Shiggz at August 02, 2011 05:11 AM (v8Pb8)
Posted by: Jean at August 02, 2011 05:12 AM (ICwOo)
Posted by: Captain Hate at August 02, 2011 05:13 AM (zsvKP)
Posted by: Heorot at August 02, 2011 05:16 AM (Nq/UF)
They can lie their way through a few months.
Posted by: nickless at August 02, 2011 05:17 AM (MMC8r)
These cocksuckers want to improve employment? Repeal BammyCare. Lacking that there won't be a fucking bit of positive news.
Yep. 'Tis so.
Posted by: Chariots of Toast at August 02, 2011 05:17 AM (tk5O7)
This. Exactly what's keeping my husband from hiring.
Posted by: Jane D'oh, Tea Party terrorist, and proud of it at August 02, 2011 05:22 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: Shiggz at August 02, 2011 09:10 AM (v8Pb
I think you're on to something. We need to start calling vouchers "Education Stamps", and maybe the proles who are affected by the lack of "choice" (another lefty sacred buzz word) will see the connection and start demand them.
Posted by: A. Weiner at August 02, 2011 05:23 AM (hbAPu)
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 02, 2011 05:26 AM (0fzsA)
And if the Stupid Party takes a moment of sanity, they'll just use this as an opportunity to continue the debate over government spending.
All we have to do is say, "suspending such and such needless regulation will create X number of jobs and won't cost a dime in new spending."
Posted by: Jimmuy at August 02, 2011 05:29 AM (W789i)
Nice try. He isn't hiring because he is a racist and wants our first post-racial president to fail. Clipping coupons and hanging out at the club isn't the same thing as working for a living. One of these days you clingers will figure out that you don't own the country. Whatever you may have built is the property of the country, not the individual. Our time will come! But you are too busy complaining about Obama and his enlightened policies to do anything constructive.
You should be ashamed!
Posted by: Lucy'sRabbit (NJProgressive) at August 02, 2011 05:33 AM (LH6ir)
I normally don't acknowledge a sock, but Lucy's Rabbit so captured the prog philosophy that it compelled me to say bravo. Truly a great job.
Posted by: irongrampa at August 02, 2011 05:42 AM (ud5dN)
Posted by: 1984 at August 02, 2011 05:56 AM (4q5tP)
Posted by: The Demorats at August 02, 2011 06:25 AM (du74H)
Posted by: The Schwalbe : © at August 02, 2011 06:26 AM (UU0OF)
Yep, they're getting right on that jobs problem. From Hot Air...
The U.S. economy won a temporary reprieve with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement last week that new ozone standards, which had been slated for this summer, will be delayed. The EPA’s “reconsideration” of the ozone standards it set in 2008 and issuance of more stringent standards violate all three of the fundamental values EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson pledged to honor: “science-based policies and programs, adherence to the rule of law, and overwhelming transparency.”
This enormously expensive regulation is unsupported by scientific evidence, violates the Clean Air Act (CAA), and appears timed to evade ongoing judicial review of the rulemaking process. Even the EPAÂ’s estimate that the new rule will impose up to $90 billion in compliance costs annually severely understates the impact on economic development and jobs in communities where attainment of the new standards will be impossible. Congress should make the EPAÂ’s temporary postponement of its new ozone standards a permanent one.
[snip] A study by Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI estimates that strengthening the ozone standard to 60 ppb could cost the U.S. economy more than $1 trillion per year between 2020 and 2030, and destroy 7.3 million jobs. http://tinyurl.com/3toysxx
Posted by: Deanna at August 02, 2011 06:28 AM (aWtdc)
Which makes me wonder.... do Democrats understand the meaning of the word "create?"
One hand is screaming "create jobs" while the other is gleefully killing jobs.
Perhaps the entire government needs treatment for multiple personality disorder.
Posted by: shibumi at August 02, 2011 06:30 AM (z63Tr)
I love the "thou shalt provide birth control for 'free'" regulation they passed in the teeth of this sh*t storm. That'll help.
We all know that the government pays top-dollar for these things. The insurance companies will be hiring scads of people with all of that extra dough.
Nice work Barry.
Posted by: RobM1981 at August 02, 2011 06:33 AM (qlIZh)
Posted by: Mr Pink at August 02, 2011 08:08 AM (SFPgT)
According to them, the middle class is made up entirely of union public employees. Everyone else is either (ultra) rich or poor.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 02, 2011 06:42 AM (pdRb1)
Hey Dems, here's an idea: issue some god-damned permits to drill in the gulf and in Alaska.
Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at August 02, 2011 06:47 AM (qwK3S)
This enormously expensive regulation is unsupported by scientific evidence, violates the Clean Air Act (CAA), and appears timed to evade ongoing judicial review of the rulemaking process. Even the EPAÂ’s estimate that the new rule will impose up to $90 billion in compliance costs annually severely understates the impact on economic development and jobs in communities where attainment of the new standards will be impossible.
That's just nitpicking, isn't it?
Posted by: Lisa Jackson at August 02, 2011 06:48 AM (4q5tP)
It's a three letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S
Posted by: Joe Biden at August 02, 2011 06:50 AM (qwK3S)
You have got to love our government. Trying to regulate ozone down to immeasurable levels while at the same time pimping electric cars and high speed rail (electric trains).
electric motors emit ozone
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 02, 2011 06:54 AM (pdRb1)
I love the "thou shalt provide birth control for 'free'" regulation they passed in the teeth of this sh*t storm. That'll help.
We all know that the government pays top-dollar for these things. The insurance companies will be hiring scads of people with all of that extra dough.
Nice work Barry.
Posted by: RobM1981 at August 02, 2011 10:33 AM
I loved how the article said this was a good thing since we don't want unplanned pregnancies. Then in the next paragraph said most unplanned pregnancies were because the woman forgot to take the pill. So we're paying for something they probably won't use.
Posted by: Deanna at August 02, 2011 07:03 AM (aWtdc)
Posted by: Socratease at August 02, 2011 07:46 AM (m7q2m)
And I'll do it alphabetically to be fair:
American Airlines
Boeing
Con Edison
...
Barky the Magnificent
Posted by: sherlock at August 02, 2011 07:59 AM (thr9V)
Posted by: AdamM at August 02, 2011 09:55 AM (8NmGw)
So what happened to that "focus like a laser" shit on jobs?
Fucking asswipes.
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at August 02, 2011 12:30 PM (1rHeD)
Posted by: GHD at August 14, 2011 02:21 AM (UDaJ+)
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That's not what the textbook says!
Posted by: Barky O-Master of the Universe at August 02, 2011 03:35 AM (yrGif)