1 But it's all BOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH'S FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 The boy was hiding in a barn.

January 4th 2007:  The day Pelosi became Speaker of the Democratically controlled 110th Congress

DJIA end of session:  12,800.18
National unemployment rate for December 2006:  4.5%
2006 Federal Budget Deficit:  $247.7 billion
Average GDP growth for 2006:   3.4%
Median Home Value in December 2006: $244,700   March 2011: $159,600
Average price for Regular Unleaded Gasoline December 2006:  $2.30
Federal Debt as % of GDP  2006: 64.55  2008: 70.00  2009: 90.36  2010: 92.28   2011: 102.63 (estimated)
Nonfarm employment in thousands   Dec 2006: 137,000   April 2011: 131,028

In the 12 years of Republican Congress, average annual deficit:  $104 billion

3

When you take away the "blame Bush", what else does he really have?

Race card?

4 All you twerps who want a comment on this economy thing - appears to be faked.

5

Yes, his economic policies were so bad, that I doubled down on them!

Heck.... lets go all in on spendulous!

6 When Petey signed the Porkulus bill, he became the owner of this economy.

7 I see he missed the secret memo that VDH was quoting a couple of days ago.

8

/bad Richard Simmons voice...

SPENDULOUS!!!!

9

BUSH'S FAULT!

no? ok...

RAAAACIST!!

no? let's try...

GREEEEEDY CORPORATE BASTARDS!!!

no? how about...

I WON!!!

no?

10 Remember back in O5/06 when the Rs up for re-election placed all the blame on Bush and the media went fucking nuts over it - there's a rift in the Rep. party!!!!1!!! - Even the Rs BLAME BUSH.

Now, when the Dems are trying to distance themselves and their votes from Obama, the media is silent.

11 Why is it that politicians named Dick or Weiner always end up being a cock?

12 BREAKING NEWS (circa 2010) Hair Plug Sporting Psychic Predicts "Recovery Summer"! Prophecy supported by African American Messiah Figure!

13

Posted by: weew at June 08, 2011 02:52 PM (l8YWh)

I'm doing it to help the whole worlds economy!

14 3

When you take away the "blame Bush", what else does he really have?

Race card?

Posted by: weew at June 08, 2011 02:46 PM (l8YWh)

Math and economics is racist.

15 Blaming Bush isn't a solution to the bad economy.  If Zero doesn't have solutions then people are going to want someone, anyone, else.

16 Forget Gutsycall.com.  It's the Obamalypse, now.

17 Sounds like Durbin is more interested in getting re-elected than supporting a failed President

18

This post is full of weiner.  

19 11 Why is it that politicians named Dick or Weiner always end up being a cock?

Posted by: © Sponge at June 08, 2011 02:55 PM (UK9cE)

It's in my nature.

20 Abandon Ship!!!!

21 So, if you've been to 57 states, with 1 to go, but you're not allowed to go to Alaska or Hawaii, doesn't that make 60 states?

Mixtures of pot and cocaine tend to have negative effects on the brain, so I've heard.

22 When you take away the "blame Bush", what else does he really have?

Soaring Rhetoric™. The kind of speechifying so historic and memorable no one can quote a single line of his, except in mockery.

23 Its a Trap???

24 Aren't rats the first ones to bail a sinking ship?

25 Democrats trying to circle the wagons with Obama on the outside. But who voted for all Obama's socialist crap???

26 22 When you take away the "blame Bush", what else does he really have?

Soaring Rhetoric™. The kind of speechifying so historic and memorable no one can quote a single line of his, except in mockery.

Posted by: Waterhouse at June 08, 2011 02:59 PM (wKH+l)

I like to quiz my Obama-supporting friends from time to time about what their favorite Obama quote is.  None of them can ever think of any....even though they all say they love the way he speaks.

mmm mmm mmm.

27 GutsyDepression.com

28

Aren't rats the first ones to bail a sinking ship?

Rahm and Axelrod say Hi

29 Posted by: james cole at June 08, 2011 02:46 PM (GTbGH)

Whenever I try to point out those facts to some liberal douchebag all I get it BOOOOSSSHH it's all his fault!!!

30 Democrats trying to circle the wagons with Obama on the outside. But who voted for all Obama's socialist crap???

Posted by: tarpon at June 08, 2011 03:00 PM (g0QB

If the R's don't run on the Dems voting record next year, we're all screwed.

Enough with the shitty analogies.....cold hard facts, baby.  FTW!!!

31 Whenever I try to point out those facts to some liberal douchebag all I get it BOOOOSSSHH it's all his fault!!!

Posted by: Hedgehog at June 08, 2011 03:01 PM (Rn2kl)

Don't forget the ILLEGAL WAR!!!!!!  FOR OIL!!!!!

Oh wait......

32

I like to quiz my Obama-supporting friends from time to time about what their favorite Obama quote is.  None of them can ever think of any....even though they all say they love the way he speaks.

mmm mmm mmm.

Posted by: robviously at June 08, 2011 03:01 PM (TQbuA)

He'd be a very effective leader of a religious cult.

Oh wait.

He is.

33 This should be the theme for the next 17 months. We should take control of the narrative.

And the fact that Durbin handed the Republicans a nice sound bite shouldn't be wasted (but...it will be).

34 The official strategy for 2012 is:

Blame Bush
Throw grandma over the cliff
and
raaaaciiiisssts!

35 34The official strategy for 2012 is:

Blame Bush
Throw grandma over the cliff
and
raaaaciiiisssts!

Posted by: Vic at June 08, 2011 03:05 PM (M9Ie6)

OK... I'm confused.... is it Racist Grandma's throwing Booosh over the cliff...

oorrrr Bush throwing Grandmas offf the racist cliff...

orrrrr... Racist Bush throwing Grandma off the cliff...

We need to get this straight...

36 #34

Lets hope that's their strategy.

37 Dear Senator McCain, Enclosed, please find one cock-punch for your remark that "you have nothing to fear from an Obama presidency." Sincerely, EoJ

38 Rahm and Axelrod say Hi Posted by: IE Con at June 08, 2011 03:01 PM (/COcn) Well Axelrod left to run obama's campaign, so he is still on the inside

39 Whenever I try to point out those facts to some liberal douchebag all I get it BOOOOSSSHH it's all his fault!!!

well there's your problem right there

40
We are not concerned with a double-dip recession, but we are concerned about the failure of republican's to present a budget within the administrations strict guidelines and acceptable to the President.

This is my present day comment, and after my departure in September, the above comment is completely inoperative, and will not be relied upon as a factual representation of my belief.

41 Obamaconomy.
Obamaconomy.
Obamaconomy.
Obamaconomy.

42 22 When you take away the "blame Bush", what else does he really have?

Soaring Rhetoric Teleprompter Reading™. The kind of speechifying so historic and memorable no one can quote a single line of his, except in mockery.

Posted by: Waterhouse at June 08, 2011 02:59 PM (wKH+l)

 

FIFY.

43

Question...

IF you take out the increase in Gov spending, which was all borrowed money... and the banking industry (which produces nothing, it just moves money around and counts it as GDP activity) did the economy really make any gains the last couple of years...

ie... is the PRODUCTIVE part of the economy actualy growing? or is it all Gov spending and Banks?

44 The official strategy for 2012 is:

Blame Bush
Throw grandma over the cliff
and
raaaaciiiisssts!

Posted by: Vic at June 08, 2011 03:05 PM (M9Ie6) 

That sounds familiar.

45 Very entertaining podcasts: Coffee and Markets:  http://tinyurl.com/6263dks

46

REAGANOMICS

47

Mmm mmm mmm

Barack Hussein Obama

A man who dances like a clown

And drives the dollar's value down

Mmm mmm mmm Barack Hussein Obama

His speeches make you want to snooze

His plan for peace is "F*** the Jews!"

Mmm mmm mmm

Barack Hussein Obama

48

Question...

IF you take out the increase in Gov spending, which was all borrowed money... and the banking industry (which produces nothing, it just moves money around and counts it as GDP activity) did the economy really make any gains the last couple of years decades...

ie... is the PRODUCTIVE part of the economy actualy growing? or is it all Gov spending and Banks?

Fixed.  The question stands...

49 President Obama does have a plan and I agree that we need to tax the rich (Anyone making $75,000 or more). The rich needs to pay higher taxes to help Obama create more jobs. Let's get behind our leader and make more jobs.

50 If you want to avoid the health insurance mandate and penalties, just stop making so damn much money!  Aren't you peasants supposed to be poor anyway?

51

Posted by: ParisParamus at June 08, 2011 03:16 PM (QN76w)

I am intrigued by this Hadley Heath...

52 Dear Whoopie Goldberg,

When John McCain was on that horrible excuse for a show called The View, you asked him if you had to worry about a return to the days of slavery.  Thanks to the policies supported by liberals and foisted upon the rest of us, the answer is yes.

53

Posted by: AoSHQ's *second* worst commenter, DarkLord© at June 08, 2011 03:18 PM (GBXon)

Good point...

 

54 41 Obamaconomy.
Obamaconomy.
Obamaconomy.
Obamaconomy.

This country is an OBAMANATION.

55

Our slogan for 2012: socialism causes global warming.

Put hipsters' heads into a DO loop.

56

Barack who? Never heard of him.

57 If you've lost Dick Durbin . . .

58 This might also be a good time to recall that 97-0 shellacking that O's budget took a couple of weeks ago. If he can't even a few Democratic votes as cover . . .

59 I'm still betting on a 'draft Evan Bayh' movement byThanksgiving.

60 This might also be a good time to recall that 97-0 shellacking that O's budget took a couple of weeks ago. If he can't even a few Democratic votes as cover . . .

Posted by: tsj017

 

And these are the same politcal whores who needed $500million in bribes to vote the party line on Obamacare. The same ones who are resigning rather than continue to raise funds (are we up to six of them now?).

61 Forget Gutsycall.com.  It's the Obamalypse, now.

Racist.

62 Is Dickless Dirtbag throwing Barry under the bus?

63 16 Forget Gutsycall.com.  It's the Obamalypse, now.
; background-color: rgb(255, 218, 185);"> Posted by: ParisParamus at June 08, 2011 02:56 PM

~~~~~~~~~

Obamalypse Now.  I like it! 


There's a movie in there somewhere . . . Charlie Sheen as the agent, Obama as the insane Colonel, Joe Biden as the fawning Dennis Hopper journ-o-list character . . . Anthony Weiner as a naked tribesman . . .

64 Hmm, Clinton, Carville, and now Durbin.  Goolsbee resigns.

I'm thinking about that "Ulsterman Insider" most recent post.  Let's see if I can find the quote...

Here it is:

"Watch for an uptick in Democrats openly speaking out against Obama.  You have likely noted the most recent bi-partisan votes in Congress against Obama.  To have those kinds of votes against a sitting president who is now fully engaged in a re-election campaign is stunning."

65

@2: "January 4th 2007:  The day Pelosi became Speaker of the Democratically controlled 110th Congress

DJIA end of session:  12,800.18 Garbage number - as we know, market was full of shit.

National unemployment rate for December 2006:  4.5% Nice enough, in and of itself, but offshoring was already well underway, wages had been stagnant for a long time, and a lot of those jobs were low-level service ones.  Not really a sign of strength

2006 Federal Budget Deficit:  $247.7 billion Better than the Dems' numbers, but still terrible.  The GOP are supposed to be the fiscally responsible ones, remember?

Average GDP growth for 2006:   3.4% Almost all of it was pulled-forward demand based on credit/debt, as has been the case for the last 25+ years.  Virtually no organic growth in that number.

Median Home Value in December 2006: $244,700   Hopelessly inflated figure from the near-top of a bubble.  Worthless indicator of value.

March 2011: $159,600 Sadly, as still inflated figure.  Not an indicator of true value yet.

Average price for Regular Unleaded Gasoline December 2006:  $2.30 Nice enough, I guess, but pre-Bush giving banks billions to unfreeze credit pour into futures.  Not a good measure of value, but probably more accurate than now.

Federal Debt as % of GDP  2006: 64.55 2008: 70.00  2009: 90.36  2010: 92.28   2011: 102.63 (estimated) 2006 was still terrible.  Again, the GOP guys are supposed to be the party of fiscal responsibility.

Nonfarm employment in thousands   Dec 2006: 137,000   April 2011: 131,028 As above, nice enough, in and of itself, but offshoring was already well underway, wages had been stagnant for a long time, and a lot of those jobs were low-level service ones.  Not really a sign of strength.

Obama has definitely exacerbated the problem, as did the Pelosi/Reid Congress, but the GOP did a terrible job, too.  They don't really look better than the Dems, just less abysmal.

66 Thanks for throwing your party under the bus in 2010, Champ! Now, it's your turn.

67 JAMES COLE,

Stunning numbers...let's hope the GOP uses them.

68 Let me be clear.  Truth of the matter is our current ills are directly attributable to the failed economic policies of the Grover Cleveland administration.

69 Sheesh, Durbin even looks like a fucking idiot.

70 They don't really look better than the Dems, just less abysmal.


The numbers are what the numbers are, says I.  Spin them hows you want but I'd like them back, including that average annual deficit.

71 Seriously, I wish I was joking--back in the '90s it felt to me like the money being made was complete and utter bullshit.  It was based on nothing, earned from nothing, and totally arbitrary.  Dot-coms, real estate, finance...a vaporware economy, a series of bubbles.

Probably what opened my eyes and helped me throw off the left-fog from college.  Still bitter in the mouth, though.

72 I can remember a quote from Obama's speeches: "The Republicans drove the car into the ditch.  And now they want the keys back.  Well they can't have the keys back.  Because... they can't drive" (Sounds of wild cheering)

Doesn't that rank right up there with "Ask not" and "The only thing we have to fear"?