The amateur in the white house is so over his head it isn't even funny.

Obama must go!

He isn't capable of managing the night shift at Taco Bell.

The jobs that have been created (4.4 Million over the last 2.5 years) is truly amazing -

Especially considering the total obstruction of the GOP/Koch party for the last 3.5 years.

The Republican party has done untold damage to our country not just via the filibuster and its admitted strategy of opposing all attempts to the fix the economy, but for the decade before that....and ever since Reagan.

Tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulate everything in sight CAUSED THIS GREAT RECESSION - and we are not going back. We're not going to do it all over again, Romney.

Romney is working for the Big Corporations, the transnationals, and the top one-tenth of one percent of this country, and its mouthpieces in the GOP/Koch party.

FORWARD >>>>>>>>>>>>>Obama/Biden 2012.

Outhouse, you need to do a little fact finding. The House has passed 30 jobs bills that the Dems in the Senate are sitting on.

Senate is obstructing progress on jobs.

It will be interesting to see how the TeaPeople/RWNJs react to S.E. Cupp (The Cycle), saying that "Ann Romney is lying", this morning on the Thomas Roberts show..... when Ms. Ann said that Willard (we) are considering a woman for the VP slot!

Yup, S.E. Cupp, the hack, calling Ms. Ann a Liar!.....Priceless!

The Teapublican House is on another planet. Anything it passes is set to FAIL in the Senate. Just a time-wasting excercise to avoid creating jobs and lifting up the economy.

The HOUSE GOP has passed about 80 abortion amendments, "In God We Trust", and named various post offices - why is beyond me, when they fully intend to decimate and privatize the Post Office and postal Union.

House GOP has finaigled working 9 days a month for $170K, and receives the cadillac of health care plans;

But has produced not ONE job for you or me. Not one.

RedSoxRule

Romney is as capable of winning in Novemebr as much as Red Sox are capable of winning anything in the next 10 years. But they do have something in common: both team Willard and team Red Sox are spending obscene amount of money to be average...

Steve Benen, The Maddow Blog:

Using exactly the kind of rhetoric Republicans dismiss as "tired excuses," the governor told reporters, "I came in and the jobs had been just falling off a cliff.... It takes a while to get things turned around. We were in a recession; we were losing jobs every month. We've turned it around and now we're adding jobs.... We want to keep that going to the extent we can."

Mitt Romney, six years ago.

Perhaps now would be a good time for a reality check. Last fall, Obama said the job market wasn't nearly strong enough, and he proposed an ambitious jobs plan called the American Jobs Act. Independent estimates showed that the policy, if implemented, would create as many as 1.9 million U.S. jobs in 2012 alone. Congressional Republicans, however, killed it.

1. With the job market struggling, Obama unveils the American Jobs Act, a State of the Union agenda filled with economic measures, and an economic "to-do list."

2. Republican lawmakers ignore the proposals, and the job market deteriorates.

3. The GOP then blames Obama when job numbers disappoint.

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Last weekend I mentioned, to use my exact words - the kick in the gut - the GOP throws at us on a daily basis.

Today, Romney says the job #'s were a kick in the gut.

Be careful what you say here. The Mitt camp can't think for themselves and have to steal material.

There's more ~

DailyKos:

On the top left we have Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg's statement about recent media coverage of his offshore finances and on the lower right we have Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul's statement on David Axelrod calling Mitt Romney the most secretive candidate since Richard Nixon.

As you can see, the statements are identical—every word is the same, right down to the punctuation. But those aren't the only things the two statements have in common: They are also both equally meaningless. Neither answers any meaningful question about the issue at hand.

Romneyland isn't just dodging questions about their candidate, they're flaunting their evasion.

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Thanks Romney. Because of YOUR POLICIES, there are fewer jobs in America. That's the definition of "kick in the gut".

And if people in this country want to vote for Romney, then go ahead. But please understand - his policies do not in any way, shape or form help your future if you belong to either the working or middle classes or are a student.

It's all out there front and center. Pay attention. Vote NO to GOP in November. They are the ones stalling progress in this country. They are the ones saying NO to jobs. Not the Democrats.

Backhouse....

The post office has had it's day in the sunshine. Read yesterday they are losing 1 billion a month!

They do not even want to consider dropping Saturday delivery because of union jobs lost.

It is time for tough decisions that only real leaders can make, Obama is not qualified for any of this

At 200 days, House GOP passed 81 measures, none of which created jobs and some that destroyed jobs.

They focused on divisive bills - for example, with the goal of ending Medicare, while giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas and Big Oil.

First 200 days:

GOP jobs bills zero,

Voted down Democratic jobs bills 10 times.

Boston Pat

Obama said unemployment would be 5% in summer 2012 if he got his stimulus bill.

He got it.

He failed .

He will be very justly fired in november!

old fat guy-1144960

Obama said unemployment would be 5% in summer 2012 if he got his stimulus bill.

show me Obama saying this

Think Progress:

1. Filibustering the American Jobs Act. Last October, Senate Republicans killed a jobs bill proposed by President Obama that would have pumped $447 billion into the economy. Multiple economic analysts predicted the bill would add around two million jobs and hailed it as defense against a double-dip recession. The Congressional Budget Office also scored it as a net deficit reducer over ten years, and the American public supported the bill.

2. Stonewalling monetary stimulus. The Federal Reserve can do enormous good for a depressed economy through more aggressive monetary stimulus, and by tolerating a temporarily higher level of inflation. But with everything from Ron Paul’s anti-inflationary crusade to Rick Perry threatening to lynch Chairman Ben Bernanke, Republicans have browbeaten the Fed into not going down this path. Most damagingly, the GOP repeatedly held up President Obama’s nominations to the Federal Reserve Board during the critical months of the recession, leaving the board without the institutional clout it needed to help the economy.

3. Threatening a debt default. Even though the country didn’t actually hit its debt ceiling last summer, the Republican threat to default on the United States’ outstanding obligations was sufficient to spook financial markets and do real damage to the economy.

4. Cutting discretionary spending in the debt ceiling deal. The deal the GOP extracted as the price for avoiding default imposed around $900 billion in cuts over ten years. It included $30.5 billion in discretionary cuts in 2012 alone, costing the country 0.3 percent in economic growth and 323,000 jobs, according to estimates from the Economic Policy Institute. Starting in 2013, the deal will trigger another $1.2 trillion in cuts over ten years.

5. Cutting discretionary spending in the budget deal. While not as cataclysmic as the debt ceiling brinksmanship, Republicans also threatened a shutdown of the government in early 2011 if cuts were not made to that year’s budget. The deal they struck with the White House cut $38 billion from food stamps, health, education, law enforcement, and low-income programs among others, while sparing defense almost entirely.

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The Republican Party is no damn good. They could have actually done something; instead they did nothing. Particularly Boehner, the Republican from Ohio.

Why are they in government? Why do they continue to take all the perks afforded them?

They REFUSE to work for the American people.

bayllie - he never said it. Plus, if he had, he had no one of knowing the GOP would pledge to block EVERYTHING he tried to do in order to make him a one-term President. That hadn't been done in the history of this great nation. But, nothing is beneath the GOP. No party has ever sunk as low as this group of Republicans. How sad for a once great party. How sad for the country.

Obama/Biden 2012

The Post Office was asked to do something no other outfit has ever been asked to do.

It was asked to set up a massive ($billions) retirement program for DECADES INTO THE FUTURE- by the Bush Administration. It was a set up set in motion some time ago, to bring down the Post Office.

The Postal Service delivers 168 billion pieces of mail and is part of a $900 billion industry. To be profitable, all that is needed is for Congress to pre-fund retirement health care, and move from six day to a five day delivery.

The USPS OIG has shown that the Postal Service has actually OVERPAID its retirement benefits program obligation by almost $7 billion.

Mr. Darryl Issa is the only one disputing that FACT. He is speaking for the Koch brothers, founders of the Cato Institute, which argues for PRIVATIZATION of the Postal Service.

People still use mail a lot, despite the spin about the inernet. And the postal service still brings in $67 billion a year.

Dismantling public services is #1 for GOP. Republican Governors have fired 700,000 public workers, when previous Presidents have INCREASED public sector workers during a recession to help recovery. That includes GWB.

SeekingSanity

bayllie - he never said it.

I know but I want the old fat guy to know....is it too naive of me to hope that people like old fat guy is after the truth, instead of spewing feces?

this job situation is a result of greedy corporations that have wanted more obscene illegal profits for themselves and been unwilling to pay a fair wage for more full-time employees.

That's exactly why you don't want Willard the Selfish Vulture in the White House now.

NY Times, Oct. 2011

It was all predicted, but the unanimous decision by Senate Republicans on Tuesday to filibuster and thus kill President Obama’s jobs bill was still a breathtaking act of economic vandalism. There are 14 million people out of work, wages are falling, poverty is rising, and a second recession may be blowing in, but not a single Republican would even allow debate on a sound plan to cut middle-class taxes and increase public-works spending.

The bill the Republicans shot down is not a panacea, but independent economists say it would have a significant and swift effect on the current stagnation. Macroeconomic Advisers, whose forecasts are often used by the Federal Reserve, said it could raise economic growth by 1.25 percentage points and create 1.3 million jobs in 2012. Moody’s Analytics estimated new growth at 2 percentage points and 1.9 million jobs. Those economists say that Republican ideas for increasing growth would have no measurable effects in the next year.

The Republicans offer no actual economic plans, only tired slogans about cutting regulations and spending, and ending health care reform. The party seems content to run out the clock on Mr. Obama’s term while doing very little. On Tuesday, Mr. Obama’s campaign manager, Jim Messina, accused Republicans of trying to “suffocate the economy” in hopes that the pain would work to their political advantage. They are doing little to refute that charge.

Their lack of serious ideas was on full display in both the Senate and the presidential debate on Tuesday night in New Hampshire. The debate was ostensibly about the economy, but when the freshest and most-talked-about idea is Herman Cain’s ridiculous “9-9-9” tax plan, it is clear that the economy they were debating is not the one Americans are forced to live in. Mr. Cain — whose rise in the polls says everything you need to know about the amateur-hour decline of his party — wants to replace all federal taxes with a 9 percent levy on corporate income, personal income and sales. As Bruce Bartlett, an economist who has worked in Republican administrations, recently wrote in The Times, it is a formula designed to cut taxes for the rich and increase them for the poor, raising the deficit and doing nothing for growth.

The other candidates were no less vacuous. Mitt Romney offered an ash heap of used ideas, saying he would push a balanced-budget amendment, cut back on regulations, and go chest to chest with China on trade. Rick Perry, when he could be stirred to speak, vowed to somehow put 1.2 million people to work in the energy industry, as if the whole country were Texas and drills could pop up on every block.

Republican candidates fear the Tea Party too much to acknowledge that economists are solidly behind government intervention to awaken growth. The jobs bill rejected by Republican leaders will now be reintroduced piece by piece, and Republicans are not likely to go along with much more than an extension of the payroll tax cut (which is opposed by Mr. Romney). But at least the record is increasingly clear who is advocating real ideas and who is selling an empty vessel.

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The record is crystal clear who is stopping growth.

Senate Republicans killed a jobs bill proposed by President Obama that would have pumped $447 billion into the economy.

I find it interesting that the Jobs Act was sponsored by Harry Reid alone - and that was by request. No other Democrats signed on. Not one. It never went to committee. How odd.

Was this similar to the President's budget for which not one Senator voted?

The way to get around Republican obstruction, I think, is to have leaders who can lead the Congress, the Senate and the country to productivity. Time for a change.

Jobs, jobs, jobs. LOL

Is this the best Obama can do?

Blame Republicans as obstructionist when Obama use his executive powers whenever he thinks is important . I guess use his executive powers to promote more private jobs is not part of his agenda, he want increase his base of union government workers only with his Jobs Bill. Yes time for a change.

NOHOPE NOCHANGE NOBAMA

Yawn...more drivel from liberal publications...thinkprogress?? Perhaps you should quote something from the National Enquirer, it would be equally true...

So bright lefties on here, how come Obama dropped his campaign line of "we're moving in the right direction?"

Baylie...

Part of Obama's pitch was 5% with stimulus and 8.2% without.

Remember this was while unemployment was only 7.5%

Obama said a lot of things that he is about to be held accountable for.

Recovery summer awaits!

The record is crystal clear who is stopping growth.

the guys with the 9% approval rating.

the guys with the 9% approval rating.

Yep.

And that would be: 242 Democrats, and 289 Republicans.

Wrong.

There was NEVER a promise of 8.2% unemployment by the WH, or anything like it.

That was media faux spin.

No-ONE KNEW how deep a hole the great recession had made in our economy, how much damage, or what was coming -- back in Jan/Feb/March2009.

Or even after that.

At the end of Bush's term, it was thought the GDP had gone down to minus 3.9% (-3.9%).

Economists like Romer put out some figures for the GDP, but they were only speculative.

Later, it was discovered that the real figure was minus 8.9% (-8.9%) in December 2008.

Way, way off.

The recession really was that bad, and the recovery really has needed all hands on deck.

And no crystal ball could fix it from any party.

I have the official link showing GDP for those two years, if you want to see them.

Without a stimulus and just austerity, Europe has fallen into the brink with unemployment numbers ranging from 11% to 25%.

Our stimulus was watered down, but a million jobs were created that same year because of it. The President has done fantastically well...with no help from GOP/Koch.

Bush's story:

CNN will air a documentary this weekend about George W Bush, the Ship Captain of US economy, a.k.a. Costa Concordia, who ran the ship aground and then abadoned ship, running away as a fugitive (hiding somewhere in Texas and ready to cross into Mexico any time if people want to sue him for justice).

Then a Supreman has appeared - President Obama - who took over and has done as good a job as he has supermanly possible, but the damages have been done (by Bush, of course). It's hard to right the ship, harder than you thought.

Have trust in Obama - 4 more years.

This is NOT a paid commercial for CNN.

Obama/Biden 2012

nothing but twisted liberal rhetoric spewed agenda. the proof is in the pudding, no economic relief in sight but excuses & blames in backward style to get through the day. people are looking at a bleak future without jobs, progressive reduction of savings, assets devalued to half, their children entering poor houses. true leader virtue is a natural talent that cannot be learned, if you don't get it, you will never get it, no matter what you do, advise of the experts on issues cannot be weighed in, gets too foggy on the brain of any intelligent person, but gets too lucid on the brain of an average person born a natural leader with wisdom. natural born leader is as rare as an expensive stone that gets form in million years. we do not know if one is already born..........

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. James Miles

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Even if Republicans control both houses of Congress and the White House in 2013, they will not work for anyone except the wealthy and corporations. Mitt Romney’s big economic plan is over $7 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy and their corporations that have not created jobs or a healthy economy for the past ten years. Politicususa.

Program cuts and fees. That's Romney's agenda. Program cuts and fees to the poor, working and middle classes. Tax cuts for the rich. That's the only world Mitt knows. The world of the uber rich. He is not about leadership. He's about exploitation of every single decent working man and women in this nation.

The Republican Party has made it quite clear - do nothing.

Ironic isn't it. The GOP ran in 2010 on jobs. Yet they didn't lift a finger to help. Purposely, with intent to hurt no only President Obama, but all of us.

Vote them out.

Bloomberg-h/t Obama Diary:

Congress Gets Failing Marks on Economy, December 2011

Congress is ending what may be its least productive year on record after government shutdown threats, the collapse of debt-reduction talks and little action to fix the worst U.S. economy since the Great Depression.

This year’s partisan battles brought the U.S. to the brink of a government shutdown four times, caused a two-week furlough of Federal Aviation Administration workers and led Standard & Poor’s to lower the nation’s credit rating after it said lawmakers didn’t do enough to reduce the federal deficit.

“It’s been one of the worst Congresses in modern history,” said Representative Jim Cooper, a Tennessee Democrat.“We have failed to meet our minimum standards of competency and endangered America’s credit rating. We have failed to pass key legislation on time. And there is very little hope for improved behavior.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, told reporters today it was a “year of missed opportunities and made-up crises.”

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The only sure thing in America - bad leadership from the GOP. They never fail to disappoint. Never. And now, Mitt is going to fundraise with Dick Cheney this week. What a duo.

Made For Each Other

PIGS are to blame -

.... Another reason for slow job growth here in US is less exports to Europe because of troubling PIGS and EuroZone crisis.

Not socialism that has created the worst problems there, the problem comes really from capitalist policy of greed and un-imaginative austerity measures which most Republicans here have supported, for example, in Wisconsin.

PIGS - acronym for euro countries with worst problems - Portugal, Italy, Greece, and S-pain

redheaded slut - an excellent cocktail..

everything you say is of no value, your simply a bubbly cheerleader. I see no insight, or intelligence, i dont even see a ideology. I just see a teenager who gets a tickle seeing her posts first, and is rooting for a football team like a mindless sports fan

Revenge, that comment was uncalled for. And it is silly to call out those are first. It's the internet and she's having fun.

And just so you know, Feisty is not a mindless sports fan. Her real work is behind the scenes, volunteering to get President Obama elected and then re-elected. She does all kinds of volunteer work.

As the Obama campaign said, Romney is the problem, not the solution. A look at Romney's policies over the years proves it.

Feisty cares deeply about people. More than I can say for millions of Americans, who refuse to pay attention to the fact that the GOP policies are crippling their futures.

Can You Still Smell The Burn?

(Let’s review the previous several days.)

Bad News on the Good News Front: Of course, that’s what some folks are crowing as the nation has 80,000 jobs created. What is great about this is; all the other job growth was despite President Obama, but this slow growth is because of the President’s policy. Is that why the putative nominee for the Teapublicans has been telling the governors of Florida, Virginia, Ohio and Iowa among others to tone down the “recovery” mantra? Hey Teapublicans, looks like your slip is showing and it’s a dingy dismal gray. Now the max deiseal milieu would like “Good News on the Bad News Front” but that would expose their “wreck the economy to get the President” agenda. Well, they can’t have that.

Teapublicans and all of their conservative ilk are still smoldering over last week’s upholding of the RomneyCare taxation authority. The BIG story: John Roberts, you are NOT my friend. Showing their true colors, the “hard starboard” crowd ranged from “breaking off the bro-mance” to outright vociferous, vehement, vilest of all evil vitriol. Scathing denunciations filled with charges of fraud, popularity seeking and/or treason. It must really kill them guys to see some of their fellow citizens start to have entry level coverage in the health care system. Yeah, and those kids, free-loading, non-taxpayers they are, no health care for them. Not surprisingly, the rest of America is starting to realize the opposite, as they hear the real details and understand the real benefits of the A.C.A. I’m sure the $12 billion in insurance company rebates will change some minds about the efficacy of reform. Further, the Rombotic memory banks have become scrambled, as they can’t remember what was a penalty and what was a tax and when did the twain they meet. I guess just chalk it up to a fundamentally flawed candidate, whose only real draw is the fact he’s got money, no matter how many fetuses he had to burn to get it.

Speaking of fundamentally flawed, Willardistic Mittronic Rombot, is starting to come apart at the very snuggly sowed seams, not unlike a pale, limpid kielbasa being placed in the microwave with the setting on 11, and the timer on 15 minutes. The mess will be neither pretty, nor tasty. From the candidate’s side stepping, back pedaling, waffle juggling stance, the Rombot cannot remember what he did when he was Governor of Massachusetts, or what he didn’t do, or anything. And did “His Mormon Magnificence”, the “Prince-ling of the Patriarchal Priesthood”, control the medical waste company known as SteriCycle, which disposed of (duhn, duhn, duhhhhhhhhn) aborted fetuses? The “pro-life” side of your party isn’t going to appreciate the financial savvy acquiring a low overhead, high fee business like SteriCycle to create wealth for the investors and the shareholders represents. No, they might tend to focus on that whole icky aborted fetus aspect, shame really, they’re missing a chance to see the REAL Rombot in action, a man of derring-do, not afraid to make a dollar anywhere, regardless of “belief”.

Top Syrian general and member of Assad’s “inner circle” General Manas Tlaff defected from the regime. Son of a former defense minister and high ranking member of the Republican Guards, Tlass’ defection may show the first cracks in the soon to be tumbling breach of Bashar al-Assad’s rule. As more fighting takes place, it appears greater and greater numbers of military leaders and rank and file defect to the opposition. A “Friends of Syria” conference is taking place in Paris this weekend, in an attempt to formulate action either with or without Russia or China. Desperate despots delaying destiny, denying dignity and delivering death.

Finally, the announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson and the Higgs field on July Fourth will be heralded as a major breakthrough in science. Now that the relevant energies for detecting the field and particle have been found, it will only be a matter of time before some intrepid inventor and ingenious entrepreneur will develop methods and machinery to manipulate this aspect of the cosmos to our liking … or doom. It’s our choice. Seriously.

So let’s not blow it.

How to vote this November is not rocket science. It's common sense. Throw out the Republicans who wouldn't help America when we needed them most.

Bring in a new Congress and allow President Obama to move this country forward with jobs. That is the bottom line. Republicans in Congress will never do that.

Get rid of them.

Pat Boston, you choose to ignore many of the facts - the Republicans have put forth many jobs bills - the problem is they want to be able to pay for them by offsetting the costs with cuts elsewhere and the Democrats just want to spend the money with no plan for how it is going to be paid for. We already saw a major stimulus bill that saw much of the money go to support government jobs - and much of the money unaccounted for. The democrats have a history of taking more and more money to give away to the unions and everyone else to try and secure permanent votes to keep them in office. How much money did you see from the first stimulus go to support shovel ready projects - it sounded good but it was sham - it was largely used as a short term means to prevent teachers, state and federal workers from feeling the effects of the depression that those working in private business had to endure. The government is to be supported by the people - the government is not meant to support the people - we are creating a growing dependancy on the government as we grow our give-away programs - they've done a lot for the black community haven't they - we've created a growing share of the black population that doesn't take responsibility for themselves but instead expects the government to pay pay pay. It's a diservice to them - it keeps them down. Every person capable of working should have to work for any government handout - even if it is picking up garbage along the highway - if my tax dollar is going to give someone a meal who is capable of working then I want that person doing something in return. There is no free ride in life. ..and tieing it to a current topic - Health Care is not a right - it's not free - someone has to pay for it.

The Week That Was: The American people are well aware of Romney's flip-flop problem. The problem is so bad in fact that the term "flip-flop" isn't sufficient to describe it. Etch-a-Sketch, shape-shifter, the Twister game, etc. doesn't suffice either. Romney's gymnastics have become legendary.

This week while President Obama was out meeting people on 'the line," a woman thanked him for passing ACA ("Obamacare"). I played the clip a couple of times, because it was so striking how the president is energetically trying to shake everyone's hand. Then you see him suddenly stop and focus on one woman. You see the president listening intently, and then giving her a hug as tears stream down her cheeks. This is sincerity that can't be faked (as in The Adjustment Bureau, Romney focuses on the right amount of scuff on his shoes).

The bottom line -- It is about character, and character matters.

Her real work is behind the scenes, volunteering to get President Obama elected and then re-elected

Thanks Pat!

What we have on our hands is just another knuckle-dragging re-reg begging for some "Feisty" attention!

I have found over the years, if you don't feed them - they eventually starve.. ;o)

During Obama's first 3.5 years, the number of working age Americans not working has increased to 78,000,000 from 68,000,000, an increase of 10,000,000.

At this rate of decline, by the end of an 8 year Obama presidency the American workforce will have declined 21,600,000 additional persons compared to the level Obama inherited from George Bush on January 9, 2008.

Amy, I read somewhere today that someone in the media had mentioned there were a few hundred in the crowd today to see the president.

A few hundred?

6,500 is a few hundred? Since when?

Amy,

Go to Fox News they have been reporting gas going down. Grant it, they didn't mention Obama, or how it will help him in November, but they have been reporting gas prices.

Pat,

I never believe the crowd count.

Pat Boston MA.

6,500 is a few hundred? Since when?

it must have been the same idiots that claimed "at least 500,000" attendees" at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally...

..which turned out to be between 70-90k

Not to shabby.

And yet Romney's 500 is an overflowing crowd? Pathetic really!

I will say that it was refreshing to see Steve Benen on tv last night. His reporting is top of the line. I hope we see more of him. Very professional in manner and tone, unlike Halperin and a few other long timers in DC.

Romney couldn’t draw a crowd with an Etch A Sketch

bayllie - oh he might but he'd stand up quickly and erase all of it!

oh he might

you give him too much credit. I don't think his well-manicured hands are capable of any manual labor. I don't think he even wipes his own ass

bayllie - ugh - bad visual!!!!

sorry..didn't think this one through

And yet Romney's 500 is an overflowing crowd? Pathetic really!

Check out a Romney crowd and tell me what you see? Here's a hint, you'll need sunglasses.

Actually, Amy- you should be thanking the media for ignoring gas prices. Were they to do some actual reporting, it would hurt, not help, Obama.

Why? Well, there are two reasons prices go down from highs. One is an increase in supply- this causes disinflation, and is an economic good.

The other is a decrease in demand- this causes deflation- an economic ill.

It might be easy for you to comprehend if you look at the housing market. The price of houses has collapsed- good for those who might be buying houses right now, but very poor for sellers of those houses. The overall effect on the economy has been very negative, because house prices dropped- not because there were more houses being built, but because so few people wanted to buy them.

That gas prices have declined may be a good for those filling their tanks, but the cause of it- lack of global demand- is an indication that the economy is doing worse, not better. Since virtually everyone is aware of gas prices- they see it when they fill their tanks- the media is doing Obama a favor by ignoring it. It's just another inconvenient truth to them.

Well, no jo, when gas prices were going up the ever-helpful media told us the President would not be re-elected if the price hit $5.00. Every time they reported on rising gas prices, the journalists would repeat this "fact." Now, gas prices are dropping, and where is the corrollary? Why aren't we hearing "if gas hits $3.20, the President's re-election is assured."

It's not that I think President Obama should get credit for the price of gas falling;I just wonder why the media doesn't consider this a bellweather, in terms of the election, they were so sure the opposite were true.

Amen Brother!

hey, con...

I am not 'whiine-all-the-time,'

I am 'swine-all-the-way'.

Now that's just plain silly!

Obama and his policies are what is killing America.

Here's whining,discount, lies , demagogue , crying, whimpering, etc....etc...etc..in a nut shell but it is also the truth and why America is and has been on a distributive economic path and one of trying to destroy middle class America since the year 2000.

Republicans want to put blinders on to the biggest imbecile this country has ever had or ever will have for a President.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001854367_bushecon10.html

Last year's Economic Report of the President predicted that 1.7 million jobs would be created in 2003. Instead, the nation lost 53,000 jobs. In Bush's three years in office, 2.2 million jobs have disappeared.

Since the Great Depression, it has never taken this long for the economy to begin creating jobs after emerging from a recession. After the last recession ended in 1991, it took 14 months for employment to begin expanding. Current problems with the economy have gone on nearly twice as long, 26 months.

G. Brown, GOD bless you for this link, unfortunately the GOP low education voters don't count on facts nor truth.

But I am voting for him.... so your vote doesn't mean S-hit anymore because I just cancelled you out ...

LMFAO !

PS.... The Koch brothers can't make me vote for Romney no matter how much PAC money they spend.

The answer is that 8.2 percent is not the unemployment rate. The real rate is much higher. They are, and have been for decades, playing with the numbers. The question to ask is, "who is obstructing an american from getting the job available?"